New Zealand Gazette – 1918 – No. 19

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✨ Electoral District Boundaries

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

MATAURA.

This district is bounded towards the north-east and east generally by the Wakatipu and Clutha Electoral Districts, hereinbefore described, from the junction of roads at the north-western corner of Section 29, Block I, Chatton Survey District, to the ocean at a point due south of the road at the south-western corner of Section 8, Block II, Otara Survey District; thence towards the south generally by the ocean to the Mataura Electoral District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 76, of the 27th day of September, 1911, at a point in line with the western boundary of Block XXIII, Invercargill Hundred; thence towards the west and north-west generally by the western and north-western boundaries of the said electoral district to the place of commencement.

WALLACE.

This district is bounded towards the north-east generally by the Wakatipu Electoral District, hereinbefore described, from the ocean at Bligh Sound to the Mataura River at the easternmost corner of Oreti Riding (as existing on the 10th day of September, 1917) at the south-eastern corner of Section 540, Block XVII, Hokonui Survey District; thence towards the south-east generally by the south-eastern boundary of the said riding to its junction with the eastern boundary of the Wallace Electoral District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 76, of the 27th day of September, 1911, at Cowan’s Creek; thence by the said electoral district to the ocean at the mouth of the Waimatuku Stream; thence towards the south and north-west by the ocean to the place of commencement, including Centre Island, Pig Island, Resolution Island, and adjacent islands.

INVERCARGILL.

This district is bounded towards the north, east, south, and west by the northern, eastern, southern, and western boundaries of the Invercargill Electoral District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 76, of the 27th September, 1911.

AWARUA.

This district is bounded towards the west, north-west, and north-east by the Wallace and Wakatipu Electoral Districts hereinbefore described; towards the east generally by the Mataura Electoral District hereinbefore described, towards the south-west by Foveaux Strait to the said Wallace Electoral District, the place of commencement, exclusive of the Invercargill Electoral District hereinbefore described, and including Stewart Island, Ruapuke Island, Dog Island, and all adjacent islands.

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 seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. F. MASSEY.
Prime Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.

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🏛️ Proclamation of New Electoral Districts for the South Island (continued from previous page)

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated7 February 1918
KeywordsElectoral districts, Boundaries, South Island, Proclamation
👩‍💼 Officials

Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief
W. F. Massey, Prime Minister

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