FEB. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 273

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Wairau River District, County of Marlborough.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th January, 1922.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913, praying that the areas described in the Schedule hereto may be included in the Wairau River District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed inclusion 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.

AREAS PROPOSED TO BE 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.

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 Reserve, 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.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Redefining Boundaries of the Borough of Otahuhu and the County of Manukau.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th January, 1922.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the Borough of Otahuhu are hereby defined as set out in the First Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the said borough having been altered by an Order in Council dated the 21st day of November, 1921, made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and published in Gazette No. 99, of the 24th day of November, 1921.

And also, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the County of Manukau affected by the said Order in Council dated the 21st day of November, 1921, are hereby defined as set out in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF BOROUGH OF OTAHUHU.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded towards the north by the northern side of Portage Road from the middle of the Main Trunk Railway Reserve to Otahuhu Creek, thence by that creek to the Tamaki River, on the east by the Tamaki River, on the south by a branch of the Tamaki River forming the northern boundary of Lot 12 of a subdivision of Fairburn’s Grant No. 269A, Manurewa Claim, Parish of Manurewa, to the middle of the railway reserve aforesaid, and towards the west by the middle of the said railway reserve to the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY OF MANUKAU.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point on the shore of Manukau Harbour on the northern side of Portage Road, thence proceeding easterly along the said northern side of that road to the Otahuhu Creek; thence down that creek and the Tamaki River to the sea, and easterly along the sea-coast to the mouth of the Puwhenua Stream; thence up the middle of that stream to and along the northern boundary of Wharekawa No. 5 Block; thence north-easterly along the western boundary of Wharekawa No. 4 Block, westerly along the southern boundaries of Allotments 94 and 95, Otau Parish; thence along the northern side of the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Allotment 96, and along the southern boundary of that allotment and its production to the western side of a public road, southerly along the said western side of road to the southern corner of Allotment 88; thence south-westerly along the eastern boundaries of Allotments 85 and 86, Otau Parish, and westerly along the southern boundaries generally of said Allotment 86 to the Wairoa River; thence down the middle of that river to Allotment 113, Hunua Parish, and along the southern boundary of said Allotment 113 and its production to the middle of a public road; thence south-westerly along the middle of that road forming the south-eastern frontages to Allotments 174, 173, and 172, along the middle of the road forming the southern boundary of said Allotment 172 to a road reserve; thence along a right line through said reserve to easternmost corner of Allotment 170, and along the south-eastern and south-western boundaries of said Allotment 170 to a public road; thence south-westerly along the middle of said road to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Allotment 171; thence to and along the south-western boundaries of Allotment 171, 34, 33, and 228, Hunua Parish, along the south-eastern boundaries of Allotments 30, 29, and 28, Hunua Parish, to the Papakura Town District, and along the eastern and northern boundaries of that town district as described in the New Zealand Gazette, 1919, page 138, to the Pahurehure Inlet; thence along the shores of that inlet and of Manukau Harbour to the point of commencement: including Puketutu, Oruaraukihi, and other adjacent islands within the Manukau Harbour, and excluding the Borough of Otahuhu and the town districts of Manurewa and Papatoetoe.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to fill One Extraordinary Vacancy on Wanganui Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th January, 1922.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the rules made thereunder, I, William Downie Stewart, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Friday, the 10th February, 1922, to be the date for holding the election of one member of the Wanganui Fire Board by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. C. R. C. Robieson.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Election of Two Members of Wanganui Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st January, 1922.

THE following result of the election of two members of the Wanganui Fire Board by fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules made under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908:—

Wanganui Fire Board: N. W. Nelson, Esq., and Robert Murdoch, Esq.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.