Numb. 65. 1581

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1886.

Altering a Proclamation defining Road from Opaki, in the
Provincial District of Wellington, to the Township of
Woodville, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay,
and redefining a Portion of the same.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by "The Public Works Act, 1882," and the Acts amending the same, and of all other powers
enabling me in that behalf, I, William Francis Drummond
Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the width of the road from
Opaki to Woodville, described in a Proclamation by the Ad-
ministrator of the Government for the time being, published
in the New Zealand Gazette number one, of the seventh
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five, and dated the sixth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five, shall be twenty-two yards on either
side of the centre line, as described and shown on the plan
referred to in the said Proclamation, where it passes through
the Crown lands mentioned and described in the Schedule
hereto, instead of thirty-three yards on either side of the
said centre line; and, in exercise of the like powers and
authorities, I do hereby declare that the said Proclamation
shall be varied in so far as is necessary to give effect to these
presents.

SCHEDULE.

1. The Crown lands on the Main North Road situate
   between Section No. 123, Block XIV., Kopuaranga Survey
   District, and Section No. 1, Block X., Mangaone Survey
   District.
2. The Crown lands situate between Section No. 20 of the
   Eketahuna Settlement and Mangatainoka K 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 sixth day of December,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-six.

J. BALLANCE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Sheep Districts of New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Rangi-
tikei amalgamated.—Notice No. 209.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by virtue of the powers conferred by the
eighth section of "The Sheep Act, 1878," the New
Plymouth District was constituted and proclaimed by a
Proclamation bearing date the twenty-third day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and the
Wanganui and Rangitikei Districts by a Proclamation bear-
ing date the sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-four: And whereas it is expedient that
the said districts should be amalgamated in the manner
hereinafter set forth:
Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the eighth section of "The Sheep Act, 1878," do hereby
abolish the New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Rangitikei Sheep
Districts; and I do hereby declare that, for the purposes of
the said Act, the said districts shall hereafter be amalgamated
into one sheep district as described in the Schedule hereto,
including in such district all boroughs within the territorial
area comprised within the external boundaries of such dis-
trict as defined in the said Schedule, although such boroughs
do not actually form part of any county therein mentioned,
and that such district shall be known by the name of the
"West Coast Sheep District."

SCHEDULE.

Comprising all that part of the colony included in the
Counties of Clifton, Taranaki, Hawera, Patea, Waitotara,
Wanganui, Rangitikei, Oruua, Manawatu, and Horowhenua,
excepting that portion of the County of Wanganui which is
included in the Napier Sheep District.

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 tenth day of Decem-
ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-six.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!