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341

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1882.

Town District of Mataura, County of Southland,
constituted.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Town Districts Act, 1881"
(hereinafter called "the said Act"), it is,
among other things, enacted that the inhabitants of
any locality not constituted a borough under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," wherein there
are not less than fifty householders, may apply by
petition to the Governor praying that such locality
may be constituted a town district under the said Act;
and that no such locality shall exceed two square
miles in area, and no one point in such area shall be
distant more than four miles from any other point
therein, except in the case of military townships;
and that in every such locality not less than two-
thirds of the number of the resident householders
shall concur in any such petition, and each signature
to such petition shall be verified by the attestation
of some respectable witness; and that such petition
shall set forth accurately the boundaries of the
locality to which such petition may refer; and also
that, on the receipt of any such petition, the Gover-
nor may, by Proclamation, declare that the provisions
of the said Act shall come into force within such
locality, and that the same shall be a town district
under the said Act; and, further, that such Procla-
mation shall accurately define the boundaries of the
district in accordance with the description contained
in the petition, and shall declare the name by which
such district shall thereafter be known:

And whereas a petition has been presented to the
Governor, by the inhabitants of the locality men-
tioned and described therein, praying that such
locality may be constituted a town district under the
said Act:

And whereas not less than two-thirds of the num-
ber of resident householders in the said locality have

concurred in the said petition, and it is expedient
that a Proclamation should be issued under the said
Act for the purposes hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions
of the said Act shall come into force within the
locality or district mentioned and described in the
Schedule hereto (the same being the locality men-
tioned and set forth in the said petition, so presented
as aforesaid), and that the same shall be a town dis-
trict under the said Act; and, in further pursuance
and exercise of the said power and authority, I do
hereby declare that the said district shall hereafter
be known by the name of "The Mataura Town Dis-
trict," and I do appoint that the Board of Commis-
sioners of the said district shall consist of five in
number.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago, in
the Colony of New Zealand, bounded towards the
South and West by the Waimumu Stream from its
outflow into the Mataura River to the north-west
angle of Section No. 34, Block VII., Township of
Mataura; thence towards the North by a line due
east to the Mataura River; thence towards the
South-east by the Mataura River aforesaid to a point
in line with the north-eastern boundary-line of Sec-
tion No. 74, Block XVII., Town of Mataura Bridge;
thence towards the North-east by a right line across
the Mataura River aforesaid to and along the said
north-eastern boundary-line of said Section No. 74
and that boundary-line produced to the east boundary
of the said Town of Mataura Bridge; thence again
towards the East and towards the South by the
eastern and southern boundary-lines of said Town of
Mataura Bridge to the Mataura River; thence by a
right line to the place of commencement: as the

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 14, of the 9th February, 1882, page 222, line 20 from the bottom, for "Electric
Telegraph Act 1875 Amendment Act, 1881," read "Electric Telegraph Act 1875 Amendment Act, 1880."