2004 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 93

Proclaiming Roads as closed through Lands in Waihemo County.—Makaraeo Estate.

(L.S.)

GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section eleven of “ The Land for Settlements Act Amendment Act, 1895,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this notice, with the consent of the Waihemo County Council, hereby proclaim as closed the roads in the Waihemo County hereinafter described, that is to say :—

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Matarawa Drainage District, County of Wanganui, con-
stituted.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of November, 1896.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the fifth section of “ The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” a majority of the ratepayers in the district described in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Wanganui, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand praying that the land comprised in the said district be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fifth section of “ The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” His Excellency 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 constitute and declare the block of land described in the said petition, and in the Schedule hereto, to be a district for the purposes of Part I. of the said Act, and to be called by the name of “ The Matarawa Drainage District ”; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the ninth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall consist of seven members, to be elected under and in accord-
ance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

THE MATARAWA DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, situated in Ikitara Survey District, Wanganui County, containing by admeasurement 1,750 acres, more or less. Commencing at a point on the left bank of the Wanganui River at the boundary-line between Allotments Nos. 3 and 4 of the Nixon Estate, and bounded towards the north-west by the said Allotment No. 4 to River Bank Road; thence towards the south-west by that road to the road which intersects Section No. 63, Block I. ; thence again towards the north-west by that road to the original No. 3 Line of road, thence by a right line to the southernmost corner of Section No. 89, thence by Sections Nos. 89 and 90 of the said Block I. to the Wellington – New Plymouth Railway-line; thence towards the north-east and north by the said rail-way-line to the present No. 3 Line of road, and by that road to the eastern boundary-line of Section No. 80, Block I. ; thence towards the west by that section for a distance of 18 chains ; thence again towards the north by a line parallel to No. 3 Line of road to the western boundary of Section No. 85, Block II. ; thence towards the east by that section to the original No. 3 Line of road ; thence again towards the north by that road to the boundary-line between the properties of Isaac Slade and Samuel Oliver ; thence again towards the east by that boundary-line to the present No. 3 Line of road ; thence again towards the north-east by a right line to the south-western corner of Section No. 110, Block II., and by that section to the road forming the eastern boundary of Section No. 76 ; thence again towards the east by the eastern side of that road to the boundary-line between the properties of Alexander Higgie and James Higgie ; thence again towards the north-east by that boundary-line for a distance of 13 chains ; thence again towards the north-west by a right line bearing north 47° east, to the eastern bound-ary-line of Section No. 116, Block II. ; thence again towards the north-east by a line at right angles to the last-mentioned line to the present No. 3 Line of road ; thence towards the south-east by that road to the boundary-line between the properties of Alexander Higgie and James Higgie ; thence again towards the north and east by that boundary-line to the southern boundary-line of Section No. 199, Block III. ; thence again towards the north by that section for a distance of 9 chains ; thence again towards the east by a right line to a point on the southern boundary of Section No. 271, Block VII., distant 12 chains from its south-western corner ; thence again towards the north-east by Section No. 271 ; again towards the east and north by Section No. 270 to the western boundary of Section No. 124, Block VII. ; thence again towards the east by that section for a distance of 15 chains ; thence towards the south-west by a right line at right angles to the western boundary-line of Section No. 124 to a right line running in a north-easterly and south-westerly direction, dividing Section No. 59, Block VII., into