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along the eastern side of the Great North Road to its junction with the Jordan Road; thence along the north-eastern side of the said Jordan Road to Section No. 69, Hikurangi Parish; thence along the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of the last-mentioned section and along the eastern side of the road forming the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 70, 76, 77, and 36 to the northernmost corner of the north-eastern portion of Section No. 41, Hikurangi Parish aforesaid; thence along part of the north-eastern boundary of the said north-eastern portion of Section No. 41 to the Great North Road; and thence across that road and along its eastern side 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!

New County of Waipukurau 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,” and the Waipukurau County Act, 1907, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby divide the new County of Waipukurau, as constituted by the said Acts, into two ridings, to be called the Mount Herbert Riding and the Hatuma Riding, and declare that the boundaries thereof shall be those set forth in the Schedule hereto.

And I do hereby declare that three members shall be elected for the said Mount Herbert Riding, and three members for the said Hatuma Riding. And I do further declare that Wednesday, the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, shall be the day upon which the election of the first Council of the said County of Waipukurau shall take place, and that Wednesday, the twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, at two o’clock in the afternoon, shall be the time, and Horace Baker’s office, at Waipukurau, shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the said Council shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

MOUNT HERBERT RIDING.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District bounded towards the north generally by the Waipukurau Town District from the westernmost corner of the said town district to the Tukituki River; thence by the production of the south-eastern boundary of that town district to the middle of the Tukituki River; thence by a line along the middle of the Tukituki River to its confluence with the Mangatarata Stream; thence towards the south-east generally by a line along the middle of the Mangatarata Stream to its confluence with the Tangatupuru Stream; thence by a line along the middle of the Tangatupuru Stream to the westernmost corner of Block No. 87; thence towards the south generally by a right line, being the production of the south-western boundary of the said Block No. 87, to a point in line with the southern boundary of Block No. 40; thence by a right line to the south-eastern corner of the last-mentioned block; thence by the southern boundaries of Blocks Nos. 40, 39, and 42 to the Ngahape Stream; and thence towards the north-west generally by the Hatuma Riding hereinbefore described to the westernmost corner of the Waipukurau Town District, the place of commencement.

HATUMA RIDING.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District bounded towards the north by the Makaretu River from the mouth of the Maharaeke Stream to the confluence of the Makaretu and Tukituki Rivers; thence by the Tukituki River to the western boundary of the Waipukurau Town District; thence towards the south-east generally by the Waipukurau Town District and Block No. 16 to Hatuma Lake; thence by Hatuma Lake and part of the eastern boundary of Section No. 7, Block II, Waipukurau Survey District, to the easternmost corner of Section No. 5, Block II aforesaid; thence by the south-eastern boundary of the last-mentioned section to the Ngahape Stream; thence by a line along the middle of the Ngahape Stream to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 1, Block XII, Takapau Survey District; thence by the eastern boundary of the last-mentioned section to the middle of the Purimu Stream; thence by a line along the middle of that stream to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 2, Block XII, Takapau Survey District; thence by the south-eastern boundary of the last-mentioned section to the Tauraekaikai Stream; thence towards the south generally by a line along the middle of the Tauraekaikai Stream to its confluence with the Whatatuna Stream; thence by a line along the middle of the last-mentioned stream, the southern boundary of Block No. 83, and a line along the middle of the Mangapurakau Stream to the south-western corner of Section No. 1, Block XI, Takapau Survey District; thence towards the west generally by the western and northern boundaries of the last-mentioned section and part of the northern boundary of Block No. 83 to the Maharaeke Stream; thence by a line along the middle of the Maharaeke Stream, the western boundary of Section No. 9, Block VIII, Takapau Survey District, and again along the middle of the Maharaeke Stream to the Makaretu River, 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 thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Native Land in Waipakura Survey District taken for the Purposes of Public Buildings.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this first day of April, 1908.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is Native land and is required to be taken for the purposes of public buildings:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:

And whereas a map of the said land has been prepared in duplicate, as required by the eighty-ninth section of “The Public Works Act, 1905”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby proclaim and declare that the land shown upon such map and described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for public buildings as aforesaid; and the said land shall vest in His Majesty the King, as from the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Land District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 23497, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.