SEPT. 7.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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North by a right line due east; thence to the Oroua
river; thence generally towards the South-east by
the said river to the Sanson Registration District,
before described; and towards the South-west by
said district to the Rangitikei River.

FOXTON DISTRICT.

All that area in the Provincial District of Welling-
ton, bounded towards the North by the Sanson Re-
gistration District, before described, from the Rangi-
tikei River to the Oroua River; towards the East by
said Oroua River to the Manawatu River; towards
the North-west and North by the said river to
the Gorge; towards the South-east by a leading
spur to and by the summit of the Tararua Range to
a point due east of the source of the Ohau River;
towards the South by a right line to the said source,
and by the Ohau River to the sea; towards the West
by the sea; and again towards the North-west by
the Rangitikei River to the Sanson Registration
District, before described.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall
come into operation on the fifteenth day of Septem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-two.

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

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Districts constituted under "The Registration of
Births and Deaths Act, 1875."

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and au-
thority vested in the Governor by "The Regis-
tration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875," I, James
Prendergast, the Administrator of the Govern-
ment of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
abolish the existing registration districts known as
the Feilding and Foxton Districts; and do proclaim
and declare that the territory heretofore comprised
within the said districts is hereby divided anew into
three registration districts, the names whereof shall
be the Sanson, Feilding, and Foxton Districts, and
the boundaries whereof shall be coterminous with
the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the
same names as are set forth in a Proclamation of
even date herewith, made under the provisions of
"The Marriage Act, 1880."

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall
come into operation on the fifteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.

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

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Town District of Otautau, County of Wallace,
constituted.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Town Districts Act, 1881"
(hereinafter called "the said Act"), it is,
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-
or 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 Ad-
ministrator 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 men-
tioned and set forth in the said petition, so presented
as aforesaid), and that the same shall be a town dis-
trict 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 Otautau Town Dis-
trict," and I do appoint that the Board of Commis-
sioners for the said district shall consist of five in
number.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Land District of Southland,
situated in Aparima Hundred, and bounded towards
the North by Section No. 18 of Block II.; towards
the North-west by said section and Sections Nos. 20
and 21; towards the North-east by Section No. 23
and by its south-western side produced to Jacob's
River; towards the East by the said river to Section
No. 7; towards the South by that section; again
towards the East by said section to the Otautau
River, and by the Otautau and Jacob's Rivers to
Section No. 20 of Block I. of said hundred;
towards the South-east by said section, across a road,