1772

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 47

said Section No. 9; by that boundary to the shore of Waiheke Passage, and by the said shore to a point in line with the eastern boundary-line of Allotment No. 7 of Section No. 6, Village of Howick; thence towards the south-east generally by a right line to and by the said eastern boundary-line; by the southern boundary-line of Allotment No. 7 aforesaid and of Allotments Nos. 6, 5, 4, and 3 of the said Section No. 6, and a line in continuation of same to the middle of the road forming the north-east boundary of Section No. 7 of the suburbs aforesaid; by the middle of the last-mentioned road to a point due north of the northernmost corner of the said Section No. 7; by a right line to and by Section No. 7 aforesaid to the northernmost corner of Allotment No. 2 of the said Section No. 7; by a line in continuation of the north-east boundary-line of the said Allotment No. 2 to the middle of Church Street, and thence by the middle of that street to its junction with the middle of Cook Street; thence again towards the east by the middle of Cook Street, Gibraltar Terrace, and the road forming the south-east boundary of Section No. 12 of the aforesaid suburbs to a point in line with the northern boundary-line of Allotment No. 5 of Section No. 12 aforesaid; thence towards the south-west generally by a right line to and by the northern boundary-line of the said Allotment No. 5 and Allotments Nos. 12, 4, and 3 of the said Section No. 12, and a line in continuation of same to the middle of Moore Street; by the middle of Moore and Rodney Streets to a stream intersecting Allotment No. 1 of the said Section No. 12; by that stream to the northern boundary-line of Section No. 11 of the said suburbs, and by the said northern boundary and its production to the middle of Ridge Road; thence again towards the south-east generally by a right line to and by the eastern boundary of Allotment No. 1 of Section No. 2 of the suburbs aforesaid; by the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 12, 73, and 79, Pakuranga Parish, to the northern boundary of Section No. 27 of the said parish; by the said Section No. 27 and Sections Nos. 38 and 94 of the said parish to the Papatoitoi Riding hereinbefore described, and by that riding to the Tamaki River; and thence again towards the north-west generally by the Tamaki River to the sea.

Turanga Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by the sea from the Pakuranga Riding, hereinbefore described, at Mellon Bay, to the northernmost corner of the Maraetai Block in Block II, Wairoa Survey District; towards the south-east generally by the said Maraetai Block, and by the Papeape Block to the northern boundary of the Wairoa Parish; by that parish to Section No. 68, Maraetai Parish; by that section; by a public road; by Sections Nos. 56, 51, and 27, Maraetai Parish; by Section No. 136, Pakuranga Parish; by Section No. 64, Papakura Parish, and Section No. 96, Manurewa Parish; towards the south-west generally by the Papatoitoi Riding hereinbefore described to the Pakuranga Riding aforesaid; thence towards the north-west, south, and west generally by the last-mentioned riding to the place of commencement.

Papakura Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north-west generally and towards the north-east by the Papatoitoi Riding hereinbefore described; again towards the north-west by the Papatoitoi Riding aforesaid, and by the Turanga Riding, hereinbefore described, to the north-west corner of Section No. 80, Wairoa Parish; towards the north-east by the north-east boundary of the said Section No. 80; towards the south-east generally by Section No. 78, a public road, by Sections Nos. 47, 51, a public road, by Sections Nos. 54, 59, 24, 75, 73, 74, 29, 40, and 39, Wairoa Parish; thence by the road forming the north-western boundary of Section No. 61, Papakura Parish, to a point in line with the south-western boundary-line of that section; thence by a right line to and by the said Section No. 61, and Sections Nos. 50, 55, and 30, Papakura Parish, to the western side of the road forming the south-western boundary of the last-mentioned section; thence by that road and the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Section No. 42, Papakura Parish, to the southernmost corner of Section No. 42 aforesaid; thence towards the north, east, and south generally by the Town District of Papakura, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 69, of the 17th August, 1882, page 1106, to the south-western corner of Allotment No. 14 of Section No. 6, Town District of Papakura; thence again towards the south generally by the Pahurehure Estuary; and thence towards the west by Manukau Harbour to the Papatoitoi Riding aforesaid,

Wairoa Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by the sea; towards the east, south-east, and south generally by the eastern, south-eastern, and southern boundaries of the County of Manukau, as described in the Second Schedule of the Franklin and Manukau Counties Act, 1911, to the Papakura Riding hereinbefore described; thence again towards the south, west, and north-west by that riding to the Turanga Riding hereinbefore described; and again towards the north-west generally by the last-mentioned riding to the sea.

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 twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

New County of Franklin 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 Franklin, as constituted by the said Acts, into eight ridings, to be called the Awhitu Riding, the Waiuku Riding, the Waipipi Riding, the Mauku Riding, the Pukekohe Riding, the Drury Riding, the Mercer Riding, and the Hunua 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 the Awhitu Riding, one member for the Waiuku Riding, one member for the Waipipi Riding, one member for the Mauku Riding, two members for the Pukekohe Riding, one member for the Drury Riding, one member for the Mercer Riding, and one member for the Hunua Riding. And I do further declare that Saturday, the twenty-second 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 Franklin shall take place, and that Thursday, the fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, shall be the time, and the Masonic Hall, Pukekohe, shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the said Council shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

AWHITU RIDING.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the south-west by the Tasman Sea from a point on the coast being the termination of a right line from the middle of the road at the south-western angle of Section No. 147, Waipipi Parish, and being a line in continuation of the road forming the south-east boundary of the said section to Manukau Harbour; towards the north by Manukau Harbour; and towards the north-east generally by the Manukau Harbour and Waiuku Estuary to a point in the middle of the road at Mokorau, being the southernmost corner of Section No. 175, Waipipi Parish; and thence towards the south-east by a line along the middle of that road running south-westerly generally and bounding Sections Nos. 152, 150, 149, 148, 147 to a point at the south-western angle of the last-mentioned section, and thence by a right line to the Tasman Sea, the place of commencement.

WAIUKU RIDING.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by a right line from a point on the western shore of Waiuku Estuary and due west from the South Head of Taihiki Estuary produced to the said head, and thence by the last-mentioned estuary to the western boundary-line of Section No. 103, Waiuku East Parish; thence towards the north-east generally by Sections Nos. 103, 102, 101, and 91, Waiuku East Parish, to the road at the westernmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by that road bounding Sections Nos. 91,