Numb. 46.

941

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1918.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1918.

Altering Boundaries of Whakatane and Wairoa 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 Whakatane County Council on the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and sealed with the seal of the Council of the said county: And whereas a similar resolution was passed by the Wairoa County Council on the eleventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and sealed with the seal of the said county, praying for the inclusion in the Wairoa County of that part of the Whakatane 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 Whakatane County, shall, on and from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, be deemed to be added to and form part of the Wairoa County; and, with the like power and authority, do proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the Counties of Wairoa and Whakatane respectively shall as from the aforesaid date be those set forth under their respective headings in the Second Schedule hereto.

A

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREA TO BE ADDED TO WAIROA COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District bounded towards the north-west by the north-western boundary of Waipaoa Block, from Pukepuke Trig. Station to Koranga West Trig. Station; thence again towards the north-west by the north-western boundary of the aforesaid block, and that boundary produced to its intersection with a right line running between Mangapowhatu and Puketapu Trig. Stations; thence towards the north-east by the last-mentioned line to the Puketapu Trig. Station; thence towards the south-west by a right line running in the direction of the northernmost point of Lake Waikaremoana to a point at the intersection of the north-western boundary of Waipaoa Block; thence again towards the north-west by the north-western boundary of Waipaoa Block to the Pukepuke Trig. Station, the place of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WAIROA COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay and Auckland Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at the northernmost point of Lake Waikaremoana; thence along a right line running in the direction of Puketapu Trig. Station to the intersection of the north-western boundary of the Waipaoa Block; thence along the north-western boundary of that block through Pukepuke Trig. Station to Koranga West Trig. Station; again by the north-western boundary of the last-mentioned block, and that boundary-line produced to the intersection of a line running between Mangapowhatu and Puketapu Trig. Stations; thence along the last-mentioned line to the western boundary of Tahora No. 2f, Section 2, Subdivision 2; thence along the boundary of Waikohu