New Zealand Gazette – 1878 – No. 8

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✨ Land Districts and Delegation of Powers



THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 73

FIRST SCHEDULE—continued.

Name and Description of Local District. Name of Land Office.
southerly by the ranges, the Cardrona River, Boundary Creek, and Kirtleburn, to the Kawarau River; thence south-westerly along the Kawarau River and the western watershed of Nevisburn to Ben Nevis; thence south-westerly along the Hector Mountains to the south-western corner of Run 339; thence south-easterly to the Garvie Mountains at Remarkable Gap; thence south-westerly along the Garvie Mountains to East Dome, the starting point.
5.—INVERCARGILL LOCAL DISTRICT. All that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded by a line proceeding from Chasland’s Mistake to Black Horn Hill; thence by the watershed line to Bleak Hill; thence by a line to a hill about three miles west-north-west of Catlin’s Cone; thence north-westerly to the northern source of the Mokoreta River; thence to and along the Kaiwera Stream to the Waipahee Stream; thence by the Waipahee Stream and the Pomahaka River to the junction of the Waikoikoi Stream; thence along the said stream to its source; thence along the watershed of the Pomahaka River to Whitecomb; thence north-westerly over Titan Rocks to the Garvie Mountains; thence south-westerly along the said Garvie Mountains to East Dome; thence due west to the Mataura River; thence along the Mataura River to Eyre Peak; thence westerly to the western watershed of the Wakatipu Lake; thence in a northerly direction along the said watershed to a point due east of Moffat Peak; thence due west over Moffat Peak to a point north-west of Barrier Peaks; thence by a line due south to the ocean at Rowallanburn; thence by the ocean to the Waiau River; thence by the Waiau River and the eastern shore of the Maniopori Lake to a point due west of the confluence of the Windley and Oreti Rivers; thence due east to the confluence of the said rivers; thence by a line to Eyre Peak; thence by a line to the source of the Mataura River, by the Mataura River to the ocean, and by the ocean to Chasland’s Mistake, the starting point. The Land Offices at Invercargill and Switzer’s.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Name of Land Officer. Name of Local District.
Edgar Hall Carew ... ... ... Lawrence.
Henry Wirgman Robinson ... ... ... Naseby.
William Lawrence Simpson ... ... ... Clyde.
Henry Aldborough Stratford ... ... ... Queenstown.
Walter Henry Pearson ... ... ... Invercargill.
John Nugent Wood ... ... ... Do. (Switzer’s).

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council; 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 the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

J. T. FISHER.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Delegation of Powers under “The Public Domains Act, 1860.”

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of January, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the eleventh section of “The Public Domains Act, 1860,” it is enacted that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time delegate all or any of the powers by the said Act conferred upon any person for any period and subject to such stipulations as may be specified in such Order, and that every such delegation may from time to time in like manner be altered or revoked: And whereas it is enacted by “The Public Domains Act Amendment Act, 1865,” that the word “person” in the hereinbefore recited section of “The Public Domains Act, 1860,” shall be deemed to include more persons than one: And whereas by “The Lyttelton Public Domain Act, 1877,” all the land described in the Schedule to the said Act is declared to be Crown land, and to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1860,” as amended by “The Public Domains Act Amendment Act, 1865:”

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby delegate, but only with respect to the parcels of land described in the Schedule to the said “Lyttelton Public Domain Act, 1877,” all the powers conferred by “The Public Domains Act, 1860,” except the powers under or conferred by subsections five and ten of section five and by section eleven, to the under-mentioned persons, viz.,—

THOMAS HENRY POTTS, Esq.,
The MAYOR OF LYTTLETON for the time being,
WILLIAM DONALD, Esq.,
PETER CUNNINGHAM, Esq.,
JOHN THOMAS ROUSE, Esq.,
HENRY RICHARD WEBB, Esq.,
HARVEY HAWKINS, Esq.,

(herein referred to as “the Delegates”), subject to the stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

  1. The Delegates shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each month, at eleven o’clock in the morning, at the office of the Mayor, or at such other place as may from time to time be fixed by the Delegates. The first meeting shall be held on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

  2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or by any two of the Delegates, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be given to each Delegate, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

  3. Any three of the said Delegates shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

  4. The Delegates shall at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the



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🗺️ Proclamation establishing Local Districts and Land Offices in Otago (continued from previous page)

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
16 January 1878
Proclamation, Land Act 1877, Otago, Local Districts, Land Offices, Invercargill, Lawrence, Naseby, Clyde, Queenstown
  • George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, 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
  • J. T. Fisher

🏛️ Delegation of Powers under 'The Public Domains Act, 1860'

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
11 January 1878
Delegation, Public Domains Act 1860, Lyttelton, Mayor of Lyttelton, Delegates, Meetings, Quorum
  • George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, 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
  • Thomas Henry Potts, Esquire
  • The Mayor of Lyttelton for the time being
  • William Donald, Esquire
  • Peter Cunningham, Esquire
  • John Thomas Rouse, Esquire
  • Henry Richard Webb, Esquire
  • Harvey Hawkins, Esquire