THE PETITION FOR.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 413, 23 October 1889, Page 8

THE PETITION FOR.

To His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand :— The Humble Petition of the undersigned Resident Householders of the Distiict of Te Arolm, in the Provincial District of! Auckland and Colony of New Zealand hlie.vcth : 1. Unit your Petitioners, resident lionseI holders of the Distiict of Te Aroha, in the Provincial District of Auckland and Colony of New Zealand, are desirous of constituting the said District of Te Aroha (the boondaiies and area of which are herewith described) n P.ot ough, under the provisions of" The Municipal Corporations Act, 1866," and of the savenil Acts amending the same, by the name of the 1 Soroush of Te Arolm T 2. That the Distiict has outgiown the pi osent form of local Government in as Mitich as the Gold Mining Indn*try and Population are increasing, and demand immediate attention in the shape of a water supply, combined with n propc fiystemof drainage so as to ensure proper sanitation and n means of extinguishing fit en, , 3. That such District comprises one continuous area containing not more than nine square ipiles, and not having within it any two points more than uix miles distant from each other. 4. That the boundaries and area of the said District proposed to be constituted n Borough are as follows, yiz. : Com moncing at a point at the Wnihou River, being the northern boundary of the Ruakaka Block, thejice along t he northern boundary line of the aforesaid Dlock a dhl.mce of 6.300 links, thence along the noil hern boundary line of Section SO to the north-eastern corner thereof, a dis~ tince of 6 800 links, thence continuing in a kJ might line easterly a distunes of 10.700 links, thence by a line 7.570 links, running southerly lo a point on the northei n boundary lineof the Recreation Reserve, thence by a line on the »»fores;t;d boundai v of the Recreation Reserve easleily 4 175 links, being the norihefst peg of the aforesaid Recreution j Reserve, thence by a line being 'ie , cistern boundary of the aforesaid Reserve 5.400 links, tlience by n Mae ea.ipi-ly 3.000 links to a point on the e:iale-ivi the Waiorongomai Creek, thence by l : iies southerly 5.400 links and 4 600 links to a point on Lot 24 of ihe Thames High School Kndowment,thence by a lino beint; ihe northern hrunda yof tliesub«(livi«ion of Lots 21 nnd2l of the t aforesaid Endowment 1J.350 links to j a point on lh«, Southern boundary of the aforesaid Ifyxy.-wment, llience b^ Jioes on tljo afoiyj f. boundary, 1.100 links und 14.400 /^nk.s to n/uoint on the western side of the, "Wa'hou River, thence following the western b;int ( of the sa«d liver to .i point oppos/d/^.Jie ►aid ii'iMuaku boundary, tliuncd / »/■ the Kvid Waihou Uiver to the j.oiufiU: coinntencenietit ; and conUiining all aron of 5.700 aides or thereabout*. St.itn'e uieiiMire, A ii. the Stiuiu is shown on the plan. Your neiiJiouprs therefme humbly pray tl»:it \tn:v Kxcelloncr will be pleased by I'rocliiniation tivdeolare the said district lo be a Uoioncrh under i le provisions of the iibovuHiieutioaed Act and AiikjP'lment> thpreoj', and your lVtiiioneJS will ever pi ay, etc. [TK AltoHA S«GNATDRKSj Aliier, Cl>:n los Heaihcole, Joseph Mills, JoiiicH Tloichin, M. JJalcke, t'lma. E. Llpsey, Geo. (jiiildinar, .1. W. R. O'Connor, J. Ga! lug her, h'd ward Menzie, A. Hood, Th os. Newton, L. Wiiite, \V. J. OToole, Frank Bcll,J. M. Farniei, A. J. Brennan, U. Dow nee, A. Craig, D. Berger, Albeit Dare, John his X in. »'c Ebert, George BiadSey, Thomaa Johnson. Charles Everitt, William Baine. Peter Cocks, John F, Cannell, Robt. Rowe, James Rowe, Win. Currie, John Hcndeison, David Johnson, John B. Wallace, John Squinobal, Joseph Faes, P. Russell, A. Hjde.W. Tonge, Cecilia Thomson, W. Ej*. Petery, L. Godfery, W. Michael, Robert Murray, J. McLeod Clarke, James Erasmus, John Dibsell, William Cleary, N. Mackie, Robert Gerrish, J. Adolph, E. Eveiitt, CCooper, Charles A. Robinson, John Hart, William Redwood, Daniel Brady, Philip Biggs, W. A . Comes, C. A . Johnson, James Crocker, Charles Hawkins, H. J. Harris, J. A. Nesbit, Chas. Arm it, Jos, Presley, T. McDevitt, F. Hyde, Henry Mercer, Edward Blencowe, R. N. (Total Te Aroha 70). [VVAIORONGOMAI BJGNATURKS.] Montagu*, Bernard Ritchie Denis Murphy, Martin Finn, Christie McSweeuev, Thos. Murplij, fl.os. x i McLeod, John Tayloi, Guor^'e

Curnow, William Andrew, Robert Munro, Jmnea N'lund, Thomas Donovan Timothy, O'KeeiHe, M. W, D. O'Jveeffe, Mnrgurct Moriarty, Patrick his X mark Hiekey, Eflrnoid his X mirk Ayl ward, Patrick Yonri"-, D. K. Cronin, Miclmc^ Baskiville, Henry Hill, Thomas t Hughes, Uenry Clarkin, John Naiurhton, John Casey, Thomas Ooocle, Robert PitarpHlrick, G. Knn»Jif, T. Ueed, Eliza Orr, James Orr, Ellen Cookson, K. Fielder, W. Koycroft, \V. Hill, Ri.jlrard Elw Howlnnd, Mary K. Wnttem, Jolin B. Goard, James Smith, Charles Cjirter, Henry Jenkins, Charles Thwuites, William McLean, D. Murphy, Cornelius Brien, John Courtney, James (Total Waiorongomai 47).