WHEREAS by Proclamation of the twentieth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, the Licensing Districts of Mount Wellington and Tamaki West, in the County of Eden, were respectively constituted under “The Licensing Act, 1881” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”); and it being found that there were not a hundred ratepayers in the Tamaki West District, it became therefore necessary to extend the said district:

And whereas a Proclamation was issued on the seventeenth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, reconstituting the aforesaid districts, and by the said Proclamation the Township of Panmure was excluded from the Mount Wellington District, with the intention of including the same within the Tamaki West District, but by some error it was omitted to be included in the district last-named:

And whereas by notification in the Gazette of the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, the Governor appointed the Panmure Road Board to be the local body to have authority under the said Act throughout the Tamaki West District, and the said Board have exercised such authority accordingly under the said Act, and a poll of ratepayers as to the increase of licenses has been held in the said district, under the name of the Panmure Licensing District, and a Licensing Committee has been elected therein, which have granted licenses therein, and done other acts under the said Act within a district indifferently called the Panmure Licensing District and the Panmure and Tamaki West Licensing District:

And whereas in the meanwhile the operation of the said Act within the Tamaki West Licensing District as at present constituted has been virtually suspended, and no licenses can be granted therein by reason of a poll of the ratepayers therein not having been legally taken according to the requirements of the said Act:

For the rectification of all these errors and irregularities: