Num. 133.

1781

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1884.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1884.

County of Horowhenua 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 hun-
dred 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 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 Manawatu
shall, as from the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-five, constitute a new county, to be
called the County of Horowhenua; 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 Horowhenua shall be divided into three ridings, to be
called the Wirokino Riding, the Otaki Riding, and the
Te Horo 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 Horowhenua shall be: For the Wirokino
Riding, two members; for the Otaki Riding, three members;
and for the Te Horo Riding, two members.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

COUNTY OF HOROWHENUA.

Bounded towards the North-east and North-west generally
by a line along the middle of the Manawatu River from its
mouth to a point in line with the south-western boundary of
the Township of Fitzherbert; thence again towards the
North-east by a line to and by the said south-western
boundary-line to the summit of the Tararua Range; thence
towards the South-east by the Counties of Wairarapa East
and Wairarapa West respectively; towards the South by the
County of Hutt; and towards the West by the shore of Cook
Strait to the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WIROKINO RIDING.

Bounded towards the North-east and North-west generally
by a line along the middle of the Manawatu River from its
mouth to a point in line with the south-western boundary of
the Township of Fitzherbert; thence again towards the
North-east by a line to and by the said south-western
boundary-line to the summit of the Tararua Range; thence
towards the South-east by the County of Wairarapa East;
towards the South by the southern boundaries of the Ohau
No. 2 and the Ohau No. 3 Blocks; and towards the West by
the shore of Cook Strait to the place of commencement.

OTAKI RIDING.

Bounded towards the North by the Wirokino Riding, here-
before described; towards the South-east by the County of
Wairarapa West; towards the South by the Waihonga Block
and the Otaki River; and towards the West by the shore of
Cook Strait.

TE HORO RIDING.

Bounded towards the North by the Otaki Riding, herein-
before described; towards the East by the County of
Wairarapa West; towards the South by the County of
Hutt; and towards the West by the shore of Cook Strait.

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 Christchurch, this sixteenth day
of December, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-four.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!