Num. 81.

1973

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1917.

Constituting the Town District of Matamata, in the County of Matamata

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the Town Boards Act, 1908, that the Governor may declare that any locality outside a borough wherein there are not less than fifty householders shall be a town district:

And whereas a petition has been presented to the Governor by the inhabitants within the area mentioned and described in the said petition, praying that such area may be constituted a town district under the Town Boards Act, 1908:

And whereas a Commission appointed in pursuance of section two of the Town Boards Amendment Act, 1912, held an inquiry, and reported that the locality defined in the said petition was suitable for municipal control, and made certain alterations of the boundaries thereof:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Town Boards Act, 1908, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto, being the locality defined in the said petition, with boundaries as altered by the said Commission, shall be a town district, and the same is hereby constituted a town district, under the Town Boards Act, 1908, by the name of the Matamata Town District. And in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers I do hereby proclaim, declare, and appoint that the Board of Commissioners for the said district shall consist of five members.

SCHEDULE.

MATAMATA TOWN DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Blocks II and III, Tapapa Survey District, Matamata County, bounded towards the north-east by Section 15, Matamata Settlement, from its westernmost corner to a point 1000 links from its southernmost corner; thence towards the north-west by a line bearing 60° 14′, distance 1300 links; thence again towards the north-east by a line bearing 150° 14′, distance 1000 links, across a public road 200 links wide, and by Section 40, 1157·6 links; thence towards the south-east by lines bearing 240° 14′, distance 3800·9 links, 216° 38′ 30″ distance 6753·2 links; thence towards the south-west by a line bearing 300° 25′, across a public road 200 links wide, by that line continued across the Rotorua–Auckland Railway and a public road 100 links wide, and that line continued to Section 106; thence again towards the north-west by the aforesaid Section 106, to and across a public road 100 links wide, and by Section 107; thence again towards the south-west by the aforesaid Section 107 and Sections 110, 109, and 82, and across a public road 100 links wide; thence again towards the north-west by Section 2, by a line across a public road 100 links wide, across the Rotorua–Auckland Railway, and again across a public road 100 links wide, and by Section 13 to the place of commencement: all the aforesaid sections being of the Matamata Settlement.

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 third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Crown Lands set apart for Selection by Discharged Soldiers, under Ordinary Tenures, in the Auckland Land District.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section three of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the areas of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart for selection by discharged soldiers, under the Land Act, 1908.