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SCHEDULE.

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 Coun-
cil; 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 Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this thirty-first day of August,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Mount Somers Road District divided into Five
Subdivisions.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section nine of "The Canterbury
Road Ordinance, 1872," it is enacted that, at
any time after the first ordinary annual election or
general election, as the case may be, of the Board for
any district, the Superintendent, if he shall have
received a petition to that effect from the Board of
the said district, or from one-fourth or more of the
number of persons liable to be rated under this
Ordinance in respect of rateable property in the said
district, may, by Proclamation, within three months
after the receipt of the same, divide the district into
two or more separate subdivisions, by such names as

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shall by such Proclamation be assigned to the same,
and in and by such Proclamation the boundaries of
the subdivisions shall be set forth: Provided that
no such division shall be made within three months
before the day appointed for holding the annual
election of members of the Board in or for such
district: And whereas by virtue of "The Abolition
of Provinces Act, 1875," the powers, duties, and
functions by the said Ordinance vested in the Super-
intendent are now vested in the Governor: And
whereas on the fifth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight, a petition from
the Board of the Mount Somers Road District was
received by His Excellency the Governor praying
that such district should be divided into the five
separate subdivisions described in the Schedule here-
to: And whereas all things have been done, per-
formed, and happened to authorize the issue of this
Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the
powers and authorities vested in me by the said
in part recited Ordinance and Act, do hereby
divide the Mount Somers Road District into the five
subdivisions described in the first column of the
Schedule hereto, and do assign unto such subdivisions
the respective names set opposite to such subdivisions
in the second column of the said Schedule, and do
declare that the boundaries of such subdivisions shall
be those specified in the said first column.

And I do further proclaim and declare that the
number of members to be elected for each of such
subdivisions shall be the number set opposite
each subdivision in the third column of the said
Schedule, and do severally assign the members of the
Road Board of the said district now in office to the
said subdivisions in the manner set forth in the fourth
column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Subdivisions
and
Boundaries. | Names
of
Subdivisions. | Number
of
Members
to Sub-
division. | Assignment of
Members of
Board now in
office.
---|---|---|---
No. 1: Comprising North Ashburton | One. | To No. 1 Ward:
all that portion of Ward. | | Mr. Duncan Ca-
the district north of | | meron.
the River Ashburton | |
(north branch), con- | |
taining Runs Nos. 54 | |
and 106. | |
No. 2: Comprising Alford Forest, the | Alford Forest Ward. | One. | To No. 2 Ward:
run known as Gra- | | Mr. Andrew Mac-
ham's Run, and those | | farlane.
portions of Alford | |
and Buccleuch Runs | |
(Nos. 126 and 125) | |
lying to the west of | |
the road leading from | |
Buccleuch Station to | |
Single Tree Road to | |
Alford Forest, and | |
thence to the north | |
branch of the Ash- | |
burton by direct road | |
to Thompson's ac- | |
commodation house. | |
No. 3: Comprising | Buccleuch Ward. | One. | To No. 3 Ward:
the remaining por- | | Mr. Isaac Edward
tions of Alford and | | Taylor.
Buccleuch Runs and | |
Valletta Run (No. | |
58). | |
No.4: Comprising | South Ashburton | One. | To No. 4 Ward:
Anama Run (No. Ward. | | Hon. William
401), and Shepherd's | | Spence Peter.
Bush Run (No. 532). | |
No. 5: Comprising | Ashburton Gorge | One. | To No. 5 Ward:
the portion of the Ward. | | Mr. William Camp-
district not included | | bell Walker.
in the foregoing. | |

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl