Numb. 96.

1463

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1880.

Districts constituted under "The Marriage Act, 1880."
(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and au-
thority vested in the Governor by "The Marriage
Act, 1880," I, James Prendergast, Chief Justice, the
Administrator of the Government of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing marriage
districts known as the Nokomai and Switzers, Tapanui,
Mataura, and Popotuna Districts, and do proclaim
and declare that the territory heretofore comprised
within the said districts is hereby divided anew into
five marriage districts, the names and boundaries
whereof shall be as follow:—

GORE DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
bounded towards the North from Oreti River by
Runs 191, 191 extended, and 394; towards the East
and North-east by Mataura River to a point due west
of the Pyramid; again towards the North by the
Wendon and Greenvale Survey Districts; again
towards the East and North by the Glenkenich Sur-
vey District to the south-east corner of Section 27
of Block V., last-mentioned district; again towards
the North by said Section 27; again towards the
North-east by a road-line south-west of Sections 13,
14, 11, and 10 of said Block V., and 17, 18, 27, 28,
29, 30, 32, 37, and 41 of Block IX, same district;
towards the South and again towards the East by
Waipahee Survey District to the railway-line; again
towards the North-east by said railway-line; towards
the South-east by the Waipahee River to Block XI.;
again towards the South by Section 5 of Block XI.,
Waipahee Survey District, and by Blocks IX., XII.,
and XIII. of Waikaka Survey District; again towards
the South-east by Blocks XIII. and VII., said dis-
trict, and Block I., Tuturau Survey District, to a
point opposite the junction of the Charlton Creek
with the Mataura River, and thence across the said
river; towards the South-west and again towards the
South by the Waimumu Survey District and the
Forest Hill Hundred to the Otapiri Stream; towards
the West by that stream and Run 146 to the Oreti
River, and by said river to Run 191, the starting
point.

NOKOMAI AND SWITZERS DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
bounded towards the North, from a point on the
River Mataura 2 miles above the junction of Allan
Burn with said river, by a right line to Lorn Peak;
thence by a right line to Rocky Mount, thence by the
summit of the range to the Obelisk; towards the
East by the summit of the range to a point due west
of the junction of the Jordan Creek with the Clutha
River, thence by the Umbrella Mountains and their
nearest spur, and across the Pomahaka River, to
Wart Hill; thence by a right line to the confluence
of the Spylaw Burn with the Pomahaka River, thence
by the Pomahaka River and the Leithen Stream, and
right lines along the north-western boundary of Sec-
tion 1, Block VII., Greenvale Survey District, to the
east branch of the Waikaka River, and by that
branch to the Gore District before described;
towards the South by the last-mentioned district;
and towards the West by the Mataura River to
starting point.

TAPANUI DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Otago,
bounded towards the North by the Spylaw Burn to
its source, thence by a right line to Spylaw, thence by
a line running due east to a point 20 chains distant
from Clutha River; towards the East by a line parallel
to and 20 chains distant from said Clutha River to
a point due east of the Summit, thence due west by
a right line to the Summit, thence by the Tapanui
Range to the Pomahaka River, at the northern boun-
dary line of Block VIII., Waipahee Survey District;
towards the South by a right line due west to the
Gore District before described; and towards the
West and North-west by said district, and by the
Nokomai and Switzers District before described, to
Spylaw Burn, the starting point.