Num. 26 1069

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1912.

New County of Rangiora divided into Ridings, &c.

(I.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Counties Act, 1908, and the Ashley Subdivision and the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board Act, 1911, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby divide the new County of Rangiora, as constituted by the said Acts, into two ridings, to be called the Cust Riding and the Rangiora Riding, and declare that the boundaries thereof shall be those set forth in the Schedule hereto :

And I do hereby declare that two members shall be elected for the Cust Riding, and five members for the Rangiora Riding. And I do further declare that Tuesday, the twenty-third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, shall be the day upon which the election of the first Council of the said County of Rangiora shall take place, and that Friday, the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, at two o'clock in the afternoon, shall be the time, and the Rangiora Road Board office, High Street, Rangiora, shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the said Council shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

CUST RIDING.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded towards the north by the northern boundary of the Rangiora County as described in the First Schedule of the Ashley Subdivision and the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board Act, 1911, from the junction of Bowick's Road with the south side of the River Ashley, in Block II, Mairaki Survey District, to a point in continuation of the western boundary-line of Section No. 11239, Block IV, of the said district; thence towards the east by a right line to and by the western boundary-line of the said Section No. 11239, and by the western boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 9163, 4229, 4128, 4048, Block VIII, Mairaki Survey District, by the eastern side of the road intersecting Section No. 3876 of the said Block VIII, by the western boundary-line of Section No. 3811 and its production across the Oxford-Rangiora Railway line and the road along the southern side of that railway-line to the boundary of the Rangiora County aforesaid; and thence again towards the east, south, and west generally by the eastern, southern, and western boundaries of the last-mentioned county to the place of commencement.

RANGIORA RIDING.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded towards the north, east, and south-west by the northern, eastern, and south-western boundaries of the Rangiora County as described in the First Schedule of the Ashley Subdivision and the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board Act, 1911, from a point in continuation of the western boundary-line of Section No. 11239, Block IV, Mairaki Survey District, to a point in line with the western boundary-line of Section No. 3811, Block VIII, Mairaki Survey District; thence towards the west by the Cust Riding, hereinbefore described, to the place of commencement: excluding from the above-described area the Borough of Rangiora.

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 eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING !