And whereas the provisions of the said section one hundred
and thirty-five have been complied with in respect thereto,
and the result of the poll taken on the proposal that the area
should be constituted a new borough was in favour thereof:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities vested in me by the Municipal Corporations Act,
1933, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto
shall be constituted a borough under the said Act on and
from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-eight; that the name of such borough shall be the
Borough of Ellerslie; and that the number of Councillors
to be elected to the Council of the said borough shall be six,
exclusive of the Mayor:
And I do further proclaim and declare that John William
Carr, Esquire, of Ellerslie, shall be the Returning Officer to
conduct the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the
said borough; and that the said John William Carr shall
be the Town Clerk and the person to prepare the district
electors roll for the purposes of the said first election:
And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the first election
of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough shall be held on
Wednesday, the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine
hundred and thirty-eight and that the first meeting of the
Council of the said borough shall be held on Tuesday, the
twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-eight, at half past seven o'clock in the afternoon, in
the office of the Ellerslie Town Board, Ellerslie.

SCHEDULE.
BOROUGH OF ELLERSLIE.
ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, bounded
by a line commencing at the junction of roads opposite the
old site of the Harp of Erin Inn, at a point on the line between
Standard Survey Blocks, M 753 (Great South Road) and
M 752 (Wairakei Street) and distant 113 links from the
first-mentioned standard; thence towards the north generally
by a right line from that point to the south-western corner of
Allotment 25 of Section 12, Suburbs of Auckland, and by
Allotments 25, 34, 12A, and 26A, all of Section 12, Suburbs of
Auckland, to Lake Road ; thence towards the east generally
by Lake Road aforesaid, the crossing of the Ellerslie-Panmure
Road to the north-western corner of Allotment 28 of aforesaid
Section 12, and by Allotments 28 and 33 of aforesaid Section 12
to the Penrose-Panmure Road; and thence towards the
south-west generally by that road and the Great South Road
to the point of commencement.

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 15th day of
March, 1938.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!
(I.A. 103/4/4.)

Constituting the Borough of Papakura.
[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of section
one hundred and thirty-five of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, a petition was presented to the Governor-General praying that the area described in the said petition
be constituted a new borough:
And whereas the provisions of the said section one hundred
and thirty-five have been complied with in respect thereto,
and the result of the poll taken on the proposal that
the area should be constituted a new borough was in favour
thereof:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities vested in me by the Municipal Corporations
Act, 1933, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, the
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the area described in the
Schedule hereto shall be constituted a borough under the
said Act on and from the first day of April, one thousand
nine hundred and thirty-eight, that the name of such borough
shall be the the Borough of Papakura; and that the number
of Councillors to be elected to the Council of the said borough
shall be eight, exclusive of the Mayor:
And I do further proclaim and declare that Arnold Leonard
Cooper, of Papakura, shall be the Returning Officer to conduct
the first election of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough;
and that the said Arnold Leonard Cooper shall be the Town
Clerk and the person to prepare the district electors roll for
the purposes of the said first election:
And, lastly, I do proclaim and declare that the first election
of Mayor and Councillors of the said borough shall be held
on Wednesday, the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine
hundred and thirty-eight, and that the first meeting of the
Council of the said borough shall be held on Monday, the
twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-eight, at half past seven o'clock in the afternoon, in
the office of the Town Board, Papakura.

SCHEDULE.
BOROUGH OF PAPAKURA.
ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, situated
in Blocks XIV, XV, Otahuhu Survey District, and Blocks
III, IV, Drury Survey District, bounded : Commencing at
the south-western corner of Allotment 4 of Section 6, Village
of Papakura, in a north-easterly direction generally along
the south-eastern boundary of Allotment 4 aforesaid to Great
South Road; thence by a right line across Great South Road
to the middle-line of Waterview Road; thence along the
middle-line of Waterview Road, and along the North Island
Main Trunk Railway to a point approximately 77 links
south of Trentham Road; thence along a right line to the
south-western corner of part Allotment 41, Parish of Papakura, shown in D.P. 10783; thence along the south-eastern
boundary of part Allotment 41 aforesaid, and along the
south-western boundary of Allotment 42, Parish of Papakura,
to a point distant 800 links from Old Wairoa Road; thence
along a right line distant 800 links from and parallel to Old
Wairoa Road to its intersection with the production, in a
north-westerly direction, of the south-western boundary of
Lot 3 on D.P. 17674, being a subdivision of Allotment 27,
Parish of Hunua; thence in a south-easterly direction generally
by a right line to and along the south-western boundary of Lot
3 aforesaid, and its production across Wairoa Road and
through part Allotment 27, Parish of Hunua, to the south-eastern boundary of that allotment; thence along the last-mentioned boundary to the western side of Dominion Road,
and along that road to its junction with Hunua Road;
thence in a westerly direction generally along the northern
side of Hunua Road to the south-western corner of Lot 40
of Suburban Section 1 (Kirikiri), Parish of Opaheke; thence
across Hunua Road and along the northern side of Boundary
Road, to and across the North Island Main Trunk Railway,
and again along the northern side of Boundary Road and
its production to the western side of Opaheke Road; thence
along the north-eastern and north-western boundaries of Lot
7 of Allotment 15, Parish of Opaheke, the northern boundary
of Lot 4 of Allotment 15 and its production across Great
South Road; thence along the western side of Great South
Road and the generally southern boundary of Lot 2 of the
eastern portion of Allotment II, Parish of Opaheke, to its
south-western corner; thence in a northerly direction generally
along the western boundary of Lot 2 aforesaid, the southern
boundaries of Lots 4, 5, 6, on D.P. 14721, being a subdivision
of the eastern portion of Allotment II, Parish of Opaheke,
to its junction with a right line, being the production, in a
south-easterly direction, of the western boundary of Lot II
on D.P. 8358, being a subdivision of the eastern portion of
Allotment 8, Parish of Opaheke; thence along that line and
along the western boundary of Lot II aforesaid, to the
northernmost corner of that lot; thence along the northern
boundaries of Lots 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, on D.P. 8358 aforesaid,
the south-western boundary of Lot 12 on D.P. 8358 aforesaid,
the western extremity of Clark Road, the south-western
boundary of Lot 38 on D.P. 8358 aforesaid, and along the
southern side of South Street to the Pahurehure Inlet; and
thence along the mean high-water mark of Pahurehure Inlet
to the south-western corner of Allotment 4 of Section 6,
Village of Papakura, the point of commencement.

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 14th day of
March, 1938.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!
(I.A. 103/4/2.)