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2453

Constituting the Bay of Plenty Electric-power District and Outer Area.

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section three of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim the district described in the First Schedule hereto to be an electric-power district, and I hereby assign to such district the name of the "Bay of Plenty Electric-power District"; and I do further proclaim that the area described in the Second Schedule hereto shall be the outer area of such electric-power district.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
BAY OF PLENTY ELECTRIC-POWER DISTRICT.
ALL that area of land in the Gisborne Land District, being portion of Opotiki County. Bounded, commencing at the north-eastern corner of Block I of the Opape Native Reserve, by the north-eastern boundaries of Blocks I, VIII, and IX of the said reserve, to the south-eastern corner of said Block IX; thence by the south-eastern boundary of said Block IX to the south-western corner of said Block IX; thence by the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 3 and 7 of Blocks IX and V respectively of Waiawa Survey District to the northern corner of Section 7 aforesaid; thence by the north-western and western and south-western boundaries of said Section 7 to the northern boundary of Section 1 of said Block IX; thence by the northern and western boundaries of said Section 1 to the north-eastern corner of Section 2 of the said Block IX last above mentioned; thence by the northern boundary of said Section 2 to the north-western corner of Section 2, Block XIII, Waiawa Survey District; thence by the western boundary of said Section 2, Block XIII aforesaid, to Trig. Station H 4 on the northern boundary of Section 12, Block XIII aforesaid, to the north-eastern corner of said Section 12; thence by the eastern boundary of said Section 12 and of Section 8 of said Block XIII to the Pakihi Stream; thence by the said stream to its junction with the Te Waiti Stream; thence by a right line crossing the said Te Waiti Stream to the south-eastern corner of Section 7 of Block XII, Opotiki Survey District; thence by the southern boundaries of Sections 7, 12, 5, and 10 of said Block XII, Opotiki Survey District, and by the southern boundaries of Sections 367, 366, 365A, and 364A of the Parish of Waioeka, Block XI, Opotiki Survey District, to the Waioeka River; thence by a right line crossing that river to the eastern corner of Section 492, Parish of Waiotahi, Block XI, Opotiki Survey District; thence by the southern boundary of said Section 492 and the southern and western boundaries of a reserve (containing 450 acres and adjoining said Section 492) to the eastern corner of Section 3 of Block X, Opotiki Survey District; thence by the southern and western boundaries of said Section 3 last above mentioned to its junction with a road; thence by that road through a forest reserve (adjoining Section 2 of Block X last above mentioned) to the southern boundary of the said forest reserve; thence by the said road to the Confiscation Line; thence by the Confiscation Line to the western boundary of the Opotiki County; thence by the said western boundary of Opotiki County to the sea; and thence by the Bay of Plenty to the point of commencement; but excepting, nevertheless, out of such area above described all that area comprising the Borough of Opotiki: Provided that wherever any of the said boundaries of the above-mentioned area is crossed or intersected at any point by a public road, or road reserve, or river or stream the boundary so crossed or intersected shall (unless repugnant to the context) be deemed to be continued over and across such road, road reserve, river, or stream by a right line from point to point of such crossing or intersection.

Also all that area of land in the Auckland Land District, being portion of Whakatane County. Bounded, commencing at the north-eastern corner of Whakatane County at its junction with Opotiki County, at the sea, by the western boundary of Opotiki County to the northern boundaries of Blocks VIII and VII of Waimana Survey District; thence following the said northern boundaries to the north-east corner of Block VI of the said survey district; thence by the

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