NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).

Published by Authority.

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. XXII. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1875. No. 19.

Masterton Local Board District.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Fitzherbert,
Esq., 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 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 locality, the boundaries whereof are described in the Schedule
hereto, signed by the required number of
inhabitants, praying that the land contained within the boundaries described in
the said Schedule 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 Masterton District,"
and that the provisions of the said Act
shall come into force within the said
Masterton District from and after this
date.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the public seal of the
Province of Wellington, at Wel-
lington, this 25th day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE

MASTERTON LOCAL BOARD DISTRICT.

All that block of land estimated
to contain 1,000 acres, more or less;
bounded towards the North-east by the
Waipoua River and by the Kuripuni
Creek; towards the South-east by a public
road, being the boundary of sections Nos.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 18, settlement of
Masterton, by section No. 30, Manaiia
Block, and by the main road line from
Greytown; towards the South-west by
sections Nos. 2 and 29, Manaiia Block,
across a public road, by section No. 43,
Manaiia Block, known as the Kuripuni
Allotments, and forming the S.W. boundaries of lands owned by Geo. Shuto and W. H. Donald, 2,750 links and
1,600 links respectively, and by the
Waipokaka Creek; and towards the North-
west by a public road, 700 links, by
sections Nos. 33, 29, 28, 27, 26, across a
public road, by section No. 25, and by
the production of the South-eastern
boundary of the said section No. 25, to
the Waipokaka Creek, and by the North-
western boundaries of sections Nos. 60,
61, and 62, and by the production of the
same to the Waipoua River.