Numb. 42.
673

DIEU ET SOIT QUI MAL Y-PENSE MON DROIT

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1872.

(L.S.) G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the
twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the second day of June in
the same year, the district comprised in the Town of
Lyttelton therein mentioned was (among other things)
constituted and proclaimed to be a Borough under
"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," as in the
said Proclamation mentioned: And whereas by the
said last-mentioned Act it is, among other things,
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor,
if he shall see fit so to do, by Proclamation,
to annex to any borough, or to any ward, or in
separate parts to any two or more wards of any
borough, if divided into wards, any portion of New
Zealand adjoining to such borough, and forming
therewith one continuous area, and not lying within
the limits of any borough or road district; and every
such portion shall thereupon become and be part of
such borough, and so much thereof as shall have been
added to any ward of such borough shall be part of
the ward to which it shall have been so added, and
such borough or ward after such annexation shall,
save where herein otherwise provided, be deemed to
be the same borough or ward after such annexation
as before: Provided that notice of the time when it
shall please the Governor to order that any such
intended annexation be taken into consideration shall
be published by the Minister in the New Zealand
Gazette, and in at least one paper generally circulating
in the portion to be annexed, at least two months
before any such annexation shall be made; and that if
the whole or a majority of the inhabitant householders
of such portion shall, by a petition under their hands,
pray the Governor that such annexation be not made,
then the same shall not be made: Provided also that
there shall not be added to any borough or the wards
thereof, either at the same time or at different times,
any extent greater in the whole than nine square
miles, or of which the population shall be less than
fifty for each square mile so added, or in the like

proportion for any less extent: And whereas by
"The Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act,
1871," it is, among other things, enacted that the
power conferred on the Governor by the eighteenth
section of the firstly hereinbefore recited Act, of
annexing to any borough or to any ward, or in sepa-
rate parts to any two or more wards of a borough, any
portion of territory adjoining such borough, may in
the case of land reclaimed from the sea be exercised,
notwithstanding that the whole or a majority of the
inhabitant householders of such portion petition the
Governor that such annexation be not made, and
notwithstanding that the population of such portion
is less than that required by the said eighteenth
section of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient
that the parcel of land described in the Schedule
hereto should be annexed to the said Borough of
Lyttelton, as the same is now constituted as afore-
said, and all the conditions and terms by the said Act
imposed or required for the annexation of any portion
of New Zealand to any borough as therein men-
tioned, and in so far as the same are applicable to
the circumstances of the annexation hereinafter made,
have been duly performed and complied with:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the power and authority vested
in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, do
hereby annex to the said Borough of Lyttelton that
portion of land in the Province of Canterbury, in the
said Colony, which is particularly described in the
Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point being the extremity of a
line 610 links in length, drawn south-easterly from
junction of centre lines of Oxford Street and Nor-
wich Quay, Town of Lyttelton, at an angle of 156°
with Norwich Quay; thence bounded towards the
South by a line westerly, at an angle of 15° 45', 553
links; thence bounded towards the East by a line
southerly, at an angle of 82°, about 235 links; thence
at a right angle easterly, 25 links; thence at a right