Numb. 27.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1925.

Altering Boundaries of Taumarunui and Ohura Counties, forming Kururau Riding, Taumarunui County, and fixing Representation of that Riding.

[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 Taumarunui County Council on the fifteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five:

And whereas a similar resolution was passed by the Ohura County Council on the fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, praying for the alteration of the boundaries of the Taumarunui and Ohura 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 Taumarunui County should form a new riding to be known as the Kururau Riding of that county, and that the number of councillors for the said Kururau Riding should be fixed:

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 Ohura County, shall be added to and form part of the Taumarunui County; that the boundaries of the Ohura and Taumarunui 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 Taumarunui County shall form a new riding, to be known as the Kururau Riding of the said county; that the boundaries of that riding shall be those set forth in the Third Schedule hereto;

and that two councillors shall be elected for the said Kururau Riding:

And I do also proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on the date of the gazetting thereof.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
AREA EXCLUDED FROM OHURA COUNTY AND INCLUDED IN TAUMARUNUI COUNTY.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point in the middle of the Ongarue River in line with the northern boundary of Section 4B, Block II, Rangi Survey District; thence down the middle of the Ongarue and Wanganui Rivers to a point in line with the western boundary of Subdivision 1, Koiro Block, Block IV, Heao Survey District; thence to and along that boundary to the southern boundary of Section 4, Block IV aforesaid; thence generally westerly along the southern boundaries of Sections 4 and 3, Block IV aforesaid, the southern and western boundaries of Section 1, Block III, Heao Survey District, to a point in line with the southern boundary of Part K No. 1, Section 2c No. 4, Ohura South Block; thence to and along that boundary, and northerly along the western boundary of the said block and its production to the middle of the Ohura River; thence up the middle of the Ohura River to a point in line with the western boundary of Section 7, Block XI, Ohura Survey District; thence to and along that boundary and the western and northern boundaries generally of Sections 7, 13, and 8, to Mona Trig. Station; thence by Lots 1 and 2 of Section 9, the eastern boundaries of Section 10, Block XI, the south-eastern and eastern boundaries of Sections 3 and 1, Block VIII, Ohura Survey District, to the Ararimu Road; thence across that road and westerly along its northern side to the western boundary of Section 12, Block VIII aforesaid; thence northerly along the western boundaries of Section 12, Block VIII aforesaid and Section 3, Block IV, Ohura Survey District, to Puketawai Trig. Station; thence easterly along the northern boundaries generally of Section 3 aforesaid, Sections 14 and 13, Block VIII, Ohura Survey District, Sections 8, 7, and 6, Block III, Rangi Survey District, to the western boundary of Section