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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1915.

Constituting the Borough of Te Awamutu, County of Waipa.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, a petition was presented to the Governor praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto be constituted a new borough: And whereas the provisions of the said section thirteen have been complied with in respect thereto, and the result of the poll taken on the proposal contained in the said petition was in favour thereof:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, as amended by the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be constituted a borough under the said Acts on and from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen; that the name of such borough shall be the Borough of Te Awamutu; that the said borough shall be an undivided borough; and that the number of Councillors to be elected thereto shall be eight, exclusive of the Mayor:

And I do further proclaim and declare that Dudley Bockett, of Te Awamutu, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough; and that the said Dudley Bockett shall be the Town Clerk and the person to prepare the district electors roll for the purposes of the said first election:

And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough shall be held on Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen; and that the first meeting of the Council of the said borough shall be held on Wednesday, the fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, at half past seven o’clock in the afternoon, at the Town Board Office, Te Awamutu.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by the southern side of the Mangapiko Stream from the easternmost corner of Allotment No. 317, Mangapiko Parish, to the western boundary-line of Allotment No. 250, Puniu Parish, by that boundary-line and the western and northern boundary-lines of Allotment No. 249, Puniu Parish aforesaid, to its north-eastern corner; thence towards the north-east generally by a right line to the north-westernmost corner of Allotment No. 267, Puniu Parish aforesaid, by that allotment, the crossing of a road, by Allotments Nos. 274 and 275, Puniu Parish aforesaid, across and by the southern side of a road to the north-western corner of Allotment No. 125, Puniu Parish aforesaid, and by the last-mentioned allotment to the northernmost corner of Allotment No. 129, Puniu Parish aforesaid; thence towards the south-east generally by said Allotment No. 129 to its westernmost corner; thence by a right line to the northernmost corner of Allotment No. 139, Puniu Parish aforesaid, by Allotments Nos. 136 and 138 of the said Puniu Parish, the crossing of a road, and by the north-western boundary-line of Allotment No. 142 of the aforesaid Puniu Parish for a distance of 1000 links; thence towards the south generally by a right line to the easternmost corner of Allotment No. 144A, Puniu Parish aforesaid, by the north-eastern boundary-line of that allotment for a distance of 670 links; thence by a right line to the south-western boundary-line of Allotment No. 145, Puniu Parish aforesaid, at a point distant 1000 links from its westernmost corner; thence towards the south-west generally by Allotment No. 322, Mangapiko Parish, by the south-eastern side of Otorohanga Road to a point in line with the north-eastern boundary-line of Allotment No. 232, Mangapiko Parish aforesaid, by a right line to and by the last-mentioned boundary-line to the northernmost corner of the said Allotment No. 232, by a right line to peg No. VIII in the North Island Main Trunk Railway Reserve (as shown on plan hereinafter mentioned) intersecting Allotment No. 230 of the said Mangapiko Parish; thence by a right line bearing 264° 30′ in a south-westerly direction, a distance of 3700 links; and thence by a right line to the south-eastern corner of Allotment No. 243, Mangapiko Parish aforesaid; and thence towards the north-west generally by the said Allotment No. 243, by Allotment No. 242, of Mangapiko Parish aforesaid, and by a right line to and by Allotment No. 317 first mentioned to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked I.A. 19/45, deposited in the office of the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross 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 twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING !