Numb. 45.

Alterring Boundaries of Masterton and Eketahuna 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 Masterton County Council on the ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and sealed with the seal of the Council of the said county on the ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen: And whereas a similar resolution was passed by the Eketahuna County Council on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and sealed with the seal of the said county on the fifteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, praying for the inclusion in the Eketahuna County of that part of the Masterton 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 Masterton 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 Eketahuna County; and, with the like power and authority, do proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the Counties of Masterton and Eketahuna 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 EKETAHUNA COUNTY.

All that area in the Wellington Land District comprised in the Alfredton Riding of Masterton County, as described in the New Zealand Gazette of 17th January, 1901. Bounded towards the north-east generally by the County of Akitio from the summit of the Puketoi Range to the County of Castlepoint; thence towards the south-east generally by the said County of Castlepoint to the Taueru River; thence by that river to the southern boundary-line of Section No. 149 in Block II, Mangapakeha Survey District; thence towards the south generally by the southern and western boundary-lines of the said Section No. 149 and the western boundary-line of Section 148 to the northernmost corner of that section; thence by a right line to the easternmost corner of Section No. 26 in Block I, Mangapakeha Survey District; thence by Sections Nos. 26, 25, 24, 23, and 22 in Block I aforesaid to the southernmost corner of Section No. 16, Block IV, Kopuaranga Survey District; thence towards the south-west generally by the County of Mauriceville to the County of Eketahuna; and thence towards the north-west generally by the Counties of Eketahuna and Pahiatua respectively to the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

MASTERTON COUNTY.

All that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north generally by Mauriceville County as described in the Schedule to the Mauriceville County Act, 1899, from its south-western corner on the Tararua Range to the south-west corner of Section 110, Block VII, Kopuaranga; thence by that section to Mangarei Road, across that road and by the south-west and south-east boundaries of Section 212, by Sections 139 and 138, Block VIII, to the southernmost corner of Section 102, Block IV; thence by Sections 102, 101, 18, and 17 to the easternmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence by the southern boundary of Alfredton Riding as described in the New Zealand Gazette of 17th January, 1901, to its intersection with the western boundary of Castlepoint County on the centre-line of the Taueru River at Section 157, Block II, Mangapakeha Survey District; thence towards the east and north-east by Castlepoint County as described in the New Zealand Gazette of 19th December, 1901, to the sea; thence towards the south-east by the sea to the mouth of the Kaiwhata River; thence towards the south-west generally by the Wairarapa South County, as described in the New Zealand Gazette of 19th December, 1901, to the summit of the Tararua Range; thence towards the west by the summit of that range to the place of commencement: excepting from the above-described area the Borough of Masterton, as described in the New Zealand Gazette of 31st March, 1904.

EKETAHUNA COUNTY.

All that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north-east generally by the southern boundary of Pahiatua County as described in the Schedule to the Counties Act Amendment Act, 1888, from Arawaru Trig. Station to the south-east corner of Section 12, Block VIII, Mangaone Survey District; thence again by the said Pahiatua County to the westernmost corner of Akitio County in Section 27,

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