448
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, the total length being 1,830 feet or thereabouts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Administrator of the Government 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 first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

J. MACANDREW.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming a Hundred in Otago under “The Land Act, 1877.”

(l.s.) HERCULES ROBINSON,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section thirteen of Appendix H of “The Land Act, 1877,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute into a hundred any portion of the Crown lands not forming part of any hundred previously proclaimed, notwithstanding that such lands or any part thereof shall be comprised within any pastoral lease or license heretofore or hereafter to be granted by the Crown under any law regulating the occupation or disposal of Crown lands, and whether or not the same shall have been included within the boundaries of any proclaimed gold field:

And whereas the Land Board of Otago have recommended that the land described in the Schedule hereto should be proclaimed a hundred under the provisions of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be given to the said recommendation of the Land Board:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, do hereby proclaim that the portion of the waste lands particularly described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby constituted into a hundred, under and for the purposes of the said Act; and that it shall be called or known by the name set above the description of the said hundred in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

MERTON HUNDRED.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago, containing by admeasurement twenty thousand (20,000) acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North and North-west by Run 171A; towards the North-east by the north branch of the Waikouaiti River; towards the South-east by the south branch of the Waikouaiti River; towards the South by Block III., North Harbour and Blueskin District, and part of Block X., Silver Peak District; and towards the West by Silver Peak District. Excepting therefrom Pre-emptive Rights numbered 1, Block VI., 3, 5, and 6, Block V., and P.R.A., Run 76: as the same is delineated on the plans deposited in the Survey Office, Dunedin.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,

Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Administrator of the Government in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

J. BALANCE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Dog Registrars appointed.

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(l.s.) HERCULES ROBINSON,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The (Canterbury) Dog Nuisance Ordinance, Session XVII., No. 3,” “The (Canterbury) Dog Nuisance Amendment Ordinance, 1862,” and “The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875,” I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the persons whose name appear in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be the persons to register dogs for the places set opposite their names in the second column of the said Schedule: And I do further appoint the places mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule to be the offices at which persons shall register their dogs.

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SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Administrator of the Government in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Changing the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve.

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JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, 1879.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto is a portion of a reserve conveyed to the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury on the eighteenth day of September, one