Numb. 60. 1178

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1888.

Altering Boundaries of Resident Magistrate’s District of Tauranga, and abolishing District of Taupo.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be called Resident Magistrates’ districts, and such districts from time to time to abolish, and the boundaries to define and alter, and in any such Proclamation to fix a time on and from which any such district shall be constituted or abolished, as the case may be:

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in him, did define the boundaries of the Resident Magistrates’ Districts of Tauranga and Taupo, as described in the said Proclamations respectively, to be Resident Magistrates’ districts within the meaning and for the purpose of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the said District of Taupo, and to alter the boundaries of the said District of Tauranga so defined as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby abolish the said District of Taupo, as from the first day of December next, and do hereby alter the boundaries of the said District of Tauranga, and define them, as described in the Schedule hereto, as from the said first day of December next.

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SCHEDULE.

TAURANGA DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Provincial Districts of Auckland, Wellington, and Taranaki bounded towards the north-east by the ocean, from Ngakuri-a-whare to Waitahanui; thence towards the east and again towards the north-east generally by the Resident Magistrate’s District of Opotiki, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 78, 12th August, 1880; towards the south-east generally by the Resident Magistrate’s District of Wairoa, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 78, 12th August, 1880, and the Resident Magistrate’s District of Napier and Waipukurau, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 19, 14th February, 1884; towards the south-west generally by the Resident Magistrate’s District of Wanganui, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 38, 11th June, 1885; towards the north-west generally by the Resident Magistrate’s District of Taranaki, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 103, 11th September, 1884; towards the north by the Resident Magistrate’s District of Waikato, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 51, 13th September, 1888; and towards the west generally by the Resident Magistrate’s District of Waikato aforesaid, and the Resident Magistrate’s District of Hauraki, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 114, 1st November, 1883: including Mayor, Motiti, and other adjacent islands.

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 thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

T. W. HISLOP,
(In the absence of the Minister of Justice.)
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Native Land to be taken for Road Purposes in the Masterton Road District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of October, 1888.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public road to be constructed by the Masterton Road Board: And whereas the said land is Native land, and the title to same is not derived from the Crown:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1887,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir 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, doth hereby order that a public road, as shown on the plan mentioned below, may be constructed on or through the parcel of land more particularly mentioned in the Schedule hereto.