Numb. 107.

1493

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1883.

Abolishing Resident Magistrates' Districts of New Plymouth and Upper Wanganui, and constituting the Districts of Taranaki and Patea.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand
Gazette, to constitute throughout the colony, or in any part
thereof, districts to be called Resident Magistrates' districts,
and such districts from time to time to abolish, and the
boundaries to define and alter, and in any such Proclamation
to fix a time on and from which any such district shall be
constituted or abolished, as the case may be:

And whereas by Proclamations bearing date the twenty-
ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven, and the third day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so
vested in him, did define the boundaries of the Resident
Magistrates' Districts of New Plymouth and Upper Wa-
nganui, as described in the said Proclamations respectively:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the said districts so
defined as aforesaid, and to constitute other districts in lieu
thereof:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in me as
aforesaid, do hereby, as from the first day of November
proximo, abolish the said districts of New Plymouth and
Upper Wanganui, and proclaim and constitute the Districts
of Taranaki and Patea described in the Schedule hereto to
be, on and from the said first day of November proximo, Resi-
dent Magistrates' districts within the meaning and for the
purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
TARANAKI.
BOUNDED towards the North-west and North by Kawhia
County, from the mouth of the Mokau River to Mount Rangi-
toto; thence towards the East by a right line to the source
of the Ongaruhe River, and thence by a line along the middle
of the Ongaruhe, of the Ngahuinga (or Tuhua), and of the
Wanganui Rivers to the confluence of the last-mentioned
river with the Tangarakau River; thence towards the South
generally by a right line to the eastern corner of the Manga-
otuku Block; thence by the southern boundary of that block
to its south-west corner; thence by a right line to the
eastern corner of the Ahuroa Block, and by the eastern boun-
dary of the latter block to the Patea River; thence by a line
along the middle of the Patea River to a point where it inter-
sects the north-eastern boundary of the Town District of
Stratford; thence by the north-eastern, south-eastern, and
south-western boundaries of the said town district to the
centre of the Patea River; thence again by the centre of
that river to its source near Mount Egmont; by a right line
thence to the summit of Mount Egmont; towards the South-
east by a right line thence to the source of the Taungatara
River, and by a line along the middle of the last-mentioned
river to its mouth; and towards the South-west and again
towards the North-west by the ocean to the mouth of the
Mokau River, the place of commencement.

PATEA.
Bounded towards the North-west and North generally
by the Resident Magistrate's District of Taranaki herein-
before described, from the mouth of the Taungatara River
to the western boundary of Wanganui County; thence
generally towards the East and South-east by Wanganui
County to the ocean; and thence towards the South-west by
the ocean to the place of commencement.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General
in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honour-
able Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House, at Wel-
lington, this sixteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-three.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!