Rumb. 4.

ALTERING Boundaries of Dannevirke and Woodville Counties, and including Area in Dannevirke Riding, Dannevirke County.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

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

And whereas a similar resolution was passed by the Woodville County Council on the twentieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, praying for the alteration of the boundaries of the Dannevirke and Woodville 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 Dannevirke County should be included in the Dannevirke 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 Woodville County, shall be added to and form part of the Dannevirke County; that the boundaries of the Woodville and Dannevirke 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 Dannevirke County shall be included in the Dannevirke 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-six.

AREA EXCLUDED FROM WOODVILLE COUNTY AND INCLUDED IN DANNEVIRKE COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District bounded on the west by the Manawatu River, on the north and east by the Otope Stream, and on the south by Lot 1 on plan 3777, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Napier, and being Lot 2 on plan 3777, deposited as aforesaid.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

WOODVILLE COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay and Wellington Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at Trig: Station 85 in the Ruahine Range, and proceeding thence in an easterly direction along the northern boundary of the forest reserves to the Oruakeretaki Stream, along the aforesaid stream to its intersection with the northern boundary of Section 50, Block I, Woodville Survey District; thence easterly along the northern boundaries of Sections 50, 51, and 54, Block I aforesaid, to a public road, across that road, and along the northern boundary of Section 13 to its intersection with the Oruakeretaki Stream; thence along that stream to its confluence with the Manawatu River; thence southerly along the right bank of that river to point in line with the southern boundary of Lot 2 on plan 3777, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Napier; thence easterly along that boundary to its intersection with a public road forming the south-eastern boundary of the Otawhao Block; along the western side of that road to and along the south-eastern boundary of the aforesaid block to the most northerly corner of Section 38, Block XIV, Tahoraite Survey District; thence easterly along the northern boundaries of Sections 38, 39, and 40, Block XIV, Tahoraite Survey District, Section 1, Block XV, Tahoraite Survey District, to a public road forming the eastern boundary of the said Section 1; thence southerly along the western side of that road to a point in line with the northern boundary of Section 9, Block XV, Tahoraite Survey District, across the road, and easterly along that boundary to the north-eastern corner of the aforesaid Section 9; thence southerly along the eastern boundary of