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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 district known as the Auckland District, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said district is hereby divided anew into two registration districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:-

DEVONPORT DISTRICT.

All that area bounded towards the north generally by Sections Nos. 8 and 7, Parish of Takapuna, from the sea to Lake Road; thence across that road and by Old Lake Road and the southern side of the last-mentioned road produced to the sea at Narrow Neck; and thence towards the north-east by the sea to North Head; thence towards the south and west generally by Waitemata Harbour to the place of commencement.

AUCKLAND DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north-east generally by the sea from the Okura River to the Tamaki River; thence towards the south-east generally by the Tamaki River to the north-eastern corner of Subdivision No. 12, Hamlin's Grant; thence by that subdivision, Subdivisions Nos. 11, 10, 9, across a road, Subdivision No. 1, Hamlin's Grant, and Allotment No. 29, Section 12, Suburbs of Auckland, to the Great South Road; thence by the Great South Road to the north-eastern corner of Allotment No. 1, Section No. 17, Suburbs of Auckland; thence by the said Allotment No. 1 and Allotments Nos. 13, 11, and 12, Section No. 12, Suburbs of Auckland, and across a road to the northernmost corner of Allotment No. 39 of Section No. 10, Suburbs of Auckland; thence by Allotments Nos. 39 and 40 to a point opposite the easternmost corner of Allotment No. 41; thence across a road and by Allotments Nos. 41, 56, 55, 54, and 53, Section No. 10 aforesaid, to Mount Albert Road; thence by that road to the north-western corner of Allotment No. 5, Section No. 13, Suburbs of Auckland; thence by Allotments Nos. 5, 4, and 8, Section No. 13 aforesaid, to Manukau Harbour; thence by Manukau Harbour to North Head; thence towards the south-west by the sea to the north-western boundary of Taupaki Block; thence towards the north-west generally by the north-western boundary of the said Taupaki Block to the Kumeu Stream; thence by a right line to the south-eastern corner of Ararimu Parish; thence by Ararimu and Pukeatua Parishes to Section No. 49, Okura Parish; thence by Sections Nos. 49 and 1, Okura Parish, to the Okura River; and thence by that river to the sea, the place of commencement, including Waiheke, Ponui, and adjacent islands, and also the Little Barrier Island: excepting the Devonport District hereinbefore described.

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

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-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

H. D. BELL,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Opio River District, County of Wallace, constituted.

(I...S.)

ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the River Boards Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), as amended by the River Boards Amendment Act, 1910, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date hereof, that part of the said Dominion described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby constituted a district under the said Act, and shall be known by the name of the Opio River District; and, further, that the number of members who are to constitute the Board of the said district shall be five. And I do also proclaim and declare that John Fisher, of Otautau, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of the aforesaid district; that Friday, the sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, shall be the day, and the Standard Buildings, at Otautau, shall be the place, for holding such first elections; and that Friday, the twenty-third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, at half past nine o'clock in the forenoon, shall be the time, and the Standard Buildings, Otautau, shall be the place, at

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