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. FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1876. No. 6.

Manawatu Highway 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 “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 Manawatu Highway District was, from and after the date therein mentioned, proclaimed and declared to be a Highway District by the name of the “Manchester Highway District”: And whereas it is expedient that the remaining portion of the Manawatu Highway District should be proclaimed as hereinafter provided:

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 said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the remaining portion of the said Manawatu Highway District, the boundaries whereof are described in the Schedule hereto, shall from and after the sixteenth day of March, 1876, 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 “Manawatu Highway District.”

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned—
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate area, 1,000,000 acres.

Bounded on the north and north-west by the southern and south-eastern boundaries of the Rangitikei Highway District; on the east by the summit line of the Tararua and Ruahine Ranges; on the south by a line bearing about east from the source of the Waikanae River to the top of the Tararua Range and by the Waikanae River; on the west by the sea coast between the Waikanae and Rangitikei Rivers.

Provided that “The Manchester Highway District,” the boundaries of which are defined in the Schedule to a Proclamation issued on the twenty-fifth day of February, 1876, proclaiming the said Manchester District, shall not be included in the Manawatu Highway District as herein defined.