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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1874.

"The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1874," brought
into operation in certain Provinces.
(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Inspection of Machinery
Act, 1874," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, on the request of the
Superintendent of any province, to bring this Act
into operation in any such province or any part
thereof to be defined as a district under the powers
hereinafter contained; and upon a Proclamation
being made by the Governor in the New Zealand
Gazette to that effect, this Act shall be in force with-
in such province or part thereof to be defined as
aforesaid, as the case may be: And by the said Act
it is also enacted that upon any such request as
aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, from time
to time to define and describe one or more districts
within any such province, with such boundaries as
the Superintendent may think convenient; and the
Governor may from time to time alter the boundaries
of districts formed or hereafter to be formed under
this Act; and in and by any such Proclamation he
may assign to any such district a name by which it
shall be called or known for the purposes of this Act :
And whereas the Superintendents of the provinces
mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto
have respectively requested that the said Act should
be brought into operation within the several pro-
vinces for which they are such Superintendents, and
also that the said provinces should be defined to be
districts as hereinafter mentioned :
Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable Sir James
Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me by the said Act,
and in compliance with the request of the said
Superintendents as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and
declare that "The Inspection of Machinery Act,
1874," shall be and the same is hereby brought into
operation within the respective provinces mentioned
in the first column of the said Schedule: And in

further pursuance and exercise of the said power and
authority, and in compliance with such request as
aforesaid, I do hereby proclaim and declare that the
several territories comprised within the boundaries of
the said provinces respectively shall be and the same
are hereby defined and described as districts within
the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act;
and I do also hereby assign to each district men-
tioned in the first column of the said Schedule the
name set forth in the second column of the said
Schedule opposite to the name of each such district
respectively.

SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, 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 Auckland, this twenty-
sixth day of November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!