✨ Electric-power District Proclamation
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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and XIV of said district to the Trig. Station L; thence from
such trig. station in a south-westerly direction along the
boundaries of Block XIV and Sections 5, 3, and 2, Block XI,
to the north-western corner of Section 1, Block X, Crookston
Survey District; thence south and south-west along the most
easterly boundaries of Sections 1 and 2, Block X, Crookston
Survey District, and Section 1, Block V, Crookston Survey
District, to the boundary between the Crookston and Rankle-
burn Survey Districts; thence along the south-eastern
boundary of Section 5, the north-eastern boundary of Sec-
tions 20, 24, 25, 16, 17, and 18, Block IX, Rankleburn Survey
District, to the boundary between the Glenkenich and
Rankleburn Survey Districts; thence in a southerly direction
along the boundary between such last-mentioned survey
districts till it joins the Pomahaka River; thence westward
along that river to the eastern boundary of Block VIII, Waipahi
Survey District; thence due south along the eastern boundary
of Blocks VIII and VII, Waipahi Survey District; thence along
the southern boundary of Blocks VII and XVIII to the
Waipahi River; thence north-easterly along that river to the
southern boundary of Block X; and thence along the
southern boundary of said Block X, Waipahi Survey District,
to the Southland County boundary; and thence northerly
along the eastern boundary of the Southland County to the
commencing-point.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND ELECTRIC-POWER DISTRICT.
ALL that area bounded as follows: Commencing at Sandhill
Point, the south-west corner of Wallace County, thence running
in a northerly direction along the western boundary of Wallace
County as defined in New Zealand Gazette, 1897, Vol. I,
page 341, to George Sound; thence by sea to Bligh Sound;
thence in an easterly direction along the northern boundary
of Wallace County and Southland County, as defined in New
Zealand Gazette, 1917, Vol. II, page 2069, until it reaches the
north-west corner of Tuapeka County; thence in a southerly
direction along the eastern boundary of Southland County
to the junction of the Southland and Clutha Counties at the
Leithen Burn in the Greenvale Survey District; thence
following that burn west and south to the Pomahaka River;
thence north along the Pomahaka River to the north-west
corner of Section 34 of Block VI of said district; thence east
along the northern boundary of said Section 34; thence north
along the western boundaries of Sections 34, 23, 26, and 27
of the Moa Flat Estate to the most northerly point of said
Section 27; thence in a south-easterly direction along the
boundary between Sections 27 and 28 of said estate to the
Moa Flat – Ettrick Road; thence following that road south-
west to the north-western corner of Section 16 of said estate;
thence eastward and north-eastward along the boundary-line
between Sections 1, 2, and 3 on the northern side and Sec-
tions 16, 15, 14, and 4 of said estate on the southern side to
the Lawrence–Roxburgh Road; thence south-east to the
north-western boundary of Section 5 of said estate; thence
west and south along the boundary between Sections 4 and 5
of said estate; thence north-east along the boundary between
Sections 7 and 5 of said estate; thence south along the
boundary between Sections 7 and 6 and between Sections 8
and 6 of said estate to the most northerly point of Section 8,
Block XVII, Crookston Survey District; thence following
the boundary of Block XVII, Crookston Survey District,
first south-east, thence due east, thence due south to the
south-eastern corner of Section 12, Block XVII, of said
district; thence west along the south boundary of Sec-
tions 12 and 13 of said Block XVII to the north-eastern
corner of Section 3, Block XIII, Crookston Survey District;
thence due south following the east boundary of Blocks XIII
and XIV of said district to the Trig. Station L; thence from
such trig. station in a south-westerly direction along the
boundaries of Block XIV and Sections 5, 3, and 2, Block XI,
to the north-eastern corner of Section 1, Block X, Crookston
Survey District; thence south and south-west along the
most easterly boundaries of Sections 1 and 2, Block X,
Crookston Survey District, and Section 1, Block V, Crookston
Survey District, to the boundary between the Crookston and
Rankleburn Survey Districts; thence along the south-eastern
boundary of Section 5, the north-eastern boundary of Sec-
tion 20, and the south-eastern boundary of Sections 20, 24,
25, 16, 17, and 18, Block IX, Rankleburn Survey District,
to the boundary between the Glenkenich and Rankleburn
Survey Districts; thence in a southerly direction along the
boundary between such last-mentioned survey districts till
it joins the Pomahaka River; thence westward along that
river to the eastern boundary of Block VIII, Waipahi Survey
District; thence due south along the eastern boundary of
Blocks VIII and VII, Waipahi Survey District; thence along
the southern boundary of Blocks VII and XVIII to the
Waipahi River; thence north-easterly along that river to the
southern boundary of Block X; and thence along the southern
boundary of said Block X, Waipahi Survey District, to the
Southland County boundary; and thence in a southerly
direction along the eastern boundary of the said Southland
County until it reaches the ocean at Chaseland’s Mistake;
thence in a westerly direction along the coast-line to the
commencing-point: including therein the Boroughs of Inver-
cargill, South Invercargill, Bluff, Riverton, Winton, Mataura,
Gore, Tapanui, and the Town Districts of Otatau, Wynd-
ham, Edendale, Lumsden, Nightcaps.
In the Southland and Otago Land Districts; as the same is
more particularly delineated on plan marked P.W.D. 47401,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured in blue as to the electric-power district, and in red
as to the outer area.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
ALL that area comprised within the boundaries of the County
of Fiord.
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, Knight Grand Cross
of the Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order,
Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John of
Jerusalem, 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
fourteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
Regulations as to Elections in Combined Districts under the
Electric-power Boards Act, 1918.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth
day of November, 1919.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
conferred upon him by the Electric-power Boards Act,
1918, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
make the following regulations as to the election of members
of Electric-power Boards in combined districts.
REGULATIONS.
(1.) SUBJECT to the express provisions of these regulations,
the election of representatives of a combined district shall
be held under the provisions of the Local Elections and Polls
Act, 1908, and that Act shall apply accordingly as if such
combined district were a district within the meaning thereof.
(2.) Every candidate at any such election of representatives
of a combined district shall at the time of his nomination
deposit the sum of £3 with the Returning Officer; and if
that candidate does not receive one-eighth of the votes
received by the successful candidate or, as the case may be,
by the successful candidate receiving the fewest votes, the
deposit shall be forfeited to the principal local authority of
the combined district, and applied towards the cost of the
election; but otherwise, or if the candidate duly withdraws
his nomination before the election, or is elected without a
poll, the deposit shall be returned to him.
(3.) The Returning Officer of each principal local authority
of a combined district, or, where there is more than one
Returning Officer, the Returning Officer for the subdivision
of the district in which or nearest to which the public office
of that local authority is situated, shall be the Returning
Officer for the election of representatives of the combined
district.
(4.) The several electors rolls of the constituent districts
included in the combined district shall together be the elec-
toral roll for the purposes of the election of representatives
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