✨ Highway District Proclamation
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. XXIII. SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1876. No. 24.
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 enacted among other things that upon the constitution of Highway Districts under the said Act the same shall be divided into Wards by the Superintendent, who shall from time to time, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, define the boundaries of such Wards, and may from time to time abolish any such Wards, and proclaim and define new Wards: Provided that the number of Wards in any proclaimed district shall never be less than five nor more than seven, and that when any town is included within a district the boundaries of the Ward shall always be so fixed that the whole of such town shall be included in one Ward.
And whereas by two several Proclamations, bearing date the twenty-fifth day of February, 1876, made under the authority of the said Act, the Manawatu Highways District constituted by the said Act was divided into two districts, one thereof being named the "Manchester Highway District," and the other the "Manawatu Highway District:" And whereas it is expedient to divide the said new Districts into Wards, as provided by the said Act:
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 said Manchester Highway District shall be, and the same is hereby divided into six Wards, the boundaries whereof are respectively defined in the First Schedule hereto, and that the said Manawatu Highway District shall be and the same is hereby divided into six Wards, the boundaries whereof are respectively defined in the second Schedule hereto.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, this 22nd day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
William Fitzherbert,
Superintendent.
Countersigned—
Charles P. Powles,
For the Provincial Secretary.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
The Wards in the Manchester Highway District.
Ward No. 1.
Bounded towards the north-east by the north-east side of a public road known as Gillett’s Line; towards the south-east by the Oroua River; towards the south by the Kawa Kawa Native Reserve, and by sections Nos. 118, 119, 124, 125, 129, and 130, township of Sandon; towards the west by sections Nos. 85, 130, and 132; and towards the north-west by the south-east side of a public road separating sections...
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1876, No 24
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🏘️ Proclamation of Wards in Manchester and Manawatu Highway Districts
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government22 June 1876
Highway Districts, Wards, Boundaries, Manchester, Manawatu, Proclamation
- William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington
- Charles P. Powles, For the Provincial Secretary