Num. 15. 413

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1902.

Defining Districts under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” it is provided that the Governor may proclaim any district a Maori district for the purpose of the said Act: And whereas by section four of the said Act it is further provided that the Governor may in such Proclamation appoint a Stipendiary Magistrate or Government agent to be Returning Officer for each of such districts: And whereas by section six of the said Act it is further provided that the number of members to be elected for the Maori Council of each such district shall be fixed by the Governor on the establishment of such district:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the hereinbefore-recited sections of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” proclaim the districts set forth in the First Schedule hereto to be Maori districts for the purpose of the said Act: and I appoint the persons whose names are set forth in the first column of the Second Schedule hereto to be Returning Officers for the districts set forth in the second column of the said Second Schedule against the names of such persons respectively; and I moreover fix the numbers set forth in the third column of the said Second Schedule against the names of the said districts respectively to be the numbers of members to be elected for the Maori Council of such district respectively.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WHAREKAURI (CHATHAM ISLANDS) DISTRICT.
COMPRISING Chatham, Pitt, and adjacent Islands.

TAURANGA DISTRICT.

All that area of land in the North Island of the Colony of New Zealand bounded towards the north-east by the Bay of Plenty from the mouth of the Waihi River to the north-western corner of the Te Arawa District; thence towards the south-east by the north-western boundary of the said Te Arawa District to the Puwhenua Trig. Station; thence towards the south-west generally by a right line to Te Weraiti Trig. Station (146); thence by a right line to the southernmost corner of Whakamarama No. 2 Block; thence by the south-western boundary of the said Whakamarama No. 2 Block to the Maurihoro Block; thence by the said Maurihoro Block to its north-western corner; thence by the Wairere Block, the Waiharakeke E No. 1c Block (2723A), Section 20, Block III., Wairere Survey District, Sections Nos. 53, 52, 48, 47, 45, 43, 42, 40, 37, 35, 33D, 33C, 31A, 30, 29, and 28, Block XII. Aroha Survey District; by the Thames High School Endowment; and by the forest reserve to its intersection by a right line running from Te Aroha Trig. Station to the mouth of the Waihi River; and thence towards the north-west by that line to the mouth of the said Waihi River, the place of commencement: including Matakana, Motuhoa, and Te Hopai Islands.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His 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 fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Constituting Borough of Waihi, County of Ohinemuri.

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the area described in the Schedule hereto to be a borough under the said Act on and from the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two; that the name of such borough shall be the Borough of Waihi; that the said borough shall be an undivided borough; and that the number of Councillors to be elected thereto shall be ten, exclusive of the Mayor. And I do further proclaim and declare that Andrew Young Ross, of Waihi, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough, and also the Town Clerk and the person to prepare the district electors roll for the purposes of the said first election.