Num. 53. 2217

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930.

Proclaiming the Borough of Palmerston North to be a City.

[L.S.] BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a petition has been received from the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Palmerston North, praying that the said borough be proclaimed a city under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920: And whereas the population of the said borough is not less than twenty thousand: And whereas it is desirable that effect should be given to the said petition: Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, do hereby proclaim the Borough of Palmerston North to be a city as on and from the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 17th day of July, 1930.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(I.A. 19/369/5.)

Land set apart as an Endowment for Primary Education.

[L.S.] BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by subsection nine of section twelve of the Land Act, 1924, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date hereof the land comprised in the pieces of closed road described in the First Schedule hereto, being land which intersects the endowment for primary education described in the Second Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be added to the said endowment.

A

FIRST SCHEDULE.

ALL those areas in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 3 roods 39·6 perches, more or less, being the pieces of road closed by Proclamation dated 28th May, 1930, and published in Gazette of the 5th day of June, 1930, and being the parcels of land more particularly described as follows:—

Firstly: 1 acre 3 roods 19·5 perches, more or less. Bounded, commencing at the westernmost corner of Allotment 218, Apata Parish; towards the south-west by Allotment 230 of the said parish, 52·8 links; towards the north-west by a public road, 3·7 links, 116·7 links, 174·0 links, and 60·1 links; again towards the north-west generally by Allotment 217, Apata Parish, 57·2 links, 127·9 links, 693·5 links, 605·9 links, and 62·9 links to a public road; towards the north by the said public road, 114·4 links; towards the south-east generally by Allotment 218, Apata Parish, 158·8 links, 656·1 links, 726·5 links, 352·7 links, and 140·3 links, to the point of commencement. Be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

Secondly: 4 acres 0 roods 14·9 perches, more or less. Bounded, commencing at a point on the northern boundary of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway Reserve, 175·4 links distant from peg CXLIXA on Auckland Survey Office plan 23424¹ (blue), generally towards the north-west, north-east, north, and south-west by Allotment 218, Apata Parish, 549·6 links, 537·8 links, 545·0 links, 844·3 links, 599·2 links, and 182·6 links to a public road; towards the north-west by the said public road, 106·8 links; towards the north-east and north-west by Allotment 217 of the said Apata Parish, 119·2 links, 789·5 links, and 784·1 links to a public road; towards the north-west by the said public road, 42·4 links; towards the east by the East Coast Main Trunk Railway Reserve, 64·3 links; towards the south generally by the said East Coast Main Trunk Railway Reserve, 806·5 links, and by Allotment 218, Apata Parish, 45·8 links, 1087·1 links, 537·9 links, 469·8 links, and 269·6 links to the aforesaid East Coast Main Trunk Railway Reserve, and by that Reserve 69·1 links, 194·5 links, and 47·7 links, to the point of commencement. Be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

Thirdly: 1 rood 23·2 perches, more or less. Bounded, commencing at a peg on a public road, distant 142·0 links on a bearing of 335° 38′ from peg XXXIIIN on Survey Office plan 22188 (blue); towards the west, north, and east by