Numb. 54. 805

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882.

Town District of Whangarei, County of Whangarei,
constituted.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Town Districts Act, 1881"
(hereinafter called "the said Act"), it is, of
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:

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-
triet 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 Whangarei Town Dis-
trict," and I do appoint that the Board of Commis-
sioners for the said district shall consist of five in
number.

SCHEDULE.

WHANGAREI TOWN DISTRICT.

ALL that area commencing at the westernmost angle
of Dr. Perston's land, known as Rahi. Bounded
towards the North-west by the north-western boun-
ary of Dr. Perston's land aforesaid, from the place
last named to the western boundary of Mr. Hunt's
land, known as Wycombe; thence northerly by the
said western boundary to the northern boundary of
Mr. Hunt's land aforesaid; thence by part of the
northern boundary of Mr. Hunt's land aforesaid to
the Waiarohia River; and thence by the Waiarohia
River aforesaid to the centre of the road which forms
the south-western boundary of the subdivision into
allotments of the land known as the Rev. Mr.
Gorrie's land; towards the North by the centre of
the said road continued through the subdivision
aforesaid to the Bay of Islands Road, and crossing
the Bay of Islands Road aforesaid to the eastern side
of the road known as the Mill Road; thence northerly
by the eastern side of the Mill Road aforesaid to the.
northern side of the road leading to the upper land-

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