Num. 14.

291

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1885.

Proclaiming Mosgiel a Borough under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876.”

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor,
By his Deputy,
(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876” (herein termed “the said Act”), the Governor is empowered, by Proclamation, to declare any district in New Zealand to be a borough under the said Act, from and after a day to be named in such Proclamation: And whereas it has been made to appear that the several conditions precedent prescribed by the said Act have been complied with:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, in the name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and as his duly-appointed Deputy, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the district described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby constituted a borough under the said Act as from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five; and, in exercise of the like powers and authorities, I do hereby declare that the name of such borough shall be the Borough of Mosgiel, and that the boundaries of such borough shall be those described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement 975 acres, more or less, bounded towards the North-west by Sections Nos. 10, 9, 8, and 7 of Block VII., Taieri Survey District, a road-line, and Sections Nos. 12, 11, and 10 of Block VI.; towards the North-east by Section No. 3 of the last-mentioned block, a road-line, and Section No. 9 of Block II.; towards the South-east by Sections Nos. 4 and 5 of the last-mentioned block; again towards the North-east by the said Section No. 5, a road-line, and Section No. 26 of Irregular Block; again towards the South-east by a road-line south-east of Sections Nos. 25 and 24 to the main road from Dunedin to Outram, and thence by a closed road south-east of the said Section No. 24 and Section No. 23 of the said block; towards the South-west by Section No. 22 of the said block, a road-line, Sections Nos. 3 and 9 of Block III., Taieri Survey District, and across a road-line to the most easterly corner of Section No. 3 of Block VII.; again towards the South-east by a road-line to Section No. 5 of the said block; and again towards the South-west by the said Section No. 5 to the point of commencement, the most southerly corner of Section No. 10.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, for and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor, and as his duly-appointed deputy, in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Town District of Southbridge, County of Selwyn, constituted.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor,
By his Deputy,
(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST.

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