Numb. 92.] 2549

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1921.

Constituting the Borough of Raetihi, County of Waimarino.

[l.s.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-one of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, a petition was presented to the Governor-General praying that the area described in the said petition be constituted a new borough:

And whereas a Commission appointed under the said section one hundred and thirty-one held inquiries, and recommended certain alterations of the said area:

And whereas the provisions of the said section one hundred and thirty-one have been complied with in respect thereto, and the result of the poll taken on the proposal contained in the said petition was in favour thereof:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be constituted a borough under the said Act on and from the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one; that the name of such borough shall be the Borough of Raetihi; that the said borough shall be an undivided borough; and that the number of Councillors to be elected thereto shall be nine, exclusive of the Mayor.

And I do further proclaim and declare that Alfred James Parkes, of Raetihi, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough; and that the said Alfred James Parkes shall be the Town Clerk and the person to prepare the district electors roll for the purposes of the said first election.

And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough shall be held on Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one; and that the first meeting of the Council of the said borough shall be held on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, at half past two o’clock in the afternoon, at the office of the Raetihi Town Board, Raetihi.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, situated in Blocks VI and VII, Makotuku Survey District, bounded towards the north-west generally by a line commencing at the north-western corner of Lot 1 on D.P. 3791, and proceeding in an easterly direction along the northern boundary-line of the said Lot 1 to the south-western corner of Lot 2 on D.P. 3740; thence by the western boundary-line of the said Lot 2 and its production to the northern side of the Ameku Road; thence by a right line bearing 76° 18′ 30″ to its intersection with the western boundary-line of Section 26, Block VI, Makotuku Survey District; thence towards the south-east by a right line to a point on the western boundary-line of Section 8, Block VI, Makotuku Survey District, fifteen chains distant from the northern side of the aforesaid Ameku Road; thence towards the south by the western boundary-line of the said Section 8 to its south-western corner; thence towards the east by the southern boundary-line of the said Section 8 to the south-western corner of that part of Section 8 as shown on D.P. 3580; thence by the western and north-eastern boundary-lines of the said part of Section 8 to the western side of the Makotuku Valley Road; thence towards the north-east along the said road to a point in line with the southern boundary-line of Subdivision X of the Ngapakihi No. 1 Block; again towards the east by a right line across the aforesaid road to and by the said southern boundary-line of Subdivision X to the south-eastern corner thereof; thence towards the south by the western and southern boundary-lines of Subdivision N of the Ngapakihi No. 1 Block to a point in line with the eastern boundary-line of Subdivision 2A of the Ngapakihi Block; again towards the south by a right line across the Pipiriki-Waiouru Road to and by the said eastern boundary-line of Subdivision 2A to the northern side of the Raetihi-Ohakune Railway line; thence towards the west by a right line across the said railway line to and by the northern boundary-line of Subdivision 2B 4 of the Ngapakihi Block and its production to the right bank of the Makotuku Stream; again towards the south by the said stream to a point opposite the most southerly corner of Section 32, Block VI, Makotuku Survey District; again towards the west by a right line to the western side of the Raetihi-Papapara Road; thence towards the north by the said road to the north-eastern corner of Section 23, Block VI, Makotuku Survey District; again towards the west by the northern boundary-line of the said Section 23 and its production to the western side of Islington Street; thence towards the north by the said street to its intersection with the southern boundary-line of Section 19, Block VI, Makotuku Survey District; again towards the west by the southern boundary-line of the said Section 19 and its production to the western side of the Hukaroa Road; thence towards the north generally by the said road to the south-eastern corner