Numb. 60.

871

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1883.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1883.

County of Oroua 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
Manawatu 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 hundred
county electors: And whereas the said petition prayed the
Governor to constitute the said portion of the County of
Manawatu 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 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 Manawatu shall, as from
the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
three, constitute a new county, to be called the County of
Oroua; and that the boundaries of the said new county so
constituted shall be those particularly 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 Oroua shall be divided into five ridings, to be called the
Kiwitea Riding, the Waituna Riding, the Ashurst Riding, the
Taonui Riding, and the Fitzherbert 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 Oroua shall be: For the Kiwitea Riding, one
member; for the Waituna Riding, two members; for the
Ashurst Riding, two members; for the Taonui Riding, two
members; and for the Fitzherbert Riding, two members.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

COUNTY OF OROUA.

ALL that area bounded towards the North-west by the middle
of the Rangitikei River from a point in line with the southern
boundary-line of Section No. 99, Block IV., Rangitoto Survey
District, to the Kawhatau River; towards the North-east by
the middle of that river to its source; thence towards the
North by a line due east to the summit of the Ruahine Range;
towards the South-east by the summit of that range, across the
Manawatu River, and by the summit of the Tararua Range to
the south-western boundary of the Township of Fitzherbert;
towards the South-west by the south-western boundary-lines of
the said township to the Manawatu River, and by the middle of
that river to the Oroua River; again towards the North-west by
the middle of the Oroua River to the east side of the railway-
line; again towards the South-west by the railway-line to the
Borough of Feilding (as defined in New Zealand Gazette,
1881, page 881); again towards the North-west by the said
borough; and again generally towards the South-west by that
borough to the north-western corner of Section No. 184 at
Mount Taylor; and thence by Sections Nos. 130, 129, and 125,
Block X., Sections Nos. 124, 119, 118, and 112, Block IX.,
Oroua Survey District, and Section No. 111, Block IV., Rangi-
toto Survey District, to Mount Biggs; thence by Section No.
101, the southern boundary line of Section No. 144 (Native
Reserve), and the eastern and southern boundary-lines of
Section No. 99, Block IV., Rangitoto Survey District aforesaid,
and the said southern boundary-line produced to the middle of
the Rangitikei River, the point of commencement: excepting
from the above-described area the Borough of Palmerston
North.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

KIWITEA RIDING.

ALL that area bounded towards the North-west and North-
east by the County of Rangitikei; towards the South-east by
Waipawa County from the intersection of the production in a
westerly direction of the northern boundary-line of Section 284,
Block XIV., Ongo Survey District, with the middle of the
Rangitikei River, to the Manawatu River; towards the South
by that river to a point at which its right bank is intersected by
a line bearing 200° (magnetic) from a point in line with the
South-west boundary-line of Section No. 44, Block XIII.,
Pohangina Survey District, and distant from said section 214
chains, more or less; again towards the North-west by a right
line to said point; towards the South-west by a right line to
and by the south-western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 44,
43, 41, 40, and 39, Block XIII., Pohangina Survey District, by
the south-western boundary-line of Section No. 34, Block IX.,
of said district, and of Section No. 11, and by the middle of
road forming the south-west boundary of Sections Nos. 10, 9,
1, and 2, of Block XII., Oroua Survey District, across the
Oroua River, to and by the middle of the road forming the
south-west boundary-lines of Section No. 213, Block VIII.,
Sections Nos. 212, 154, and 156, Block VII., Sections Nos. 313,
311, and 309, Block III., and Sections Nos. 302 and 301, Block