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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

Public Works Act, 1876," and "The Public Works
Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," for a certain work,
to wit, the construction of a road through Lot forty-
five, Block three, Otamatea Survey District, County
of Rodney, Provincial District of Auckland:

And whereas the Minister for Public Works has
laid before the Governor the memorial and map
mentioned in and signed and certified as required by
the said Acts:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, in exercise and pur-
suance of the powers and authorities in me vested
by sections twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three,
twenty-four, and twenty-five of "The Public Works
Act, 1876," and by section twenty-eight of "The Public
Works Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," and of any
other power and authority enabling me in that behalf,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described
in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the pur-
poses of a road; and that, from and after the day of
the date hereof, the land so described shall become
absolutely vested in fee-simple in Her Majesty, dis-
charged from all mortgages, charges, claims, estates,
and interests of what kind soever, for use as a road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 8 acres, more or less, situate in the
Parish of Kaiwaka, Block III., Otamatea Survey
District, Provincial District of Auckland, commencing
at the north-eastern corner of Lot No. 50 in said
district. Bounded as follows: North-westerly by a
line, 416 links; North-easterly by a line, 1894 links;
South-easterly by a line, 416 links; South-westerly
by Lot No. 50 to commencing point, 1894 links: be
all the aforesaid measurements either more or less,
and the same being more particularly delineated upon
the plan marked P.W.D. 8631, 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 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 Christ-
church, this twenty-second day of March,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-two.

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

Approved in Executive Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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
ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty, and the seventh day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, His Excel-
lency 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 Taupo and Waikato, as described in the said Pro-
clamations 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 alter the
boundaries of the said Districts of Waikato and
Taupo respectively, as described in the Schedule
hereto as and from the first proximo.

SCHEDULE.

WAIKATO DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Auck-
land, bounded towards the North-west, West, and
North, from the mouth of the Awaroa Stream, by the
northern shore of Whangape Lake; thence by the
Whangape Stream; thence by the right bank of the
Waikato River to the Whangamarino River; thence
by that river to its most northerly source in the
Pataroa Range; towards the East and North-east
generally by a right line; thence to Hapuakohe Pass
by a right line; thence to the north-eastern angle of
the Waikato Military Settlements; thence by a right
line in the direction of Mount Te Aroha to the right
bank of the Waihoa River; thence by that bank of
that river to the southern boundary-line of Aroha
Survey District; thence by a right line due east to
the summit of the Aroha Range, and by a right line
to Otanewainuku Mountain; towards the South-east
by a right line; thence to Motukakapo; thence by a
right line to Rangitoto; thence towards the South
by a right line to the source of the Mokau River;
thence towards the South-west by a line bearing
north 22° 30′ west to the summit of the watershed
between the Waipa River and the West Coast;
thence towards the West by that summit to Pirongia
Mountain, by part of the western boundary of the
Military Settlements Block to the north-western
angle of that block; thence by a right line to the
summit of the watershed between the Waikato River
and the West Coast, at a point due east of Wai-
korea; thence by that summit to a point due west
of the mouth of Awarua Stream, in Whangape Lake;
and again towards the North by a right line to said
mouth: as the same is delineated on the plans
deposited in the Survey Office, Auckland.

TAUPO DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial Districts of Auck-
land and Wellington, bounded towards the North by
the Waikato District, above described, to Otanewai-
nuku; thence towards the East by a right line drawn
due south for a distance of twenty-two miles; thence
towards the North-east by a right line to a point five
miles due south of the most southerly extremity of
the Rere Whakaitu Lake; thence by a right line to
the most northerly point of the Waikaremoana Lake;
thence towards the South by a right line to the
Rangitaiki River, at the point where the main road
from Taupo to Napier crosses it; again towards the
East along the middle of that road to the thirty-
ninth parallel of south latitude; thence again towards
the South by that parallel to 176° 30′ east longitude;

Altering Boundaries of Resident Magistrates' Dis-
tricts of Waikato and Taupo.

(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-