Numb. 57.

717

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1876.

Districts under "The Registration of Births and
Deaths Act, 1875."
—

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Registration of Births and
Deaths Act, 1875," it is enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide
the colony for the purposes of the said Act into such
and so many districts as he shall think fit, and that
every such district shall be called by a distinct name,
and shall be a Registrar's District; and it is pro-
vided that the Governor may from time to time alter
or revoke any such Proclamation, and issue a new
Proclamation dividing the colony or any portion of
it anew into districts, or increasing the number of
districts, or altering the boundaries of any district or
districts, as from time to time he may think requisite;
and further, that the districts existing at the time of
the coming into operation of the said Act, under any
of the Acts thereby repealed, shall, until altered under
the said Act, be deemed to be districts proclaimed
under the said Act:

And whereas by a Proclamation duly made and
issued, bearing date the fifteenth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the then
Governor, in pursuance of the power and authority
vested in him, did constitute two districts for the
purposes of the said Act, called the Christchurch
District and the Ellesmere District, the boundaries
whereof were therein set forth, which said Proclama-
tion came into operation and took effect on the
fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of
the said Proclamation as relates to the Christchurch
District, and to divide anew the territory formerly
comprised within such district:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the said
colony, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in me by the said recited Act, do
hereby revoke the said Proclamation so far as it
relates to the Christchurch District, and do proclaim
and declare that the territory comprised within such
district shall be and the same is otherwise divided,
for the purposes of the said Act, into three districts,
the names and boundaries whereof shall be as
follow:-

CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT
Comprises that portion of the Province of Canter-
bury bounded on the North by the south bank of the
Waimakariri; on the East by the sea and the
Lyttelton District to the mouth of the River Hals-
well; on the South by the north bank of Lake
Ellesmere to the mouth of the River Selwyn, thence
by the Ellesmere District; and on the West by the
South Road from the River Selwyn to its junction
with the Home Bush and Selwyn Road, and by the
said road to its junction with the Selwyn and Wai-
makariri Road, and by the last-mentioned road and
a line in continuance thereof to the nearest bank of
the Waimakariri River.

MALVERN DISTRICT
Comprises that portion of the Province of Canter-
bury bounded on the North by the south bank of the
River Waimakariri; on the East by the Christchurch
District; on the South by the River Selwyn, the
Wai-ani-wa-ni-wa Branch of the said River to its
intersection by the Home Bush Road, a straight line
from thence to Porter's Pass, and a straight line
from Porter's Pass to Browning's Pass; and on the
West by the dividing range.

HORORATA DISTRICT
Comprises that portion of the Province of Canter-
bury bounded on the North by the Malvern District;
on the West by the dividing range; on the South by
the north bank of the River Rakaia; and on the
East by the Ellesmere District.