NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XXI. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1874. No. 23.

Lower Hutt Local Board District.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council of the said Province of Wellington, Session XXIV. No. 5, intituled "The Local Boards Act 1873," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the inhabitants of any locality in the Province of Wellington, exclusive of the inhabitants of the towns of Wellington and Wanganui, to apply by petition to the Superintendent of the Province, praying that in such locality a Board of Commissioners may be appointed with the several powers and authorities given by the said Act, and that on receipt of any such petition, the Superintendent of the said Province may issue a proclamation declaring that the provisions of the said Act shall come into force within such locality, and that such locality shall thereafter be termed a district, and whereas a petition has been received by me from the inhabitants of a certain part of the Lower Hutt District, signed by the required number of inhabitants, praying that the land contained within the boundaries described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a district under the said Act. Now, therefore I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the said Province of Wellington, do hereby proclaim and declare that the block of land described in the schedule hereto, shall be, and the same is hereby constituted a district under the said Act, and that the said district shall be called, and known as "The Lower Hutt District" and that the provisions of the said Act shall come into force within the said "Lower Hutt District" from and after this date.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

Lower Hutt Local Board District.

Estimated to contain about 1,200 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North by part of Section No. 87, granted to Leonard Young, and across a public road, by section No. 46, by section No. 26 and across a public road, by the southern boundary of section No. 19, and by section No. 75 and the production of the southern boundary of the said section across the river Hutt to section No. 81; towards the South-East by section No. 46, by sections Nos. 26, 80, 33, 36, and 89, and across the public road between sections Nos. 86 and 89, by sections Nos. 19, 23, and 27, by the Awa Motu river, being the boundary of part of section No. 12, granted to T. Frethey, and by the south-east boundaries of parts of sections Nos. 12 and 13, granted to Hart Udy, and their production across a public road; towards the South, by the southern boundary of section No. 12 and its production westerly to the Okoutu River, by the north side of a public road between sections Nos. 9 and 17, by section No. 17, and by section No. 20, as far as it forms the south side of the Hutt main road; towards the South-West by the River Hutt, towards the West by the Okoutu River, and by the western side of a right of way through section No. 21; and towards the North-West, by the Belmont road, by the Western Hutt road, and by the River Hutt.