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TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Land Transfer Act, 1870," it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, as he may think fit, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, constitute throughout the Colony or in any part thereof Land Registrars’ Districts for the purposes of the said Act, and declare by what local name each such district shall be designated:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said recited Act, do hereby constitute that portion of territory known as the Deeds Registration District of Taranaki, to be a Land Registrar’s District on and from the twenty-eighth day of February next, and do hereby declare that such district shall be designated "The Taranaki Land Registration District."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. Gisborne.

God save the Queen!

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirty-first day of December, 1870.

Present:

The Honorable William Fox, Prime Minister, Presiding, and Members of the Executive Council.

WHEREAS by the seventeenth section of "The Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act, 1870," it is enacted that the Ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand, initiated "An Ordinance to prohibit the Sale &c. of Spirits, and to regulate the Sale &c. of other Intoxicating Liquors, to Persons of the Native Race," Session VIII., Number 3, shall, except in any such Town, District, or Province as may be included in any such Order in Council as thereinafter provided, be repealed on and from the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy: And whereas it is by the eighteenth section of the said Act enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, at any time before the said thirty-first day of December, to suspend the operation of the last preceding section of the said Act within any Town, Province, or District within the Colony, and at any time thereafter to revoke any such Order in Council, and upon any such revocation the said Ordinances shall be repealed within the Town, District, or Province to which the said last named Order relates: And whereas it is desirable to suspend the operations of the said seventeenth section of the said Act in the District described in the Schedule hereto:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, doth hereby order and declare that the operation of the said seventeenth section of the said "Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act, 1870," shall be and the same is hereby suspended in the District described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

NEW PLYMOUTH.

This District is bounded towards the North by a line from the most northerly point of the Province of Taranaki to Te Runa Point; towards the East by portion of the eastern boundary of the Province of Taranaki, and by a line from Waihi Point to the summit of Mount Egmont; towards the South by a line from the summit of Mount Egmont in an easterly direction to the boundary of the Taranaki Province; and towards the South-west and West by the sea (including the Town of Taranaki).

William Fox,
President.

Foster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Taranaki, by W. H. J. Seffern, of Devon-street, New Plymouth, Printer to the Provincial Government for the time being.