Num. 39.

657

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1881.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1881.

Queen’s Birthday Levée.

Government House,
Wellington, 20th May, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor will hold a Levée at Government House on Tuesday, the 24th May, at 12 noon, in honor of Her Majesty’s Birthday. Gentlemen attending the Levée will wear uniform or evening dress, and are requested to provide themselves with two cards, with their names legibly written thereon, one card to be left at the entrance hall and one to be given to the Aide-de-Camp.

By His Excellency’s command.

LOUIS F. KNOLLYS,
Captain, A.D.C.

Heathcote Road District, County of Selwyn, divided into Five Subdivisions.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section nine of “The Canterbury Road Ordinance, 1872,” it is enacted that, at any time after the first ordinary annual election or general election, as the case may be, of the Board for any district, the Superintendent, if he shall have received a petition to that effect from the Board of the said district, or from one-fourth or more of the number of persons liable to be rated under the said recited Ordinance in respect of rateable property in the said district, may, by Proclamation, within three months after the receipt of the same, divide the district into two or more separate subdivisions, by such names as shall by such Proclamation be assigned to the same, and in and by such Proclamation the boundaries of the subdivisions shall be set forth; provided that no such division shall be made within three months before the day appointed for holding the annual election of members of the Board in or for such district: And whereas by virtue of “The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875,” the powers, duties, and functions by the said Ordinance vested in the Superintendent are now vested in the Governor: And whereas on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, a petition from the Board of the Heathcote Road District was received by His Excellency the Governor praying that such district should be divided into the five separate subdivisions described in the Schedule hereto: And whereas all things have been done, performed, and happened to authorise the issue of this Proclamation: Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said in part recited Ordinance and Act, do hereby divide the Heathcote Road District into five subdivisions, with the names and boundaries described in the First Schedule hereto.

And I do further proclaim and declare that the number of members to be elected for each of such subdivisions shall be one member for each subdivision, and do severally assign the members of the Road Board of the said district now in office to the said subdivisions in the manner set forth in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

No. 1 WARD: Bounded on the West by the City of Christchurch; on the South-east by Ollivier’s Road; on the North by the Avon River; on the North-east by the Canal Reserve; and on the South-west by the Ferry Road.

No. 2 Ward: Bounded on the North-east by the Canal Reserve and No. 1 Ward; on the North-west by No. 1 Ward and Borough of Sydenham; on the East by the Avon and Heathcote Estuary; and on the South by the River Heathcote.