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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1874.

Station for Quarantine appointed.
(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
W
HEREAS by "The Public Health Act, 1872,"
it is, among other things, enacted that the
Governor may from time to time, by any order noti-
fied by Proclamation in the Gazette, appoint certain
stations within or near any harbour or place within
New Zealand for the performance of quarantine
under the Third Part of the said Act, where all
vessels liable to quarantine, and the crews, passengers,
and persons on board thereof, shall perform the same:
And whereas it is expedient that the places herein-
after particularly mentioned should be appointed a
Quarantine Station for the purposes in the said Act
mentioned:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me for that purpose, do by this Procla-
mation order and appoint that the places named and
described in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the
same are hereby appointed to be, a station for the
performance of quarantine under the Third Part of
"The Public Health Act, 1872."

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Province of
Hawke's Bay, in the Colony of New Zealand, con-
taining by admeasurement forty-six acres and two
roods more or less, being suburban sections numbered
one (1) and two (2), (and known by the name of
Park's Island,) on the plan of the Ahuriri Harbour,
containing forty-four (44) acres, and a portion of
block ninety-four (94), Puketapu District, adjoining
section numbered one (1), containing two acres and
two roods: bounded towards the North and East
by Ahuriri Harbour; towards the South by Salt-
water Creek and portion of block numbered ninety-
four (94), Puketapu District; and towards the West
by the aforesaid Saltwater Creek.

The anchorage for vessels performing quarantine
shall be about half a mile to the north of the
Government moorings;—Ahuriri Bluff bearing
South-east South; Outer Rock, Cape Kidnappers,
bearing South-east by East South; Portland Island,
bearing North-east by East East; and Bastion
Island (Inner Harbour) bearing South-west by West
South.

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 Wellington, this twentieth
day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Designation of District Court of the County of West-
land altered to "District Court of Westland South."

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
W
HEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that there shall be within the
Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record possessing
civil and criminal jurisdiction to be called "District
Courts," and the Governor is empowered from time
to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the
Colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which
such Courts shall be respectively held, and such dis-
tricts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define