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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
300 links; thence by a line bearing 122° 25', 489
links, to the south side of Devon Street; thence by a
line bearing 129° 40', 493 links; thence by a line
bearing 175° 48', 461 links; thence by a line bearing
215°, 502 links; thence by a line bearing 122° 14',
703 links; thence by a line bearing 235°, 355 links,
and a line in continuation of the same to the west
bank of the Henui; thence by the said river to a line
forming the north boundary of Reserve Y; thence
by the said boundary bearing 235° magnetic, 350
links; thence at a right angle in a north-easterly
direction to Hendrie Street, 640 links; thence by the
south side of the said street to the north-east corner
of Allotment number 1791, 1640 links; thence by a
line bearing 145° magnetic, 550 links, and another
line at a right angle in a south-westerly direction, 9
links; thence by a line bearing 145°, 795 links, and
another line bearing 55°, 40 links; thence to the
south-east corner of Allotment number 1927, 266
links; thence by a continuation of the north side of
Shortland Street, 133 links; thence to the south-east
corner of Allotment number 1947, 345 links; thence
in a straight line to the south-west corner of Allot-
ment number 1252, 5054 links; thence along the
east boundary of Reserves C and W to Allotment
number 1123, 2004 links; thence by a line bearing
235° magnetic, 360 links, to the Huatoki Stream;
thence by the said stream to the south side of
Wallace Place; thence by the south side of Wal-
lace Place, bearing 235° magnetic, to the west
side of Cutfield Road, 3560 links; and thence in a
straight line bearing 325°, forming the west side of
Cutfield Road to the point first mentioned, 6413
links; which said boundaries are more particularly
delineated by a pink line on the plan hereunto
annexed, being a copy of the official plan of the
Town of New Plymouth deposited in the Provincial
Survey Office, New Plymouth.

Your Excellency's Petitioners hereby humbly pray
that your Excellency will be pleased to constitute
the Town of New Plymouth a borough under the
provisions of "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1867."

And your Excellency's Petitioners, as in duty
bound, will ever pray.

New Plymouth, 22nd April, 1876.

Arthur Standish.
Fred. A. Carrington.
Jacob Samuel (seal).
T. K. Skinner.
William Humphries, of
L. Humphries and Son.
F. Geo. Rawson.
W. Halse.
H. J. Honeyfield.
A. S. Douglas.
William Cottier.
W. Morey.
J. H. Holford.
W. Black.
Harris Ford.
John Munro.
John Handy.
G. Young.
Owen Murphy.
John Jones.
Joseph Des Forges.
Patrick J. O'Carroll.
R. C. Bridle.
Wm. Marshall.
Richard Street.
Alexander Colson.
James Quigley.
William Nichols.
F. W. Revell.
John Ellis.
Walter Read.
J. T. Davis.
J. M. Vivian.
E. John Veale.
W. H. Scott.
Louis Gilles.
L. S. MacDonogh.
E. J. Cudd.
John Gilmour.
T. King.
Thomas Colson.
Honeywell and Wright.
S. W. Jackson.
James Pugh.
Wm. Courtney.
Hy. Weston.
C. Ed. Rawson.
H. T. Yates.
F. McCusker.
C. A. Bullot.
John W. Young.
Saml. Clover.
Thomas Cook.
A. Weyergang.
James Cottier.
T. Furlong.
G. D. Thomas.
R. Cunningham.
Richard Langman.
Wm. Robt. Townsend.
James Way.
Thomas Wood.
Thomas Hirst.
Edwd. Cudlipp.
James C. George.
James Divine.
Fredk. Elliot.
John Martin.
H. McLean.
A. Hood.
W. H. J. Seffern.
James Kenworthy.
Herbert Ford.
L. K. Vail.
A. Drew.
James C. Davies.
Lewis A. Hammerton.
Robert Hughes.
D. Callaghan.
J. C. Adams.
Hugh Earley.
John Partington.
W. R. King.
M. D. King.
A. Laird.
L. H. Cholwill.
A. Boswell.
F. Stockman.
M. McGonnell.
Geo. Cocks.
Jas. Harvey.
John James.
F. Jose.
William Allum.
John Uncles.
Joseph Henry.
William Lashford.
Edwin Welcome.
J. Harrison.
H. H. Arden.
William Davidson.
J. S. McKellar.
Josias Hoskin.
Wm. M. Crompton.
Wm. Bayly.
Wm. Northcroft.
Henry Shuttleworth.
James Bellringer.
W. C. Clarke.
James Day.
L. V. Rotter.
Henry Bailey.
Philip Moon.
W. Shuttleworth.
A. Shuttleworth.
D. Shuttleworth.
E. Hammond.
Thos. Humphries.
R. Bayley.
Wm. Bennett.
J. Watson.
James Neal.
Henry Julian.
Clarence Rennell.
A. Davidson.
Jno. Newland, jun.
Horatio Hammond.
F. C. Hammond.
Walter Sturmey.
William Beale.
Thos. Bayly.
Elisha Veale.
Robt. C. Hughes.
H. Taylor.
Isaac Broad.
H. Revell.
Henry Pitt.
James Mitchinson.
Samuel Gale.
Edward Burgess.
George Tatton.
P. C. George.
William D. Webster.
James Dingle.
G. H. Herbert.
J. Street.
Robert Earley.
Thomas Sole.
W. Sole.
H. S. Lee.
W. Hancock.
W. G. Stockley.
Henry Hooker.
John Black.
E. Bullott.
W. H. Mathieson.
J. Ward.

I, Walter Henry Scott, of New Plymouth, in the
Province of Taranaki, in the Colony of New Zealand,
carpenter, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all
the signatures affixed to the above Petition are the
genuine signatures of the persons whose they pur-
port to be, and that such persons are inhabitant
householders of the district therein referred to; and
I make this solemn declaration conscientiously be-
lieving the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act
of the General Assembly intituled "The Justices of
the Peace Act, 1866."

W. H. Scott.

Declared at New Plymouth, the twenty-second day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six, before me—R. Parris, J.P.

Superintendent's Office,
New Plymouth, 27th May, 1876.

SIR,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter, number and date quoted in the
margin,* together with the copy of a Petition from
certain inhabitant householders of the Town of New
Plymouth, praying for incorporation; and you sig-
nify that if I do not dissent from the prayer of the

• No. 211, 11th May, 1876.