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further pursuance and exercise of the said powers I do hereby proclaim, declare, and appoint that the Board of Commissioners for the said district shall consist of five members.

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SCHEDULE.

HUNTLY TOWN DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in the Rangiriri Survey District, bounded towards the north-east by the road forming the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 14b, 14, and 13, Taupiri Parish, to the easternmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence towards the east by the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 13, 10, 8, and 2, Taupiri Parish, to a public road; thence across that road to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 50; thence by the eastern boundary of the said Section No. 50 to Lake Hakanoa; thence by that lake, the western boundaries of Sections Nos. 51, 52, across a road, the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 53, 54, 55, 56, across a road, and the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 57, 58, and 59, Taupiri Parish, to the south-eastern corner of the last-mentioned section; thence towards the south by the southern boundary of that section, crossing the railway-line and a public road to the Waikato River; and thence towards the west generally by the Waikato River to the place of commencement.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JOHN G. FINDLAY.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Number of Councillors to be elected to Waipawa Borough Council, Arrangements for First Election, and Meeting of that Council.

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(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 Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Borough of Waipawa, as constituted by the Waipawa Borough Act, 1907, shall be an undivided borough, and that the number of Councillors to be elected for the said borough shall be eight, exclusive of the Mayor.

And I do further proclaim and declare that James Crouch Taylor, of Waipawa, 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 and Councillors of the said borough shall be held on Wednesday, the sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and that the first meeting of the Council of the said borough shall be held on Wednesday, the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, at two o’clock in the afternoon, at the Waipawa Town Board Office, at Waipawa.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JOHN G. FINDLAY.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Resuming Land held under Pastoral License for the Purpose of a Site for a Township.

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(l.s.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty-five of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor in Council may, by Proclamation, resume possession of any land leased under Part VI of the said Act which in his opinion is required for any public purpose:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto forms part of land which is held under pastoral license from His Majesty the King under Part VI of the said Act:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required for a public purpose—that is to say, for the purpose of a site for a township:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land Act, 1892,” and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby proclaim and declare that I hereby resume possession of the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto for the public purpose hereinbefore mentioned, the same being part of the land held under pastoral license as aforesaid; and do also hereby proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on the ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

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SCHEDULE.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is delineated on the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon coloured as above noted.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Lands withdrawn from Kakepuku Improved-farm Special Settlement, Auckland Land District.

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(l.s.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by the one-hundred-and-sixty-second section of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke a Proclamation dated the thirteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 33, dated the twenty-first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and four, setting apart lands for Kakepuku Improved-farm Special Settlement, in so far as it relates to the lands described in the Schedule hereto.