Numb. 42.
525

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND
GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1877.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1877.

Constituting the Road District of Toe Toes.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the sixth section of the Ordinance
of the Superintendent and Provincial Council
of the Province of Otago shortly intituled "The
Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871," it is enacted, that "if
a majority in number of persons on the roll or rolls
for the time being in force under 'The Registration
of Electors Act, 1866,' or any other Act for the like
purpose, shall sign and cause to be presented to the
Superintendent a petition in the form in the Second
Schedule hereto, or to the like effect, praying him to
constitute the portion of the province in which such
persons shall reside a road district under this
Ordinance, and in such petition shall set forth the
boundaries of the portion of the province to which
such petition shall refer, it shall be lawful for the
Superintendent, if he shall think fit so to do, by Pro-
clamation to constitute such portion of the province
a road district by such name as in and by the
Proclamation shall be assigned to the same:"

And whereas by the seventh section of "The
Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," it is, among other
things, enacted that "all powers, duties, and func-
tions which, immediately before the date of the aboli-
tion hereunder of any province, were, under or by
virtue of any law not expressly or impliedly repealed
or altered hereby, vested in or to be exercised or
performed by the Superintendent of such abolished
province, either alone or with the advice and consent
of or on the recommendation of the Executive or
Provincial Council of such province, shall, on the day
of the date of the abolition of such province, and for
the purposes of the district included within such
abolished province, vest in and be exercised and
performed by the Governor:"

And whereas the Province of Otago has been
abolished under the provisions of "The Abolition of
Provinces Act, 1875":

And whereas a petition in the form in the Second
Schedule of "The Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871," or
to the like effect, and signed by such number of
persons as is required by the sixth section of the said

Ordinance, was, on the second day of March last past,
presented to the Governor, praying him to constitute
the portion of the Provincial District of Otago
described in the Schedule hereto a road district
under the said Ordinance:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority vested in me in that behalf, do hereby
constitute and proclaim that portion of the Provincial
District of Otago described in the Schedule here-
under written a road district under the said Ordi-
nance by the name of the Toe Toes Road District.

SCHEDULE.

TOE TOES ROAD DISTRICT

COMPRISES all that area bounded towards the North
the Wyndham Survey District; towards the East
the Mokoreta and Otaea Survey Districts; and
towards the South and West by the ocean and the
Mataura River.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; 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
the Government House, at Wellington,
this eleventh day of May, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!