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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

SCHEDULE.

HUKATERE A.

All that parcel of land in the Hukatera Survey District, in
the Auckland Provincial District, known by the name of
Hukatera A, containing by admeasurement 6,246 acres,
more or less. Bounded towards the North and North-east
by the Ruatuna and Okorako branches of the Arapaoa River,
by the Ohairoa Block 720 links and 3602 links, and by the
Kirikiri Creek (a branch of the aforesaid Arapaoa River);
towards the South-east by the Hukatera B Block; towards
the South-west by the Wairoa River; and towards the North-
west by the Waihangarua Stream, the Unuwhao Block 5060
links, and by the Ruatuna Creek aforesaid to the point of
commencement: save and excepting the Hukatera C Block,
containing 294 acres, more or less, included in the boundaries,
but not in the area of 6,246 acres, hereinbefore described.

WAHARAKEKE EAST No. 5.

All that parcel of land in the Wairere Survey District, in
the Auckland Provincial District, known by the name of
Waiharakeke East No. 5, containing by admeasurement
6,672 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North-west
by the Waiharakeke East No. 1 Block, 23362 links; towards
the North-east by the Mauariho Block, 41524 links; towards
the South-east and South-west by the Wairere River; and
towards the West generally by the Waihou River: save and
excepting the Waiharakeke East Nos. 2, 3, and 4 Blocks,
containing 35 acres, 45 acres, and 35 acres each respectively,
more or less, included in the boundaries, but not in the area
of 6,672 acres, hereinbefore described.

WAHARAKEKE WEST No. 1.

All that parcel of land in the Wairere Survey District, in
the Auckland Provincial District, known by the name of
Waiharakeke West No. 1, containing by admeasurement
1,122 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North by
Sections Nos. 9 and 13, Block VI, and Section No. 15, Block
VII., Wairere, 2960 and 4360 links, to the Waihou River;
towards the East by the Waihou River; towards the
South by the Waiharakeke West No. 2 Block, 11154 links;
and towards the West by the Hungahunga No. 4. Block,
13805 links.

PUKEHOU No. 5L, No. 6.

All that parcel of land in the Waiopohu and Taungata
Survey Districts, Horowhenua County, Wellington Pro-
vincial District, known by the name of Pukehou No. 5L,
No. 6, containing by admeasurement 100 acres, more or less.
Bounded towards the North by the Pukehou No. 5A Block;
towards the East by the Pukehou Nos. 5B, 5C, and 5D
Blocks; towards the South by Waihoanga No. 3D Block;
and towards the West by other part of the Pukehou No. 5L
Block.

WAHA-O-TE-MARANGAI No. 1A.

All that parcel of land in the Kaitawa Survey District,
Horowhenua County, Wellington Provincial District, known
by the name of Waha-o-te-Marangai No. 1A, containing by
admeasurement 120 acres, more or less. Bounded towards
the North by Waha-o-te-Marangai No. 1F Block; towards
the East by the Wairarapa Block; and towards the South
and West by the Ngakaroro No. 1A Block.

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
Honourable 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 Wellington, this eighth day of September,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

County of Ohinemuri 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
Thames 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
Thames 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 Thames shall, as
from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-five, constitute a new county, to be called the
County of Ohinemuri; 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 Ohinemuri shall be divided into four ridings, to be called
the Waitekauri Riding, the Karangahake Riding, the Paeroa
Riding, and the Waitoa 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 Ohinemuri shall be: For the Waitekauri
Riding, two members; for the Karangahake Riding, two
members; for the Paeroa Riding, three members; and for
the Waitoa Riding, one member.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

The County of Ohinemuri is bounded towards the East by
the ocean from the mouth of the Otahu River to the Waihi
River; thence towards the South-east and South by the
Counties of Tauranga and Piako respectively; towards the
West by the County of Waikato to a point due west of the
confluence of the Waihou River with the Hikutai River;
and thence towards the North by a right line to the con-
fluence of the said rivers; thence by a line along the middle
of the said Hikutai River to the source nearest to the source
of the Otahu River aforesaid; thence by a right line to the
source of the said Otahu River; and thence by a line along
the middle of that river to the ocean.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Waitekauri Riding comprises all that area bounded towards
the North and North-west generally by a line along the
middle of the Hikutai River from the Waihou Survey
District to source of the said Hikutai River nearest to the
source of the Otahu River; thence by a right line to the
source of the said Otahu River, and thence by a line along
the middle of that river to the ocean; thence towards the
East by the ocean; towards the South-east by the County of
Tauranga to the main Tauranga Road; thence towards the
South-west by that road to the Ohinemuri River; thence by
a right line to the southernmost corner of Section No. 37,
Ohinemuri Survey District; thence by the Owharoa Block
(1790) to Section No. 65 of the said survey district; thence
by the said Section No. 65 and Section No. 70 to the northern-
most corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by a right
line to the southernmost corner of Te Awaatakuao No. 1
Block at the Ohinemuri River; thence towards the South-
west and West by a line along the goldfields boundary-lines
to Kurere; thence by the Kaiamanawa Block to the Waihou
Survey District aforesaid; and thence by that survey district
to the middle of the Hikutai River.

Karangahake Riding comprises all that area bounded
towards the North-east generally by the Waitekauri Riding,
hereinbefore described; towards the South-east by the
County of Tauranga; towards the South-west by a right line
from Te Aroha Trig. Station to the intersection of the gold-
fields boundary-line by the production of the eastern boun-
dary-line of the timber reserve in Block V., Aroha Survey
District; thence again towards the South-east, South-west,
and North-west generally by a line along the goldfields
boundary to the Ohinemuri River; and thence by a line along
the middle of that river to the Waitekauri Riding aforesaid.

Paeroa Riding comprises all that area bounded towards
the North by a line along the middle of the Hikutai River;
towards the East generally by the Ridings of Waitekauri and
Karangahake, hereinbefore described; towards the South by
the County of Piako; and towards the West generally by a
line along the middle of the Waihou or Thames River.

Waitoa Riding comprises all that area bounded towards
the North by a line due east from the County of Waikato to
the confluence of the Waihou or Thames River with the
Hikutai River; thence towards the East generally by the
Paeroa Riding, hereinbefore described; towards the South by
the County of Piako; and towards the West generally by the
County of Waikato aforesaid.

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