Num. 47.

1771

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1912.

New County of Manukau divided into Ridings, &c.

(L.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Counties Act, 1908, and the Franklin and Manukau Counties Act, 1911, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby divide the new County of Manukau, as constituted by the said Acts, into seven ridings, to be called the Mangere Riding, the Otahuhu Riding, the Papatoitoi Riding, the Pakuranga Riding, the Turanga Riding, the Papakura Riding, and the Wairoa Riding, and declare that the boundaries thereof shall be those set forth in the Schedule hereto :

And I do hereby declare that one member shall be elected for each of the aforesaid ridings: And I do further declare that Saturday, the eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, shall be the day upon which the election of the first Council of the said County of Manukau shall take place, and that Friday, the twenty-first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, shall be the time, and the rooms of the Auckland Agricultural Association, High Street, Auckland, shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the said Council shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

MANUKAU COUNTY.

Mangere Riding.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by the waters of the Manukau Harbour from Section No. 86, Parish of Manurewa, to the Otahuhu Portage Road (which forms part of the southern boundary of the County of Eden); thence by part of the southern boundary of the County of Eden aforesaid to the centre-line of the Auckland-Waikato Railway; towards the east by the centre-line of the said railway to the north-western side of the road which forms the north-western boundary of Section No. 36 of the Parish of Manurewa aforesaid; thence towards the south-east by the north-western side of that road, and its production past Sections Nos. 36, 16, 54, 48, 51, and 53 to Pukaki Creek; and thence by a right line across that creek, and by the eastern shore of that creek, to the Manukau Harbour; and towards the south and west generally by the waters of Manukau Harbour to Section No. 86 aforesaid: including Puketutu, Oruaruakihi, and other adjacent islands in Manukau Harbour.

Otahuhu Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north by the County of Eden; towards the east generally by the Tamaki River to the centre-line of the Auckland-Waikato Railway Reserve at the northernmost corner of Section No. 36, Parish of Manurewa; and towards the west by the centre-line of the said railway to the County of Eden aforesaid.

Papatoitoi Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by Sections Nos. 94, 96, and 116, Pakuranga Parish, from Pakuranga Creek to the road forming the eastern boundary of Section No. 98; thence towards the east generally by the eastern boundary-line of that section and Sections Nos. 18 and 104; thence by the road forming the northern boundaries of Sections Nos. 219, 217, 270, 271, 273, and 275, and by the northern boundary-lines of Sections Nos. 192 and 118 to the easternmost corner of the latter section; thence by the eastern boundary-line of the said Section No. 118 and Sections Nos. 139, 176, 175, 137, all of the Pakuranga Parish aforesaid, and Sections Nos. 91 and 94, of the Parish of Manurewa, to the north-eastern boundary of the Papakura Parish; thence towards the south-west by the Papakura Parish to a point in the middle of the Great South Road at the southernmost corner of Section No. 40, Parish of Manurewa; thence again towards the east generally by a line along the middle of the Great South Road to a point in line with the northern boundary-line of Section No. 2, Parish of Papakura, Otahuhu Survey District; thence by a right line to and by the said Section No. 2 to the Puhinui Stream, and by that stream to Manukau Harbour; towards the south-west by that harbour and Pukaki Creek; and towards the north-west generally by the Mangere and Otahuhu Ridings, hereinbefore described, to the Tamaki River, and by the said Tamaki River and Pakuranga Creek to Section No. 94, the place of commencement.

Pakuranga Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north-east by the sea from the Tamaki River to a point in the middle of the road at Mellon Bay; thence towards the east by a line along the middle of the road bounding Allotments Nos. 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 1 of Section No. 10, Suburbs of Village of Howick, to the middle of Ridge Road; thence towards the north-west by the middle of that road, Anglesea and Picton Streets to a point in line with the middle of the right-of-way bounding Allotments Nos. 1 and 2 of Section No. 9 of the said suburbs; by a right line to and by the middle of the said right-of-way to the southern boundary of the