Numb. 60.

901

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1882.

County of Waihemo constituted.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a petition was presented to the
Governor, signed by one hundred and ninety-
seven persons, being not less than three-fifths of the
county electors contained within that portion of the
County of Waikouaiti included within the boundaries
particularly set forth in the First Schedule hereto,
and containing in the whole an area of two hundred
and thirteen thousand acres, more or less, in extent:
And whereas the said petition prayed the Governor
to constitute the said portion of the County of Wai-
kouaiti a new county, and set forth the boundaries of
the proposed new county: And whereas such peti-
tion was publicly notified in the Palmerston and
Waikouaiti Times of the seventh day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, being not
less than one month before such presentation to the
Governor:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Ad-
ministrator of the Government of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, by virtue and in exercise of the power
vested in me by the fourteenth section of "The
Counties Act, 1876," do hereby proclaim and declare
that the aforesaid portion of the County of Waikouaiti
shall constitute a new county, to be called "The
County of Waihemo," and that the boundaries of
the said new county so constituted shall be those
particularly set forth in the First Schedule hereto,
and the said new county is hereby constituted accord-
ingly.

And I do further proclaim and declare that the
said County of Waihemo shall be divided into seven
ridings, to be called the Goodwood Riding, the Bushey
Riding, the Blue Mountain Riding, the Meadowbank
Riding, the Dunback Riding, the Green Valley Rid-
ing, and the Macrae's Riding, the boundaries whereof
shall be those particularly set forth in the Second
Schedule hereto: And I do hereby further proclaim
and declare that the number of members of the
County Council of the said County of Waihemo
shall be: For the Goodwood Riding, one member;
for the Bushey Riding, one member; for the Blue
Mountain Riding, two members; for the Meadow-
bank Riding, one member; for the Dunback Riding,
one member; for the Green Valley Riding, one
member; and for the Macrae's Riding, two members.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

BOUNDED towards the North by the Waitaki County
from Kakanui Peak to the ocean; towards the East
by the ocean to Pleasant River; towards the South
and West by Pleasant River and Annan's Creek
to the Main North Road; towards the West by
the said Main North Road to where it last crosses
the said Pleasant River; thence again towards
the South by Pleasant River; thence towards the
West by a line running due north to Taieri Peak;
thence again towards the South by a right line run-
ning due west to the Waikouaiti River; thence by
the said river to the southern boundary-line of Block
I., Highlay Survey District; thence by Budle Survey
District to the western boundary of Run No. 121в;
thence towards the South-east by that run and the
Nenthorn Creek; thence towards the South by Run
No. 307, and by a line being part of a right line drawn
from the Hummock to the Taieri River at the south-
eastern corner of Run No. 205; thence by the centre
of that river to Horse Burn; thence by the centre of
that stream to the Fork, and a right line from the
Fork to Flat Hill; thence by the summit of a leading
ridge to the Main Road; thence by a line to the
nearest branch of the Shag River, flowing south-
westerly, by that stream to its source; and thence by
a right line to Kakanui Peak, the starting point: ex-
cepting therefrom the Borough of Palmerston.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

GOODWOOD RIDING.

BOUNDED towards the North, East, and again towards
the North by the Borough of Palmerston and Moeraki