Numb. 70.

2598

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1912.

Poverty Bay River District, County of Cook, constituted.

(L.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 Poverty Bay 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 Herbert Musgrave Porter, of Gisborne, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first elections of the aforesaid district; that Wednesday, the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, shall be the day, and the Public Hall, Patutahi, the Road Board Office, Ormond, the Public Hall, Warengahika, and the office of H. M. Porter, Childers Road, Gisborne, shall be the polling-places, for holding such first elections; and that Friday, the twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, at half past nine o’clock in the forenoon, shall be the time, and the office of the said H. M. Porter, Childers Road, Gisborne, shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the members of the Board of the said river district shall be held. And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the aforesaid Herbert Musgrave Porter shall be the person to make a roll of electors for the purposes of the aforesaid first elections, in the manner prescribed by section eight of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

POVERTY BAY RIVER DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Waipaoa River; thence along the middle of that river to its confluence with the Maraetaha River; thence along the middle of the latter river to a point in line with the middle of the road which intersects Opou Block in a northerly direction; thence to and along the middle of that road to the road which runs westerly through Aohuna and Mirimiri Blocks; thence along the middle of the last-mentioned road and its continuation through Kohangakare and Tarewa Blocks and forming the southern boundary of Rakaukaka Block to the western boundary of that block; thence along the western boundary of the said Rakaukaka Block to the middle of the road which intersects the northern part of that block; thence along the middle of that road to the junction of roads at the south-western corner of Section No. 60, Block IV, Patutahi Survey District; thence along the middle of the road forming the south-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 60, 61, and 64 to the Waikakariki Stream; thence along that stream to the south-western boundary of Repongaere No. 1 Block; thence along the south-western and north-western boundaries of that block and the south-western and north-western boundaries of Repongaere No. 5 Block to the Lavenham Road; thence to and along the middle of that road to the Waipaoa River; thence to and along the middle of that river to a point in line with the northern boundary-line of Section No. 62, Muhunga Block, in Block IX, Waimata Survey District; thence by a right line to the middle of the road forming the western boundary of the said Section No. 62; thence along the middle of that road and its continuation southwards through the Town of Ormond to the junction of roads at the north-western corner of Section No. 23 in Block I, Waimata Survey District; thence along the middle of the road forming the northern boundaries of Sections Nos. 23, 33, and 82 and the What aupoko–Ormond Road to the junction of roads at the easternmost corner of Section No. 7, What aupoko No. 1 Block; thence along the the middle of the road forming the south-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, the eastern boundary of part of What aupoko No. 5, the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 57, 58, 23, 22, 21, and 20, What aupoko No. 3 Block, and the northern boundaries of Sections Nos. 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, and 8 of the last-mentioned block to a point in line with the north-western boundary of the Borough of Gisborne; thence to and along the north-western and south-western boundaries of that borough to the sea; and thence along the sea-shore to the mouth of the Waipaoa River, the place of commencement.

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 August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!