Sept. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2147

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Weighted with £164 13s. valuation for 219,317 sup. ft. kauri timber and fifty-five totara trees.

Nearly all forest; broken land, part fronting Mangakahia River is good soil. balance medium. Situated about twenty-three miles from Kaikohe, and the same distance from Mangakahia Post-office.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Limits of Napier Harbour defined.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the ninth section of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby define the limits of the Harbour of Napier in the said colony to be—All that area covered by the sea, and by the tidal waters of the same, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the shore-line of Hawke’s Bay, south of the Borough of Napier, where, intersected by an arc of a circle having its centre in the Borough of Napier, at the 1868 site of flagstaff at the Spit, the radius of said circle to be four statute miles in length; proceeding thence along the seaward boundary of said arc to its intersection with the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the shore-line of Hawke’s Bay north of the Borough of Napier; thence generally in a southerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the shore-line to the western pier at the entrance of the Ahuriri Harbour; thence generally towards the north-west along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the shore-line of the Ahuriri Harbour to the Petane River; thence generally toward the north along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the left bank of the said Petane River to its intersection with arc of said circle having its centre at the 1868 site of flagstaff at Spit; thence across the said Petane River, and returning in a southerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the right bank of said Petane River to its mouth; thence towards the north and west along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the shore-line of said Ahuriri Harbour to its intersection with arc of said circle; thence in a south-westerly direction along arc of said circle to Te Raro-o-Kuri Island; thence following the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of that part of the shore-line of Te Raro-o-Kuri Island which lies within the circumference of said circle to where said shore-line is again intersected by arc of said circle; thence again in a south-westerly direction along arc of said circle to its intersection with the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the shore-line of Ahuriri Harbour, at Wakatakapau; thence generally along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the shore-line of Ahuriri Harbour to the mouth of Saltwater Creek at Balmoral; thence generally in a southerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the left bank of said Saltwater Creek to its intersection with Church Road; thence across creek, and returning generally in a northerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the right bank of said creek to its mouth; thence in a south-easterly and south-westerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the shore-line of the Ahuriri Harbour to Backwater; thence generally in a southerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the left bank of Backwater to its end; thence returning in a northerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the right bank of said Backwater to its intersection with the shore-line of Ahuriri Harbour; thence generally in an easterly, northerly, and southerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the shore-line of said Ahuriri Harbour to the mouth of the Tutaekuri River; thence generally in a south-easterly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the left bank of the said Tutaekuri River to the limit of tidal flow, a distance of about one and three-quarter miles from the bridge over the Tutaekuri River on the Napier–Taradale Road; thence across river, and returning in a north-westerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the right bank of said Tutaekuri River to its junction with a stream flowing along the southern boundary of the Borough of Napier; thence in an easterly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the left bank of said stream to its intersection with the Napier–Taradale Road; thence across said stream, and returning along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the right bank of said stream to its intersection with the shore-line of the Ahuriri Harbour; thence generally in a northerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the shore-line of the Ahuriri Harbour and the Eastern Pier to the entrance of the said Ahuriri Harbour; thence generally in an easterly and southerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the shore-line of Hawke’s Bay to the commencing-point: always save and excepting from the aforesaid described area certain islands situated in the Ahuriri Harbour, called respectively Te Ihourere, Parpara, Kouriwiri, Wareohineuru, Poroporo, Tirohangahe, Tutaeranuku, Tapu te Rangi, Te Awaawaka, Kohine te Tema, Kotaunui, Matawhero, and Awamauku. The said limits are delineated on the plan marked M.D. 2556, deposited in the office of the Marine Department, at Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and two.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Regulations under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby revoke the regulations made under the said Act on the sixth day of January last respecting financial adjustments, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act as hereinafter set forth, namely:—

REGULATIONS.

Financial Adjustments.

1. WHENEVER, upon the constitution of a new borough, or any alteration of the boundaries of an existing borough, agreements for financial and other adjustments are required to be made as specified in section one hundred and eighty-three of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” such agreements shall respectively be made and executed within three calendar months from the date of constitution of the new borough or date of alteration of boundaries respectively, as the case may be.

2. All such agreements shall provide, inter alia, for the following matters:—

(a.) What part of the real and personal property of the local authority or local authorities directly affected by such constitution or alteration shall respectively become the property of the new borough or other authority acquiring the severed area, as the case may be.

(b.) What part of the rates payable to the existing local authority or local authorities from which such new borough or added area has been taken shall be deemed payable to such new borough or other authority acquiring such severed area respectively.