WHEREAS the limits of the Auckland Gas Company’s Act 1871 are defined by section 46 of that Act (as amended by section 5 of the Auckland Gas Company Amendment Act 1963 and by section 2 of the Auckland Gas Company Amendment Act 1968) as extending to and including the City of Auckland and such parts of the suburbs and vicinity thereof as lie within a radius of 12½ miles from a centre at the Post Office, Jean Batten Place, Auckland and also the districts of the City of Manukau, of the County of Waitemata, and of the Boroughs of Helensville and Papakura as those districts were constituted immediately before the passing of the Auckland Gas Company Amendment Act 1968: And whereas it is desirable to extend those limits to include also the districts of the County of Franklin and of the Boroughs of Waiuku, Pukekohe, and Tuakau: