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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1878.

Town of East Invercargill 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 provisions of an Ordinance of the Province of Otago intituled “The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” to be a borough constituted under the said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” from a day to be named in such Proclamation; subject, however, to certain conditions in the said section mentioned: And whereas the Town of East Invercargill, 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 sixty-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 twelfth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, 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 the twelfth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, the said Town of East Invercargill shall be a borough constituted under the said “Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,” and shall be called the Borough of East Invercargill; and that the boundaries of such borough shall be those specified in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement one hundred and eleven (111) acres three (3) roods and seven (7) poles, more or less, being Section 1 and part of 2 of Block I., on the record map of Invercargill Hundred, comprising the private townships of McMaster’s Estate, Sylvan Bank, and Barwhey’s Estate. Bounded towards the North-east by Section 3 of said block, five thousand one hundred (5100) links; towards the South-east by a public road, two thousand and seventy-three (2073) links; on the South by a public road, one thousand one hundred and forty-seven (1147) links; on the West by the Municipality of Invercargill, four thousand and fifty (4050) links; again on the South by a public road, one hundred (100) links; again on the West by Park Reserve, being Section 22 of said block, nine hundred and fifteen (915) links; towards the North-west by a public road, and by Section 31 of said block, twelve hundred and seventeen and six-tenths (1217·6) links; on the East by a line running south, being east boundary of Mary Street, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight (2898) links; again towards the West by a line running in a north-easterly direction, being northern boundary of Yarrow Street East, six hundred and nine and six-tenths (609·6) links; again towards the West by a line running in a northerly direction, being west boundary of Ritchie Street, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine (2779) links; and again towards the north-west by Section 31 aforesaid, two hundred and sixty-one and three-tenths (261·3) links.

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 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