Numb. 53.

1053

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1885.

Town District of Danevirke, County of Waipawa, constituted.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Town Districts Act, 1881" (herein-
after 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 house-
holders, 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 resi-
dent 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 consti-
tuted 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 men-
tioned 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 Dane-
virke 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 Waipawa bounded towards
the North-east and West by Section No. 35, Block III.,
Tahoraita Survey District; again towards the North-east by
Section No. 37; towards the South-east and again towards
the North-east by railway reserve and a road-line; again
towards the South-east and North-east by Section No. 18;
again towards the South-east by the Mangatere River, Sec-
tion No. 55, a road-line, and Section No. 46; and towards
the South-west and North-west by the Tapuata Stream.

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 the Government House, at Welling-
ton, this seventh day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
five.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Boundaries of Borough of Lyttelton extended.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1876," the Governor, amongst other things, may at
any time, as provided by the said Act, by Proclamation,
incorporate into a borough any district adjacent thereto,
and may alter the boundaries of a borough so as to include
therein any land which ought reasonably to be included
within the borough: And whereas it is expedient to incor-
porate and include within the boundaries of the Borough of
Lyttelton the land described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the said