JUNE 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1637

cluded in the Wairau River District (hereinafter referred to
as “the said district),” have or may derive benefit from the
drainage-works carried out or proposed to be carried out by
the said Board, did, in accordance with the provisions of section four of the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), present a petition to
His Excellency the Governor-General praying that the
boundaries of the said district might be altered so as to
include such lands in the said district:
And whereas a Commission appointed in respect thereof
has reported that such lands should be included in the said
district:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority vested in him by section four of the
said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
order and declare that as on and from the first day of July,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, the boundaries of the said district shall be altered so as to include
therein the lands described in the First Schedule hereto, and
that the boundaries of the said district shall be those set forth
in the Second Schedule hereto; and, with the like advice
and consent, doth also declare that the lands included as
aforesaid in the said district shall as on and from the
aforesaid date be included in the Blenheim and Omaka Sub-
divisions thereof, and that the boundaries of those subdivisions shall be those set forth respectively in the Third
Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREAS INCLUDED IN WAIRAU RIVER DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District bounded on
the north by the Wairau River District as described in the
New Zealand Gazette, 1921, page 1693, from the south-western
corner of Section 38, Opawa, to the Waihopai River; on
the west by the Waihopai River to a road fronting a reserve
being part of Section 30, Block I, Waihopai District; thence
along that road, fronting or passing through said reserve,
Section 4, Section 31 of Block I, Waihopai District, Sections
151, 150, 149, 148, 134, 133, 132, 131, Omaka District;
thence along a road through said Section 131 near its eastern
boundary, across Omaka River, and along a road through
Section 121 to its intersection with a road running easterly
through that section; thence easterly along said road, across
a closed road (Section 207), and along a road through Section 93 to the eastern boundary thereof; thence southerly
along said eastern boundary, and easterly along the southern
boundary of Section 92 to a public road, and along that road
fronting or running through Sections 76, 77, 24, 22, 20, 18,
and 16, Omaka District; thence southerly along the eastern
boundaries of Sections 34, 35, 9, of Block I, and along the
north-eastern boundary of Section 6 of Block I to the Taylor
River, across that river to a public road fronting Section 10B,
Wither Settlement, and along that road to and along Taylor's
Pass Road, passing through Sections 14 and 15 and fronting Section 1, Wither Settlement; thence easterly along road
forming the northern boundary of Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,
and 9 and its continuation through said Section 9, Wither
Settlement, to Section 42, Opawa District; thence southerly
along the western boundary of said Section 42, and north-
easterly along the south-eastern boundaries of Sections 42
and 40, said Opawa District, to the south-western corner of
Section 38, the point of commencement: excepting there-
from Sections 161, 162, and 163, Omaka District, being the
Town of Renwick.
Also all that area, being part of Section 1 of Block II,
Omaka Survey District, bounded on the north-west by Section 30, Opawa District, on the north-east by Sections 27
and 26, Opawa District, and on the south-west by the Picton-
Waipara Railway Reserve.
Also all that area, being part of the Wairau Native Re-
serve, bounded on the north-east and north by the Wairau
River District as described in the New Zealand Gazette, 1921,
page 1693, from the easternmost corner of Subdivision 25 of
said Native Reserve to the southernmost corner of Section 115, Waitohi Valley District, and on the south-west and
south by the Wairau River to the point of commencement.
Also all that area, being Sections 84, 85, 86, and 116,
Waitohi Valley District, bounded on the south-west and north
by the Wairau River, and on the east by Sections 83, 87, and
95, Waitohi Valley District.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WAIRAU RIVER DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District bounded by
a line commencing at the junction of the Wairau and Wai-
hopai Rivers, and proceeding thence down the Wairau River
to a point opposite the south-western corner of Section 2,
Block VII, Cloudy Bay Survey District; thence to that corner
and along the western boundaries of Sections 2, 4B, 6, 8A,
and 10, along the northern boundaries of Sections 10, 9A, and
11, along the eastern and southern boundaries of said Section 11, Block VII aforesaid, across the Picton-Blenheim
Road, and southerly along its eastern side to the Tuamarina
Village; thence easterly along the northern boundaries of
that village, and of Sections 45, 48, 51, and 53, Block VII
aforesaid, along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 55,
56, 57, 58, and 6A; thence westerly along the northern
boundary of Section 41 to a point in line with the western
boundary of Section 8; thence to and along that boundary
and the northern and eastern boundaries of the said Section 8; thence along the north-western boundary of Section 8A and the eastern boundaries of Sections 8A, 42, 43, 54,
3, 2A, 2B, 6, 9, and 3A, and the south-eastern boundary of the
said Section 3A to the Marukoko Stream, along the right bank
of that stream to the Wairau River; thence down that river
and along the western shores of Upper and Chandlers Lagoons
to the eastern boundary of Section 18, Opawa; thence along
that boundary and the southern boundaries of Sections 18
and 20, Opawa District, to the Picton-Waipara Railway,
along that railway to the southern boundary of Section 32,
along the southern boundaries of Sections 32, 34, 36, 38, 40,
and 42, Opawa District, along the western boundary of the last-
named section to the road forming the northern boundary of
Sections 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1; thence to and along that
road, southerly along Taylor's Pass Road to a road forming
the northern boundary of Section 10B, Wither Settlement,
westerly along that road, across the Taylor River to the north-
eastern boundary of Section 6 of Block I, along the said north-
eastern boundary and the eastern boundaries of Section 9 of
Block I, Sections 35 and 34, along the road fronting or running
through Sections 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 77, and 92, along the
southern and western boundaries of said Section 92 to a public
road, westerly along that road, through Sections 93, 207,
and 121 to a public road running north, northerly along that
road through said Section 121, across Omaka River, and
running through Section 131 to the northern boundary thereof; thence westerly along a road fronting or passing through
Sections 131, 132, 133, 134, 148, 149, 150, 151, Omaka District,
Sections 31 and 30 of Block I to the Waihopai River, thence
down that river to the Wairau River at the place of commencement: excluding therefrom Sections 161, 162, and 163,
Omaka District, being the Town of Renwick.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

BLENHEIM SUBDIVISION.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District being the
Borough of Blenheim as defined in the New Zealand Gazette,
1876, page 37.

OMAKA SUBDIVISION.

All that area in the Marlborough Land District bounded by
a line commencing at the point where the Opawa River leaves
the Wairau River, and proceeding thence down the Opawa
River to the north-western boundary of Section 29, Wairau
West; thence along the north-western and north-eastern
boundaries of said Section 29 to a road fronting Sections 26
27, 28, and 23, and along that road to the Wairau River;
thence south-easterly, southerly, and north-westerly along the
boundary of the Wairau River District hereinbefore described
to the Wairau River, and down that river to the Opawa
River, the point of commencement: excluding therefrom
the Borough of Blenheim and Sections 161, 162, and 163,
Omaka District, being the Town of Renwick.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 12th day
of June, 1922.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS application has been made under section
twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919,
for the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council
to enable the several local authorities mentioned in the
Schedule hereto to borrow the sums set out therein, and it is
expedient that such consent should issue:

Now, therefore, 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 consent to the raising of the loans hereinafter
mentioned by the several local authorities set out in the