Rumb. 55.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1905.

New County of Kawhia divided into Ridings, &c.
(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in me by “The Counties Act, 1886,” “The
Kawhia and Awakino Counties Act, 1903,” and “The Wai-
tomo County Act, 1904,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby divide
the new County of Kawhia, as constituted by the said Acts,
into six ridings, to be called the Kawhia Riding, the
Matakowhai Riding, the Te Kuri Riding, the Awaroa Rid-
ing; the Waiharakeke Riding, and the Taharoa Riding,
and declare that the boundaries thereof shall be those set
forth in the Schedule hereto.
And I do hereby declare that two members shall be elected
for the said Matakowhai Riding and one member for each of
the other aforesaid ridings. And I do further declare that
Wednesday, the fifth day of July, one thousand nine
hundred and five, shall be the day upon which the election
of the first Council of the said County of Kawhia shall take
place, and that Wednesday, the twelfth day of July, one
thousand nine hundred and five, at noon, shall be the time,
and Scott’s Hall, Kawhia, shall be the place, at which the
first meeting of the said Council shall be held.

SCHEDULE.
KAWHIA RIDING.
ALL that area in the Kawhia County bounded towards the
north-east by a right line bearing south 35° (true) east from
the Aotea Harbour to Trig. Station R in Block VI., Kawhia
North Survey District ; thence by the south-western bound-
ary-line of Native Block No. 60967 (containing 88 acres
1 rood 27 perches) to the stream forming the north-western
boundary of Mangaora Block ; thence towards the south-
east generally by that stream to Kawhia Harbour ; thence by
Kawhia Harbour to the north head of the said Kawhia Har-
bour ; thence towards the west by the sea to the north head
of Aotea Harbour ; thence towards the north generally by
Aotea Harbour to the place of commencement.

MATAKOWHAI RIDING.
All that area in Kawhia County bounded towards the
south-west and north-west by Raglan County as described in
the New Zealand Gazette No. 132, of the 15th December,
1883, from Aotea Harbour to the Waitetuna River ; thence
towards the east generally by the said Raglan County and
the Waitomo County as described in the First Schedule to
“The Waitomo County Act, 1904,” to the Pirongia-Kawhia
Road at the westernmost corner of Section No. 1, Block IX.,

Pirongia Survey District ; thence towards the south gen-
erally by the said Pirongia-Kawhia Road to the Oparau River ;
thence by the said Oparau River to Kawhia Harbour ; thence
by Kawhia Harbour to Kawhia Riding hereinbefore de-
scribed ; thence towards the west generally by the said
Kawhia Riding to Aotea Harbour; and thence by the said
Aotea Harbour to the place of commencement.

TE KURI RIDING.
All that area in the Kawhia County bounded towards the
north generally by the Matakowhai Riding hereinbefore
described from the Kawhia Harbour to the Waitomo County
boundary as described in the First Schedule to “The Wai-
tomo County Act, 1904”; thence towards the south-east
generally by the said Waitomo County to Section No. 4,
Block IV., Kawhia South Survey District ; thence towards
the south-west generally by the said Section No. 4, by Hau-
turu West F, No. 2 Block (6525B), Section No. 3, Block IV.
aforesaid, and Section No. 1A, Block XV., Kawhia North
Survey District, to the northernmost corner of the last-
mentioned section ; thence by part of the north-western
boundary of Hauturu West No. 1 Block (6530) to the Awaroa
River ; thence by the Awaroa River to the Kawhia Har-
bour ; and thence towards the west generally by the Kawhia
Harbour to the place of commencement.

AWAROA RIDING.
All that area in the Kawhia County bounded towards the
north-east by the Te Kuri Riding hereinbefore described
from the Kawhia Harbour to the Waitomo County boundary
as described in the First Schedule to “The Waitomo
County Act, 1904”; thence towards the east generally by
the said Waitomo County to the northern boundary of
the Awakino County as described in the Second Schedule
to “The Waitomo County Act, 1904”; thence towards
the south generally by the said Awakino County to a
point on the south-western boundary-line of Section No. 3,
Block XII., Kawhia South Survey District, due east of the
easternmost corner of Section No. 3, Block X., Kawhia
South Survey District; thence towards the south-west by
the Taumatatotara Block to its northernmost corner ; thence
by part of the Hauturu West No. 2B Block to the Te Mahoe
Stream; thence by the said Te Mahoe Stream to the Wai-
harakeke Inlet; thence by the said Waiharakeke Inlet to
the Kawhia Harbour; and thence towards the north-west
generally by the Kawhia Harbour to the place of commence-
ment.

WAIHARAKEKE RIDING.
All that area in the Kawhia County bounded towards the
north-east by the Awaroa Riding hereinbefore described
from the Kawhia Harbour to the Awakino County boundary
as described in the Second Schedule to “The Waitomo
County Act, 1904”; thence towards the south generally by
the said Awakino County to the mouth of the Marakopa