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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Notice respecting Proposed Manawatu-Oroua River District,
Counties of Kairanga, Manawatu, and Horowhenua.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th February, 1922.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented
to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the
River Boards Act, 1908, and its amendments, praying that
the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted
a river district under the said Acts, by name the Manawatu-
Oroua River District. All persons affected are hereby called
upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against
the constitution of the said river district which they desire to
lodge within one month from the first publication of this
notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the
Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPOSED MANAWATU-
OROUA RIVER DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by
admeasurement 73,000 acres, more or less, situated in the
Kairanga, Manawatu, and Horowhenua Counties, and bounded
by a line as follows: Commencing at the north-western
corner of Allotment 20A on plan No. 514, deposited in the
office of the District Land Registrar at Wellington, and
proceeding in an easterly direction along the southern side
of the Rongotea–Palmerston Road to a point opposite the
south-western corner of Section 12s, Kopane Settlement;
then towards the north by a right line across the aforesaid
road, and by the western boundary-lines of the said Sections
12s and 11s, Kopane Settlement, to the north-western corner
of the last-mentioned section; then towards the east by
the northern boundary of the said Section 11s to the western
boundary-line of Section 13s; again towards the north by
the western boundary-line of the said Section 13s, across the
Kopane Road, and by the western boundary-line of Section
5s to its north-western corner; again towards the east by
the northern boundary-line of Sections 5s, 6s, and 7s, Kopane
Settlement, to the Oroua River; again towards the north by
the right bank of the Oroua River to a point opposite the
northern boundary-line of Subdivision 24, Aorangi No. 1
Block; then towards the east by a right line across the
Oroua River to and by the northern boundary-line of the
said Subdivision 24 to the Aorangi Road; then towards
the south and east generally by a right line across the aforesaid road, the northern boundary-lines of Sections 23 and 22,
Aorangi No. 1 Block, the western boundary-lines of Subdivisions 1f 6, 1f 7, 1f 8, 1f 9A 1, 1f 9A 2B, and the southern
boundary-lines of 1f 9A 2B and 1f 9A 2A, Taonui-Ahuaturanga
Block, to the south-eastern corner of the last-mentioned
subdivision; then towards the south-west by the road
forming the south-eastern boundary-line of Subdivision
1f 9B, Taonui-Ahuaturanga Block, to the Taonui Stream;
then towards the north by the right bank of the said stream
to a point opposite the southern boundary-line of Section
1541, Block V, Kairanga Survey District; then towards
the east by the aforesaid boundary-line to Newbury Line;
again towards the south-west by the said Newbury Line to
a point opposite the western corner of Section 1610, Block
IX, Kairanga Survey District; again towards the south
and east generally by a right line across Newbury Line to and
by the southern and eastern boundary-lines of the aforesaid
Section 1610, across a road, and by the southern boundary-line of Section 1607, across Bunnythorpe line, the southern
boundary-line of Section 1581, the western boundary-lines of
Sections 1583 and 1584, and the southern boundary-line of
the last-mentioned section to Kairanga No. 1 Line; then
towards the south-west by the said Kairanga No. 1 Line to a
point in line with the southern boundary-line of Section 8,
Block XIII, Kairanga Survey District; then towards the
south-east to and by the southern boundary of the said Section 8 to the Foxton–Palmerston North Road and railway-line; again towards the south-west by the said road and
railway-line to a point opposite the south-western boundary-line of Section 31, Block XIII, Kairanga Survey District;
then towards the north and north-east generally by a
right line across the aforesaid road and railway-line to and
by the south-western and south-eastern boundary-lines of
the said Section 31, the south-eastern boundary-line of Section 30, across the Karere Road, the south-western and
south-eastern boundary-lines of Section 24, and by a right
line bearing 117° to the North Island Main Trunk Railway
line; then towards the south-east and south-west generally
by the said railway-line to its intersection with the left bank
of the Manawatu River; then by the left bank of the
Manawatu River to the westernmost corner of Section 77,
Block XIV, Kairanga Survey District; then by the south-western boundary-line of the said Section 77 to the aforesaid
railway-line, and again by the said railway-line to a point
opposite the south-western corner of Section 24, Block V,
Arawaru Survey District; again towards the east and south-east generally by a right line across the aforesaid railway-line
to and by the southern boundary-line of the said Section 24
to Victoria Road; then by Victoria Road and the road
