as the Governor shall from time to time direct:

And whereas it is expedient to appoint a special day for the sitting of the said Board;

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority vested in me in that behalf by "The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870," do hereby fix and determine that a special sitting of the Waste Lands Board for the County of Westland shall be held at the Warden’s Court, in the Town of Goldsborough, on the twenty-second day of December next ensuing, at the hour of Noon, for the purpose of the sale of the Town of Goldsborough.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House at Wellington, this sixth day December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 65, of the 12th December, 1871.]

PROCLAMATION.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The County of Westland Act, 1868," it is, among other things, enacted that within the period of fifteen days before or after the day appointed for the holding of any election, or of any meeting of the County Council, or of any Road Board, or for doing of any act, matter, or thing by the said Act required to be done on or before a day certain, it shall be lawful for the Governor to extend the time allowed for the holding of such election or meeting, or for the doing of any such act, matter, or thing, as aforesaid, notwithstanding the day may have passed on which the same ought to have been held or done, and to adopt or cause to be adopted such measures as may be necessary to remove any obstacle of a technical or formal nature by which the carrying out of the provisions of the said Act relating to such elections or meetings as aforesaid may be impeded, and to supply any deficiency which may be required to be supplied, in order to enable the said provisions to be duly carried out: Provided always that any such measure so adopted by the Governor shall be duly notified in the New Zealand Gazette: And whereas by the said Act it is also enacted that annual elections of the Members of Road Boards of Road Districts shall be held on the second Thursday of December in each year as therein mentioned: And by the said Act it is further enacted that fourteen clear days before any election thereunder, public notice of such election shall be given by advertisement as therein also mentioned: And whereas, by inadvertence, notice of the election of Members for the Road Board of the Kanieri Road District hath not been given in accordance with the last-mentioned enactment, and it is expedient that the time for the holding of such election should be extended as and in manner hereinafter mentioned:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority in him vested by the said Act, doth hereby extend the time allowed for the holding of the election of Members of the Road Board of the Kanieri Road District from the said second Thursday of the month of December instant, on which day the said election ought, according to the provisions of the said Act, to have been held, to the twenty-ninth day of the same month.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House at Wellington, this twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.