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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1901.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1901.

Correcting Verbal Inaccuracies in Boundaries of Districts
under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth
day of January, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, by the fifth section of “The Maori Lands
Administration Act, 1900” (hereinafter called “the
said Act”), it is enacted that, for the purposes of the said
Act, there shall be within the North Island of New Zealand
not less than six Maori land districts, the boundaries and
names of such districts to be defined by the Governor in
Council, the same to be gazetted and published in the
Khiti, and on such publication the said Act shall be in
full force in such district so proclaimed:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred by the said section, and by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, did by Order in Council dated the twenty-sixth
day of December, one thousand nine hundred (hereinafter
referred to as “the said Order in Council”), define the
boundaries and said names of certain districts as in the Sche-
dule to the said Order in Council set out:

And whereas certain verbal inaccuracies occur in the
boundaries of districts in the said Order in Council named
Waiariki, Aotea, and Te Ikaroa:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, for the purpose of rectifying such verbal
inaccuracies, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and
authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby redefine the boundaries
of the said districts named Waiariki, Aotea, and Te Ikaroa, as
set out in the Schedule hereto, and doth hereby further direct
and order that the boundaries as so redefined shall be sub-
stituted for those set out in respect of the said districts in
the Schedule to the said Order in Council, and doth hereby
amend the Schedule to the said Order in Council accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

WAIARIKI.

ALL that area in the Colony of New Zealand bounded
towards the north by the Bay of Plenty from Wairakei to
the northern boundary-line of the Whangaparaoa No. 2
Block at Potiki Rua: thence towards the north-east by the
north-eastern boundary-lines of the said Whangaparaoa
No. 2 Block to its easternmost corner: thence towards the
south-east generally by the south-eastern boundary-line of
the Whangaparaoa No. 2 Block aforesaid to the Ahomata-
riki Block; thence by the said Ahomatariki Block, the
Wairongomai Block, the Raparapaririki No. 3 Block, the
Ahiparua Block, the Mangaparahi Block, and the Hono-
kawa Blocks Nos. 2 and 3 to the southernmost corner of
Te Kumi No. 1 Block; thence by the boundary-line between
the Land Districts of Auckland and Hawke’s Bay as de-
scribed in Gazette No. 30, 28th April, 1898, to the northern-
most corner of the Maungataniwha Block (No. 4708),
Mangahopai Survey District: thence towards the south-west
by a right line to the Rangitaiki River at the northernmost
corner of the Runanga No. 1b Block; thence by a right line
to the confluence of the Torepatutahi Stream with the
Waikato River; thence by the right bank of the said
Waikato River to the confluence of the Kopakorahi Stream
with the said Waikato River: thence towards the north-
west generally by that stream to the north-eastern corner of
Block 5208 c.9 (Whakamaru Maungaiti); thence by a right
line to the southernmost corner of the western portion of
Tokoroa No. 2 Block; thence by the northern boundary of the
Whakamaru Maungaiti Block (No. 5208), through Uraura and
Pukerimu Trig. Stations, and by Tikorangi Block (No. 5220),
to Horohoro Trig. Station; thence by the said Tikorangi Block,