forming the south-eastern boundary-lines of Sections 5, 6,
and 7, Block VIII, Mount Robinson Survey District; then
by a right line across the aforesaid railway-line and by the
said line to a point opposite the western corner of Section 3,
Block XII, Mount Robinson Survey District; then towards
the south-east and south-west generally by a right line across
the aforesaid railway-line to and by the southern boundary-line of the aforesaid Section 3; then by the south-eastern
boundary-lines of Sections 4, 5, 9, 10, 6, 7, and 8 of Block XII,
Mount Robinson Survey District, to the southernmost corner
of the last-mentioned section; then towards the north-west by the south-western boundary of the said Section 8
and its production to the north-western side of the railway-line; again towards the south-west by the railway-line to
the northern boundary of the Borough of Shannon as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 18, of the 7th February,
1918, page 459; then by the northern, western, and part
of the southern boundaries of the said borough to its intersection with the south-eastern boundary-line of Section 704,
Township of Shannon, as shown on plan No. 369 deposited
in the office of the District Land Registrar at Wellington;
then by the said boundary-line to the North Island Main
Trunk Railway line; then towards the west by the said
railway-line to its intersection with the western side of the
road forming the eastern boundary of Section 2, Block X,
Mount Robinson Survey District; then towards the south-east and south-west generally by a right line across the
aforesaid railway-line to and by the north-eastern and south-eastern boundary-lines of Section 3, Block X, Mount Robinson Survey District, part of the northern, eastern, and southern boundary-lines of Subdivision No. 3 No. 2E 4, Manawatu-Kukutauaki Block, and by the eastern boundary-line of
Subdivision 3 No. 1B 2A, Manawatu-Kukutauaki Block;
then by a right line to the north-eastern corner of Subdivision 3 No. 1A 4, Manawatu-Kukutauaki Block; then by
the eastern and part of the southern boundary-lines of the
last-mentioned subdivision and the eastern boundary-line
of Subdivision 3, Takapau No. 1 Block, to the southernmost corner thereof; then towards the north-west by the
south-western boundary-line of the said Subdivision 3 to the
aforesaid railway-line; then towards the north-east by
the railway-line to the north-western corner of Subdivision
No. 3 No. 2E 5, Manawatu-Kukutauaki Block; again towards the north-west by a right line to and by the northern
boundary-lines of Subdivision 3 No. 2A Nos. 6, 5, and 4,
Manawatu-Kukutauaki Block, and Subdivisions 5, 4, and 3,
Opaekete Block; then towards the south-west and west
generally by the south-eastern and south-western boundary-lines of Opaekete No. 1 Block and the western boundary-line
of Ohinekakeao No. 1 Block to its south-western corner;
then by a right line across the Kereru–Foxton Road to and
by the north-western boundary-line of Allotment 6 on plan
No. 1922, deposited in the office of the District Land
Registrar at Wellington, to its intersection with the south-western boundary-line of Subdivision 9 of Manawatu-Kukutauaki 7D No. 1 Block; then towards the north-west and
north-east generally by the south-western and north-western
boundary-lines of the said Subdivision 9, by a right line to
and by the south-eastern boundary-line of Subdivision 3C,
Waimakaira Block, and that line produced to the northern
side of the Kereru–Foxton Road; again towards the north-west and north-east by the northern side of the said road and
the western boundary-line of Subdivision 4, Aratangata
Block, to its intersection with the southern boundary-line of
Subdivision 2B of the said block; then towards the west
by the last-mentioned boundary-line to the Levin–Foxton
Road; then towards the north-east by that road to the
Manawatu River; then towards the north generally by
the left bank of the Manawatu River to a point opposite the
north-western corner of Section 421, Township of Foxton,
Block V, Mount Robinson Survey District; then towards
the east by the southern side of the road forming the northern boundary-lines of Sections 421, 420, 419, 428, 429, 430,
431, 432, and 433, Township of Foxton, Block V, Mount
Robinson Survey District, and Allotment 7 on plan No.
1689 deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar
at Wellington; then towards the east and north-east
generally, across a road, and by the southern and eastern
boundary-lines of Allotment 5, and the eastern boundary-lines of Allotments 4 and 10 to the north-western corner of
Allotment 11 on the aforesaid plan No. 1689; then by the
southern side of the road forming the north-eastern boundary-line of the said Allotment 11 and that line produced across
a public road to the western boundary-line of Allotment 15
on the said plan 1689; then by the eastern side of the road
forming the western boundary-lines of the said Allotment 15
and Allotments 49, 47, and 45 to the north-western corner
of the last-mentioned allotment; then by the northern
boundary-lines of Allotments 45 and 46 and the production
of the last-mentioned line across a public road to the western
boundary of part Section 52, Motoa Block, in the Township
of Foxton; then by the roads forming the western and