Numb. 25.

523

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1886.

Town District of Hakatere, County of Ashburton, con-
stituted.

(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
aid power and authority, I do hereby declare that the said
district shall hereafter be known by the name of the Haka-
tere Town District, and I do appoint that the Board of
Commissioners for the said district shall consist of five in
number.

SCHEDULE.

HAKATERE TOWN DISTRICT.

All that area in the County of Ashburton bounded towards
the North-east by the road forming the north-eastern boun-
daries of Sections Nos. 1261, 1120, 14370, and 15470; towards
the South-east by the road forming the south-eastern boun-
daries of Sections Nos. 15470, 15999, 1415, 13705, 10350, and
1119; towards the South-west by the road forming the north-
eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 6855, 6149, and 6108;
again towards the South-east by Section No. 6108, a road-
line, and Section No. 6607; again towards the South-west by
the River Ashburton; towards the North-west and again
towards the South-west by the Borough of Ashburton; and
again towards the North-west by the Main Trunk Railway
Reserve.

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 Auckland, this nineteenth day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-six.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Road in Takaka Road District, Provin-
cial District of Nelson.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken, under “The Public Works
Act, 1882,” for a certain work, to wit, the construction of
a road in Takaka Road District, Provincial District of
Nelson:

And whereas the Takaka Road Board has laid before
the Governor the memorial, accompanied by a map, and
also the statutory declaration, as required by the said Act: