Numb. 64.
787

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1879.

Riverton proclaimed a Borough under "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1876."

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, 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,
however, to certain conditions in the said section
mentioned: And whereas the incorporated Town
of Riverton, 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 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 fifth day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine,
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 ninth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, the
said incorporated Town of Riverton shall be a
borough constituted under the said "Municipal
Corporations Act, 1876," and shall be called the
Borough of Riverton; and that the boundaries of
such borough shall be those specified in the Schedule
hereto.

ERRATUM.—In Order in Council authorizing sale of public reserves at Canterbury, dated 22nd May, 1879, and published at
page 687 of Gazette No. 54, in regulation No. 2, for "shall be submitted to auction on deferred payments," read "shall be
submitted to auction on immediate payments."

SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF THE BOROUGH OF RIVERTON.

ALL that piece or parcel or land in the Southland
division of the Provincial District of Otago, contain-
ing by admeasurement 183 acres, more or less, known
on the maps of the Survey Department as the Town
of Riverton; and bounded towards the North-east
by Sections 1, 2, and 3, of Block VI., Jacob's River
Hundred, 5630 links; towards the South-east by
Native Reserve numbered 183, 8120 links; and
towards the West by the Jacob's River Estuary,
11000 links: be the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Also all that parcel of land containing 535 acres,
more or less, hitherto known on the maps of the
Survey Department as the South Riverton Village
Reserve, comprising Sections 1, 2, 3, 13, 13A, 29, and
30, of Block II., Jacob's River Hundred, also Sections
1 to 7 inclusive, and 44, Block I., Jacob's River
Hundred (including also adjacent and intersecting
road lines); the area in question being bounded as
follows, namely: Towards the South-east by Sections
4 and 15 of said Block II., 4645 links; towards the
South-west by Section 14 of said block, 1313 and
2042 links respectively; towards the North-west by
road line, 724 links; again towards the South-west
by road line and by Section 45 of said Block I.,
100 links and 839 links respectively; again towards
the North-west by Section 44 of said Block I., 1464
links; again bounded generally towards the South-
west by Sections 44, 43, 42, and 41, of said Block I.,
1023 links, 327 links, 799 links, 179 links, 785 links,
192 links, and 761 links, respectively; again towards
the North-west by Sections 41 and 8 of said Block
I., and that line continued to the estuary, 5674 links;
and towards the North-east and East by Jacob's
River Estuary and the ocean, 15200 links: be the
aforesaid linkages more or less.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony