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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim,
direct, appoint, constitute, and provide as follows:-

1. The Provincial Council of the Province of
   Westland shall consist of fifteen Members, over and
   above the Superintendent of such Province.

2. The said Province shall be and the same is
   hereby divided into seven Electoral Districts, that
   is to say, Hokitika, Greymouth, Paroa, Arahura,
   Kanieri, Totara, and Okarito-the boundaries of which
   said Districts are described and set forth in the
   Schedule to this Proclamation, and are delineated on
   the map or plan thereof deposited in the office at
   Wellington of the Colonial Secretary, and which
   map or plan is signed by Gerhard Mueller, Esquire,
   Chief Surveyor, appointed under "The Westland
   Waste Lands Act, 1870."

3. The number of Members to be elected to serve
   in the Provincial Council for the said several Electoral
   Districts shall be as follows, viz. :-
   For the Electoral District of Hokitika, 3 Members.
   For the Electoral District of Greymouth, 3 ditto.
   For the Electoral District of Paroa, 2 ditto.
   For the Electoral District of Arahura, 2 ditto.
   For the Electoral District of Kanieri, 2 ditto.
   For the Electoral District of Totara, 2 ditto.
   For the Electoral District of Okarito, 1 ditto.

4. The first Electoral Rolls for the election of
   Members of the said Provincial Council shall be
   prepared by
   GERARD GEORGE FITZGERALD, Esq., R.M.,
   who, within fifteen days from the date hereof, shall
   form such Rolls by placing the name of every person
   who is at this present time registered as an elector
   entitled to vote in the election of Members of the
   House of Representatives on account of any tene-
   ments or hereditaments comprised within the limits
   of the said Province, on the Electoral Roll of that
   one of the said districts within which the tenements
   and hereditaments in respect whereof he is so
   registered are situated.

5. The Rolls so to be formed as aforesaid may be
   partly written and partly printed, or wholly written
   or wholly printed, as may be most convenient, and
   shall, within twenty-two days from the date hereof,
   be severally published by the said Gerard George
   FitzGerald, by affixing the same to the outer door of
   the Resident Magistrate's Court in the respective
   districts to which such Rolls shall relate, or in some
   other public and conspicuous place within the said
   districts.

6. Every such Roll so affixed as aforesaid shall be
   signed by the said Gerard George FitzGerald, and
   from and after the day of such publication the said
   several Rolls shall be the Electoral Rolls to be used
   respectively for the said districts for the election
   of Members of the said Provincial Council until
   new Electoral Rolls shall be made for the same
   under the provisions of the law in force for the time
   being for the registration of electors.

7. The first Electoral Roll for the election of the
   Superintendent of the said Province shall be pre-
   pared by the said Gerard George FitzGerald,
   who, within fifteen days from the date hereof, shall
   form the same by placing thereon the name of every
   person who is at this present time registered as an
   elector entitled to vote in the election of Members
   of the House of Representatives on account of any
   tenements or hereditaments comprised within the
   limits of the said Province, so as that the whole of
   such names shall appear on one Roll to be formed
   under the authority hereof.

8. The provisions contained in the fifth and sixth
   clauses hereof shall be applicable to the formation of
   the said Roll for the election of the said Superin-
   tendent, except that it shall only be necessary to
   publish the same by affixing copies thereof, signed
   by the said Gerard George FitzGerald, on the outer
   doors of the Resident Magistrates' Courts at Hokitika
   and Greymouth respectively.

From and after the day of such publication the
said Roll shall be the Electoral Roll to be used for
the election of the Superintendent of the said Pro-
vince until a new Electoral Roll shall be made for
the same in accordance with law.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 Christchurch, this first
day of December, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF HOKITIKA.
COMPRISING the Town of Hokitika, being all that
parcel of land containing six hundred and forty acres,
more or less, situate on the Hokitika River, com-
mencing at a point on the high bank of the old bed
of the aforesaid river, the said point being forty
chains forty links west of Trigonometrical Station
No. 31; thence following a line bearing north
twenty degrees fourteen minutes east (magnetic) a
distance of sixty-two chains sixty-five links; thence
westerly at a right angle a distance of eighty-five
chains forty links to the sea beach, following the said
beach southerly to the mouth of the Hokitika River;
and from thence returning along the northern bank
thereof and the high bank of the old river bed above
mentioned to the commencing point; and also all
that parcel of land containing six hundred and forty
acres, more or less, situate on the Hokitika River.
Bounded-on the Northward by Reserve No. 271
(in red); on the Westward by the sea; on the East
by Section No. 8238 and a line in continuation of
the western boundary thereof; and on the South-
ward by a line at right angles to the last-described
boundary, and about one hundred and thirty chains
distant on the average from the reserve above
mentioned.

ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF GREYMOUTH.
Comprising the Town of Greymouth, being all that
parcel of land commencing at the South Spit at the
mouth of the River Grey. Bounded on the West
by a line of one hundred and sixty chains and eighty
links, extending along the beach from the South Spit
aforesaid; thence along the South Town Belt, one
hundred and fifteen chains and fifty links; thence
along the East Town Belt, one hundred and twenty
chains and ninety links; thence along the Native
Reserve No. 31, for a distance of forty-one chains
and thirty links, to the River Grey; and thence
along the River Grey to the sea.

ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF PAROA.
Commencing at a point on the sea coast one hundred
and sixty chains and eighty links to the southward
of the South Spit at the mouth of the River Grey;
thence casterly along the southern boundary of the
Greymouth District hereinbefore defined, one hundred
and fifteen chains and fifty links; thence northerly
along the eastern boundary of the last-named district