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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1898.

Boundaries of the Borough of New Brighton extended.

(l.s.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may at any time, upon the petition of the Mayor and Council of a borough, publicly notified, by a Proclamation, alter the boundaries of such borough so as to include therein any part of the foreshore or any land reclaimed from the sea adjacent to such borough: And whereas a petition has been presented to me by the Mayor and Councillors of the Borough of New Brighton, praying me to alter the boundaries of the said borough so as to include therein the piece of land described in the First Schedule hereto, being foreshore adjacent to the said borough:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the said borough are hereby altered so as to include within the limits of the said borough the land described in the First Schedule hereto, and that the said borough shall henceforth be bounded as specified in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREA TO BE ADDED TO THE BOROUGH OF NEW BRIGHTON.

ALL that area in the Survey Districts of Christchurch and Sumner, Canterbury Land District, situated between high- and low-water mark of the sea, from the road which forms the northern boundaries of Rural Sections Nos. 32867 and 17573 to a point in line with the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 11213, Christchurch Survey District.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

BOROUGH OF NEW BRIGHTON.—EXTENDED BOUNDARIES.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, situate in the Christchurch and Sumner Survey Districts, bounded towards the north by the road forming the northern boundaries of Rural Section No. 6856 and its continuation through Reserve No. 1579 to and along the northern boundary of Rural Sections Nos. 33181, 32867, and 17573, and its production to low-water mark of the sea: thence towards the north-east and south-west by low-water mark of the sea and low-water mark of the estuary of the Heathcote and Avon Rivers, to a point in line with the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 11213, Christchurch Survey District; thence by the left bank of the Avon River to the bridge on the road to New Brighton, near the westernmost corner of Reserve No. 3061; thence by the road to New Brighton to its junction with the North Avon Road: thence again towards the north-east by the said North Avon Road to the Racecourse Road: and thence towards the west by the said Racecourse Road, passing Sections Nos. 4665, 6385, 7196, and 6856, to the road forming the northern boundary of the last-mentioned section aforesaid: including that portion of Section No. 460 to the eastward of the present channel of the Avon River.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 Christchurch, this twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

W. C. WALKER.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land set apart for Lease as Village-homestead Allotments in the Wellington Land District.

(l.s.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the one hundred and sixty-eighth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the allotments of Crown land respectively described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart and declared open for lease as village-homestead allotments.