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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

Returning Officer for County of Taumarunui appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

STANLEY HERBERT ANDREW, of Taumarunui,

to be the person to prepare the electors roll for all ridings in the County of Taumarunui, as constituted by the Waikato and King-country Counties Act, 1921-22; also to be Returning Officer to conduct the first election of members of the Council of the said county, and to be the Clerk of the Council of the said county for the purpose of presiding at the first meeting thereof.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Manawatu-Oroua River District, Counties of Kairanga, Manawatu, and Horowhenua, constituted.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the River Boards Act, 1908, as amended by the River Boards Amendment Act, 1910, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date hereof, that part of the said Dominion described in the First Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby constituted a district under the said Act, and shall be known by the name of the Manawatu-Oroua River District; and that the said district shall be subdivided into five subdivisions, to be called the Oroua Subdivision, the Kairanga Subdivision, the Makerua Subdivision, the Kopuataroa Subdivision, and the Moutoa Subdivision, the boundaries whereof shall be those described in the Second Schedule hereto; that the number of members who are to constitute the Board of the said district shall be nine; and that one member shall be elected for the Oroua Subdivision, two members for the Kairanga Subdivision, three members for the Makerua Subdivision, one member for the Kopuataroa Subdivision, and two members for the Moutoa Subdivision.

And I do also proclaim and declare that Archie Henry Grant, of Palmerston North, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of each subdivision of the aforesaid district; that Thursday, the twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, shall be the day, and the Town Hall, Foxton, the office of Mr. A. H. Grant, 31A Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North, and the residence of Mr. W. Speirs, Kopuataroa, shall be the places, for holding such first elections; and that Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, at eleven o’clock in the morning, shall be the time, and the office of Mr. A. H. Grant, 31A Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North, shall be the place, at which the first meeting of the members of the Board of the said river district shall be held.

And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the said Archie Henry Grant, of Palmerston North, shall be the person to make a roll of electors for the purposes of each of the aforesaid first elections in the manner prescribed by section eight of the said River Boards Act, 1908.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

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; thence 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; thence 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; thence 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; thence 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; thence towards the south-west by the road forming the south-eastern boundary-line of Subdivision 1f 9B, Taonui-Ahuaturanga Block, to the Taonui Stream; thence 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; thence 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; thence 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; thence 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; thence 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; thence towards the south-east and south-west generally by the said railway-line to its intersection with the left bank of the Manawatu River; thence by the left bank of the Manawatu River to the westernmost corner of Section 77, Block XIV, Kairanga Survey District; thence 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; thence by Victoria Road and the road forming the south-eastern boundary-lines of Sections 5, 6, and 7, Block VIII, Mount Robinson Survey District; thence 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; thence 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; thence 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; thence 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; thence 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; thence by the said boundary-line to the North Island Main Trunk Railway line; thence 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; thence 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; thence by a right line to the north-eastern corner of Subdivision 3 No. 1A 4, Manawatu-Kukutauaki Block; thence 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; thence towards the north-west by the