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from and after the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four, be appropriated for the purposes of a public recreation-group under Class III. of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881”; and I do hereby direct that this notification shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 1 rood 19·9 perches, more or less, being Sections Nos. 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, and 178, Town of Hunter ville.

Also all that area of land in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 14·7 perches, more or less, being Section No. 163, Town of Hunter ville.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Mangare Rail (Chatham Islands) protected.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “The Animals Protection Act 1880 Amendment Act, 1886,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this notification prohibit absolutely the taking or killing of the Mangare rail (Cabalus modestus), a bird indigenous to the said Colony of New Zealand; and I do hereby declare that this notification shall take effect on the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirtieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and four.

J. G. WARD.

Constituting Borough of Waitara, County of Taranaki.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, 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 sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four; that the name of such borough shall be the Borough of Waitara; that the said borough shall be an undivided borough; and that the number of Councillors to be elected thereto shall be seven, exclusive of the Mayor.

And I do further proclaim and declare that Thomas Buchanan, of Waitara, 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.

And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the first election of Mayor of the said borough shall be held on Tuesday, the twentieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four; and the first election of Councillors on Tuesday, the twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and four; and that the first meeting of the Council of the said borough shall be held on Monday, the third day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four, at half-past seven o’clock in the evening, at the office of Thomas Buchanan, West Quay, Waitara.

SCHEDULE.

BOROUGH OF WAITARA.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, situated in Waitara and Paritutu Survey Districts, containing about 2,080 acres. Bounded towards the north-east by Puketapu Road from the easternmost corner of Section No. 4, Waitara East District, to the northernmost corner of Section No. 23, Waitara East District; thence towards the south-east by the said Section No. 23 to the westernmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence again towards the north-east by Sections Nos. 23, 28, and 33, all of the said Waitara East District, to the Waipapa Road; thence again towards the south-east by the north-western side of the said Waipapa Road, the abutment of Karaka Road, Section No. 48 Waitara East District, and the north-western boundary-line of the last-mentioned section produced in a south-westerly direction to the right bank of the Waitara River;

thence towards the south-west by the said right bank of the Waitara River to a point due east of the confluence of the Mangahinau Stream with the Waitara River; thence again towards the south by a right line to the said confluence of the Mangahinau Stream with the Waitara River; thence by the said Mangahinau Stream to the western side of Nelson Road; thence towards the west by the said western side of Nelson Road to the easternmost corner of Section No. 28, Waitara West; thence again towards the south-east by part of Section No. 29, Waitara West, and the north-western boundary-line of that section produced across the railway reserve; again by part of Section No. 29 to the southernmost corner of Section No. 20, Waitara West; thence towards the south-west by the north-eastern side of a road forming the north-eastern boundary-line of Sections Nos. 55, 54, and 51, Waitara West, to the westernmost corner of Section No. 5, Waitara West; thence towards the west generally by the western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 5 and 6, the abutment of a road, the western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 3 and 2 to the southern side of Brown Road; thence towards the north-west by the southern side of Brown Road and the southern side of Battiscombe Terrace, and by the production of the last-mentioned line in a north-easterly direction to the sea at high-water mark; thence towards the north-east by the sea by a line at high-water mark to a point in line with the southern side of Waihi Road; thence again towards the north generally by a right line to the southern side of Waihi Road; thence by the said side of the Waihi Road to the north-western corner of Section No. 1, Waitara East District; thence again towards the north-east by the last-mentioned section; and again towards the north-west by the said Section No. 1, by Section No. 2 to the westernmost corner of Section No. 4; thence again towards the north-east by the last-mentioned section; again towards the north-west by the said Section No. 4 to Puketapu Road aforesaid, the place of commencement.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 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 thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

J. G. WARD.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th August, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WALTER CLUNIE DRAKE

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Whangarei, vice Abraham Absolum, on and from the 25th August, 1904.

J. G. WARD.

Sittings of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th August, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

SCOTT’S HALL, at Kawhia,

to be a place wherein a Magistrate’s Court shall be held under the provisions of “The Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1893.”

JAS. McGOWAN.

Assessor of Native Land Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th August, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ERUERA NEKITINI,

of Weraroa, to be an Assessor of the Native Land Court.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.