THE SHEEP ACT, 1878.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5540, 30 December 1878, Page 3

THE SHEEP ACT, 1878.

Friday’s Gazette contains proclamations of the divisions of' the colony into districts for the purposes of the New Sheep Act. The following are the boundaries in full of the subdivisions in the Wellington District: —The Wellington District shall comprise tho following subdivisions : —The Wan--ganui subdivision—Comprising the counties of Fates, and so much of the Wanganui County as is not included in the Napier Sheep Dia- - trict. —The Eangitikei subdivision—Comprising tho county of Eangitikei, and so much of the Manawatu County as is north of the Manawatu River. The Wellington subdivision—Comprising the county of Hutt, and so much of the Manawatu county as lies south of the Manawatu River, together with the Islands of Kapiti, Mans, and Somes. Tho North Wairarapa subdivision—Comprising so much of tho counties of Wairarapa Bast and Wairarapa West as is bounded towards the north-east by a line from the summit of the Tararua Range to the source of the Ruamahanga River; thence by the Ruamahanga River to the junction with the Taueru River ; thence up the Taueru Biver and Kourarau Creek to its intersection with the southern boundary of sectionNo. 41, Tupurpuru Block; thence by the southern boundaries of sections 41, 67, 58, 59, 60, 86, 85, and 79, to the Waiunions River ; thence down the Walnuioru and Patea rivets to the sea. Tho South Wairarapa subdivision—Comprising so much of the counties of Wairarapa East and Wairarapa West as are not included in the North Wairarapa subdivisions.