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which the said Act is suspended: And whereas the said Act is suspended in the County of Manukau: And whereas, in pursuance of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and “The Road Boards Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1883,” petitions have been presented to His Excellency the Governor praying him to alter the boundaries of the Opaheke North, Hunua, and Opaheke Road Districts:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that from and after the twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, the boundaries of the said districts as at present constituted shall cease to be the boundaries of the said districts, and that the boundaries of the said districts shall be those which are specified in the Schedule hereto; and also that the Road Boards of the said districts shall be dissolved upon the said twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine; and that the Road Board of each of the said districts, as altered by this Order in Council, shall consist of five members; and, further, that the first election of members of the new Boards shall be conducted in accordance with “The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876”: and doth, by and with the advice aforesaid, further appoint John Bremner to be the Clerk and the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of the Road Board of the Opaheke North Road District: and doth appoint Saturday, the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, to be the day for holding such first elections; and that the first meeting of the new Board of the said Opaheke North Road District shall be held at the Opaheke North Road Board Office, on Saturday, the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, at one o’clock: and doth, by and with the advice aforesaid, further appoint John Thomas Stembridge to be the Clerk and the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of the Road Board of the Hunua Road District; and that Saturday, the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, be the day for holding such elections; and that the first meeting of the new Board of the said Hunua Road District shall be held at the Hunua School, on Saturday, the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, at one o’clock: and doth, by and with the advice aforesaid, further appoint John Thomas Stembridge to be the Clerk and Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of the Road Board of the Opaheke Road District, and that Saturday, the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, be the day for holding such elections; and that the first meeting of the new Board of the said Opaheke Road District shall be held at the Valley School, Ararimu, on Saturday, the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, at one o’clock.

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SCHEDULE.

THE OPAHEKE NORTH ROAD DISTRICT—AMENDED BOUNDARIES.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north-west, north-east, and south by the Parish of Hunua, from the Town District of Papakura to Hay’s Creek; thence towards the east generally by that creek and the western and south-western boundaries of the parts of Section No. 52, Opaheke Parish, owned by Messrs. W. Bate and P. Holt, to the north-western corner of Section No. 81, Hunua Parish; thence by Hunua Parish to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 152, Opaheke Parish; thence towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 152 and 148, Opaheke Parish, by the road forming the north-western boundary of Sections Nos. 184 and 185, by Section No. 189, by the road forming the north-western boundary of Section No. 224, said Opaheke Parish, and the northern side of that road produced to the Great South Road; thence towards the west generally by a line along the middle of that road to Slippery Creek, thence by that creek and the Hingahia and Pahurehure Creeks to the Papakura Town District; thence towards the north generally and again towards the west by the Papakura Town District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 69, 17th August, 1882.

THE HUNUA ROAD DISTRICT.—AMENDED BOUNDARIES.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by Sections Nos. 30 and 31, Parish of Hunua, by part of the boundary of the Parish of Papakura, and Sections Nos. 22, 78, 135, 132, 76, 109, 3, 147, 146, 83, and 113, Parish of Hunua, to the Wairoa River; towards the east generally by the Wairoa River as far as the south-eastern angle of Section No. 50 of the Parish of Hunua aforesaid, by a right line to the westernmost angle of Section No. 4 of the Parish of Otai, by the north-western boundary of that section, the western and northern boundaries of Section No. 70, a right line from the north-eastern angle of the latter section to the north-eastern angle of Section No. 33, and thence by the western boundaries of Sections Nos. 64, 63, and 62 to the south-western angle of the last-named section; towards the south generally by the southern boundary of Section No. 69, part of its south-western boundary for a distance of 2287 links to the south eastern boundary-line of the northern portion of Section No. 37, thence by that boundary-line to the western boundary of the Parish of Otai, and by part of that boundary to the middle of the road which intersects the northern portion of Section No. 94 of the Parish of Opaheke, and by the middle of that road continued to the south-eastern angle of Section No. 95 of the Parish of Opaheke aforesaid, thence by the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 95 and 96 to the southern boundary of the Parish of Hunua, and by the southern boundary of that parish to its south-western angle; and towards the west by part of the western boundary of the Parish of Hunua and the eastern boundary of the Opaheke North Road District hereinbefore described, to the commencing-point.

OPAHEKE ROAD DISTRICT.—AMENDED BOUNDARIES.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by the Opaheke North and Hunua Road Districts, hereinbefore described: towards the east generally by the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 81A, 12, and 13, Otai Parish: towards the south generally by the southern boundary-line of the last-mentioned section, and that line produced across a road 100 links wide, by the western side of the road which forms the western boundaries of Sections Nos. 13 and 12 aforesaid, and of Section No. 11, to the northern corner of Section No. 130, Parish of Opaheke; thence by part of the north-western boundary of the last-named section, and by Section No. 129, across another road of width aforesaid, by the south-eastern boundary-line of Sections Nos. 250 and 90, to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 117; thence by the northern boundary of Section No. 117 aforesaid to the western side of the road which forms the western boundary of Section No. 91, Parish of Opaheke aforesaid; thence by the western and southern sides of that road to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 251; thence by the eastern and southern boundary-lines of that section and part of the south-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 122, and the last-mentioned boundary-line produced to the southern side of the road forming the south-western boundary of Section No. 122 aforesaid; thence by the south-western and eastern sides of that road to a point on the same being the production of the southern boundary-line of Section No. 170; thence by that line and the southern boundary-line of Section No. 170 aforesaid produced to the western side of the road forming its south-western boundary; thence by the western side of that road to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 169; thence by that section, part of the western boundary-line of Section No. 168, and the southern boundary-line of Section No. 165, to the road forming the western boundary of that section, Parish of Opaheke aforesaid; and thence by the eastern and southern sides of that road to its junction with the Great South Road aforesaid at the southern corner of Section No. 49, Parish of Opaheke aforesaid: and thence towards the west by the Great South Road to the place of commencement.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Native Land proposed to be taken for a Road in the Uawa Survey District.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of January, 1899.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE A. J. CADMAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the construction of a road through Mangaheia No. 2 Block, Block VII., Uawa Survey District:

And whereas the said land is held, or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said land by the Cook County Council, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, 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 declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said road, and the said land shall vest in the Cook County Council, as from the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.