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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

dary of said Section 27 distant from the south-eastern corner of the same 71 links; and bounded thence generally on the North-east and East by part of said Sections 27, 27z, 26, 78, and said Sections 25, 24, and 23, 4521 links; thence on the North-east by a road-line, 94 links; thence generally on the West and South-west by said Sections 2 of 19, and other parts of said Sections 78, 26, 27z, 27, and 28, 4558 links; and finally on the East by a road-line, 89 links, to the commencing point: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less, and the same being more particularly delineated on the map attached to the memorial above referred to.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished 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 September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

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

Approved in Council.
F. P. MURRAY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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

(l.s.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section nine of “The Canterbury Roads 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 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 seventeenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, a petition from the Board of the Lincoln Road District was received by His Excellency the Governor praying that such district should be divided into five separate subdivisions described in the First Schedule hereto: And whereas all things have been done, performed, and happened to authorize 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 Lincoln 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.

WARD No. 1.

Bounded towards the North-west by the Great South Road; towards the North-east by the Waterholes and Harwood and Hampton Roads; towards the South-east by Shand’s Road; and towards the South-west by the Lincoln and Coal Tramway Road, and the Weedon and Springs Road.

WARD No. 2.

Bounded towards the North-west by the Great South Road; towards the North-east by the old river-bed; towards the South-east by the Springs Road; and towards the South-west by the Harwood and Hampton Road, and by No. 1 Ward, before described.

WARD No. 3.

Bounded towards the North-west by No. 1 Ward, before described; towards the North-east by No. 2 Ward before described, by Harwood and Hampton Road, and the Prebbleton and Lincoln Road, and Halswell Road by Ladbrook’s; towards the South-east by the Ellesmere Road by Dawson’s; and towards the South-west by the Ellesmere Junction Road, the Lincoln and Prebbleton Road, and the Lincoln and Coal Tramway Road.

WARD No. 4.

Bounded towards the North-west by No. 2 Ward, before described; towards the North-east by the old river-bed and the River Halswell; towards the South and South-east by Leadley’s Road and Bell’s Road, and by Halswell Road by Ladbrook’s to No. 3 Ward, before described; and towards the West by that ward.

WARD No. 5.

Bounded towards the North by No. 4 Ward, before described, and by the River Halswell; towards the East by the said river; towards the South by the said river and the Ellesmere Junction Road; and towards the North-west by Nos. 3 and 4 Wards, before described.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

No. 1 Ward, William Thompson.
No. 2 Ward, John William Overton.
No. 3 Ward, Patrick Henley.
No. 4 Ward, James Maskrey.
No. 5 Ward, Henry William Peryman.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished 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 eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

THOMAS DICK.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!