Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1875 – No. 4

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✨ Highway District Proclamation

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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 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 the remaining portion of the original district shall be immediately thereafter proclaimed a new district by the Superintendent, and shall be and be deemed to be a proclaimed district, and shall be dealt with in the same manner as a proclaimed district under the provisions of the said Act: and whereas by a proclamation bearing even date herewith, after reciting, as therein is recited, a block of land theretofore forming part of the Masterton Highway District was from and after the date therein mentioned proclaimed and declared to be a highway district by the name of the “Taratahi and Carterton Highway District”: and whereas it is expedient that the remaining portion of the Masterton Highway District should be proclaimed as hereinafter provided:

Now therefore I, William Fitzherbert, the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the remaining portion of the said Masterton Highway District, the boundaries whereof are described in the schedule hereunder written, shall from and after the Sixteenth day of February now instant be and be deemed to be a Highway District within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act, and that such district shall be called and known by the name of the “Masterton 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 bounded on the North and East by the Manawatu River from the Gorge to the Teraumea River, by the southern and western boundaries of the Castle Point Highway District, and by the sea coast between Whareama and Pahau Rivers; on South-west by the north-eastern boundaries of the Featherston Highway District, and by the Waingawa River from its source to its junction with the Ruamahunga River; and on the North-west by the Ruamahanga River and the Tararua Range.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington, by Thomas M’Kenzie, Printer for the time being to such Government.