1108
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

Town District of Woolston, County of Selwyn,
constituted.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Town Districts Act, 1881"
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 Governor
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:

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
that a Proclamation should be issued under the said
Act for the purposes hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Admin-
istrator of the Government of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance 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
mentioned and set forth in the said petition, so pre-
sented as aforesaid), and that the same shall be a
town district 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
Woolston Town District;" and I do appoint that the
Board of Commissioners of the said district shall
consist of seven in number.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Canter-
bury, situated in the Christchurch Survey District,
and bounded towards the North-east from Hargood's
Road by a canal reserve, and by the south-west
boundary-line of said reserve produced to the Heath-
cote Estuary; towards the East by high-water mark
of said estuary to the River Heathcote; towards the
South and South-west generally by the centre of
said river to a point in line with the south-eastern
side of Navigation Street; and towards the North-
west by a right line to and by said side of said street,
and that side produced to the north-eastern side of
Ferry Road, and by said road and by Hargood's Road
to the Canal Reserve as the same is delineated on
the plan deposited in the Survey Office, Canter-

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
seventeenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two,

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Changing Purpose of a Reserve in Otago.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance of the sixth section of "The Public
Reserves Act, 1881," it is hereby notified that,
in the opinion of His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government, it is expedient to change the
purpose of the land described in the second column
of the Schedule hereto, from the purpose named in
the first column, to the purpose named in the third
column of the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Administrator of the Government, this
seventeenth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-two.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Changing Purpose of a Reserve in Otago.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance of the sixth section of "The Public
Reserves Act, 1881," it is hereby notified that,