NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto 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. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1874. No. 24.

Johnsonville 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 the village of Johnsonville, in the Porirua 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 Johnsonville District" and that the provisions of the said Act shall come into force within the said "Johnsonville District" from and after this date.

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

(L.S.)

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

JOHNSONVILLE LOCAL BOARD DISTRICT.

Estimated to contain about 1250 acres, more or less; bounded towards the North by the new Ohariu line of road from Section No. 13, Porirua District, to Section No. 17, Ohariu District, by Section No. 18, Porirua District, and across a public road, and by part of Section No. 14, Porirua District, sold to James Petherick; towards the East by Sections No. 18 and 14, Porirua District, and by Section No. 1, Horokiwi Road District; towards the South-East by Sections Nos. 12 and 13, Harbour District, by the Old Porirua Road and by Sections Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5, Porirua District; towards the South by Section No. 9, Porirua District; towards the South-West by Section No. 5, Porirua District, by the south-western boundary of Section No. 95, Ohariu District, and the production of the said boundary to Section No. 2, Porirua District, and by the old Ohariu line of road; and towards the West by a straight line from the south to the north corner of Section No. 94, Ohariu District, and across the old Ohariu road, by a straight line from the south-east corner of Section No. 91, Ohariu District, where the boundary line of Nos. 91 and 92 sections strikes the old Ohariu road to the south corner of Section No. 14, Ohariu District, and by Sections Nos. 14, 15, and 17, Ohariu District.