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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 78

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, Robert
Stout, the Administrator of the Government 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 Hobson County, shall, as from the date of the pub-
lication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, be deemed to be
added to and form part of the Whangarei County; and, with
the like power and authority, do proclaim and declare that
the boundaries of the Counties of Whangarei and Hobson
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 WHANGAREI COUNTY.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, being
Sections 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, Block I, Tangihua Survey
District, and Ngawhakarikikiriki, Pukepukerau, Te Iweri, and
Panekuri Blocks, bounded by a line commencing at the
northernmost corner of Ngawhakarikikiriki Block, and pro-
ceeding thence along the Waiotama River to the western
boundary of Section 18, Block I; thence south-westerly
along that boundary, across a road, and along the western
boundary of Section 12 to its westernmost corner; thence
north-westerly along the southern boundaries of Sections 13,
14, and 15 to the southern boundary of the Pukepukerau
Block; thence along that boundary and the south-western
boundary of the said block, and across a road to the northern
side of the said road; thence north-westerly along that side
of the road to the north-western boundary of the Panekuri
Block,—and—along—that—boundary—and—the—north-western
boundary of the Ngawhakarikikiriki Block to the Waiotama
River, the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF WHANGAREI COUNTY.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded
by a line commencing at the south-eastern corner of Section 1,
Block II, Tutamoe Survey District; thence proceeding
easterly along the Mangakahia River to the western boundary
of Section 3, Block XV, Punakitere Survey District, and along
that boundary and the northern boundary to the Mangakahia
River, and along that river to the north-eastern boundary
of the Aukumeroa Block; thence along said boundary to
the Mangakahia River, down that river to the Awarua River,
and up the last-mentioned river to a point in line with the
northern boundary of the middle part of the Nukatawhiti
Block; thence to and along that boundary, the western and
northern boundaries of Kaikou No. 3 Block, the northern
boundary of Mangakowhara Block, the western and northern
boundaries of Section 13, Block XIII, Hukerenui Survey
District, the western boundaries of Sections 24 and 23,
Block IX, Hukerenui Survey District, the northern boundary
of Section 23, the eastern boundaries of Sections 23 and 24,
the northern boundaries of Sections 5, 4, and 3, Block XIII,
Hukerenui Survey District, the western boundary of Section
32, Block X, Hukerenui Survey District, the south-western,
western, and northern boundaries of Section 32, Block IX,
Hukerenui Survey District, to the western boundary of
Block X; thence northerly along said block-line, the western
and northern boundaries of Te Mata Kauri-gum Extension
and Te Mata Kauri-gum Reserve, the northern boundary of
Section 38, Block X, Hukerenui Survey District, and the
western boundary of Section 19, Block X aforesaid, to the
Whangarei-Kawakawa main road; thence by the north-
eastern side of that road to and along the south-eastern side
of Tapuhi-Hukerenui Road to the centre of the Waiotu
River; thence along the centre of that river to the western
boundary of Puhipuhi No. 4, and along that boundary, the
western boundary of Section 4, Block VII, Hukerenui Survey
District, the western and northern boundaries of Section 3,
the western boundaries of Section 6, Block VII, and Sections
5, 13, 12, and 11, Block III, the northern boundaries of Sec-
tions 11 and 16, Block III, and Section 11, Block IV, to the
western boundary of Block IV, Hukerenui Survey District;
thence along the said block-line to the western boundary of
the Paremata-Mokau Block, and along the said boundary of
that block, the western and north-western boundaries of the
Punaruku No. 2 Block, the western boundaries of the Puna-
ruku No. 1 Block, Waikokopu Block, Section 5 (scenic reserve)
in Block XII, Russell Survey District, and the Tutaematai
Block; thence along the western boundary of the Whangaroa
or Ngaiotonga No. 4 Block to and along the northern boundary
of Subdivision 9 of that block to the ocean; thence bounded
by the ocean to Bream Tail at the north-eastern boundary of
Section 91, Parish of Waipu, and along the south-eastern
boundary of the said Section 91 to its southernmost corner;
thence along a right line to the summit of the Kapawhiti
