854
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 36

Land taken for a Road, Block XVI., Newcastle, Pukite Parish.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.
(l.s.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for road purposes:
And whereas the Newcastle Road Board has laid before the Governor the memorial, accompanied by a map, required by the said Act:
Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purpose of a road.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated upon the plan 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 noted.

Given under the hand of Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, for and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor, and as his duly appointed Deputy 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-first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Districts constituted under “The Marriage Act, 1880.”

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.
(l.s.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by “The Marriage Act, 1880,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing marriage districts known as the Stratford, Waimate Plains, Hawera, and Waitara Districts, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is hereby divided anew into five marriage districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follow:—

ELTHAM DISTRICT.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded towards the north generally by Block VIII., Kaupokonui Survey District, from the south-western corner of that block to its south-eastern corner, thence by Blocks V., VI., VII., and VIII., Ngaiire Survey District, to a point on the eastern boundary of Section No. 12 in line with the southern boundary-line of Section No. 11, Block VIII. aforesaid, thence by a line due east to the main watershed between the Patea and Whenuakura Rivers; thence towards the east generally by that watershed to the northern boundary of the Opaku Survey District; thence towards the south generally by the Opaku, Hawera, and Waimate Survey Districts respectively to Palmer Road; and thence towards the west by that road to the south-western corner of Block VIII., Kaupokonui Survey District, the place of commencement.

STRATFORD DISTRICT.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded towards the north-west by a right line from the summit of Mount Egmont to the source of the Waipuku Stream, thence by the north bank of that stream to Tariki Road; thence towards the north by the north side of that road; thence towards the north-east and again towards the north by the northern sides of Salisbury and Croydon Roads, the western watershed of the Ahuroa Stream, and the watershed between the Waitara and Patea Rivers to a point due north of the northernmost corner of the Toko A Block; thence towards the east by a right line to that corner; thence towards the south-east by the confiscation boundary-line to the Patea River; thence towards the north-east generally by that river to the northern boundary of Block XII., Ngaiire Survey District; thence towards the south by Blocks XII., XI., X., and IX., Ngaiire Survey District, and Block XII., Kaupokonui Survey District, to Palmer Road; and thence towards the south-west by that road to the Kapuni Stream, thence by that stream to its source, and thence by a right line to the summit of Mount Egmont, the place of commencement.

HAWERA DISTRICT.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded towards the north by the Ngaiire and Omona Survey Districts from the Waingongoro River to the Patea River; thence towards the east generally by the east bank of the Patea River to where the confiscation boundary-line intersects it in the Pukekino Block, thence by a right line to the source of the Ingahape Stream, thence by that stream and the Manawapou River to the sea; thence towards the south generally by the sea to the mouth of the Waingongoro River; and thence towards the west by the Waingongoro River to the place of commencement.

WAIMATE PLAINS DISTRICT.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded towards the north-east generally by a right line from the summit of Mount Egmont to the source of the Kapuni Stream, thence by that stream to Palmer Road; thence towards the east by Palmer Road to the southern boundary of the Kaupokonui Survey District; thence towards the north by Kaupokonui and Ngaiire Survey Districts to the Waingongoro River; thence towards the east generally by the Waingongoro River to the sea; thence towards the south generally by the sea to the Oeo River; and thence towards the west generally by the western bank of the Oeo River to its source, and thence by a right line to the summit of Mount Egmont, the place of commencement.

WAITARA DISTRICT.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded towards the north and north-west by the ocean from the Waiongona River to the Mokau River; thence again towards the north and north-west generally by the latter river to its source; thence towards the east by a right line to where the Wanganui River is intersected by the 39th parallel of south latitude; thence towards the south-east by that river to the boundary between the Wellington and Taranaki Land Districts, and thence by that boundary-line to the confiscation boundary-line; thence towards the south-west by the confiscation boundary to the Patea River, and thence by that river to the southern boundary-line of the Omona Survey District; thence again towards the north by that boundary-line to the main watershed between the Patea and Whenuakura Rivers; thence towards the west by that watershed to a point in line with the southern boundary-line of Section No. 11, Block VIII., Ngaiire Survey District; thence towards the south by a right line running due west to the Patea River at Section No. 12 of the said Block VIII.; thence again towards the south-west generally by that river to the confiscation boundary-line at the south-western corner of Toko A Block; thence again towards the north west by the said confiscation boundary-line to the northernmost corner of the said Toko A Block; thence again towards the west by a right line running due north to the summit of the watershed between the Waitara River and the Patea River; thence again towards the south by that watershed to the eastern boundary of Block XV., Huiroa Survey District; thence again towards the west by the said Block XV. and Blocks XI. and VII., said Huiroa Survey District; thence again towards the south by the last-mentioned block and Block VI. to the Manganui River; thence again towards the west by the west bank of that river to the Kurapete Stream; thence again towards the south-east by the south bank of the said Kurapete Stream to Section No. 238, Huirangi, Huiroa Survey District; thence again towards the south-west by the said Section No. 238 and Sections Nos. 233, 230, and 221, Huirangi, Waitara Survey District; thence again towards the south by Section No. 221 aforesaid, Sections Nos. 215 and 214, Huirangi, Waitara Survey District, Sections Nos. 205 and 212, Huirangi aforesaid, Paritutu