Numb. 64.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1872.

Districts under "Marriage Act Amendment Act,
1858."

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

WHEREAS by "The Marriage Act Amendment
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor at any time, by Proclamation
in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of
New Zealand, for the purposes of the said Act, into
such and so many districts as he may think fit, and
that every such district shall be called by a distinct
name, and shall be a Registrar's District; and it is
provided that the Governor may at any time revoke
the whole or any part of such Proclamation, and issue
a new Proclamation dividing the Colony or any part
of it anew into districts, or increasing the number or
altering the boundaries of districts, as from time to
time he may think requisite :

And whereas by a Proclamation duly made and
issued, bearing date the eleventh day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the Go-
vernor, in pursuance of the said recited power and
authority, did, amongst others, constitute a district for
the purposes of the said Act called the "Waikouaiti
District," the boundaries whereof were therein set
forth, which said Proclamation came into operation
and took effect on the fifteenth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one :

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said Proclamation as relates to the said district,
and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised
within such district :

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exer-
cise of the power and authority vested in me by the
said recited Act, do hereby revoke the said Proclama-
tion so far as relates to the said district, and do
proclaim and declare that the territory formerly
comprised within such district shall be and is hereby
divided, for the purposes of the said Act, into two dis-
tricts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as
follows:—

PALMERSTON DISTRICT
Comprises all that area bounded towards the North-
east by the Otepopo Registration District; towards

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the South-east by the ocean; towards the South-west
by Pleasant River from its outlet to a point due east
of Mount Pleasant; towards the South by a straight
line extending due east and west from Pleasant River
to the north branch of the Waikouaiti River and
passing across Mount Pleasant; and towards the
West by the Waikouaiti River and the Hyde Regis-
tration District.

WAIKOUAITI DISTRICT
Comprises all that area bounded towards the North-
west by Hyde Registration District; towards the
North-east by the Palmerston Registration District;
towards the South-east by the ocean; and towards
the South and South-west by the Dunedin, North
Taieri, and West Taieri Registration Districts.

And I do declare that this Proclamation shall come
into operation and take effect on the first day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this eighteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
JOHN HALL.

Districts under "Registration Act, 1858."

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

WHEREAS by "The Registration Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor at any time, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of New
Zealand, for the purposes of the said Act, into
such and so many districts as he may think fit, and
that every such district shall be called by a distinct