✨ Proclamations and Boundary Changes




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61
of the Little River Road Board, within the district
known as the Little River Road District.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice,
the Administrator of the Government of
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of
June, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-two.
THOMAS DICK.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Restrictions as to Weight to be carried on certain
Vehicles in Featherston Highway District, County
of Wairarapa West.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested
in me by the eighty-fourth section of an Ordi-
nance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council
of the Province of Wellington intituled "The High-
ways Act, 1874," and "The Abolition of Provinces
Act, 1875," and of all other powers enabling me in
that behalf, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby proclaim the following clause to be in
force in the Featherston Highway District, that is to
say,

"Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of
any Highway Board that the weight carried on
vehicles having the breadth of their wheels of less
than five inches requires to be restricted, the Board
may, by notice posted in the district, or by advertise-
ment inserted at least twice in some newspaper cir-
culating in the district, give notice that all such
vehicles shall be subject to a penalty of not less than
one shilling per hundredweight or fractional part of
a hundredweight so carried above the weight of one
ton five hundredweight on two wheels, or two tons
ten hundredweight on four wheels; and that such
penalty shall be recoverable at the suit of the col-
lector or other agent appointed for that purpose by
the Board: Provided for the carrying into operation
of this clause the Board shall be empowered to take
such steps as to them shall appear necessary for ascer-
taining the weight of any load, and no liability or
damage shall accrue for any necessary delay in ascer-
taining the said weight."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice,
the Administrator of the Government of
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
fourth day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two.
THOMAS DICK.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Districts constituted under "The Marriage Act,
1880."

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and au-
rity vested in the Governor by "The Marriage
Act, 1880," I, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby abolish the existing marriage districts
known as the Rangiora and Kaiapoi Districts, and
do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore
comprised within the said districts is hereby divided
anew into two marriage districts, the names and
boundaries whereof shall be as follow:-

RANGIORA DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Canter-
bury, bounded towards the North-east by a right
line from Mount Grey to the westernmost corner of
Section No. 9015; thence by the road dividing Sec-
tions Nos. 9015 and 7944 and by the road dividing
Sections Nos. 4018 and 3590 to the Rangiora and
Leithfield Road; thence by said road to the road
dividing Sections Nos. 3348 and 3577, by this road
to the Upper Sefton Road, and by that road to the
road north-east of Section No. 2137, and by said road
forming the western boundary of Section No. 1976
to the River Ashley; thence by the left bank of that
river to the North Road; towards the East by that
road to the Rangiora Road; thence generally towards
the South by Te Pouapatuki Road to the Drain
Reserve; thence by a right line to the most easterly
corner of Section No. 94; thence by the southern
boundary-lines of that section to a road south-west
of that section, by said road, and by a road north and
north-west of Section No. 135 to the Cam River,
by the Cam River to Young's Road, by that road
to Boy's direct Rangiora Road, by that road to a
road north-west of Section No. 1121, by that road
to the Ashley and Kaiapoi Road, by that road to
the road east of Section No. 2460, by that road to
the road north of Section No. 6610 to a Drain Re-
serve, by that reserve to a road north of Section
No. 6592, by that road to the Oxford and Kaiapoi
Road, by that road to a road south-east of Sections
Nos. 7117 and 2953 to a road north of Section No.
3981, by that road to the Cust Road, by that road to
the Oxford and Ohoka Road, and by the Oxford and
Ohoka Road to a point on its northern side due
north of Trig. C30, on the right bank of the Wai-
makariri River; towards the West by a due north
line to the River Ashley; again towards the South by
the right bank of that river to a point immediately
opposite the junction of the left bank of the River
Garry with the left bank of the Ashley River; ; again
towards the West by a right line to said junction;
towards the South-west by the River Garry to the
eastern boundary-line of Native Reserve No. 893;
thence along said line and a line in continuation
thereof to the River Ashley in the Upper Valley, and
along that river to its source; thence generally
towards the North by the Waipaka Road District to
the north-western boundary of Run No. 464, and by
that boundary to the westernmost corner of said run;
thence by the northern and eastern boundary-lines of
Runs Nos. 165 166, and 168 to Mount Karetu;
thence by the ridge of hills to the summit of Mount
Grey, the point of commencement.

KAIAPOI DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Canter-
bury, bounded towards the North by the Rangiora
District, before described, and by the left bank of
Ashley River to the sea; towards the East by the
sea; towards the South by the right bank of the
Waimakariri River to a point due north of Trig. C 30;
and towards the West by a due north line to the
Rangiora District, before mentioned: as the same are
delineated on the plans in the Survey Office, Christ-
church.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall
come into operation on the twentieth day of July,



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