No. 136.

3331

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1917.

Constituting the Borough of Whakatane, County of Whakatane.

[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 Whakatane; 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 John Wheeler, of Whakatane, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough; and that the said John Wheeler 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 Monday, the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen; and that the first meeting of the Council of the said borough shall be held on Tuesday, the second day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, at half past seven o'clock in the afternoon, at the Town Board Office, Whakatane.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point at high-water mark on the right bank of the Whakatane River, in line with the northern boundary of Allotment 273, Waimana Parish, thence to and by the north boundary of said Allotment 273 to its north-east corner; thence along the western boundary of Small Grazing-run No. 1 to the south-east corner of Allotment 274, Waimana Parish; thence by a line bearing 220° 15′ to the old Whakatane-Ohiwa Road; thence by a line bearing 236° to the angle of the Whakatane-Ohiwa Road north of peg 146; thence south across the said road; thence westerly along the south side of the said road to the Whakatane-Taneatua Road; thence across the last said road to the north-east corner of Allotment 261; thence south along the eastern boundary of said Allotment 261 to its south-east corner; thence westerly along the southern boundaries of Allotment 261 aforesaid and Allotment 233, Waimana Parish, across a road to a point on the eastern boundary of Allotment No. 8, 5 chains distant from the north-east corner of last said allotment; thence along a line parallel to and 5 chains distant from the northern boundary of said Allotment 8 to the road forming its western boundary; thence northerly along the eastern side of the road forming part of the western boundary of Allotment 8 aforesaid to the road at its northern boundary; thence westerly by a line across a road and by the south side of the road intersecting Allotment 10A and that side line produced to high-water mark of the Whakatane River; thence by the right bank of the said Whakatane River to the point of commencement.

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-General 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-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!