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Sess. 11.—1879. NEW ZEALAND.

NEW COUNTY OF TIMARU (PROCLAMATION CONSTITUTING).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly pursuant to Section 15 of "The Counties Act, 1876."

(1.5.) Hebcules Bobinson, Governor. A BBOCLAMATION. Whereas a petition was presented to the Governor, signed by seven hundred and fifty persons, holding property of the annual value of seventy-one thousand two hundred pounds, being not less than three-fifths of the county electors contained within that portion of the County of Geraldiire included within the boundaries particularly set forth in the Eirst Schedule hereto, and containing in the whole an area of two hundred and one thousand four hundred aud nirre acres (more or less) in extent: And whereas the said petition prayed the Governor to constitute the said portion of the County of Guraldine a new county, and sot forth the boundaries of the proposed new county : And whereas such petition was publicly notified in the Timaru Herald of the fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, being not less than one month before such presentation tothe Governor: Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Eobert Bobinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, by virtue and in exercise of the power vested irr me by the fourteenth section of "The Counties Act, 1876," do hereby proclaim and declare that the aforesaid portion of the County of Geraldiue shall constitute a new county, to be called " The County of Timaru," and that the boundaries of the said new county so constituted shall be those particularly set forth in the First Schedule hereto ; and the said new county is hereby constituted accordingly : And I do hereby further proclaim and declare that the said County of Timaru shall be divided into three ridings, to be called the Levels Biding, the Opihi Biding, and the Ngawai Biding, the boundaries whereof shall be those particularly set forth in the Second Schedule hereto : And I do hereby further proclaim and declare that the number of members of the County Council of the said County of Timaru shall be —for the Biding of Levels three members, for the Bidiug of Opihi three members, and for the Biding of Ngawai three members.

EIRST SCHEDULE. Boundaries of the County of Timaeu. Bounded towards the North-west by the Opawa Stream from its source to its confluence with the Te Ngawai Biver ; thence by the middle of that river to the confluence of a stream rising in Section No. 6192 ; thence by that stream to Section No. 0192 aforesaid, aud by that section to the Opihi Biver ; thence towards the North-east by the middle of that river to the sea ; towards the East by the sea to the mouth of the Bareora Biver ; towards the South by the middle of that river to its westernmost source, near Mount Nimrod ; thence by a right line to Mount Nimrod ; thence by lines from peak to peak along the summit of the Hunters' Hills for about five (5) miles to the boundary of the Mount Cook Boad District; thence by a right line due west to the Hakateramea Biver ; and again towards the Nortii-wcst by a right lino from thence to the source of the Opawa Stream, the starting point.

SECOND SCHEDULE. Boundaries op Hidings. Opihi Riding. Bounded towards the North and North-east by the middle of the Opihi Biver from Section No. G192 to the confluence of the Te Ngawai Biver; thence towards the South and .Vest by the Te Ngawai Eiver to the confluence of a stream rising in Section No. G192 ; thence by that stream to Section No. G192 aforesaid, and by that section to the Opihi Biver at the starting point.