Num. 18. 731

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927.

ERRATUM.—In notice re mining privileges to be struck off the register, published in Gazette No. 17, dated 24th March, 1927, at page 712, read No. “1406” for No. “1046,” appearing in the first line of the first column to the Schedule referred to in the said notice.

Altering Boundaries of Taumarunui and Ohura Counties and adding Area to Kururau Riding, Taumarunui County.

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

WHEREAS the Taumarunui County Council, in pursuance of subsection three of section fourteen of the Counties Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), presented a petition in accordance with the said subsection three praying that the boundaries of the Taumarunui and Ohura Counties be altered by including in the said Taumarunui County the area of the Ohura County described in that petition:

And whereas a Commission was appointed to inquire and report thereon in accordance with subsection four of section fourteen of the said Act, and has duly reported that the boundaries of the said counties should be altered in the manner prayed for in the said petition:

And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries of the said counties should be altered in such a manner as is deemed to be in accordance with the said report, and that the area to be added to the Taumarunui County should be included in the Kururau 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 Ohura County, shall be added to and form part of the Taumarunui County; that the boundaries of the Taumarunui and Ohura 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 be included in the Kururau 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-seven.

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

All that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded by a line commencing at the northernmost corner of Subdivision 2, Koiro Block; thence south-easterly and southerly along the north-eastern and eastern boundaries of the said Subdivision 2 to the Wanganui River; thence by a right line to the middle of that river and down the river to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Subdivision 3, Koiro Block; thence to and along that boundary and the south-western boundaries of Subdivisions 4 and 5 of the aforesaid block to the south-western corner of the last-mentioned block; thence northerly along the western boundary of that block to its north-western corner; thence generally easterly and northerly along the northern boundaries of Subdivisions 5, 4, 3, and 2, Koiro Block, to the northernmost corner of the last-mentioned subdivision, the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
TAUMARUNUI COUNTY.

All that area in the Auckland, Taranaki, and Wellington Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at a point at the confluence of the Ongarue River and Waimiha Stream, and proceeding thence up the Ongarue River to its source on Pureora Hill; thence by a right line to Pureora Trig. Station; thence generally south-easterly along the western and southern boundaries of Tihoi Blocks No. 3 and 1 to Lake Taupo; thence southerly along the western shore of Lake Taupo to the mouth of the Waihi Stream; thence to a point in the middle of the Wanganui River where it intersects a right line from the mouth of the Waihi Stream to Tongariro Trig. Station; thence down the middle of the Wanganui River to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Koiro No. 3 Block; thence north-westerly along the south-western boundaries of Koiro Nos. 3, 4, and 5 Blocks to the south-western corner of the last-mentioned block; thence northerly along the western boundary of that block to its north-western corner; thence easterly generally along the northern boundaries of Koiro Nos. 5 and 4 to the western boundary of Section 1, Block III, Heao Survey District; thence along the western boundary of Section 1 aforesaid 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 along the western and northern boundaries of Section 9, the eastern boundaries of Lots 2 and 1 of Section 10, Block XI, the south-eastern and eastern boundaries of Sections 3 and 1, Block VIII, Ohura Survey District, to the