Marriage District Proclamation




Num. 112.

3013

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1918.

Districts constituted under the Marriage Act, 1908.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Marriage Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing marriage districts known as the Dannevirke and Norsewood districts, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is hereby divided anew into two marriage districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:—

DANNEVIRKE DISTRICT.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, bounded towards the north by a right line from a point on the summit of Ruahine Range due west of the source of the Mangatewaiiti Stream to the said source of that stream; thence towards the north-east generally by the said Mangatewaiiti Stream to its junction with the Mangatawainui River; thence by that river to its confluence with the Manawatu River; thence by the Manawatu River to its confluence with the Mangapuaka Stream; thence by that stream to the southern boundary of Waipukurau County, as described in New Zealand Gazette, 1917, page 3849; thence by the southern boundary of that county to the Patangata County, as described in New Zealand Gazette, 1917, page 3849; thence by the Patangata County to the southernmost corner of Mangangarara No. 3 Block; thence towards the south-east by a right line to the south-eastern corner of Section No. 4, Block XIV, Mangatoro Survey District; thence by a right line to Trig. Station No. 51, Oporae; thence towards the south-west generally by Puketoi No. 6B Block and Woodville County, as described in the schedule to the Woodville County Act, 1901, to the Otopae Stream; thence by that stream to the south-eastern corner of Otawhao Block; thence by the south-eastern boundary of that block to the Otawhao Stream; thence by that stream to the Manawatu River; thence across and by that river to the southern boundary of Oringiwairuhe No. 2 Block; thence by the southern and western boundaries of that block and by Blocks XI, X, and XVI, Woodville Survey District, to the summit of the Ruahine Range; and thence towards the north-west generally by the summit of that range to the place of commencement.

NORSEWOOD DISTRICT.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District bounded towards the north by a right line from a point on the summit of the Ruahine Range, due west of the source of the Manawatu River, to the said source of that river; thence towards the north-east by the said Manawatu River to the Kahututaeatua Stream; thence towards the south by that stream to the northernmost corner of Section No. 1, Block V, Takapau Survey District; thence towards the south-east by Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 95, Block V aforesaid, across a road, and by Sections Nos. 155, 133, and 140, said Block V, and Section 166, Block IX, to the road at the north-western corner of that section; thence across and by that road to Section No. 124, Block IX aforesaid, and by that section to Mangatawainui River; thence towards the east generally by that river to its junction with the Mangatewaiiti Stream; thence towards the south-west generally by Mangatewaiiti Stream to its source; thence by a right line due west to the summit of the Ruahine Range; and thence again towards the west generally by the summit of the Ruahine Range to the place of commencement.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, 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 eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!



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🏛️ Proclamation of Marriage Districts under the Marriage Act, 1908

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
8 August 1918
Marriage Act, Districts, Dannevirke, Norsewood, Boundaries
  • Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor-General
  • G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs