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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1883.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1883.

County of Mackenzie constituted.

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a petition was presented to the Governor,
signed by not less than three-fifths of the county
electors contained within that portion of the County of
Geraldine included within the boundaries particularly set
forth in the First Schedule hereto, and which said portion
comprises in the whole an area of more than two hundred
thousand acres in extent, and contains more than one hun-
dred county electors: And whereas the said petition prayed
the Governor to constitute the said portion of the County of
Geraldine a new county, and to set forth the boundaries of
the proposed new county: And whereas such petition has
been publicly notified as by law required:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor 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 powers vested in me
by "The Counties Act, 1876," do hereby proclaim and declare
that the aforesaid portion of the County of Geraldine
shall, as from the first day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three, constitute a new county, to be
called the County of Mackenzie; and that the boundaries of
the said new county so constituted shall be those particu-
larly set forth in the First Schedule hereto; and the said
new county is hereby constituted accordingly:

And I do further proclaim and declare that the said County
of Mackenzie shall be divided into two ridings, to be called
the Te Kapo Riding and the Fairlie Riding, the boundaries
whereof shall be those particularly set forth in the Second
Schedule hereto:

And, in exercise of the like power and with the like advice
and consent as aforesaid, I do further proclaim and declare
that the number of members of the County Council of the
said County of Mackenzie shall be: For the Te Kapo Riding
three members; and for the Fairlie Riding, four members.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

COUNTY OF MACKENZIE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Canterbury,
bounded towards the East by Ashburton County from the
summit of the Southern Alps to the source of Forest Creek
in Two-thumb Range; thence by that range to a point in
line with the northern boundary of Run No. 357; thence
towards the North by a right line to and by that boundary to
the south branch of the Opuha River; thence towards the
North-east by a line along the middle of the said branch to
its confluence with the North branch of the Opuha River;
thence towards the South-east by a right line to and by
Sections Nos. 31172 and 31098, Opuha Survey District,
Sections Nos. 19947, 19945, 19944, and 29333, Tengawai
Survey District, to the Opihi River; thence again towards
the North-east by a line along the middle of that river to a
point in line with the northern boundary of Section
No. 27460, said Tengawai Survey District; thence by a right
line to and by that section and Section No. 28941 to a road
intersecting Section No. 11608, and by the east side of that
road and its continuation through Sections Nos. 11606 and
11607, Tengawai Survey District aforesaid, to the Tengawai
River; thence by a line along the middle of that river to a
point in line with the western boundary of Section No. 5209,
Pareora Survey District; thence by a right line to and by
that section and Sections Nos. 21990, 26284, 33833, and
2440, to the southernmost corner of the last-mentioned
section; thence by the north side of a road intersecting
Section No. 16285, and by Sections Nos. 21213, 24741, 28531,
19891, and 24743, to the southernmost corner of the last-
mentioned section; thence by the east side of a road
running to and intersecting Sections Nos. 21088 and 16279,
and by Sections Nos. 21087, 24178, 24179, 33827, 24745, and
30445, all of the Pareora Survey District aforesaid, to the
Pareora River; thence by the production of the east side of
the road forming the south-western boundary of the last-
mentioned section to the middle of the said Pareora River;
thence towards the South, and again towards the South-east,
by Waimate County; towards the South-west and West by
Waitaki County to Westland County; and thence towards
the North-west by the said Westland County to the place of
commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

TE KAPO RIDING

Is bounded towards the East by Ashburton County from the
summit of the Southern Alps to the source of Forest Creek
in Two-thumb Range; thence by the summit of that range
and the summit of the watershed between the South branch
of the Opuha River and Te Kapo Lake and the Opihi River
and the Te Kapo River, over Mount Burgess and Trig. N1 to
Burke's Pass and Trigs. Q1, E, and D, Burke Survey
District, to Mackenzie Pass; thence by the summit of the
western watershed of Lockhart's Creek, over Trig. B, said
Burke Survey District, to Lockhart's Pass; thence by the
summit of the eastern watershed of the Hakateramea River,
over Trig. O, Mackenzie Survey District, and Trigs. V, M,