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. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1875. No. 4

PROCLAMATION.

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

WHEREAS by “The Highways Act, 1874,” it is among other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent from time to time, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, to divide any district, or districts, into two or more new districts, and that no such proclamation shall be issued, or shall have any force or effect, unless the Superintendent shall first have received a petition praying for the issue of such proclamation, signed by at least two-thirds of the ratepayers reckoned according to their votes within the boundaries of the district which such petition prays may be established, and that in every proclamation whereby a Highway District shall be proclaimed under the said Act, the name and boundaries of the district shall be set forth, and from and after a day to be fixed in and by such proclamation (such day being not more than twenty days from the first publication thereof in the Government Gazette), the district named and defined therein shall be and be deemed to be a Highway District within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act. And whereas a petition has been received by the said Superintendent, signed by at least two-thirds of the ratepayers reckoned in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, praying for the issue of a proclamation dividing the land therein described (being part of the Masterton Highway District), and for constituting the same a new district as therein mentioned.

Now therefore I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the block of land, the boundaries of which are described in the Schedule hereto (heretofore forming part of the Masterton Highway District), shall from and after the Fifteenth day of February now instant be, and be deemed to be, a Highway District within the meaning, or for the purposes of the said Act, and that such district shall be called and known by the name of “The Taratahi and Carterton Highway District.”

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this First day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

All that block of land in the Province of Wellington (hitherto forming No. 4 Ward of the Masterton Highway District), bounded towards the North and North East by the South West boundary of Ward No. 3, and by the Waingawa River; towards the South and South East by the Ruamahunga River; towards the South West by the Waiohine River to the summit of the Tararua Ranges, and towards the North West by the summit of the Tararua Ranges.