Numb. 42.

697

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1881.

Altering Boundaries of Resident Magistrate's Dis-
trict of Whangarei, and abolishing other Districts.

(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 Proclamation bearing date the
second day of March, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
so vested in him, did proclaim and constitute the
Districts of Whangarei Heads, Whangarei, Manga-
pai, and Waipu, as described in the said Proclamation,
to be Resident Magistrates' districts within the mean-
ing and for the purpose of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the said
Districts of Whangarei Heads, Mangapai, and Waipu,
and to alter the boundaries of the said District of
Whangarei so constituted 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 abolish the said
Districts of Whangarei Heads, Mangapai, and Waipu,
and alter the boundaries of the said District of Wha-
ngarei, as described in the Schedule hereto, as and
from the first day of June next.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Auckland, bounded towards the North by a right
line drawn from the Hauru River at the easternmost
corner of the Parish of Hikurangi to the head of
Rocky Bay; thence towards the East by the sea to
the Parish of Mangawai; thence towards the South

by the said Parish of Mangawai and the Parish of
Kaiwaka, Wairau, and Paparoa; towards the South-
west by the Parish of Matakohe to the Manganui
River; thence by that river to its confluence with the
Tauraroa River; thence towards the North-west by
that river to the Parish of Maungakaramea; thence
again towards the South-west by lines forming the
south-western boundaries of the said parish to the
Waionepu River; thence by a right line to the con-
fluence of the Mangakahia River with the Wairua
River; thence again towards the North-west by the
said Wairua River to the north-eastern corner of the
Parish of Hikurangi aforesaid; and thence towards
the North-east by a line forming the north-eastern
boundary of the said parish to the Hauru River: in-
cluding the adjacent islands.

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
twenty-sixth day of May, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land withdrawn from the Deferred-payment System
in Otago.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifty-third section of "The
Land Act, 1877," it is enacted that the
Governor, by Proclamation in the Gazette, may from
time to time set apart out of any suburban or rural
lands such blocks or allotments of land as he shall