Feb. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 333

SCHEDULE.
THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Auckland; as the said lands are more particularly delineated on the plans marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley, of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; 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 Christchurch, this ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

J. BALANCE,
For the Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Land set apart for Village Homesteads in the Wellington Land District.

(L.S.)

ONSWLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and sixty-second section of “The Land Act, 1885,” I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this Proclamation set apart the sections of rural land described in the Schedule hereto, and declare that the same shall be open for special settlement.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIOPEHU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley, of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; 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 Wellington, this ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Constituting the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply District.

(L.S.)

ONSWLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Water-supply Act, 1891” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is enacted that, on receipt of a resolution passed by any two or more Road Boards representing road districts which adjoin each other, within any county wherein “The Counties Act, 1886,” is not in operation or is suspended, the Governor, by Proclamation gazetted, may declare the whole or any part or parts of such road districts to be a water-supply district under the said Act by the name of “The Water-supply District;” and the Governor, by the same or any subsequent Proclamation, shall determine the number of members of the Water-supply Board, not in any case being less than one nor more than three, to be elected by each road district or part of a road district respectively forming part of the water-supply district:

And whereas each of the Road Boards of the Road Districts of Oxford, Cust, Eyreton, West Eyreton, and Mandeville and Rangiora, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, have passed a resolution to the effect that certain parts of the districts of such Road Boards, and which are described in the resolution (and also in the First Schedule hereto), should, in conjunction with parts of the other road districts hereinbefore mentioned, be formed into a water-supply district under the said Act: And whereas all the said road districts adjoin each other, and are situate in the County of Ashley, in which county “The Counties Act, 1886,” is not in operation:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by “The Water-supply Act, 1891,” do hereby proclaim and declare that the said parts of the said several road districts which are described in the First Schedule hereto shall together form a water-supply district under the said Act, by the name of “The Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply District,” the boundaries of such last-mentioned district being those set forth in the Second Schedule hereto.

And, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities aforesaid, I do hereby determine that the number of members of the said Water-supply Board shall be five, such members to be elected as provided by the said Act.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

PARTS OF ROAD DISTRICTS INCLUDED.

Oxford Road District.

ALL that portion of the Oxford Road District bounded on the north-west and north by the north-west and north-east boundaries of Lot No. 51, and the north-west boundaries of Lots Nos. 45, 44, 14, and 20, the said lots being part of Reserve No. 2331; thence by the south-west boundary of Lot No. 10, part of the same reserve; thence by the Dépôt Gorge Road to the southernmost corner of Rural Section No. 20492; thence by the western boundary of Rural Section No. 20492 to the Woodstock Road; thence along the Woodstock Road, Brown’s Road, and the Main Road to the south-western corner of Rural Section No. 1625; thence along the western boundary of Rural Section No. 1625 to the Main Bush Road; thence by the Main Bush and the Old Mill Roads to a point where a line drawn in continuation of the northern boundary of Rural Section No. 710 would intersect with the last-mentioned road; thence in a straight line to the north-west corner of Rural Section No. 710; thence by the western and northern boundaries of Rural Section No. 721 to the Bay Road; thence by the Bay Road to the northern boundary of Rural Section No. 1561; thence by the northern boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 1561 and 1786 to the north-east corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by a straight line running in a northerly direction and at right angles to the northern boundary of Rural Section No. 1786 to Sale’s Road; thence by Sale’s Road and