Defining the Boundaries of the

Masterton Highways District

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor Isaac Earl Featherston Esquire Superintendent of the Province of Wellington in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-eighth day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two I Isaac Earl Featherston Superintendent of the Province of Wellington in virtue of the powers vested in me in that behalf did proclaim and declare that the block of land known as the Masterton Block in the Wairarapa Valley in the said Province of Wellington the boundaries of which were set forth in the said Proclamation should form and constitute a District for the purposes of the District Highways Act and should be called the Masterton District And whereas certain boundaries of the said District were in the said Proclamation wrongly defined and certain other boundaries were omitted And whereas it is expedient to remove doubts which have arisen or may arise respecting the boundaries of the said District Now therefore I the said Isaac Earl Featherston Superintendent of the said Province of Wellington do hereby proclaim and declare that the following are the boundaries of the Masterton Highways District namely—

North.—A line commencing at the North-east corner of Section No. 71 and running to a point sixty chains North from the “Trig” pole at the Pa Kaiko Kiri Kiri on the Waipoua River and thence in a straight line across the Waipoua River and continued to the summit of the first or lower range of the Tararua Mountains or to the Waingawa River should it intervene—East by the Ruamahanga River—South the Waingawa River—and West a line from the Western point of the North boundary running South till it meets the Waingawa River.

Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the P.s. Province of Wellington at Wellington this Eighteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

I. E. Featherston,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
W. Hickson,
Provincial Secretary.

Election of Wardens—Western Hutt District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th Oct., 1866.

NOTICE has been given to this Office under the hand of the undermentioned Chairman, that a meeting of the Rate-payers of the Western Hutt District was held on Monday, the 1st October, 1866, when the following persons were elected to be members of the Board of Wardens for the ensuing two years, viz.:

Mr. William Oaks
John Liverton
Stephen Judd
George Farmer
Ellis Gooden
David M’Ewen, Chairman.

W. Hickson,
Provincial Secretary.

Election of Wardens, Lower Wai-nui-o-mata District.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th October, 1866.

NOTICE has been given to this Office under the hand of the undermentioned Chairman, that a general meeting of the Ratepayers of the Lower Wai-nui-o-mata District, was held on the 28th day of September last, when the following persons were elected members of the Board of Wardens for the ensuing two years, viz.:

Mr. Richard Prouse, jun.
William Prouse
Thos. Grace
Chas. Collis, jun.
Nathl. Grace, Chairman.

W. Hickson,
Provincial Secretary.

Election of Wardens—Wanganui Town Board.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1866.

NOTICE has been given to this Office under the hand of the undermentioned Chairman, that at the annual meeting of the voters of the town of Wanganui, held at the Princess Theatre on the 29th day of September, 1866, the following gentlemen were elected as Wardens of the Town Board for the ensuing two years, viz.:

Mr. George Beaven
David Bell
Edward Churton
Glanville Warren Holland
William Johnson
Francis Williamson
Henry Nathan
William Kells, Chairman.

W. Hickson,
Provincial Secretary.

Examination of School Teachers and Candidates.

Education Office,
Wellington, 5th Oct., 1866.

An Examination will be held early in January, in the City of Wellington.