Numb. 133. 3347

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1918.

Altering Boundaries of Rangitikei and Wanganui Counties.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection two of section three of the Counties Amendment Act, 1913, that the boundaries of any one or more counties may be altered in accordance with a resolution proposing the alteration passed by the Council of each of such counties in which the principal Act is in force:

And whereas a resolution was passed by the Rangitikei County Council on the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and sealed with the seal of the Council of the said county: And whereas a similar resolution was passed by the Wanganui County Council on the second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and sealed with the seal of the said county, praying for the inclusion in the Rangitikei County of that part of the Wanganui County described in the said resolutions and in the First Schedule hereto: And whereas it is expedient to make such alteration in accordance with the said resolutions:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the said Act, 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 First Schedule hereto, being now part of the Wanganui County, shall, on and from the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, be deemed to be added to and form part of the Rangitikei County; and, with the like power and authority, do proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the Counties of Rangitikei and Wanganui respectively shall as from the aforesaid date be those set forth under their respective headings in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREA TO BE ADDED TO RANGITIKEI COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north generally by the Waimarino County from the north-western corner of Section 5, Block I, Maungakaretu Survey District, to the Rangitikei County; thence towards the east and south generally by the Rangitikei County to the northern boundary of Section 60, Block XVI, Ngamatea Survey District; thence by the northern boundary of Section 60 aforesaid to the south-eastern corner of Section 77, Block XVI aforesaid; thence towards the west generally by the north-eastern boundary of said Section 77 and that boundary produced to the middle of Hales Road; thence by the middle of that road to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Section 70, Block IX, Maungakaretu Survey District; thence to and by that boundary and the south-western boundary of Section 71, Block XII, Ngamatea Survey District, and that boundary produced to the centre of the Koukoupo Road; thence by the middle of that road to a point opposite the northern boundary of the Pungataua Block in Block XII, Ngamatea Survey District; thence to and by the northern boundary of that block, the eastern boundaries of Sections 9 and 6, Block VIII, Ngamatea Survey District, the eastern boundary of Section 7, Block IV, of the aforesaid survey district, to the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

RANGITIKEI COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north generally, commencing at the north-western corner of Section 5, Block I, Maungakaretu Survey District, by the northern boundary of that section, across Owhakura Road, and by the northern boundaries of Section 1, Block I aforesaid, across Otara Road, and by the northern boundaries of Sections 2, 3, 4, Block I, the northern boundaries of Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, Block II, to Turakina River; thence by that river, the northern boundary of Section 3A, Block II, Maungakaretu Survey District, the northern boundaries of Raketapaua Nos. 1A, 1G, 1I Blocks to the Waiouru-Moawhango Road; thence to the middle of and by that road to its junction with the Waiouru Road; thence by right lines through Totem, Auahitotara, Te Rotete, and Manukaiapu Trig. Stations to Trig. Station No. 27; thence by a right line running in the direction of Tawaki Tohunga Trig. Station to the middle of the Rangitikei River; thence towards the east generally by the middle of the Rangitikei River to its intersection with a right line running between Trig. Station No. 30, Aorangi, and a trig. station in Section 6, Block XV, Ohinewairua Survey District; thence by that line to Aorangi Trig. Station aforesaid; thence by a right line running in the direction of the confluence of the north branch of the Waipawa River and the Makaroro River to the summit of the Ruahine Range; thence by the summit of the Ruahine Range to a point due east from the source of the Kawhatau River; thence towards the south-east generally by a line to and along the middle of the Kawhatau and Rangitikei Rivers to the sea; thence towards the south-west by the sea to the Wangaehu River; thence towards the north-west generally by the middle of the Wangaehu River to a point due west, distance about eighteen chains, from the western boundary of Block XIV, Mangawhero Survey District; thence by a right line through Okaipe Trig. Station to the summit of the eastern watershed of the Wangaehu River; thence by lines from hill to hill along the summit of the eastern watershed aforesaid to its intersection with the