584
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

particularly described in the Schedule hereto should
be proclaimed to be a hundred under the provisions
of the said Act: And whereas the said lands do not
form part of any hundred previously proclaimed, and
the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the Chief
Surveyor of the said province have, in accordance
with the hereinbefore recited provisions of the said
Act, certified to the Governor, as to such lands herein-
after in the said Schedule described, that in their
opinion not less than one third part of the area
thereof is land available for agriculture:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be
given to the said recommendation of the Superin-
tendent and Provincial Council of the Province of
Otago:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers and authority
vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act,
do hereby proclaim that the waste lands particularly
described in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the
same are hereby, constituted into a hundred under
and for the purposes of the said Act; and that the
same shall be called or known by the name set above
the description of the said hundred in the said
Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
DART HUNDRED.

ALL that parcel of land in the Province of Otago,
in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by estima-
tion seven thousand four hundred (7,400) acres, more
or less, situate in the Interior Pastoral District, being
part of Run numbered three hundred and forty-six
(346) on the map of the said district, bounded by a
line commencing at the outlet of Diamond Lake into
the Earnslaw Burn, and proceeding in. a north-
westerly direction along the north-eastern shore of
that lake to the northern boundary of the said Run
346, ten thousand (10,000) links; thence in an easterly
direction along the edge of the forest forming the
northern boundary of the said run, twenty-two thou-
sand (22,000) links; thence in a south-easterly direc-
tion along the boundary of the said run to Rees
River, seven thousand four hundred (7,400) links;
thence along that river to the head of Lake Waka-
tipu, seventy-five thousand (75,000) links; thence in
a northerly direction along the Dart River, forty-four
thousand four hundred (44,400) links; thence by a
straight line in a north-easterly direction across the
southern point of the summit of Mount Alfred,
thirty thousand (30,000) links, to the starting point;
excepting out of the above description Section num-
bered 37, Block I., Earnslaw District, be all the afore-
said linkages more or less.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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
second day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation constituting Tuapeka Hundred.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Otago Waste Lands Act,
1872," it is, amongst other things, enacted

that it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he think
fit, on the recommendation of the Superintendent
and Provincial Council, from time to time, by Pro-
clamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to
constitute into a hundred any portion of the waste
lands not forming any part of any hundred previously
proclaimed, notwithstanding that such lands or any
part thereof shall be comprised within any pastoral
lease or license theretofore or thereafter to be granted
by the Crown under any law regulating the occupation
or disposal of waste lands, and whether or not the
same shall have been included within the boundaries
of any proclaimed gold field:

And whereas by the said Act it is also further
provided that no hundred shall be constituted which
shall consist wholly of land unsuitable for agriculture
and adapted for pastoral purposes only, and before
any hundred shall be constituted it shall be the duty
of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief
Surveyor to certify to the Governor that in their
opinion not less than one third part of the area of
such hundred is land available for agriculture:

And whereas the Superintendent of the Province
of Otago and the Provincial Council of the said
province have recommended that the waste lands
particularly described in the Schedule hereto should
be proclaimed to be a hundred under the provisions
of the said Act: And whereas the said lands do not
form part of any hundred previously proclaimed, and
the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the Chief
Surveyor of the said province have, in accordance
with the hereinbefore recited provisions of the said
Act, certified to the Governor, as to such lands herein-
after in the said Schedule described, that in their
opinion not less than one third part of the area
thereof is land available for agriculture:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be
given to the said recommendation of the Superin-
tendent and Provincial Council of the Province of
Otago:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers and authority
vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act,
do hereby proclaim that the waste lands particularly
described in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the
same are hereby, constituted into a hundred under
and for the purposes of the said Act; and that the
same shall be called or known by the name set above
the description of the said hundred in the said
Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
TUAPEKA HUNDRED.

ALL that parcel of land in the Province of Otago,
in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by estima-
tion fifteen thousand (15,000) acres, more or less,
situate in Tuapeka West District, being Block
numbered IV., and parts of Blocks numbered re-
spectively one (1), two (2), five (5), and seven (7),
on the map of the said district; bounded towards the
North by parts of Blocks numbered respectively
I. and II. twenty-eight thousand seven hundred
(28,700) links, by other part of Block numbered
II. ten thousand four hundred (10,400) links, also by
Block numbered III. three thousand (3,000) links;
towards the East by other part of the said Block II.
six thousand seven hundred (6,700) links, by Block
numbered III. seven thousand (7,000) links, by Block
numbered VI. twenty-eight thousand (28,000) links,
also by other parts of Blocks numbered respectively
II. and V. thirty-five thousand (35,000) links; to-
wards the South by other part of the said Block
numbered V. thirteen thousand four hundred (13,400)
links, by part of Block numbered II. seven thousand
four hundred and thirty (7,430) links, also by other