[AS REPORTED FROM THE LOCAL BILLS COMMITTEE.] House of Representatives, Sth Augtist, 1908.

M*r. Malcolm.

TAPANUI COUNTY.

LOCAL BILL.1

ANALYSIS:

Title. 1. Short Title. 3. Jurisdiction of county. 2. County constituted. Schedule.

A BILL INTITULED

AN AcT to constitute the Tapanui County. Title. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as 5 follows :- 1. This Act may be cited as the Tapanui County Act, 1908. Short title. 2. (1.) The Tapanui County is hereby constituted, and-shall com- Tapanui County pri sing all that portion of the Tuapeka and Clutha Counties alpeady constituted. constituted under the Countic:; Act, 1886, partictilarly described in the 10 First Schedule hereto, a**,1 (2.) The boundaries of the Counties of Tuapeka and Clutlia are hereby altered accordingly, and shall be as respectively described in the Second Schedule hereto. 3. From and after the coming into operation of this Act, and Jurisdiction of f 15 during the existence of the county so constituted, no local authority °Ounty. f other than the Tapanui County Council shall within the limits of the said county exercise any jurisdiction or authority over any roads, or over or in relation to any matter or thing in respect of which jurisdiction is conferred upon a County Council linder the provisions 20 of the Counties Act, 1886, or any amendments thereof or otherwise: Provided that nothing herein shall affect the power of the Governor to proclaim any portioii of the said county a borough or town district.

SCHEDULES. Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Boundayfes of the TAPANur COUNTY. Struck out. ALL that area In the Obago Land DiSLrieD, commencing aL the contluence oi 611& Leithen Burn with the ; thence bounded towards the west generally by the Southland Countv to the northern boundary of Block VII, Wa,rt Hill Survey District ; thence towards the north by the northern boundaries of Blocks VII, VIII, IX, and X, Wan Hill Survey District, thence towards the west by the north- western boundary of Block VI. Benger Survey District ; thence by the northern boundary of said Block VI to Block IV, Benger Survey DisDrics ; Ohence bounded No. 12-2. 2 Tapanui County.

: towards the east and north-east generally by part of said Block IV and by part of Allotment 30, Moa Flat Estate, to a road reserve ; thence by the northern side of said road reserve and a public-road line, and across said road-line to the Town of Ettrick ; thence by the said town and Allotments 3,4A, across 4 to Allotment 5, Mot]. Flat Estate; thence by Allotments 5 and 6 to the western boundary of Block IV, Crookston Survey District ; thence by said western and southern boundaries of said Block IV to the western boundary of Block I of said district ; thence by said western boundary of said Block I ; towards the south and south-east generally by a public road, and by a road and a road reserve, being the southern boundary of Block XVI, said Crookston Survey District ; thence by the crossing of said road and by the eastern boundary of Sections 7 and 6, Block XIV, of said district ; thence by the summit of the Blue Mountains to the Rankleburn ; thence by the said burn to its confluence with the Pomahaka River ; thence by- the centre of the said river to a point in line with the northern boundary-line of Block VIII, Waipahi Survey District ; towards the south by a line from the centre of said river to the northern boundary of said Block VIII, and by said Block VIII and Block IX of said district, and by Waikaka Survey District; towards the west by the eastern boundary-line of the Chatton Survey District, and by that line produced to the centre of the Leithen Burn ; thence bounded again towards the north-east generally by the centre of said Leithen Burn to its confluence with Pomahaka River, being the commencing- point. New. ALL that area, in the Land District bounded towards the north bv Blocks II,] III, IV, and V, Wa.rt Hill Survey District, from the eastern boundary of Southland County to the south-eastern corner of the last-mentioned bloek ; thence towards thel west by part of the western boundary of Block VI, Benger Survey District, to its north-western corner; therlee again towards the north by the northern boundary of the said Block VI to Block IV, Benger Survey District ; thence towards the east izenerally by the last-mentioned block, Allotment No. 30, Moa Flat Estate, and the north-western side of the road forining the south-eastern boundary of the said Allot- ment No. 30 50 a point in line with the western boundary of the Township of Ettrick; thence across that road and by the Township o: Ettrick, Allotments Nos. 3 and U, Moa Flat Estate, the abutment of a road and Allotments Nos. 5 and 6, Moa Flat Estate 60 the north-western corner of Block IV, Crookston Survey District ; thence by Blocks IV and I and the road forming the southern boundary of Block XVI to Ghe north-eastern corner of Section No. 7, Block XIV, Crookston Survey District ; thence by the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 7 and 6 on the said Block XIV nd the summit of the Tapt],nui Mounituns to Trig. F in Block X, Crookston Survey District ; thence by a right line to the source of the Rankleburn ; thence by the Rankleburn to its confluence with the Poinahaka River ; thence towards the south generally by a line along the middle of the Pomahaka River to the northern boundary of Waipahi Survey District; thence by Waipahi and Waikaka Survey Districts to the south-eastern corner of Chatton Survey District; and thence towards the west generally by Southland County to the place of commencement : excepting the Borough of Ta,panui.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

BOUNDAMES OF THE TUAPEKA COUNTY. All that area bounded towards the north generally by Vincent County from the north-eastern corner of Southland County to the western boundary of Maniototo County ; thence towards the north-east generally by Maniototo and Taieri Councies to the northern boundary of Bruce County ; thence towards the south generally by Bruce County to the ; thence bv a line along the middle of the Clutha River to a point due east of Trig Station D, Rankleburn Survey District ; thence by a right line through the said Trig Station D to the middle of Back Creek; thence by a line along the middle of the said Back Creek to its confluence with the Pomahaka River ; thence by a line along the middle of the Pomahaka River to the confluence of the Rankleburn with chat River; thence towards the west and again towards the north by the Tapanui Coun&y as described in the First Schedule hereto, to the eastern boundary of Southland County and t,hence towards the north-west by Southland County to the place of commencement : exeepting the boroughs of Lawrence and Roxburgh. Tapanui County.

New. BOUNDARIES OF THE CLUTHA COUNTY. All that area bounded towards the north generally by the Tapanui County as described in the First Schedule hereso, from Ghe norah-easern corner of Waikaka Survey District to the confluence of the Rankleburn with the Pomahaka river ; thence by the Tuapeka Counay, as described in the Second Schedule hereto, to the westerninost corner of Bruce County; thence towards the north-east by Bruce County to the sea ; thence towards the south-east by the sea to Southland County and thence towards the west generally, by Southland County to the place of commence- ment : excepting the borough of Balclutha and the Town District of Clinton.

By Authority : JOHN MAcKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.--1908