Change of Name of Locality and Inlet, “West Wanganui”
to “West Haven.”

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Council of the County of Collingwood
has, by resolution adopted at an ordinary meeting
thereof, requested that the name of the locality situated in
the County of Collingwood and known as “West Wanganui”
be altered to “West Haven”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred on me by “The Designation of
Districts Act, 1908,” 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
proclaim and declare that the name of the locality now
known as “West Wanganui” shall be and the same is
hereby altered to “West Haven,” and do assign the last-
mentioned name to such locality accordingly; and also do
hereby proclaim and declare that the name of the inlet of
the sea now known as “West Wanganui Inlet” shall be and
the same is hereby altered to “West Haven Inlet,” and do
assign the last-mentioned name to such inlet accordingly;
and also do hereby proclaim and declare that this Proclamation
shall take effect on and after the first day of April,
one thousand nine hundred and ten, not being earlier
than six months after the first publication thereof in the
Gazette.

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 seventeenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and nine.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING !

Erratum.—In the Order in Council published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 9th day of September, 1909,
page 2303, declaring certain lands to be subject to Part II of “The Native Land Settlement Act, 1907,” for
“Arataha No. 2” read Arataha No. 3.”

Constituting the Borough of Wairoa, County of Wairoa.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by “The Municipal Corporations Act,
1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor of the
Dominion 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 first day of October,
one thousand nine hundred and nine; that the name of such
borough shall be the Borough of Wairoa; that the said
borough shall be an undivided borough; and that the
number of Councillors to be elected thereto shall be eight,
exclusive of the Mayor.

And I do further proclaim and declare that John William
Sargisson, of Wairoa, shall be the Returning Officer to
conduct the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the
said borough; and that Robert Thompson Esther shall be
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 Thursday, the twenty-first day of October, one
thousand nine hundred and nine; and that the first meeting
of the Council of the said borough shall be held on Monday,
the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred
and nine, at half past seven o’clock in the afternoon, at the
Mechanics’ Institute, at Wairoa.

SCHEDULE

BOROUGH OF WAIROA.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, situated
in Clyde Survey District, bounded towards the north by
the Waioma-Raenui Stream, from the easternmost corner
of Waioma-Raenui Block to the confluence of the said
stream with the Awatere Stream; thence by the said Awatere
Stream to the north-western corner of Awatere Block;
thence towards the north-east by Awatere Block to the road
to Nuhaka, across that road, and again by Awatere Block to
the Wairoa River; thence towards the east by a right line
running due south across the said Wairoa River; thence
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