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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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37065 and 27061, and forming the eastern boundary of 27058; thence by that road to the Rakaia Bridge Road; thence by the last-mentioned road to Mead Settlement; thence by the northern boundaries of Mead Settlement and the production of the north-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 2, Block X, Selwyn Survey-District, to the Christchurch-Dunedin Railway line; thence by that railway-line to the Great South Road; thence by the Great South Road to the left bank of the Rakaia River; thence again by the left bank of that river to the sea; thence towards the south-east by the sea to the Chertsey Boundary Road; thence towards the south-west generally by the said Chertsey Boundary Road to the northern corner of Reserve No. 1771, Ashburton Survey District; thence by a right line being a continuation of the north-eastern boundary of that reserve across a railway reserve to the Great South Road; thence by that road and the road forming the south-western boundary of Reserve No. 2376, and that road continued to the westernmost corner of Section No. 24262, Ashburton Survey District; thence by a right line to the southernmost corner of Section No. 27032; thence by the road forming the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 27031, and that road continued to the northernmost corner of Section No. 27394; thence by the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 27392; thence by Sections Nos. 27392, 27969, 27970, 27985, 28020, 31252, 30505, 30504, 30506, and 30509, Ashburton Survey District, to Thompson Road; thence towards the north by Thompson Road to its junction with the Lauriston and Barhill Road; and thence towards the north-west by the said Lauriston and Barhill Road and a line in continuation thereof to the place of commencement.

HORORATA DISTRICT.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded towards the north-west by the summit of the Southern Alps from a point near the source of the Rakaia River to Browning’s Pass; thence towards the north-east by a right line to Porter’s Pass; thence by a right line to the intersection of Home Bush Road by the Waianiwaniwa Branch of the River Selwyn; thence by that branch and the north bank of the River Selwyn to the Great South Road; thence towards the south-east by the Great South Road to the Christchurch-Dunedin Railway line; thence by that railway-line to a point in line with the north-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 2, Block X, Selwyn Survey District, Mead Settlement; thence towards the south-west generally by a right line to the north-eastern corner of the said Section No. 2 and by the northern boundary of Mead Settlement to the Rakaia Bridge Road; thence by that road to its junction with the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Rural Section No. 27058; thence by the last-mentioned road and its continuation through Rural Sections Nos. 27061 and 37065 to the Rakaia River; thence by the northern bank of the Rakaia River to its source; and thence by a right line to the nearest point on the summit of the Southern Alps, the place of commencement.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Districts constituted under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1908.

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing registration districts known as the Norsewood, Danevirk, Rakaia, and Hororata Districts, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is hereby divided anew into four registration districts, the names whereof shall be the Norsewood, Dannevirke, Rakaia, and Hororata Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the same names, as are set forth in a Proclamation of even date herewith, made under the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Native Land to be Crown Land under Section 368 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-eight of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is provided, inter alia, that the Crown may purchase any Native land in pursuance of a resolution of the assembled owners passed and confirmed in accordance with Part XVIII of the said Act, and on the resolution being adopted by the Native Land Purchase Board it shall become a contract of purchase as between the Crown and all persons who are the owners of the land, and the Governor may by Proclamation, at any time after the contract of purchase has been so made, declare that the land so purchased is vested in His Majesty the King, and it shall vest accordingly, and shall become Crown land:

And whereas a resolution was passed by a meeting of assembled owners and duly confirmed by the Waiariki District Maori Land Board that the land set out in the Schedule hereto be sold to the Crown:

And whereas the Native Land Purchase Board duly considered and adopted the resolution:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section three hundred and sixty-eight of the said Act, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the land set out in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Waioeka Survey District, in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing 744 acres, more or less, and being the land known as Oamaru No. 3B.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

J. CARROLL.

Native Minister

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Proclaiming Native Land to be Crown Land under Section 368 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-eight of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is provided, inter alia, that the Crown may purchase any Native land in pursuance of a resolution of the assembled owners passed and confirmed in accordance with Part XVIII of the said Act, and on the resolution being adopted by the Native Land Purchase Board it shall become a contract of purchase as between