OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY).

VOL. XX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876. No. 1040

PROCLAMATION

Of the Municipality of Avenal.

By His Honor George Turnbull, Esquire, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled “An Ordinance to amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” and by the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1875,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Otago, with the advice of his Executive Council, on the petition of not less than fifty persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in any township, or any two or more townships, distant not more than two miles from a common centre within the Province, to extend the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” to such township or townships by such name or incorporation as he shall deem fit, and notwithstanding that such township, or in the case of two townships, either or both of them is or are included in a Road District, with such modification as to the names and numbers of the members of such proposed Corporation, and the office bearers thereof, and any other municipal matters and regulations as shall seem to such Superintendent and his Executive Council suitable for the area and population of such Municipality; and, in accordance with such petition or otherwise, shall define the boundaries of the Municipality so created, and declare the number of Wards into which such Municipality may be divided, and define the boundaries of such Wards respectively, and declare which of the provisions of the said Ordinance shall be applicable to and within the limits of such Municipality:

And whereas a petition of not less than fifty persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in the townships of Harrisville and Harewood, in the said Province of Otago, has been presented to me, George Turnbull, as Deputy-Superintendent of the said Province, praying that the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” may be extended to the said townships:

Now, therefore I, George Turnbull, Deputy-Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice of my Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date of the date hereof, the provisions of the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” specified in the first schedule hereto, shall extend to the said townships of Harrisville and Harewood, under the name of the Corporation of the town of Avenal, and shall be applicable to and within the Municipality hereby created.

And I do, with the like advice of my said Executive Council, proclaim and declare that such of the said provisions as are contained in the sections of the said last-mentioned Ordinance, specified in the first column of the second schedule hereto, shall extend to the said township, and be applicable to the Municipality hereby created, with and subject to the respective modifications contained herein, and in the second column of the said 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 Avenal, 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 29 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, 27, and 78, repealed.