No. 2—Wakari District.

This District comprises the District of the same name, as delineated on the Suburban selection maps of the Settlement—the Upper Kaikorai District; Sections Nos. 1 to 17 inclusive of the Lower Kaikorai District, and from thence in a straight line, being the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 50, Block VI. Town District, until it joins the Road line at Section No. 75, Block VI. Town District; and from thence along the south-western boundary line of Nos. 76, 77, 78, and 79, to No. 80; and from thence again to the Town Belt of Dunedin, so as to include the Sections numbered 80 to 90 inclusive, Block VI. Town District.

From No. 21 Lower Kaikorai District, in a straight line running through the Trigonometrical Station on the Kaikorai hill until it joins Abbot’s Creek, then following that stream to its source; and from thence again in a straight line to the south-western corner of Section No. 155, Wakari District.

No. 3—Town District.

This District comprises the remainder of the District of the same name, which is not included in the Wakari District No. 2, together with Sections numbered 18 to 33 inclusive of the Lower Kaikorai District, and the Sections numbered 1 to 32 of the Ocean Beach District.

No. 4—Anderson’s Bay District.

This District comprises the District of the same name, together with that of the Tomahawk Valley District.

No. 5—Green Island District.

This District comprises the south-western part of the Lower Kaikorai District, from Section No. 38 to Abbot’s Creek, together with the unsurveyed lands to the west and north-west to Abbot’s Creek, not included in the Wakari District No. 2; the Green Island Bush District to the Kaikorai River, and the remainder of the Ocean Beach District not included in the Town District No. 3.

No. 6—East Taieri District.

This District comprises the entire tract of country to the west and south-west of the Green Island Bush and Wakari Districts, commencing at the south-western extremity of Section No. 66 Wakari District, and taking from thence in a straight line running through the Trigonometrical Station on Flagstaff (Wakari hills) to the boundary of the Otago Block, then along the boundary of the Block to the Taieri River; from thence, making that river the boundary, to the Ocean, excluding the Taieri Native Reserve; from thence again, taking the Ocean as the boundary, to the Kai-korai River, and from this point, keeping the boundaries of the Green Island and Wakari Districts, to No. 66 Wakari.

No. 7—West Taieri District.

This District comprises the tract of country to the eastward of the Maunga-atua Mountains and Otago Block boundary, and extending to the Taieri, Waipori, and Waihola Rivers.

No. 8—Tokomairiro District.

This District comprises the tract of country within the Otago Block, from the boundaries of the East and West Taieri, Nos. 6 and 7, to the Clutha River.

No. 9—Clutha District.

This District comprises the tract of country from the Clutha River to the boundary of the Otago Block.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

BYE-LAWS adopted by the Board of Commissioners for the Management of the Public Lands in Dunedin, on the 12th day of May 1854, pursuant to the provisions of the 8th Section of the Ordinance of the Provincial Council at Otago, Session I., No. 5, entitled “An Ordinance for Protecting, Leasing, and Improving the Lands in and about Dunedin, reserved for Public Purposes, and promoting those purposes.”

Meetings, &c.

1. All meetings, and adjourned meetings of the Board, shall be convened by Public Notice, signed by the Clerk, in a local newspaper; such meetings, where not otherwise notified, shall be held in the Hall of the Mechanics’ Institution in Dunedin.

2. Upon a written Requisition by three Members of the Board, the Clerk shall call a Special Meeting for the despatch of business specified in that Requisition.

3. At the first meeting after every annual election of Commissioners, the Board shall elect a Chairman, who shall preside at all meetings of the Board, and sign the minutes; and if he shall not be present within a quarter of an hour after the hour appointed for any meeting, the members present (if a quorum) shall appoint an Interim Chairman for that meeting.

4. If a quorum be not present within half an hour after the hour of meeting, the Chairman, or in his absence, the Clerk, may adjourn the meeting to a future day to be notified in a local newspaper, or otherwise; and the Clerk shall record the same in the Minute Book.

5. All meetings of the Board shall commence at 3 o’clock afternoon, unless otherwise notified.

6. When a meeting is constituted, the minute of last meeting shall be read, and after it is approved of, before proceeding to business, the Clerk shall read over the order of business for the day.

Members’ Duties.

7. Every Member shall stand while speaking, and shall address the Chairman.

8. The Chairman’s decision as to points of order, and as to who is in possession of the chair, shall rule every member.

9. Every member presenting a petition shall be responsible for its being respectfully expressed; and after it has been read, either by himself or the Clerk, he may shortly support the prayer thereof, but notice must be given of every motion to be founded thereon.

10. The Chairman shall have the power of deferring the consideration of any motion (of which notice had not been given at the preceding meeting of the Board) to a future meeting.

11. Every notice of motion shall be made in writing, and after being read it shall be handed to the Chairman to be recorded by the Clerk.

12. No rejected motion shall be again introduced for the space of six months, without the consent of a majority of the whole Board.

13. All Committees shall be private, except to members of the Board; and their proceedings shall be private till they make their Report to the Board.

Clerk’s Duties.

14. The Clerk shall enter in the minutes of every day’s sederunt the names of the members present at the commencement of the business, and on the margin of the minute he shall insert the name of every member thereafter taking his seat at the stage of the business when he entered.