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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

Constituting District Court, District of Waikato and Thames.

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

WHEREAS by “The District Courts Act, 1858,” it is enacted that there shall be within the Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record, possessing civil and criminal jurisdiction, to be called “District Courts,” and the Governor is empowered from time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which such Courts shall be respectively held, and such districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define or alter, and also to declare by what local name such Courts shall be designated:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the said colony, in pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid power and authority, do hereby constitute and proclaim the district of the said colony hereinafter described or referred to to be a district within which a District Court shall be held under the said Act and “The District Courts Act Amendment Act, 1865.”

And in further pursuance and exercise of the authority aforesaid I do hereby declare that the said Court shall be designated by the name which is hereunder specified and set above the description of such district, that is to say:—

Designation of Court.

“The District Court of Waikato and Thames.”

Description of District.

All that part of the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north by the County of Manukau and the Firth of Thames; towards the west by the Firth of Thames and the Hauraki Gulf; towards the north-east by the ocean to the Waihi River; thence towards the south-east generally by the Counties of Tauranga and Rotorua to Uraura Trig. Station; thence towards the south generally by a right line to Rangitoto Mountain, and by the County of Clifton to the ocean; thence again towards the west by the ocean 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 third day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land in Block I., Hawera Survey District, taken for the Purposes of a Dam and the Establishment of a Hydraulic Power-house.

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

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are vested in the Hawera County Electric Company (Limited) for an estate of leasehold in possession unencumbered:

And whereas the said company, acting under the powers vested in them by the provisions of “The Hawera County Electric Lighting Act, 1902,” has entered upon part of the said lands, and has thereon constructed a tunnel for the purpose of generating electrical energy by the use of turbines or other hydraulic machinery:

And whereas the said lands are required to be taken under “The Public Works Act, 1894,” for the purpose of the establishment of the said company’s works on the Waingongoro Stream:

And whereas an agreement for the taking of the estate in fee-simple in the said lands has been entered into with the owner thereof, and it has been made to appear that such agreement is sufficient for the purposes intended to be effected thereby:

And whereas a plan has been prepared in duplicate showing accurately the position and extent of the said lands, and such map has been signed by authorised surveyors appointed by the Surveyor-General to certify plans for the purpose of any act relating to the conveyance or transfer of land as evidence of the accuracy thereof:

And whereas the Hawera County Electric Company (Limited) (the local authority by virtue of “The Hawera County Electric Lighting Act, 1902”) have laid before me a memorial under the seal of the said company containing a list of the said lands proposed to be taken, together with the aforesaid map, in duplicate:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by “The Hawera County Electric Lighting Act, 1902,” and “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and of every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, and with the consent of the said company as lessees, and at their request as a local authority as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are taken for the purpose of establishing the said company’s works on the said Waingongoro Stream by constructing a dam to dam back, impound, and divert the waters of the said stream by means of a tunnel, and erecting a hydraulic power-house and plant worked by means of the waters of the said stream to generate electrical energy for use and transmission by the said company for any or all of the purposes authorised by the said first-mentioned Act.

And it is hereby declared that this Proclamation shall take effect from the twentieth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four.

SCHEDULE.

The parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Taranaki; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 20742, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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 thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land taken for a Road, Block II., Hukerenui Survey District, Bay of Islands County.

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

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, with the consent of the lessee and of the mortgagee of the land hereinafter mentioned, and with the consent of the Bay of Islands County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said land is situated, do by this notice hereby proclaim as taken for a road the land in Hukerenui Survey District hereinafter described, that is to say,—

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as