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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the first election of Mayor of the said borough shall be held on Monday, the seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two; and the first election of Councillors on Wednesday, the ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two; and that the first meeting of the Council of the said borough shall be held on Wednesday, the sixteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two, at half-past seven o’clock in the evening, at the Miners’ Union Hall, Waihi Street, Waihi.

SCHEDULE.
BOROUGH OF WAIHI.

ALL that area in the Land District of Auckland, bounded towards the west generally by the Waitete Stream from its confluence with the Ohinemuri River to Section No. 15, Block XV., Ohinemuri Survey District (timber reserve); thence by that section to its north-eastern corner: thence towards the north generally by a right line to the south-western corner of reserve for water conservation; thence by that reserve to James B. Slevin’s Lease, Section No. 1, Block XI., Ohinemuri Survey District; thence by the western boundary-line of the said lease to its north-western corner; thence by a right line to the Waihi Gold-mining Company’s dam on Walmsley’s Creek; thence by the said Walmsley’s Creek to its confluence with the Ohinemuri River: thence towards the east generally by the said Ohinemuri River to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary-line of Suburban Allotment No. 25; thence by a right line to the easternmost corner of that allotment; thence by the road forming the north-eastern boundary-lines of Suburban Allotments Nos. 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, and 17 to Beach Road: thence towards the south generally by the said Beach Road to Tauranga Road; thence by a right line across the said Tauranga Road and by its south-western side to Suburban Allotment No. 39; thence by that allotment and the production of its north-western boundary-line to the Waimata Stream; thence by the said Waimata Stream to its confluence with the Ohinemuri River; and thence by the Ohinemuri River to the place of commencement.

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 eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

New County of Featherston divided into Ridings, &c.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Featherston County Act, 1901,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby divide the new County of Featherston, as constituted by the said Acts, into nine ridings, to be called the Greytown Riding, the Featherston Riding, the Western Lake Riding, the Kahutara Riding, the Otaraia Riding, the Turanganui Riding, the Awhea Riding, the Pahaoa Riding, and the Martinborough Riding; and declare that the boundaries thereof shall be those set forth under the names of the said ridings respectively in the Schedule hereto.

And I do hereby declare that one member shall be elected for each of the abovenamed Ridings.

And I do further declare that Thursday, the twentieth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two, shall be the day upon which the election of the first Council of the said County of Featherston shall take place, and that Saturday, the twenty-second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two, at eleven o’clock in the morning, shall be the time, and the Town Board Office at Featherston shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the said Council shall be held.

SCHEDULE.
GREYTOWN RIDING.

Bounded towards the north and north-east generally by the Wairarapa South County from the summit of the Tararua Range to the Borough of Greytown; thence by the said Borough of Greytown, and again by the Wairarapa South County, to the Ruamahanga River: thence towards the east generally by a line along the middle of the said Ruamahanga River to the Waihenga Bridge: thence towards the south-west generally by the Featherston-Martinborough Road to the middle of the Tauherenikau River; thence by a line along the middle of the said Tauherenikau River to a point bearing south 45° east from Mount Marchant; thence by a right line to the said Mount Marchant: and thence towards the west generally by Hutt County to the place of commencement.

FEATHERSTON RIDING.

Bounded towards the north-east and east generally by the Greytown Riding, hereinbefore described, from Mount Marchant to the Featherston-Martinborough Road; thence by a line along the middle of the Tauherenikau River to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 105, Block VII., Wairarapa Survey District: thence towards the south by a right line to the south-eastern corner of the said Section No. 105, and thence by the south-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 105 aforesaid: thence towards the south-west generally by the western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 105 and 43, the abutment of a road, and by the southern boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 31 and 27, the south-western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 27, 22, and 21, Block VII. aforesaid, to Lake Road: thence towards the west by the said Lake Road to the Otairua Stream at the crossing of the Wellington-Napier Railway-line: thence again towards the south by the said Otairua Stream to the Rimutaka Road in Section No. 503, Block II., Wairarapa Survey District; thence by the said Rimutaka Road to the summit of the Rimutaka Range: and thence again towards the west generally by Hutt County to the place of commencement.

WESTERN LAKE RIDING.

Bounded towards the north and east generally by the Featherston Riding, hereinbefore described, from the summit of the Rimutaka Range to the south end of Lake Road, at the southern boundary-line of Section No. 21, Block VII., Wairarapa Survey District: thence towards the south-east generally by a right line to the northernmost corner of Section No. 44, Block XIII., of the said Wairarapa Survey District; thence by the western boundary-line of the said Section No. 44 and part of the western boundary-line of Section No. 17, and by the western boundary-line of the Wakahemate Native Reserve; thence by a line across the Ruamahanga River in continuation of the southern boundary-line of the said Native reserve; thence by the northern and western boundary-lines of the Taheke Block and by the left bank of the Ruamahanga River to Onoke Lake; thence by a line running due south across Onoke Lake to the sea: thence towards the south generally by the sea to Cape Turakirae: and thence towards the north-west generally by Hutt County to the place of commencement.

KAHUTARA RIDING.

Bounded towards the north and west by the Featherston Riding, hereinbefore described, from Lake Road at the southern boundary-line of Section No. 21, Block VII., Wairarapa Survey District, to the Featherston-Martinborough Road; thence towards the north-east by Greytown Riding, hereinbefore described, to the Ruamahanga River at the Waihenga Bridge: thence towards the south-east and south generally by a line along the middle of the Ruamahanga River to the Western Lake Riding, hereinbefore described: and thence towards the north-west by the said Western Lake Riding to the place of commencement.

OTARAIA RIDING.

Bounded towards the north-east by Ferry Road from the Ruamahanga River to the Lower Valley or Wharekaka Road; thence by the said Lower Valley Road to the Awhea Road; thence by the said Awhea Road and the western side of the part of that road which forms the eastern boundary of Section No. 27, Block I., Waipawa Survey District, produced to the middle of the Raukokopatuna Stream; thence towards the south-east by a line along the middle of the said Raukokopatuna Stream to a point in line with the south-western boundary-line of Section No. 2, Block VIII., Haurangi Survey District; thence towards the south generally by a right line to the southernmost corner of the said Section No. 2; thence by the south-western boundary-line of the said Section No. 2, the abutment of a road, and by the south-western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 1 and 3, Block VII. aforesaid, and the southern boundary-line of Block III., Haurangi Survey District, to the south-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 92: thence towards the west generally by Sections Nos. 92 and 93, Block III. aforesaid, and again by the said Section No. 92 to the south branch of the Oruapouanui Stream; thence by that stream to the Ruamahanga River; and thence by a line along the middle of the said Ruamahanga River to the place of commencement.