Numb. 132.

3279

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1917.

Constituting the Borough of Featherston, County of Featherston.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

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-General 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-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be constituted a borough under the said Acts on and from the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen; that the name of such borough shall be the Borough of Featherston; that the said borough shall be an undivided borough; and that the number of Councillors to be elected thereto shall be nine, exclusive of the Mayor.

And I do further proclaim and declare that Francis Edwin Merlet, of Featherston, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough; and that the said Francis Edwin Merlet 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 nineteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen; and that the first meeting of the Council of the said borough shall be held on Wednesday, the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, at half past seven o’clock in the afternoon, at the office of the Featherston Town Board, Featherston.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north-west generally, commencing at the north-western corner of Section 81, Featherston Town District; thence by a right line to the south-eastern corner of Section 86, Featherston Town District, across Watt, Waterfield, Johnston, Lyon, and Hickson Streets, across Brown Street, and by a public road to the south-eastern corner of Section 285, Featherston; towards the south generally by Sections 289 and 288, across a street, and by Sections 287 and 286 to Brown Street; thence by the south-east side of that street to a point in line with the north-east boundary of Section 212, across Brown Street, by Section 212 to Lyon Street, across that street and by the Otaiura Stream to the northern boundary of Section 338, and by the north-eastern boundary of that section to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary of Section 464, across a public road, and by Sections 464 and

ERRATUM.—In Supplement to New Zealand Gazette of 16th August, 1917, No. 130, Postmasters authorized to take and receive statutory declarations in connection with the war loan, on page 3272, New Plymouth District, for “Burton, Charles Herbert,” read “Burton, Charles Hebert.”

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