Numb. 17.

Altering Boundaries of Castlepoint and Masterton Counties,
and including Area in Upper Taueru Riding, Masterton
County.

[L.S.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection two of section
fourteen of the Counties Act, 1920, that the boundaries
of any one or more counties may be altered in accordance with
a resolution proposing the alteration passed by the Council
of each of such counties in which the Counties Act is in
force:

And whereas a resolution was passed by the Castlepoint
County Council on the twenty-fifth day of October, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-four:

And whereas a similar resolution was passed by the
Masterton County Council on the eleventh day of November,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, praying for
the alteration of the boundaries of the Castelpoint and
Masterton Counties in the manner described in the said
resolutions and in the First Schedule hereto:

And whereas it is expedient to make such alteration in
accordance with the said resolutions, and that the area to
be added to the Masterton County should be included in the
Upper Taueru Riding of that county:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority conferred on me by the said Act, I, General
Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the area described in the First Schedule hereto, being
now part of the Castlepoint County, shall be added to and
form part of the Masterton County; that the boundaries of
the Castelpoint and Masterton Counties as so altered shall
be those set forth under the respective headings in the
Second Schedule hereto; that the area added as aforesaid
to the Masterton County shall be included in the Upper
Taueru Riding of the said county; and that the boundaries
of that riding shall be those set forth in the Third Schedule
hereto:

And I do also proclaim and declare that this Proclamation
shall take effect on the first day of April, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-five.

A

FIRST SCHEDULE.
AREA EXCLUDED FROM CASTLEPOINT COUNTY AND INCLUDED
IN MASTERTON COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded by
a line commencing at the south-eastern corner of Section
812, Block VI, Mangapakeha Survey District; thence by the
south-eastern boundary of the said Section 812 to the north-
eastern corner of Section 869, Block VI, Mangapakeha Survey
District; thence easterly along the southern boundary of
Section 303, Block VI aforesaid, for a distance of 1802-6
links; thence by a line bearing 249° 53', distance 2644-3
links; thence by a line bearing 277° 36', distance 2428-3
links; thence generally northerly by the western boundary
of Lot 2 and the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries
of Lot 1 on plan 4896 deposited in the office of the District
Land Registrar at Wellington, to the county boundary;
thence westerly, southerly, easterly, and again southerly
along the county boundary to the south-eastern corner of
Section 812, the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
MASTERTON COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded by
a line commencing at a point on the summit of the Tararua
Range due west of the northernmost source of the Waingawa
River; thence by a line along the summit of the range to
Mount Dundas; thence northerly along a right line through
said Mount Dundas to a point bearing 297° from Tawhero
Trig. Station; thence to that trig. station and along the
Tawhero Range to the western boundary of Section 9, Block
IV., Mikimiki Survey District; thence southerly along that
boundary and its production to the middle of the Ruamahanga
River, down the middle of that river to the north-western
boundary of Section 71, Block VIII, Mikimiki Survey
District; along that boundary, the north-eastern and south-
eastern boundaries of said Section 71, the north-eastern
boundary of Section 32, the northern boundary of Section
69, the western and northern boundaries of Section 27, and the
production of the last-named boundary across a road; southerly
along eastern side of that road to and along the northern
boundary of Section 70 to the Kopuaranga River; thence