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ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Boundaries of Borough of Karori altered.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of March, 1909.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS a petition has been presented to the Governor, under section one hundred and eighteen of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1908," praying the Governor to alter the boundaries of the Borough of Karori

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by excluding therefrom the areas described in the Schedule hereto, and to include the said areas in the Makara Riding of the County of Makara : And whereas a notice showing the proposed alteration in boundaries of the said borough has been gazetted and publicly notified, and no objections in writing against such alteration have been lodged :
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1908," His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that, as on and from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the areas described in the Schedule hereto shall be excluded from the Borough of Karori, and shall be included in the Makara Riding of the County of Makara.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, being Section No. 41, Block V, Port Nicholson Survey District, and Sections Nos. 40, 58, and parts of 56 and 57, Block VI. Bounded towards the north-west generally by the stream forming the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 23, 25, 27, and 29, Block V aforesaid, from the northernmost corner of Section No. 45 to the northernmost corner of Section No. 40; thence by Section No. 29, Block V, and Sections Nos. 50 and 58, Block VI, to the northernmost corner of Section No. 56 ; thence towards the north-east by the Otari Native Reserve to Parkvale Road ; thence towards the south-east by Parkvale Road to the south-western boundary of Section No. 57, Block VI aforesaid ; thence again towards the north-east by the said Section No. 57 to its south-western corner ; thence again towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 37, 39, and 40, said Block VI ; and towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 42, 43, and 45, Block V aforesaid, to the place of commencement.
Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, being Sections Nos. 46, 47, 48, and 53, Block V, Port Nicholson Survey District ; Sections Nos. 48, 50, 51, and 52, Block IX, and Sections Nos. 49, 92, and parts of 10 and 11, Block X, Port Nicholson Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Sections Nos. 44, 42, 49, the abutment of Karori Road, and Sections Nos. 43 and 54, Block V aforesaid ; Section No. 45, Block IX ; and Section No. 47, Block X, to the southernmost corner of the last-mentioned section : thence towards the north-west by that section and Sections No. 46 and 55, Block VI, to Section No. 9 : thence again towards the north-east by the last-mentioned section to the boundary of the City of Wellington : thence towards the east by the City of Wellington to Section No. 69, Block X aforesaid : thence towards the south generally by the last-mentioned section and Section No. 68, Block IX aforesaid, to the southernmost corner of Section No. 52 : and thence towards the west generally by Sections Nos. 67 and 6, Block IX, and Sections Nos. 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16, Block V, Port Nicholson Survey District, to Section No. 44, the place of commencement.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in the Auckland Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.
WHEREAS by "The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908," it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, declare his intention to make such change, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:
Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by "The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908," aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that named in the first column of the said Schedule to that named in the third column of the said Schedule.