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NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority

Vol. XI. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1867. No. 506.

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

PROCLAMATION

Increasing the number of Wards in the Incorporated Town of Lawrence.

By His Honor JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province of Otago, bearing date the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty six, Thomas Dick, Esquire, the then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, did, with the advice of his Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him in that behalf, amongst other things proclaim and declare, that from and after the day of the date of the said Proclamation, certain provisions of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," specified in the first schedule to the now reciting Proclamation, should extend to the said township of Lawrence, by, and under the name of the Corporation of the Town of Lawrence, and should be applicable to and within the municipality thereby created; and the said Superintendent with the advice aforesaid, did, by the said Proclamation further declare, that the said municipality thereby created should be divided into two wards, to be known respectively as East Ward and West Ward, and the boundaries of the said wards should be those respectively defined in the fourth schedule to the said Proclamation:

And whereas by the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1866" it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, from time to time to alter in any way he may think fit the boundaries of any Municipality at any time proclaimed under the said therein recited Ordinance, and also to increase or diminish the number of Wards, and to name or alter the name and boundaries of any or every Ward of any such Municipality.

And whereas it is expedient to increase the number of Wards in the said Municipality, and to alter the boundaries of the whole of the Wards thereof, as defined in the said Proclamation, in manner hereinafter provided.

Now therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the 31st day of July next, the number of Wards into which the said Municipality is divided shall be increased, and that from and after the said 31st day of July next, the said municipality of Lawrence shall be divided into three Wards, to be known respectively as East Ward, Middle Ward, and West Ward, and that the boundaries of the said Wards shall from and after the said 31st day of July next, be those respectively defined in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Ward boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Lawrence.

East Ward shall comprise all that area bounded towards the North by the town boundary, towards the East by the town boundary, towards the South by the town boundary, and towards the West by a line running in a northerly direction along the centre of Peel street, from its junction with Reid street to its junction with Canna street; thence along the centre of Canna street to Lancaster street; thence along the centre of Lancaster street by a line continued due north to the Town boundary.

Middle Ward shall comprise all that area bounded towards the North by the town boundary, towards the East by East Ward, towards the South by the Town boundary, and towards the West by a line commencing at the Junction of Ardrossan and Reid streets, and running due north along the centre of Ardrossan street, and continued in the same direction to the Town boundary.

West Ward shall comprise all that area bounded towards the North by the Town boundary, towards the East by Middle Ward, towards the South by the Town boundary, and towards the West by the Town boundary.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin,