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Government Notices. MOUNT BOMERS ROAD DISTRICT DIVIDED INTO FIVE SUBDIVISIONS. NOBXANBT, GOVKENOE. (l.s ) A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by section nine of the Canter bury Road • Ordinance, 1872, it is enacted that, at any time after the first ordinary annual election or general election, as the case may be, of the Board f r any district, the Superintendent, if he shall have received a petition to that effect from the Board of the said district, or from one-fourth or more of the number of_ persone liable to be rated under this Ordinance in respect of rateable property in the said district may, by proclamation, within three months after the receipt of the same, divide the distrint.into two or more separate subdivisions, by such names as shall by such proclamation be assigned to the same, and in and by such proclamation the boundaries of the subdivisions shall be eet forth Provided that no such division shall be made within three months before the day appointed for holding the annual election of members of the Board in or for such district: And whereas by virtueof the Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875, the powers, duties, end functions by tbe said Ordinance vested in the Superintendent are now vested in the Governor: And whereas on the fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, a petition from the Board of the Mount Somers Road District was received by his Excellency the Governor prayiDg that such district should be divided into the five I separate subdivisions described in the schedule hereto: And whereas all things have been done, performed, and happened to authorise the issue i of this proclamation: I Now, therefore I, George Augustus Conetani tine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in mc by the said in part recited Ordinance and Act, do hereby divide the Mount Somers Boad District into the five subdivisions described in the first column of the schedule hereto, and do assign unto such subdivisions the _ respective names set opposite to such subdivisions in the second column of the said schedule, and do declare that the boundaries of such subdivisions shall be those specified in the said first column. And I do further proclaim ard declare that the number of members to be elected for each of such subdivisions ehall be the number set opposite each subdivision in the third column of the said schedule, And do severally assign the members of the said Road Board of the said district now in office to the said subdivisions in the manner set forth in the fourth column of the said SCHEDULE. • Mα m be r Assignment Sub-divisions Names of Mem- of - and of Snb-di- bars to Members of Boundaries. visions. Subdivi- Board now eion. in office. No. 1. Compris- North One. m To No. 1 ing all that por- Aβ hour- . Ward :Mr tionofthediutrict ton ward Duncan Canorthoftheßiver meron. Ashbnrton, (north branch), containing . Buns Nos. 51 < No a' Compris- Alford One. To No. 2 ing Alford forest, Fore st Ward : Mr them known as Ward. Andr c w Graham's Bun, Maofarlane and those portions of Alford and Bnc- . eleugh Buns (Nos 126 and 125) lying to the west of the ■ road leading'from . . BuccleughSfcaiion . . . to Single. Tree road to Alford : Forest.and thence to the north. branch of the Ashburton by direct road to Thdinpson's accommodation bouse. ■ No. 3. Compris- Bu c - One. To No. 3 ing theremaininfr eleugh Ward: Mr portions of Alford Ward, Isaac Edand BucoJeuitb ward TayBuns and Valetta lor Bnn(No.SB). ■•■_.,■ No. 4. Compris- South One. To Nβ. 4 imr Anama Bun Ashbur- Ward: Hon ■ (No. 401), andtonWard! William Shepherd's Bush Spence Pβ--8mf(N0.532). ter No. 5; Compris- AsKbur- ■ One. To No. i 5: ing theportion of ton Gorge ■ Ward: Mr the district not Ward- William inolnded in "the Campbell foregoing. Walker. Given under the hand of hie Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantino, Marquis of Normanby,, Earl of Mulgrave, ViscountNormanby, and BaronTilulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron '"' • 'Mulftrave..of New Boss, in the County 1 of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty's Most • ■ Honorable Privy Council; Knight ■ Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished . Order of St. Michael and St. George; : . Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New j Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House at Wellington, this thirty-first day of August, ipthe year of ; .our Lord one thousand eight hundred arid seventy-eight. - ' " .;,. G. S. WHITMORE. God Save the Quekn!

Extract from" New Zealand Gazette," Apraas. . , 1878. ■■.-'■ BONUS. Crown Lands Office, .■'.;■;. WeHington. April 22,1878. "VfOTICEis hereby given that, in terms of a _131 resolution of the House of Bepresenta-' tives, the Government of New Zealand will pay, by way of bonne, the sum of five thousand pounds (.£5000) to any individual or company who efaall first produce not less than five hundred (500) tons of marketable sugar from beet grown and manufactured in the North Island. Also, that a like sum of five thousand pounds (.£5000) will be paid to any individual or company who shall first produce not leas than five hundred (500) tons of marketable sugar from beet grown and manufactured in the Middle Island. Such bonus to be paid upon its being duly certified by the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the district within which the sugar shall have been produced and by the Chairman of the nearest Chamber of Commerce, that the minimnm quantity herein* before mentioned has been so produced, and is of marketable quality : Provided further that snch certificates shall have been-presented at the Colonial Treasury within three years of the date above written. J. MACANDEEW, Minister of Lands. APPOINTING POLLING PL.4CES FOB SUB-DmSIONS OF MOUNT SOMEBS BOAD DIBTBICT. •-; NOBMANBT, GOVEENOB. "> -\\ rHEBTBAS by section ninety-four of the ff Canterbury Boads Ordinance; 1872, i is enacted that "in every district' divided into subdivisions'the Seperintendent ; shall, within fifteen days after "any subdivision of such district shall become such subdivision, appoint in and for such,subdivision one place to be the place of polling at all elections held in and for suehjsttbmvision. and he may from time to time afterwards appoint in lieu thereof another each place within snch subdivision." And whereas by 'the Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875, the powers vested in the Superintendent by the said section are now vested in the Governor.: And whereas the Governor,, by ProeLjmation of even date herewith, divided the Mount Somen Bead District into the several subdivisions specified in the schedule thereto: ' Now, therefore. I George Augustus Constantino, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in mc by the said Ordinance and Act, do hereby appoint tfce places named in the schednle hereto to be polling places for the respective subdivisions under the nam&s cf which such polling places are set forth. SCHEDULE. No. 1 Ward- ,„ < ~ Cameron's Wool Shed. N0.2 Ward— . Graham's Wool Shed. No. 3 Ward— Jload Board Office, Mount Somers. No. 4 Ward— Peter's Wool Sled. No. 6 " Potta'Vdol Shed. " As wibiess the cf Tuj Exceßaney the Governor, this thirty-flrs* d&y 01 Angnst, one thouaad eight hundred and seventy? eight. 6, S. WEITMOBE.