Numb. 72.

967

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1884.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1884.

Town District of Kamo, County of Whangarei, constituted.

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

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 Governor 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 Proclamation 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 mentioned 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 number 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 herein-after set forth:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor 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 presented 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 Kamo Town District,” and I do appoint that the Board of Commissioners for the said district shall consist of five in number.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the County of Whangarei bounded towards the North by the Kaurihohore Road District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 42, of the 18th May, 1883, from the southernmost angle of Section No. 114 of the Parish of Whangarei to the middle of the road which forms the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 12 of said parish; towards the East and South-east by the middle of that road to the middle of the road which forms the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 7 of the parish aforesaid, and by the middle of that road to the middle of the road at its south-western corner; thence by the middle of the latter road continued south-easterly to the north-western boundary of Mair’s grant; thence following the north-western boundary of Mair’s grant aforesaid in a south-westerly direction to the Otangarei Stream; thence by that stream and the north-eastern boundary of a subdivision of Mair’s grant aforesaid, the property of one George Burnett, to the north-eastern angle of that subdivision; thence by the south-eastern boundary of Burnett’s subdivision aforesaid to the northernmost angle of the land known as Cheeseman’s property, also a portion of a subdivision of Mair’s grant aforesaid, and by the north-western boundary of Cheeseman’s land to the county road, and crossing said road to its western side, and continuing north-westerly along the same to the northern angle of Lot No. 12 of Burnett’s Township; thence along the north-western boundary of Lot No. 12, the south-western boundaries of 12, 11, and part of 10 of that township to the south-eastern angle of the property known as Johnson’s; towards the South-west by the southern and south-western boundaries of Johnson’s land to the eastern boundary of the Ruatangata Road District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette aforesaid; and thence