June 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1209

SCHEDULE.

In the Wellington Land District; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

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 the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Changing Name of Opaheke North Road District, County of Manukau, to Drury Road District.

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a petition, signed by not less than one-half of the resident ratepayers of the Opaheke North Road District, in the County of Manukau, has been presented to the Governor, as provided by section 8 of “The Road Boards Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1884,” praying that the name of the said road district may be changed to Drury Road District: And whereas the County of Manukau is a county in which “The Counties Act, 1886,” is suspended:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that, on and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, the name of the Opaheke North Road District, as constituted under the Road Boards Acts, shall be changed, and that the said district shall thereafter be called the Drury Road District.

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 the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

J. CARROLL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Districts constituted under “The Marriage Act, 1880.”

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

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 district known as the Mongonui District, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said district is hereby divided anew into three marriage districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follow:—

HOHOURA DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north and north-east generally by the sea from Cape Maria van Diemen to the mouth of the Takahonu Stream; thence towards the south-east by a right line to the southernmost corner of Section No. 3, Muriwhenua Parish, Opoe Survey District; and thence towards the south-west by the sea to the place of commencement.

KAITAIA DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north-west by a right line from the southernmost corner of Section No. 3, Muriwhenua Parish, Opoe Survey District, to the mouth of the Takahonu Stream: thence towards the east generally by the sea to the Mangatete River; thence by that river, and the Otukai River, and the Parishes of Waiake and Kaiaka respectively, to Section No. 23 of the last-named parish; thence by that section to its southernmost corner; thence by a right line to the northernmost corner of Section No. 77 of the Parish of Kaiaka; thence by that section to Te Puhi Stream; thence by the south-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 78, 92, and 90, Parish of Kaiaka, to the southernmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by the said Parish of Kaiaka and the Parish of Maungataniwha to the southernmost corner of Section No. 106 of the last-named parish; thence by the south-eastern and eastern boundary-lines of the said Section No. 106 and the southern boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 83, 146, 147, and 145, across a road, and by the south-western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 108, 111, 112, 115, 116, 118, 119, 122, and 123 of the said Parish of Maungataniwha to the southernmost corner of the last-mentioned section: thence towards the south-east generally by Hokianga County to the mouth of the Herekino Stream, on the west coast: and thence towards the west generally by the ocean to the place of commencement.

MANGONUI DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north-east generally by the ocean from Cape Karakara to Pekapeka Bay: thence towards the south east generally by that bay and Wairakau Stream, by Section No. 4, Parish of Totara, by Totara Block, Wilkinson’s land, and Unuhia Block to the Parish of Kohumaru, and by that parish to Kauriputete Stream; thence by the southern boundary-lines of the Maungataniwha East, Maungataniwha West, and Maungataniwha Blocks respectively to the southernmost corner of Section No. 123, Parish of Maungataniwha: thence towards the south-west generally by the road forming the south-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 123, 122, 119, 118, 116, 115, 112, 111, and 108, Parish of Maungataniwha, by the southern boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 145, 147, and 146, the road forming the southern boundary of Section No. 83, and the road forming the eastern boundary of Section No. 106, Maungataniwha Parish aforesaid, to the Patiki Block; thence by the Patiki, Ruaroa, and Te Konoti Blocks respectively to the southernmost corner of Section No. 90, Parish of Kaiaka; thence by that section and Sections Nos. 92, 78, and 89, said Parish of Kaiaka; thence by the northern boundary-line of Section No. 77 to the northernmost corner of that section; thence by a right line to the southernmost corner of Section No. 23, Parish of Kaiaka; thence by the south-western boundary of the last-mentioned section, and by the Parish of Mangatete and the Mangatete Stream to the sea: and thence towards the west generally by the sea to Cape Karakara.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

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 the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

J. CARROLL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!