1646 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 109

within the boundaries set forth in the First Schedule
hereto is the remaining portion of the said Manawatu
District, and it is necessary, under the provisions of
the said "Highways Act, 1874," that such remaining
portion should be constituted into a new highway
district:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Ad-
ministrator of the Government of the Colony of
New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the
powers and authorities vested in me by the said
recited Ordinance and Act, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, from and after the date hereof, the
district the boundaries whereof are set forth in the
First Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby
constituted a highway district, by the name of the
Manawatu Highway District; and such highway
district shall have the boundaries set forth in the
said First Schedule: And, in further exercise of the
powers and authorities aforesaid, I do proclaim and
declare that the said Manawatu Highway District
shall be divided into six wards, the names and
boundaries whereof are set forth in the Second
Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Wellington, bounded towards the North-west by the
Rangitikei River, from the Manchester Highway
District to the confluence of the Kawhatan River;
thence towards the North by the said Kawhatan
River to the confluence of the Poungaraki River,
and thence by the said Poungaraki River to its
source; thence by a right line due east to the
summit of the Ruahine Range; thence towards the
North-east by the summit of the said Ruahine Range
to the Manawatu Gorge; thence by the summit of
the Tararua Range to the south-western boundary of
the Fitzherbert Township Block; thence towards
the South-west by lines forming the south-western
boundaries of the said township block to the Mana-
watu River; thence towards the South by the said
river to the confluence of the Oroua River; thence
towards the West by the said Oroua River to the
Wanganui Railway-line; and thence towards the
North-east, North-west, and South-west by the Man-
chester Highway District, as described in the Wel-
lington Provincial Gazette, 6, 1876, to the Rangi-
tikei River: excepting the Borough of Palmerston
North, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No.
60, 1877.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WARD No. 1.

BOUNDED towards the North-east by Section No. 11,
road, and Section No. 10, Block V., Kairanga
Survey District, and by a right line to the Taonui
River at the western corner of Section No. 1549 of
said block; thence by that section, and by Section
No. 1551, a road, Sections Nos. 1552, 1553, 1554,
1555, a road, Sections Nos. 1576, 1577, Block IX.,
by Section No. 1578, a road, Section No. 355, Block
X., by Section No. 356, Block XIV., and by the
north-eastern side of the road forming the north-
eastern boundary of the Oroua River; and thence
Block XIV., to the Manawatu River; thence towards
the South-east by the said Manawatu River to the
confluence of the Oroua River; and thence towards
the North-west by the said Oroua River to Section
No. 11.

WARD No. 2.

BOUNDED towards the North-east by Sections Nos.
3, 2, and 1, Block II., Kairanga Survey District;
thence by a right line to the Taonui Stream at the
western corner of Section No. 593; thence by that
section, by Sections Nos. 594, 595, a road, Sections
Nos. 596, 597, 598, 599, a road, Sections Nos. 534
and 533, Block VI., by Sections Nos. 532, 531, a
road, Sections Nos. 530, 529, 528, and 527, Block
VII.; towards the South-east and North-east by the
Borough of Palmerston North to the Manawatu
River; again towards the South-east by the said
Manawatu River to Ward No. 1, hereinbefore
described; thence towards the South-west by the
said Ward No. 1 to the Oroua River; and thence
towards the North-west by the said Oroua River to
Section No. 3.

WARD No. 3.

BOUNDED towards the North-east by the Manchester
Highway District; towards the South-east by the
Manawatu River to the Borough of Palmerston
North; thence towards the South-west and again
towards the South-east by the said borough; again
towards the South-west by Ward No. 2, hereinbefore
described; and towards the North-west by the Oroua
River to the Manchester Highway District.

WARD No. 4.

BOUNDED towards the North-east and West by
the Manchester Highway District to the Manawatu
River; thence towards the North by the said Mana-
watu River; towards the East and South-east by the
summit of the Tararua Range to a point where the
north-eastern boundary of Section No. 181, Block
XV., Kairanga Survey District, produced, intersects
it; thence towards the South-west by a right line to
the eastern corner of Section No. 181; thence
by said section, by Sections Nos. 182, 183, 184, a
road, Sections Nos. 185, 186, 209, 208, 204, a road,
and Section No. 205 of said Block XV., to the Mana-
watu River; and thence towards the North-west by
the said Manawatu River to the Manchester Highway
District.

WARD No. 5.

BOUNDED towards the North-east by Ward No. 4,
hereinbefore described, from the Manawatu River to
the summit of the Tararua Range; thence towards
the South-east by the summit of the said Tararua
Range to the south-western boundary-line of the
Fitzherbert Township Block; thence towards the
South-west by the said boundary-line to the Mana-
watu River; and thence towards the North-west by
the said Manawatu River to Ward No. 4.

WARD No. 6.

Comprises that portion of the district not included
in the above wards.

Given under the hand of His Excellency James
Prendergast, Esquire, Chief Justice, the
Administrator of the Government of Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington,
this seventeenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Declaring "Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,"
in force within the Wyndham Road District,
County of Southland.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.
A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue of the power vested in me by the third
section of "The Regulation of Local Elections
Act, 1876," I, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the said Act