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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 12

the Wairoa Highway District, Provincial District of
Wellington, Colony of New Zealand, as defined and
set forth in the Schedule hereto. The said middle
line and the land through which the same passes are
set forth in the map and plan marked P.W.D. 8146,
and authenticated for the purposes of this Procla-
mation by the signature of the Honorable Richard
Oliver, Minister for Public Works, and which said
map and plan is deposited in the office of the Regis-
trar of the Supreme Court at Wellington, in the Pro-
vincial District of Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Section No. 336, said
point being the termination of a portion of the line
of railway from New Plymouth to Waitara, at Sentry
Hill, as described in a Proclamation dated the 23rd
October, 1879, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 111, of the 30th October, 1879; and
proceeding thence in a generally westerly direction
for a distance of 14 chains or thereabouts, and ter-
minating at a point on the western boundary of
the aforesaid section; all within the Wairoa High-
way District, Provincial District of Wellington, and
Colony of New Zealand; including all adjoining and
intervening places, lands, reserves, streams, rivers,
and watercourses; in the manner delineated on the
plan marked P.W.D. 8146, which plan is signed by
the Honorable John Hall, Minister acting for the
Minister for Public Works, and deposited in the
office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at
Wellington, in the said provincial district; the total
length of the middle line as above described being
about 14 chains.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Her Majesty's High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
fourth day of February, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one.

JOHN HALL,
(Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Part of Patea County excluded from Operation of
"The Dog Registration Act, 1880," until 1st
August, 1881.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested
in me by the third section of "The Dog Regis-
tration Act, 1880," I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the area comprised within
the district described in the Schedule hereto shall be
excluded from the operation of the said Act until the
first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Taranaki, bounded towards the North-east and East
by a right line from the summit of Mount Egmont

to the source of the Waingongoro River, and by that
river to the sea; thence towards the South by the sea
to the mouth of the Oeo River; and thence towards
the West by that river to its source, and by a right
line to the summit of Mount Egmont.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Her Majesty's High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of February, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one.

JOHN HALL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Altering Boundaries of Resident Magistrates' Dis-
tricts of Tauranga, Hauraki, and Waikato.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, 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 dis-
tricts 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, the thirty-first day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four, and the thirteenth day of October, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-six, His Excellency
the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities so vested in him, did define
the boundaries of the Resident Magistrates' Districts
of Tauranga, Hauraki, and Waikato, as described in
the said Proclamations respectively:

And whereas it is expedient to alter the boundaries
of the said districts so defined as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers and authorities so
vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, from and after the first day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, the
boundaries of the said Districts of Hauraki, Waikato,
and Tauranga shall be altered, and that thenceforth,
within the meaning and for the purposes of the said
Act, the said districts respectively shall be constituted
with the boundaries as defined and described in the
Schedule hereto, with the names set over them.

SCHEDULE.

HAURAKI DISTRICT.

COMMENCING at Oreri Point, on the western shore
of the Frith of the Thames. Bounded towards the
North-west by the Frith of the Thames and the sea
from the place above named to Cape Colville; towards
the North-east and East by the sea from Cape Col-
ville aforesaid to Nga Kuri-a-whare; towards the
South by a right line, in the direction of the summit
of Te Aroha Mountain, until its intersection by