Numb. 81. 3351

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1913.

Constituting the Town District of Onerahi, in the County of Whangarei.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS is it enacted by the Town Boards Act, 1908, that the Governor may declare that any locality outside a borough wherein there are not less than fifty householders shall be a town district:

And whereas a petition has been presented to the Governor by the inhabitants within the area mentioned and described in the Schedule hereto, praying that such area may be constituted a town district under the Town Boards Act, 1908;

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Town Boards Act, 1908, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said area shall be a town district, and the same is hereby constituted a town district, under the Town Boards Act, 1908, by the name of the Onerahi Town District: And, in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers, I do hereby proclaim, declare, and appoint that the Board of Commissioners for the said district shall consist of five members.

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SCHEDULE.

ONERAHI TOWN DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at the junction of high-water mark of Whangarei Harbour with the north-western side of the road forming the north-western boundary of Sections Nos. 18 and 17, Suburbs of Grahamtown; thence along the north-western side of that road and the south-eastern boundary of Waimahanga Block to and across a public road at the northmost corner of Section No. 26, Suburbs of Grahamtown; thence along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, and the south-eastern and south-western boundaries of the last-mentioned section to the road forming the eastern boundary of Section No. 46; thence across a road and along the eastern side of the road forming the eastern boundary of the said Section No. 46 to high-water mark of Whangarei Harbour; and thence along the high-water mark of the said Whangarei Harbour to the place of commencement.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 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 third day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring Land taken for a Public Work, and not required for such Public Work, to be Crown Land.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty of the Public Works Act, 1908, that if it is found that any land, held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for any public work, is not required for such public work, the Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions therein mentioned:

And whereas it is further provided by section five of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case of any land so taken, purchased, or acquired for a Government work and not required for that purpose, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Minister, and without complying with any other requirements of the aforesaid section thirty, by Proclamation declare such land to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and thereupon the land may be administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was taken for the purposes of roads: And whereas such roads have been closed, and it is desirable to declare the land