Range where it is crossed by the Mangawai-McKenzie Cove
Road; thence along the summit of the said range to a point
due north of the northernmost corner of the Marunui Block;
thence by a right line due south to the said northernmost
corner of that block, and along the north-western and western
boundaries of that block to the Piroa Stream; thence along the
south-western boundary of the Waipu Parish, part of the
south-western boundary of the Ruarangi Parish, the south-
eastern boundary of Waikiekie Parish, the south-eastern and
south-western boundaries of the Tauraroa Parish to the
Mongonui River at the north-eastern corner of Section 166,
Omaru Parish; thence along the centre of the Mongonui
River to its confluence with the Tauraroa River, and along
the centre of the last-mentioned river to the eastern boundary
of Section 44, subdivision of Walton’s Grant, along that
boundary and the northern boundary of Section 43, sub-
division of Walton’s Grant, to the eastern boundary of
Block VII, Tangihua Survey District; thence along that
boundary and the eastern boundary of Block I, Tangihua
Survey District, to the south-western boundary of Section 8,
Block I, Tangihua Survey District; thence along the south-
western boundary of Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and
15, Block I, Tangihua Survey District, and the western
boundary of the last-mentioned section to the southern
boundary of the Pukepukerau Block; thence along that
boundary and the south-western boundary of the said
block to the Te Iweri Block; thence along that boundary
and the south-western and north-western boundaries of the
Panekuri Block and the north-western boundary of the
Ngawhakarikikiriki Block to the Waiotama Stream; thence
along the centre of that stream to and along the eastern
boundary of Section 4, Block IV, Maungaru Survey District,
along the northern boundary of said Section 4 and Section 1
to the Wairoa River; thence along the centre of that river
to its confluence with the Mangakahia River, and along the
centre of the Mangakahia River to the south-eastern angle
of Section 8, Block XV, Mangakahia Survey District; thence
along the north-eastern boundary of Maungaru Block, the
eastern and northern boundaries of a forest reserve, a State
forest reserve, and a further forest reserve to the north-
eastern boundary of Section 13, Tekaraka Block; thence
along the north-eastern boundary of that section, the north-
eastern and north-western boundaries of Section 10, the
eastern boundaries of Sections 25 and 24, all of Tekaraka
Block; thence along the north-western boundary of the said
Section 24 and the northern boundaries of Sections 10, 14,
and 9, and the western boundary of the last-mentioned
sections, all in Block XII, Tutamoe Survey District; thence
along the northern boundaries of Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
and 14, Block XI, Tutamoe Survey District, across the
Opouteke River and road, and northerly along the eastern
boundaries of Blocks X, VI, II, to the Mangakahia River
at the point of commencement: together with all the islands
known as the Hen and Chickens Islands (Taranga and Maro
Titi), the Poor Knights, and any other islands adjacent to
the coast-line of the county: excluding the Borough of
Whangarei and the Town District of Hikurangi.

BOUNDARIES OF HOBSON COUNTY.

All that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded
by a line commencing at the mouth of the Waipoua River,
and thence proceeding along the southern boundaries of the
Hokianga and Bay of Islands Counties, as described in the
New Zealand Gazette, 1918, page 1686, to a point on the
Mangakahia River at the north-western corner of Section 13A,
Block III, Tutamoe Survey District; thence along the south-
western boundary of the Whangarei County hereinbefore
described to a point on the Mongonui River at the most
northern angle of Section 166, Omaru Parish; thence along
the south-eastern boundaries of the Parishes of Okahu and
Whakahara to the Wairoa River, across that river, and along
its western side and the western side of Kaipara Harbour to
the sea; thence north-westerly along the sea-coast to the
Waipoua River, the point of commencement: excluding the
Borough of Dargaville.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand; and
issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Govern-
ment House at Wellington, this 28th day of August, 1920.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land proclaimed as a Road in Longwood Survey District,
Southland Land District.

[ l.s. ]
ROBERT STOUT.
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section eleven of the Land Act, 1908, I, Robert Stout,
the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of