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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1888.

Sheep District of Wellington reconstituted, and Sheep District of Oahanga abolished.—Notice No. 245.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor,
By his Deputy,
(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Wellington Sheep District and the Oahanga Sheep District, as at present constituted, should be altered and reconstituted:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, in the name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and as his duly-appointed Deputy, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the eighth section of “The Sheep Act, 1878,” and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby constitute anew the Wellington Sheep District, and the subdivisions thereof respectively; and I do hereby proclaim and declare that, for the purposes of the said Act, the Wellington Sheep District and the subdivisions thereof shall hereafter be as the same are described in the Schedule hereto, including in such district or subdivisions all boroughs within the territorial area comprised within the external boundaries of such district or subdivisions as defined in the said Schedule, although such boroughs do not actually form part of any county therein mentioned; and I do further proclaim and declare that such district and subdivisions shall be known by the names set over such district and subdivisions respectively in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON SHEEP DISTRICT.

COMPRISING all that part of the colony included in the Counties of Hutt, Wairarapa North, and Wairarapa South, as such counties are at the date of this Proclamation respectively bounded and described, and the islands of Kapiti, Mana, and Somes; and shall comprise the following subdivisions:—

The Wellington Subdivision.

Comprising the hereinbefore-mentioned County of Hutt, together with the islands of Kapiti, Mana, and Somes.

The North Wairarapa Subdivision.

Comprising the hereinbefore-mentioned County of Wairarapa North.

The South Wairarapa Subdivision.

Comprising the hereinbefore-mentioned County of Wairarapa South.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, for and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor, and as his duly-appointed Deputy, in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

G. F. RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Constituting Wakanui River District, County of Ashburton.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor,
By his Deputy,
(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The River Boards Act, 1884,” I, James Prendergast, in the name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and as his duly-appointed Deputy, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date hereof, that part of the said colony described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby constituted a district under the said Act, and shall be known by the name of the Wakanui River District; and that the number of the members who are to constitute the Board of the said district shall be five in number. And I do also proclaim and declare that Charles Compton Fooks, of Ashburton, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of five members of the Board of the aforesaid district; that Thursday, the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, shall be the day, and the schoolhouse, Wakanui, shall be the place, for holding such first election; and that Saturday, the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, at eleven o'clock in the morning, shall be the time, and the Wakanui Road Board Offices shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the members of the Board of the said river district shall be held. And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the aforesaid Charles Compton Fooks shall be the person to make a roll of electors for the purposes of the aforesaid first elections, in the manner prescribed by section eight of the said “River Boards Act, 1884.”

SCHEDULE.

WAKANUI RIVER DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the County of Ashburton bounded towards the north-east generally by the road forming the north-eastern boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 8102, 7873, 7901,