✨ Borough Proclamation and Errata
Numb. 115. 1613
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1878.
Proclaiming Greytown a Borough under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."
(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by section seventeen of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1876," the Governor
is empowered by Proclamation to declare any district
in New Zealand to be a borough under the said Act
from and after a day to be named in such Proclama-
tion :
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 by the said Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the District of
Greytown shall be and the same is hereby constituted,
as from the first day of December, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-eight, a borough
under the said Act; and that the name of such
borough shall be the Borough of Greytown, and the
boundaries of such borough shall be those specified
in the Schedule hereto.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington, bounded by a line starting
from the northern corner of Suburban Section
number two (2), Township of Greytown, proceeding
from thence in a south-easterly direction in a straight
line along the north-eastern boundary of said Section
number two (2), crossing a public road along the
north-eastern boundary of Town Section number
two (2), crossing the main road along the north-
eastern boundary of Town Section number one (1),
crossing a public road along the north-eastern bound-
ary of Town Belt Section number six (6), to where
it intersects the south-eastern boundary of the Town
Belt of Greytown; from thence proceeding by a
straight line in the same direction, intersecting the
Hupenui Block and Native land, to a point where it
intersects the northern boundary of the College
land; proceeding from the last-mentioned point by a
straight line in a direction south-westerly by south,
intersecting the College land, crossing a public road,
through the Papawai Block, along the south-eastern
boundary of Powhatu East and the south-eastern
boundary of Powhatu West, to the southern corner
of Powhatu West; proceeding from the last-men-
tioned point in a north-westerly direction, along the
south-western boundary of Powhatu West, to where
it intersects the south-eastern boundary of Section
number sixty-nine (69) Greytown rural lands; from
thence by a straight line in a north-westerly direction
intersecting said Section number sixty-nine (69) and
Section number sixty-eight (68), Greytown rural
lands, crossing a public road to the southern corner
of Suburban Section numbered sixty-six (66), Town-
ship of Greytown; from thence in a north-westerly
direction along the south-western boundary of said
Section number sixty-six (66), to the western corner
of said Section number sixty-six (66), from thence
by a straight line in a north-westerly direction,
crossing a public road, and intersecting Sections
numbered fifty-five (55) and fifty-four (54), crossing
the main road to the southern corner of Section
number thirty-eight (38), Moroa Block; from thence
along the south-western boundary of said Section
number thirty-eight (38), to the western corner of
same section; from thence by a straight line in a
north-westerly direction intersecting Section number
fifty (50), Moroa Block, to the north-eastern corner
of Section number forty-eight (48), Moroa Block;
thence along the north-eastern boundary of Section
number forty-eight (48), and part of north-eastern
boundary of Section number forty-seven (47), Moroa
Block, to where it intersects the south-eastern bound-
ary of Section number forty-one (41), Moroa Block;
proceeding from the last-mentioned point by a straight
line in a north-easterly direction along the south-
eastern boundary of said Section number forty-one
(41) to where it intersects the Waiohine River; from
the last-mentioned point by the southern bank of the
Waiohine River, along Sections number forty-three
(43) and ninety-one (91), Moroa Block, Sections
numbered twenty-seven (27), ninety-two (92), ninety-
three (93), twenty-four (24), ninety-four (94), thirty-
four (34), thirty-three (33), thirty-two (32), thirty-
one (31), thirty (30), twenty-nine (29), and twenty-
eight (28), Township of Greytown, to where said river
intersects a public road at the north-eastern corner
of Section number twenty-eight (28); proceeding
from the last-mentioned point by a straight line along
said public road in a south-westerly direction, to a
point opposite the northern corner of Suburban
Section number two (2), Township of Greytown;
and thence in a right line to the starting point.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
ERRATA. -In the New Zealand Gazette No. 102, of 24th October, 1878, page 1443, Rents of Pasturage Runs, Land
District of Canterbury, for "No. 96, Class III., John Cordy, 6,293 acres, £188 15s. 6d.," read "No. 96, Class III., and
No. 405, Class II., John Cordy, 11,067 acres, £331 19s." And in the same Gazette, page 1445, following "No. 725, Class III.,"
read "No. 726, Class III., New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, 9,950 acres, £199 Os. Od., 4-80d."
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