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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1882.

Boundaries of District Court District of Taranaki by the Mokau River, from its mouth to its most
altered.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor from time to time, as he shall think fit, by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to consti-
tute throughout the colony, or in any part thereof,
districts within which District Courts shall be re-
spectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the
boundaries thereof to define or alter :

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the
thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven, a district was defined within which
a District Court should be held under the said Act,
and it was thereby declared that the said Court
should be designated by the name of "The District
Court of Taranaki:"

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the
twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one, the boundaries of the said
district were altered:

And whereas it is expedient to further alter the
boundaries of the said district so defined and altered
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 authority
vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim
and declare that, from and after the first day of
February next, the boundaries of the district within
which the District Court of Taranaki shall be held
shall be altered, and that thenceforth the boundaries
shall be the boundaries hereinafter described.

THE DISTRICT COURT OF TARANAKI.

Description of District.

All that area bounded towards the North-west
northerly source, and by a right line thence to
Rangitoto Mountain; towards the East by a right
line to the source of the Ongaruhe River, and thence
by the centres of the Ongaruhe, the Ngahuinga (or
Tuhua), and Wanganui Rivers to the junction of the
latter river with the Tangarakau River; thence by a
right line to the summit of the watershed west of
the Wanganui River, near the eastern corner of the
Mangaotuku Block; again towards the East by lines
from hill to hill, along the summit of the said water-
shed, by Mataimoana, Taumatarata, Taurangapiopio,
to Paparangiora; thence along a ridge separating
the watersheds of the Waitotara River and Kai Iwi
Stream to Tutukaikatoa; thence by a ridge and a
summit of the Rangitatau Range to the nearest point
to Aramairi Trigonometrical Station; thence by a
right line to the north-east corner of the Auroa Na-
tive Reserve; thence by the northern boundary of
the Waitotara Block to the Waitotara River, and
thence by the centre of that river to the ocean; and
towards the South-west and North-west by the ocean
to the Mokau River, the starting point.

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
eighteenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !