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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Road District of Knapdale constituted.

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

WHEREAS by section six of the Ordinance of the
late Province of Otago shortly intituled "The Otago
Roads Ordinance, 1871," it is enacted that, if a
majority in number of the 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, should sign and cause to be presented to the
Superintendent a petition in the form in the Second
Schedule to the said Ordinance, or to the like effect,
praying him to constitute the portion of the province
in which such persons should reside a road district
under the said Ordinance, and in such petition should
set forth the boundaries of the portion of the province
to which such petition should refer, it should be law-
ful for the Superintendent, if he should think fit so
to do, by Proclamation, to constitute such portion of
the province a road district, by such name as in and
by the Proclamation should be assigned to the same:
And whereas by virtue of "The Abolition of Pro-
vinces Act, 1875," all the powers, duties, and
functions vested in, or to be exercised or performed
by, the Superintendent of the late Province of Otago
under "The Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871," are now
vested in and may be exercised and performed by
the Governor: And whereas a majority in number
of the persons on the roll for the time being in force
under "The Registration of Electors Act, 1866," and
the various Acts of the General Assembly of New
Zealand amending the same, resident in that portion
of the late Province and now Provincial District of
Otago specified in the Schedule hereunder written,
have signed and caused to be presented to me a
petition in the form prescribed by the said Ordinance,
praying me to constitute the said portion of the said
provincial district described in the said Schedule
hereunder written a road district under the said
Ordinance:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred
upon me by the said Ordinance and the said Act,
and of all other powers and authorities enabling me
in this behalf, do hereby constitute and proclaim all
that portion of the Provincial District of Otago
described in the said Schedule hereunder written a
road district under the said "Otago Roads Ordinance,
1871," by the name of "The Knapdale Road District."

SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF KNAPDALE
ROAD DISTRICT.
ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Otago, bounded towards the North by Wendon
and Greenvale Survey Districts; towards the East by
Glenkenich Survey District; towards the South by
the Waikaka Survey District; and towards the West
by the Mataura River to the commencing point on
the southern boundary of Wendon Survey District.

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 Grand Cross 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-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Town of Clyde proclaimed a Borough under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

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

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation,
declare any of the several places specified in the
Third Schedule to the said Act in which a Municipal
Corporation has been established under the provi-
sions of an Ordinance of the Province of Otago
intituled "The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordi-
nance, 1865," to be a borough constituted under the
said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," from a
day to be named in such Proclamation; subject, how-
ever, to certain conditions in the said section men-
tioned: And whereas the Town of Clyde, in the
Provincial District of Otago, is one of the places
specified in the said Third Schedule, and a petition
has been presented to His Excellency the Governor
by fifty-three of the ratepayers of such town praying
him to constitute such town into a borough under
the said "Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," and
such petition was, on the twenty-second day of
February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, publicly notified, and no petition from an equal
or greater number of such ratepayers was presented
to his Excellency within two months after such public
notification praying him not to assent to the prayer
of such first-mentioned petition :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities
enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby proclaim
and declare that, from and after the date of this Pro-
clamation, the said Town of Clyde shall be a borough
constituted under the said "Municipal Corporations
Act, 1876," and shall be called the Borough of Clyde;
and that the boundaries of such borough shall be
those specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area situate in the Provincial District of
Otago, and containing by admeasurement eight hun-
dred (800) acres, more or less, bounded by a line pro-
ceeding from the north-west corner of Section num-
bered one (1), Block I., Leaning Rock Survey District,
in a south-easterly direction along the boundary of the
said Block I., Leaning Rock Survey District, twelve
thousand eight hundred and forty-eight (12848)
links; thence in a south-westerly direction along the
boundary line of the said Block I., Leaning Rock
Survey District, to the Clutha River; thence in a
north-westerly direction along the bank of the Clutha
River to a point bearing 227° from the north-west
corner of Section numbered one (1), Block I., Lean-
ing Rock Survey District aforesaid; and thence in a
direct line to the starting point.

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