Aumb. 98.
1709

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1882.

Town District of Petone, County of Hutt, 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-
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
Petone 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 Welling-
ton, situated in the Hutt Survey District, and
bounded towards the North from the north-west
corner of Section No. 79 of Block XIII. of said
Survey District, by Native land, to Section No. 16
(Native reserve); towards the South-east by said
section, across the main Hutt Road, and again
towards the North by White's Road to the Hutt
River; towards the East by that river and Section
No. 10 to the harbour; towards the South by the
high-water mark of the harbour, crossing the mouth

ERRATA.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 93, of 8th November, 1882, page 1631, Warea Village Settlement, Small-farm
Allotments, after Block IV., read, opposite section 9 in first column, "Block VIII.;" and at top of page 1632, Small-Farm
Allotments, for "Upset Price per Allotment," read "Upset Price per Acre." Also, at page 1632, second column, fifth line
from top, for "17 miles," read "7 miles."