Numb. 78.

1187

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1880.

Altering Boundaries of the Resident Magistrates’ Districts of Maketu, Opotiki, Wairoa, Taupo, Napier and Waipukurau, and Poverty Bay.

(l.s.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Resident Magistrates’ Act, 1867,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be called Resident Magistrates’ districts, and such districts from time to time to abolish, and the boundaries to define and alter, and in any such Proclamation to fix a time on and from which any such district shall be constituted or abolished, as the case may be: And whereas by Proclamations bearing date the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in him, did proclaim and constitute the Districts of Maketu, Opotiki, Wairoa, Taupo, Napier and Waipukurau, and Poverty Bay, as described in the said Proclamations respectively, to be Resident Magistrates’ districts within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to alter the boundaries of the said districts so constituted as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby alter the boundaries of the said Districts of Maketu, Opotiki, Wairoa, Taupo, Napier and Waipukurau, and Poverty Bay, as described in the Schedule hereto, as and from the first day of September next.

SCHEDULE.

MAKETU DISTRICT.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, bounded towards the North-east by the sea, from the mouth of the Wairaki Stream to Waitahanui; thence towards the East by a right line due south for a distance of twenty miles, thence by a right line to Trig. Station No. 18, thence by a right line through Trig. Station No. 38 on Ahiwakamura to intersect a line drawn from WaiwhakahihI Trig. Station to Tawhiwhau Trig. Station; thence towards the South by a right line to a point five miles due south of the most southerly point of Rerewhakaitu Lake; thence towards the South-west by a right line to a point twenty-two miles due south of Otane Wainuku; thence towards the West by a right line due north to Otane Wainuku aforesaid; and thence towards the North-west by a right line to the mouth of the Wairaki Stream, the starting point.

OPOTIKI DISTRICT.

All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, bounded towards the North by the sea from Waitahanui to Matakawa Point; thence towards the South-east by the summit of the watershed between the Bay of Plenty and the East Coast to Maungapohatu, thence by a right line to Puketapu, and thence by a right line to the most northerly point of the Waikaremoana Lake; thence towards the South-west by a right line to a point five miles due south of the most southerly point of Rerewhakaitu Lake; and thence towards the West by the Maketu Resident Magistrate’s District, hereinbefore described, to Waitahanui: including the adjacent islands.

WAIROA DISTRICT.

All that parcel of land partly in the Provincial District of Auckland and partly in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, bounded towards the North-east by the Poverty Bay Resident Magistrate’s District, hereinafter described, from Puketapu to Paritu; thence towards the East and South by the sea to the mouth of the Waipapa Stream; thence towards the South-west by a right line to a point where a line drawn between the Tawhiwhau and Tatarakino Mountains intersects a line drawn from the Rangitaiki River, where the road from Napier to Taupo crosses it, to the most northerly point of Waikaremoana Lake; thence towards the North-west by a right line to the most northerly point of Waikaremoana Lake aforesaid, and thence by a right line to Puketapu: including Portland and other adjacent islands.

TAUPO DISTRICT.

All that parcel of land partly in the Provincial District of Auckland and partly in the Provincial District