Num. 44. 541

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1877.

Altering Boundaries of Resident Magistrate’s District of Waiapu, and constituting District of Poverty Bay.

(l.s.) NORMANBY, 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 Magistrates’ 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 Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in him, did proclaim and constitute the District of Waiapu, as described in the Schedule to the said Proclamation, to be, on and from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, a Resident Magistrate’s District within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient to alter the boundaries of the said District of Waiapu so constituted as aforesaid, and to constitute the District of Poverty Bay:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby alter the boundaries of the said District of Waiapu, as described in the Schedule hereto, as and from the first day of June next; and do hereby constitute and proclaim the Poverty Bay District, as described in the Schedule hereto, to be a Resident Magistrate’s District as from the said first day of June, for the purposes and within the meaning of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
WAIAPU DISTRICT.

BOUNDED towards the North and East by the sea, from Matakawa Point to Motu Heka Point, Tolago Bay; towards the South by a right line from Motu Heka Point running due west to the summit of the Watershed, near the source of the Waipawa River; and towards the North-west by the Opotiki District. Including the adjacent islands.

POVERTY BAY DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the North by the Waiapu District to Motu Heka Point, Tolago Bay; towards the East by the sea to Paretu; towards the South by a right line from Paretu to the confluence of the Waiau and Waikare Taheke Rivers; towards the West and North-west by the Opotiki District. Including the adjacent islands.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, 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 fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette, No. 20, of 1st March, 1877, page 243, for “twenty-first day of December” read “twenty-ninth day of November.”