Numb. 121.

3547

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1915.

Altering Boundaries of Opotiki and Waiapu Counties.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection two of section three of the Counties Amendment Act, 1913, that the boundaries of any one or more counties may be altered in accordance with a resolution proposing the alteration passed by the Council of each of such counties in which the principal Act is in force :

And whereas a resolution was passed by the Opotiki County Council on the seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and sealed with the seal of the Council of the said county on the same day: And whereas a similar resolution was passed by the Waiapu County Council on the fifteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and sealed with the seal of the said county on the same day, praying for the inclusion in the Waiapu County of that part of the Opotiki County described in the said resolutions and in the First Schedule hereto: And whereas it is expedient to make such alteration in accordance with the said resolutions:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the said Act, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the area described in the First Schedule hereto, being now part of the Opotiki County, shall, as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, be deemed to be added to and form part of the Waiapu County; and, with the like power and authority, do proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the Counties of Opotiki and Waiapu respectively shall as from the aforesaid date be those set forth under their respective headings in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREA TO BE ADDED TO WAIAPU COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line along the left bank of the Whangaparaoa River from its mouth to the northernmost corner of Waikura No. 1 Block, and along the north-western boundaries of Waikura Nos. 1 and 2 Blocks to the southernmost corner of Whangaparaoa No. 3A Block, and along the western boundary of that block to the Mangapouri Stream, along that stream and the southern boundary of Whangaparaoa No. 1 Block to the sea, and along the seashore to the mouth of the Whangaparaoa Stream, the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

OPOTIKI COUNTY.

ALL that area bounded towards the north and north-west by the Bay of Plenty from a point where the Maraeototara Road first strikes high-water mark of the sea to the south-western corner of Whangaparaoa No. 1 Block, and by that block and the Mangapouri Stream to Whangaparaoa No. 3A Block; thence towards the east generally by Whangaparaoa No. 3A and Waikura No. 2 Blocks to the south-western corner of the last-mentioned block; thence towards the south-east generally by a right line to Whanakao Trig. Station; thence by a right line to Kapua Trig. Station; thence to Arowhana Trig. Station; thence towards the south-east generally by Waikohu County; and towards the west by Whakatane County to the sea, the place of commencement.

WAIAPU COUNTY.

All that area bounded towards the north and east generally by the sea from the south-western corner of Whangaparaoa No. 1 Block to the north-eastern corner of Cook County, towards the south generally by Cook and Waikohu Counties to Arowhana Trig. Station, and towards the west by Opotiki County hereinbefore described.

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 sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

ERRATUM.—In the description of the boundaries of the Canterbury Land District published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 44, of the 25th March, 1915, page 955, after the word “Nelson” in the second line add “as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 106, of the 19th December, 1901, page 2411.”

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