Numb. 19.

461

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1918.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1918.

Th: New Electoral Districts for the North Island.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the North Island Representation Commission, appointed under the provisions of the Legislature Act, 1908, have made their report to me under their hands and seals, setting forth the names and boundaries of the electoral districts for the North Island, fixed by them in accordance with the Legislature Act, 1908.

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the twenty-second section of the Legislature Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the names and boundaries of the electoral districts for the North Island, so fixed by the said Commission, to be those respectively mentioned and set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

BAY OF ISLANDS.

This district is bounded towards the north-east generally by the ocean from North Cape to the mouth of the Ngunguru River; thence towards the south-east generally by the Bay of Islands Electoral District, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 76, of 27th September, 1911, from the said river to the north-eastern boundary of the south-eastern portion of Section 50, Block V, Purua Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction by the north-eastern boundaries of the south-eastern and north-eastern portions of Section 50, Block XVI, Hukerenui Survey District, and the north-eastern portions of Sections 49, 48, and 39 of the said block and survey district; thence in a south-westerly direction by the south-eastern boundary of the south-eastern portion of Section 38 of the aforesaid block and survey district to its south-western corner; thence by the road between Sections 36 and 40 to the northern boundary of the Hikurangi Town District (as existing on the 10th day of September, 1917); thence in a southerly direction generally by the western boundary of the said town district to the road at the south-western corner of the aforesaid town district; thence in a south-easterly direction by that road to its junction with the said Bay of Islands Electoral District; thence towards the south-east and south generally by that electoral district to the ocean at the north-western corner of Block V, Waipoua Survey District; and towards the south-west and north by the ocean to the place of commencement, including all adjacent islands.

MARSDEN.

This district is bounded towards the north-west and north by the Bay of Islands Electoral District, hereinbefore described, from the confluence of the Mangakahia and Wairua Rivers to the ocean at the mouth of the Ngunguru River; thence towards the north-east generally by the ocean to the southern boundary of the Mahurangi Riding of Rodney County (as existing on 10th day of September, 1917) at Cowan’s Bay; thence in a westerly direction by the said southern boundary of the said Mahurangi Riding to its junction with the Marsden Electoral District, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 76, of the 27th September, 1911, at the road at the southern corner of the southern portion of Section 37, Block IX, Mahurangi Survey District; thence towards the south-west generally by the said Marsden Electoral District to the North Auckland Railway-line intersecting the north-east boundary of Section 111, Block IV, Tauhoa Survey District; thence in a northerly direction by the said railway-line to its intersection with the aforesaid Marsden Electoral District at the north-west boundary of Section 25, Block XVI, Otamatea Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction generally by that electoral district to the road at the northernmost corner of Section 152, Block VIII, Matakoe Survey District; thence in a north-easterly direction across road to and along the north-western boundaries of Sections 160, 100, 106, and 105, Block IV, Waipu Survey District, to the south-western boundary of Whangarei County (as existing on the 10th day of September, 1917); thence in a north-westerly direction by the said county boundary to the north-east corner of Section 84A, Block XVI, Tangihua Survey District; thence by the north-eastern boundary of the Waikiekie Road District of the Mangapai Riding of Whangarei County (as existing on