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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

District, and do proclaim and declare that the
territory formerly comprised within such district
shall be and is hereby divided, for the purposes of the
said Act, into two districts, the names and boundaries
whereof shall be as follows:-

OTEPOPO DISTRICT.
Comprises all that area bounded towards the
North by the northern branch of the Kakanui River
to its source, and thence by a line in a westerly
direction to the Kakanui Mountains; towards the
East by the ocean; and towards the South-west by
the Horse Range and the Kakanui Mountains.

OAMARU DISTRICT.
Comprises all that area bounded on the North and
North-east by the Province of Canterbury; on the
East by the ocean; on the South by the northern
branch of the Kakanui River to its source, and
thence by a line in a westerly direction to the
Kakanui Mountains; towards the West by the
Kakanui Mountains, the Hawkdun Mountains, and
the Dunstan Mountains, from Mount St. Bathans to
the Province of Canterbury.

And I do declare that this Proclamation shall come
into operation and take effect on the first day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this twenty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this seventh day of January, 1870.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Waste Lands Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council at any time, and from time to time, to except from sale, and either reserve to Her Majesty
or dispose of in such other manner as for the public interest may seem best, such of the Waste Lands of the
Crown in any of the Provinces of the Colony as may be required for the purposes of Military Defence, or
for the construction of Trunk Lines of Road, or as sites for Public Buildings for the use of the General
Government, or for other purposes of public utility or convenience :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, in exercise and in pursuance of the power and authority in that behalf vested in
him, doth hereby except from sale and reserve to Her Majesty the several parcels of the Waste Lands of the
Crown particularly specified and described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said
Schedule mentioned, and set opposite the descriptions of the said parcels of land respectively.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Reserve.

Purpose of Reserve.

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.—Waipara District.
All that parcel of land situate in the Waipara District at
Stony-Hurst, and containing by admeasurement fifteen (15)
acres, more or less, commencing at a point on the road
reserved from high water-mark, the said point being the
South-eastern corner of Section No. 7,531; thence about
North 6° 0' East (magnetic), following the eastern boun-
dary of that section a distance of fourteen (14) chains,
twenty (20) links; thence easterly at a right angle ten
(10) chains; thence southerly at a right angle following
a straight line to the Reserve from high water-mark before
mentioned; and from thence returning westerly along the
same to the commencing point, and numbered 75 (in red)
on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Can-
terbury, setting out and describing the rural land in the
Waipara District aforesaid.

For a Landing-place, and other purposes of
the General Government.

PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND.—Township of Campbelltown.
All that parcel of land in the Province of Southland,
containing by admeasurement one (1) rood and fourteen
(14) poles, more or less, situated in the Township of Camp-
belltown, commencing at a point bearing 6° 01' from the
North-east corner of Section No. 6, Block No. I., Camp-
belltown, and two hundred and ten (210) links distant
therefrom, and being bounded towards the West by a line
bearing 9° 01', a distance of two hundred and fifty (250)
links; towards the North-east by a line bearing 115° 07',
a distance of one hundred and fifty-six (156) links; towards
the East by a line bearing 189° 1', a distance of two hun-
dred and seven (207) links; and towards the South by
a line bearing 279° 01', a distance of one hundred and fifty
(150) links, to the commencing point.

As a site for a Custom House and Post
Office, or other buildings of the General
Government.

Approved in Council.

HENRY D. PITT, Captain, R.A., Private Secretary (for Clerk of the Executive Council).