1032
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

SCHEDULE.
HUKATERE A.

ALL that parcel of land in the Hukatere Survey District, in the Auckland Provincial District, known by the name of Hukatere 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 Ohauoa Block 720 links and 2602 links, and by the Kirikiri Creek (a branch of the aforesaid Arapaoa River): towards the South-east by the Hukatere B Block: towards the South-west by the Wairea River; and towards the North-west by the Waihangama Stream, the Unuwhao Block 5060 links, and by the Ruatuna Creek aforesaid to the point of commencement: save and excepting the Hukatere C Block, containing 294 acres, more or less, included in the boundaries, but not in the area of 6,246 acres, hereinbefore described.

WAIHARAKEKE 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 Maurihoro 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 85 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.

WAIHARAKEKE 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 Waiopelu and Taungata Survey Districts, Horowhenua County, Wellington Provincial 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. 1r Block; towards the East by the Wairarapa Block; and towards the South and West by the Ngakuroro 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 hundred 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 hundred 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 Waiota 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 Waiota 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 Hikutaia River; and thence towards the North by a right line to the confluence of the said rivers; thence by a line along the middle of the said Hikutaia 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 Hikutaia River from the Waihou Survey District to source of the said Hikutaia River nearest to the source of the said 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 northernmost 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 Hikutaia 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 goldfields boundary-line by the production of the eastern boundary-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 Hikutaia 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.

Waiota 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 Hikutaia 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