second schedule hereto. And I hereby, with the advice of my said Executive Council, proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the Municipality hereby created shall be those specified in the third schedule hereto. And I do hereby, with the advice of my said Executive Council, declare that the said Municipality hereby created shall consist of one Ward with four Councillors, and that the boundaries of the said Ward shall be those respectively defined in the third schedule hereto.

First Schedule

The sections of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” containing the provisions of the said Ordinance, extended to and applicable within the Incorporated Town of Maori Hill, that is to say, sections numbered 6 to 11, both inclusive; sections numbered 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26; sections numbered 59 to 97, both inclusive; sections numbered 99 to 113, both inclusive; and sections numbered 116 to 122 respectively; and also the sections in the various amending Ordinances substituted for sections 18, 47, and 78, repealed.

Second Schedule

Sections of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” applicable to the Incorporated Town of Avenal, with respective modifications set opposite the numbers of the Sections.

Third Schedule

Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Avenal as delineated on the record maps of the said town deposited in the Lands Registry Office, in Invercargill in the said Province.

BOUNDARIES OF MUNICIPALITY OF AVENAL

All that parcel of land in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement 85a. 0r. 38p., more or less, being section 8 of block I on the Record Map of Invercargill Hundred and the adjacent roads, and comprising the private townships of Harewood and Harrisville, bounded on the north by a public road, 700 links, by section 29 of said block, 2750 links by the main north road, 400 links by section 30 aforesaid, 1800 links and by a public road, 114 links on the east by section 32 of said block, being a park reserve, 1994 links on the south by a public road, 130 links by section 27 of aforesaid block, 1300 links by the main north road, 100 links by section 47 aforesaid, 2960 links, and by a public road 100 links, and towards the west by the Waihopai estuary to the commencing point.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

GEORGE TURNBULL,
Deputy-Superintendent of Otago.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF AVENAL

Appointment of Mr. William Boyd to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the Incorporated Town of Avenal.

WHEREAS the Town of Avenal was, by Proclamation dated the first day of September, and published in the Otago Government Gazette No. 1893, incorporated by the name of the “Corporation of the Town of Avenal,” and certain provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” were, by such Proclamation, extended to, and declared applicable to and within the Municipality thereby created: And whereas by the 117th section of the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” it is amongst other things enacted that for the purposes of the first elections under the said Ordinance of Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors for any town or place to which the provisions of the said Ordinance, or any of them, should be extended as therein provided, the Superintendent of Otago for the time being, should appoint some fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for such town and place, the expense of which should be borne and paid by the Council of the town or place elected thereunder, for which any such Citizens’ Roll should be prepared: And whereas Mr. William Boyd of Avenal, has been represented to me to be a fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said incorporated town of Avenal: Now, therefore I, George Turnbull, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” do nominate and appoint the said Mr. William Boyd to be the person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said incorporated town of Avenal.

As witness my hand this first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

GEORGE TURNBULL,
Deputy-Superintendent of Otago.

WARRANT

Appointing an Officer for the Revision of the Citizens List, and for other purposes, in the Incorporated Town of Avenal, in the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS the Town of Avenal has been incorporated under the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865”: And whereas by the 113th section of the said Ordinance it is amongst other things enacted that in cases where no special provision is made for the conduct of the first elections under the said Ordinance it should be lawful for the Superintendent of Otago to appoint such and so many persons as might be necessary to perform any of the said acts in the said Ordinance, before required to be done by the Mayor, Councillors, Town Clerk, Collector, or other officers, before such officers could be appointed or elected under the provision of the said Ordinance: And whereas by the 40th section of the said Ordinance the Mayor and Councillors of any Town incorporated under the said Ordinance (in the said section called the Council) are constituted open Courts for the revision of the Citizens’ Lists and for hearing and determining the claims of the Citizens’ thereof to be inserted in such lists, and the objection of such Citizens to any other Citizen having his name retained thereon: And whereas it is expedient to appoint a fit and proper person to perform the acts required to be done by the Mayor and Councillors, as constituting Courts of Revision under the said 40th Section of the said Ordinance, and to do the several other matters and things directed and required by the said Ordinance in the revision of the Citizens’ list;