APRIL 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1121

Apportioning the Cost of Maintenance, &c., of Main Drain and Portion of Sluggish Creek, County of Manawatu.

[I.S.] BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS under the provisions of section sixty-five of the Land Drainage Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), a Commission was appointed and an inquiry was duly held with a view to determining what local authority could most conveniently and efficiently control the drain situated in the Sluggish River Drainage District, in the County of Manawatu, commonly known and hereinafter referred to as “the main drain,” and what proportion of the cost of managing, maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the main drain should be paid by any, and, if so, which local authority or local authorities: And whereas such Commission did report to the Governor-General, after due inquiry, its opinion as to the matters respecting which it was appointed to report: And whereas it is expedient to make provision under the said Act for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and direct as follows, that is to say:—

1. That the main drain, and that portion of the Sluggish Creek from the junction of the main drain with the Oroua River at Rangiotu to the termination of the main drain at the concrete bridge at the lower end of the Sluggish Creek and therefrom the Sluggish Creek to the concrete bridge on Jones’s Line (hereinafter referred to as “the portion of the Sluggish Creek”), shall be under the exclusive care, control, management, and maintenance of the Sluggish River Drainage Board.

2. I fix and determine that the cost of managing, maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the main drain and the portion of the Sluggish Creek shall be provided and paid by the Sluggish River Drainage Board, and the Oroua Drainage Board as follows:—

The Sluggish River Drainage Board in the proportion of twelve shillings and elevenpence for each pound required.

The Oroua Drainage Board in the proportion of seven shillings and one penny for each pound required.

3. I direct that any payment hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Oroua Drainage Board shall be paid from time to time, in the proportions hereinbefore fixed and determined, out of the funds under the control of the said Drainage Board, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Sluggish River Drainage Board; and any such payment shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said Drainage Board for and on account of such Drainage Board.

4. And I further direct that the costs, charges, and expenses of and incidental to the inquiry by the Commission aforesaid touching and concerning the premises shall be paid and borne by the said Sluggish River Drainage Board and the said Oroua Drainage Board in the same proportions as are fixed and determined in paragraph two of this Proclamation.

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 9th day of April, 1934.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Approved in Council.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(I.A. 1933/114/3.)

Boundaries of Districts under the Marriage Act, 1908, altered.

[I.S.] BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Marriage Act, 1908, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing marriage districts known as the Morrinsville, Huntly, and Hamilton districts, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said districts is hereby divided anew into three marriage districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follow:—

MORRINSVILLE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, bounded by a line commencing at a point where a line running from Te Aroha Trig. to Putakauere on the Waikato River is intersected by the confiscation-line; thence along the confiscation-boundary passing through Trig. Stations Mangakawa and Ratawera to the south-western corner of Section 5 (forest reserve), Block XI, Piako Survey District; thence along the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of that section to the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Section 4, Block XI, Piako Survey District; thence north-easterly generally along that road to the north-eastern corner of Lot 1 of Section 18, Block V, Waihou Survey District; thence southerly along the road forming the eastern boundary of that section to the Piako River; thence up the Piako River to a point due west of Te Aroha Mountain; thence proceeding due east along a right line to the western boundary of Block XII, Waitoa Survey District; thence southerly along that boundary to the north-eastern boundary of Lot 12A of Section 24, Block XI, Waitoa Survey District; thence along the north-eastern, north-western, south-western, and south-eastern boundaries of the said Lot 12A to the western boundary of Block XII; thence southerly along that boundary and the western boundaries of Block XVI, Waitoa Survey District, and Block IV, Maungakawa Survey District, to the northern boundary of Pourewa Block, and easterly along that boundary to the Waitoa River; thence up that river to the eastern boundary of the Kerihoni Block, along the eastern boundaries of the Kerihoni Block and the Pakarau Settlement to the southernmost corner of Section 20s, Pakarau Settlement, along a right line to the easternmost corner of Section 18s, and along the south-eastern boundary of that section to its southernmost corner, and along the north-western boundary of Section 32 on Deposited Plan 4333A, to and along the eastern boundary of Te Waikaukau Block; thence along the eastern boundaries of Kiwitahi Nos. 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D to the northern boundary of Kiwitahi No. 1E; thence westerly along that boundary, and northerly and westerly along the eastern and northern boundaries of Kiwitahi No. 2E to the north-eastern corner of Section 24s, Te Miro Settlement; thence along the northern and western boundaries of that section, the north-western boundary of Section 23s, the north-eastern and north-western boundaries of Section 25s, the north-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 19s and 71s, the northern and western boundaries of Section 28s, the north-western boundaries of Sections 23s and 34s, and the northern boundary of Section 35s, Te Miro Settlement, to Pukemoremore Trig. Station; thence north-westerly along the confiscation-line to its intersection by the southern boundary-line of Block IV, Komakorau Survey District; thence westerly along the said southern boundary of Blocks IV and III, Komakorau Survey District, to the north-western boundary of Lot 3, Woodlands Estate; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundaries of said Lot 3 to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Lot 3 on plan 5241, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland; thence north-westerly along the south-western boundary of Lot 3 to the Taupiri–Tauhei Road; thence north-easterly along that road to the road running north-westerly through the Rewi Settlement; thence north-westerly along that road to its intersection with the northern boundary-line of Block XIV, Hapuakohe Survey District; thence due east along the northern boundaries of Blocks XIV, XV, and XVI, Hapuakohe Survey District, to the confiscation-line; thence north-westerly along the confiscation-line to the point of commencement.

HUNTLY DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, bounded on the east generally by the Morrinsville District hereinbefore described from the intersection of the confiscation-line and a right line running from Putakauere on the Waikato River to Mount Te Aroha, to the south-eastern boundary of Taupiri Parish; thence south-westerly along that boundary to the Komakorau Stream; thence down the Komakorau Stream to the Waikato River; thence up the Waikato River to the southern boundary of the Parish of Pepepe; thence westerly along the southern boundary of that parish to the summit of the watershed near Trig. Station Tuturuwahi; thence northerly along the watershed passing through Trig. Stations Otorohaea and 79 to the southernmost point of Whangape Lake; thence along the southern and eastern shore of Whangape Lake to the northernmost corner of Section 22, Parish of Whangape; thence along a right line to Putakauere on the Waikato River, the place of commencement.

HAMILTON DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, bounded towards the north-east generally by the Waipa Parish from the western watershed of the Waipa River to that river; thence by the said Waipa River and Horotiu Parish to the Waikato River; thence across and by that river to the southern boundary of Komakorau Parish, and thence by that parish and Taupiri Parish to the western boundary of the