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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

out in the First Schedule hereto, the said borough being a
new borough constituted by Proclamation dated the 22nd
day of January, 1915, made under the Municipal Corpora-
tions Act, 1908, as amended by the Municipal Corporations
Amendment Act, 1913, and published in Gazette No. 10, of
the 28th day of January, 1915.

And also, in pursuance of the provisions of the said sec-
tion 20 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1910,
the boundaries of the County of Waipa affected by the con-
stitution of the Borough of Te Awamutu, made by the said
Proclamation dated the 22nd day of January, 1915, are
hereby defined as set out in the Second Schedule hereto.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF BOROUGH OF TE AWAMUTU.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded to-
wards the north generally by the southern side of the Manga-
piko Stream from the easternmost corner of Allotment No. 317,
Mangapiko Parish, to the western boundary-line of Allot-
ment 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 afore-
said, 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 Allot-
ment No. 125, Puniu Parish aforesaid, and by the last-men-
tioned allotment to the northernmost corner of Allotment
No. 129, Puniu Parish aforesaid; thence towards the south-
east generally by the 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 allot-
ment 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 western-
most 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 Manga-
piko 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.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY OF WAIPA.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards
the north-east generally by a line along the middle of the
Waikato River from Ngaruawahia Town District to the
Borough of Hamilton; thence by the northern boundary of
the said borough, as described in the New Zealand Gazette
of 17th October, 1912, page 2994, by the Borough of Frankton
as described in the New Zealand Gazette of 28th March, 1913,
page 971, and again by the Borough of Hamilton aforesaid,
to the middle of the Waikato River; thence again by a line
along the middle of the Waikato River to a point in line
with the north-western boundary of Pukekura Block; thence
towards the south-east by a right line to and by the said
boundary of Pukekura Block (No. 763), by Puahue Block
(No. 764), by Section No. 4, Block VIII, Puniu Survey Dis-
trict, and by Ngamako Block (No. 695), and its north-western
boundary produced to the middle of the Puniu River; thence
towards the south-west by a line along the middle of the
Puniu and the Waipa Rivers to the Township of Pirongia;
thence by the western boundary of the said Township of
Pirongia (formerly Alexandra), as described in the New Zealand
Gazette of 9th March, 1882, page 374, and the said boundary
produced to the middle of the Waipa River; thence towards
the west generally by a line along the middle of the Waipa
River to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary
of the Town District of Ngaruawahia; thence by a right line
to and by the said town district, as described in the New
Zealand Gazette of 24th August, 1883, page 1221, and the
production of its south-eastern boundary to the middle of
the Waikato River, the place of commencement; excepting
from the above-described area the Borough of Te Awamutu,
as described in the First Schedule hereto.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Arbor Day.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th May, 1915.

WEDNESDAY, the 14th day of July next, will be
observed as a public holiday in the Government
offices throughout the Dominion for the celebration of Arbor
Day.

In order that the movement may be made as successful
as possible, the Government hopes that the Mayors of various
municipalities and Chairmen of local bodies will place the
matter prominently before the people of the Dominion, and
do all they can to encourage the planting of public reserves
and other available lands, both public and private, with trees
suited to the locality.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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By-law No. 6 of the Hastings Borough Council confirmed
under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th May, 1915.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed
copy of By-law No. 6 made by the Hastings Borough
Council on the 15th day of April, 1915.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the above-written By-law No. 6, and declare that the same
came into force on the 24th day of April, 1915.

Dated this 14th day of May, 1915.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Plants declared by the Otamatea County Council to be
Noxious Weeds.—Notice No. 1781.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 19th May, 1915.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the
Otamatea County Council has, by special order,
declared the following plants to be noxious weeds within
the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district
under its jurisdiction: Gorse, foxglove.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries
and Commerce.

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Notifying Land in the Wellington Land District subject to
the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 18th May, 1915.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settle-
ments Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby notify
that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known
as the Bartholomew Settlement, which has been acquired
under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from 30th
March, 1915.

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SCHEDULE.

BARTHOLOMEW SETTLEMENT.

ALL that parcel of land in the Wellington Land District,
containing by admeasurement 97 acres 3 roods 23 perches,
more or less, being part of Subdivision No. 10, Horowhenua
Block, and comprising Lots 1, 3, 5 to 14 all inclusive, and
part of Lot 4 on plan deposited in the Lands Registry Office
as No. 2419. Bounded towards the north-west by Horo-
whenua A 7 Block, 2631·8 links; towards the north-east by