Numb. 47.

579

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1874.

Altering Boundaries of Resident Magistrates' Dis-
tricts of Papakura and Waikato.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act,
1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout
the colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be
called Resident Magistrate Districts, and such
districts from time to time to abolish, and the
boundaries to define and alter, and in any such
Proclamation to fix a time on and from which any
such district shall be constituted or abolished, as
the case may be:

And whereas by a Proclamation
bearing date the twenty-ninth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, His Excel-
lency the Governor, in pursuance and in exercise of
the powers and authorities so vested in him, did
proclaim and constitute the Districts of Waikato
and Papakura as described in the Schedule to the
now reciting Proclamation, to be, on and from the
first day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, Resident Magistrates' Districts
within the meaning and for the purposes of the
said Act:

And whereas it is expedient to alter the boundaries
of the said Districts of Waikato and Papakura as
described in the Schedule to the said Proclamation:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority
so vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, from and after the first day of October
next, the boundaries of the Districts of Waikato and
Papakura shall be altered, and that thenceforth the
boundaries thereof shall be as defined and described
in the Schedule hereto, with the names set over them.

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 thirty-
first day of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.

PAPAKURA DISTRICT.
This district is bounded towards the North by the
Onehunga District, as defined in the Schedule to the
said Proclamation of the twenty-ninth day of Novem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
and by the Tamaki Strait to Oreri Point; thence
towards the East by a line to the Wairoa Range,
and along that range and by a line southwards to
the most northerly source of the Whangamarino
River; thence towards the South by that river and
by the Waikato River, and towards the West by the
eastern and northern boundaries of the Parish of
Puni, by part of the eastern boundary of the Parish
of Waiuku, and by the Manukau Harbour to the
south-western angle of the Onehunga District afore-
said.

WAIKATO.
This district is bounded towards the North by the
southern boundary of the Papakura District, herein-
before defined; towards the East by part of the
western boundary of the Hauraki District, herein-
before defined, to its south-western angle; thence
again on the North by the southern boundary of that
district to the summit of Te Aroha Mountain; thence
by the south-western boundary of the Tauranga Dis-
trict, as defined in the Schedule to the said Procla-
mation of the twenty-ninth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, to the sum-
mit of Otanewainuku Mountain; thence by a line to
the summit of Maungakawa Mountain, and by the
southern and western boundaries of the Military
Settlements Block to the north-western angle of that
block; thence by a line to the south-eastern angle of
the Waiuku District, as defined in the Schedule to the
said Proclamation of the twenty-ninth day of Novem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven;
and thence by the eastern boundary of that district
to the south-western angle of the Papakura District
hereinbefore defined, the commencing point.