Numb. 35.

795

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1895.

Constituting Pukahu River District, County of Hawke's
Bay.

(L.S.)
GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in me by "The River Boards Act, 1884," I, David,
Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, 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 Pukahu River District; and that the number of
the members who are to constitute the Board of the said
district shall be five. And I do also proclaim and declare
that Robert Boyd Holmes, of Havelock, shall be the Return-
ing Officer to conduct the first election of five members
of the aforesaid Board; that Saturday, the eighth day of
June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, shall
be the day, and the Mechanics' Institute, Havelock,
shall be the place, for holding such first elections; and that
Saturday, the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-five, at two o'clock in the after-
noon, shall be the time, and the said Mechanics' Institute
shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the members
of the Board of the said Pukahu River District shall be held.
And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the aforesaid
Robert Boyd Holmes 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.
Pukahu River District.

ALL that area in the Land District of Hawke's Bay, contain-
ing by admeasurement 10,080 acres, more or less, bounded as
follows: Commencing at the easternmost corner of Suburban
Section No. 15, Township of Havelock; thence towards the
south-east by the Middle Road to road-peg 36, the said peg
being at the junction of the said Middle Road and a road
from Pakipaki; thence towards the west by the said road to
Pakipaki, crossing the Kaokaoroa and Whenuakura Blocks;
thence towards the south-east by a public road to the Main
South Road; thence towards the south-west by the Main
South Road to a public road forming the boundary between
the Kahumoko and Pekapeka No. 2A Blocks; thence towards
the south-east by the said road to the south-east corner of
the Pekapeka No. 1 Block; thence towards the west by the

same Pekapeka No. 1 Block to its most northerly corner;
thence towards the south and east by the northern base of
the hills forming part of the Mangaroa Block to a point
marked "A" on plan hereinafter referred to; thence
towards the south-west by a line across the Mangaroa
Swamp to the north-east corner of portion of Ngatarawa
Nos. 4 and 5 and Mangaroa Lot 1 Blocks, and the said por-
tion of Ngatarawa 4 and 5 and Mangaroa Lot 1 Blocks;
thence towards the north-west by Ngatarawa No. 4 Block to
the Raukawa-Hastings Road and the said road to its junc-
tion with the Hastings-Hampden Road; thence towards the
north by the Hastings-Hampden Road to the Karekarewa
Stream; thence towards the north-east by the Karekarewa
Stream to the north-west boundary of Turumoe No. 1 Block;
thence towards the north-west by the Mangaroa Block to the
most northerly corner of the said Turumoe No. 1 Block;
thence towards the north-east by the Kakiraawa Block to a
public road from Pakipaki to Hastings; thence towards the
north-east by the said road from Pakipaki to Hastings to
the northern boundary of the Kakiraawa No. 2 Block;
thence towards the north-west and north-east by the Kaki-
raawa Block to the Railway Reserve between Pakipaki and
Hastings; thence towards the north-west by the said Rail-
way Reserve to the northern bank of the old Ngaruroro
River; thence towards the north by the northern bank of
the old Ngaruroro River to a point opposite to the mouth
of Danvers Creek; thence towards the north by a line
across the old Ngaruroro River; thence towards the
south-east by the south bank of the old Ngaruroro River
to the north-east corner of Suburban Section No. 26,
Havelock; thence towards the south-east by Suburban
Section No. 26, Havelock; thence across a road to the
north-east corner of Suburban Section No. 15, Havelock;
thence again towards the north-east by Suburban Section
No. 14, Havelock, to the commencing-point: as the same is
more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G.
26498, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands
and Survey, at Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; 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 the Government
House, at Wellington, this ninth day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and ninety-five.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
For Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!