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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

Arrangements for First Elections, &c., Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply District.

(L.S.)
JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation made and issued under the fifty-seventh section of “The Water-supply Act, 1891,” certain parts of the several road districts mentioned in the First Schedule hereto were declared to form a water-supply district under the said Act, by the name of the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply District, as in the said Proclamation particularly mentioned: And whereas it is necessary to determine the number of members of the Water-supply Board to be elected by each part of a road district forming the water-supply district so constituted as aforesaid, and also to make provision for the several matters and things hereinafter set forth, in accordance with the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government 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 determine that the number of members of the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board to be elected under the provisions of the said Act shall be five, of whom one shall be elected, as required by the said Act, by the ratepayers of each part of the road districts mentioned in the said First Schedule hereto; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the power and authority aforesaid, I do hereby appoint and declare as follows, that is to say:—

1. Forthwith after the publication of this Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette the Clerk of each Road Board for the road districts mentioned in the First Schedule hereto shall, from the existing ratepayers’ roll in force in such district, make up a list of ratepayers entitled to vote in the election of a member of the said Water-supply Board, and shall place on such list the name of each ratepayer who would be entitled to vote at an election for a member of the Road Board for that part of such district, and assign to each such ratepayer the number of votes he would be entitled to exercise at any such election.

2. Every such list shall be made within fourteen days from the date of such publication as aforesaid, and when such list shall be signed by the Clerk of the Road Board making the same, and also by the Chairman of such Road Board, the said list shall be forwarded or delivered by such Clerk to Robert Marshall Wright, of Ohoka, for the purpose of forming a roll to be used at the first election of members of the said Water-supply Board.

3. The said Robert Marshall Wright is hereby appointed to be the person to form the said roll for the purposes aforesaid; and, on receipt of the lists directed to be forwarded or delivered to him by the Clerks of Road Boards, shall, as soon as conveniently may be, form the said roll by combining the several lists received by him; and such roll shall be called “The roll of ratepayers entitled to vote at the first election of the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board,” and shall contain all the particulars set forth in such lists, and, when completed and signed by the said Robert Marshall Wright, shall be the roll to be used in the first election of the said Water-supply Board.

4. Every such roll may be in writing or in print, or partly in writing and partly in print, and shall be formed and completed not later than Saturday, the twenty-third day of April next; and any copy thereof certified by the said Robert Marshall Wright in writing to be a true copy of the roll so formed by him shall be prima facie evidence of the right of the person named therein to vote at the said first election of the said Water-supply Board.

5. The said first election of members of the said Board shall be held within the water-supply district on the twelfth day of May next; and the place where such election shall be held shall be the place appointed by the Returning Officer hereinafter named for the nomination of candidates for such election.

6. The several places mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto are hereby fixed as the polling-places for the purposes of the said election, and the Returning Officer hereinafter appointed shall adopt such places as polling-booths for the purposes of such election.

7. Robert Marshall Wright, of Ohoka, is hereby appointed the Returning Officer to conduct the said election, and subject to the provisions of the firstly hereinbefore in part recited Act, and the terms hereof, “The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,” and the amendments thereof, shall extend and apply to the conduct and completion of the said election, and the powers, duties, and authorities of the Returning Officer.

8. And lastly that Tuesday, the seventeenth day of May next, at two o’clock in the afternoon, shall be the time, and the Mandeville and Rangiora Road Board Office, at Rangiora, shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the said Water-supply Board shall be held.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Oxford Road District.
Cust Road District.
Eyretton Road District.
West Eyreton Road District.
Mandeville and Rangiora Road District.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

The Oxford Road Board Office, Oxford.
The Cust Road Board Office, Cust.
The West Eyreton Road Board Office, West Eyreton.
The Mandeville and Rangiora Road Board Office, Rangiora.
The Swannanoa Library, Swannanoa.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, the Administrator of the Government of Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Constituting Districts under “The Factories Act, 1891.”

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of March, 1892.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Factories Act, 1891” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time divide New Zealand, or any portion thereof, into such districts as he shall think fit, and notice of the constitution of every such district shall be given in the Gazette as occasion requires:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby divide the portions of the said colony enumerated in the Schedule hereto into districts for the purposes of the said Act, the descriptions and boundaries whereof shall be those set forth in the Schedule hereto; and I do hereby declare that for the purposes of the said Act each of such districts shall be known by the name set over the description of each such district respectively.

SCHEDULE.

WESTPORT FACTORY DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the west and north by the ocean; towards the east generally by the Orowiti River; towards the south-east by Section No. 116, a road-line, by Section No. 251, a road-line, by Section No. 79 and its north-west boundary-line produced to the Buller River, and by a due west line across said river; again towards the east by that river and by the Ohika and Waikatere Survey Districts.

PICTON FACTORY DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the north generally by Queen Charlotte Sound, from Wedge Point to The Snout; towards the south-east by a Native reserve to the southern corner of Section No. 8; thence by a right line to Trig. H; thence by a right line to the eastern corner of Section No. 132; thence by the south-eastern and south-western boundary-lines of that section to its western corner; towards the south generally by a right line to the eastern corner of Section No. 100, by the south-eastern and south-western boundary-lines of that section and the south-eastern boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 11, 10, 9, by Section No. 6, across a road, and by the south-western boundary-line of Section No. 14 to its western corner; thence by a right line to Wooded Hill; and towards the north-west by a right line to Wedge Point.

INGLEWOOD FACTORY DISTRICT.

Bounded towards the north-west generally by the Waiongona River, from Section No. 110, Moa District, across and by the Junction Road and by Lepper Road; towards the north-east generally by the Hursthouse Road, by the Waiongona River, by Section No. 98, across a railway-line, and by Sections Nos. 246, 247, across a road-line, and by Section No. 249; towards the south-east generally by the Kurapete Stream, by the north-east boundary-line of Section No. 9, across a road-line, by the north-east boundary-line of Section No. 21, by the Ngatoro Stream; and towards the south-west