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a distinct name and shall be a Registrar’s District, and it is provided that the Governor may at any time revoke the whole or any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new Proclamation dividing the Colony or any part of it anew into Districts or increasing the number or altering the boundaries of Districts as from time to time he may think requisite:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said recited Act, do hereby revoke every Proclamation at any time heretofore issued appointing or dividing Registrars’ Districts under the said Act so far as such Proclamations relate to Districts within the Provinces of Otago and Southland respectively, and do hereby proclaim and declare that the said Provinces shall be and are hereby divided for the purposes of the said Act into eleven Districts in the Province of Otago, and three Districts in the Province of Southland, the names and boundaries whereof respectively shall be as follows:—

PROVINCE OF OTAGO.

Dunedin District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Waihemo Creek, Blueskin Bay, and the Ocean, on the East and South by the Ocean, and on the West by Kaikorai and Abbott’s Creeks, thence by the watershed of the Kuikorai, Flagstaff, and Swamp Hill Ranges to the source of the Waihemo Creek.

Waikouaiti District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by Oamaru District, on the East by the Ocean, on the South by Dunedin District, thence by the watershed of the Silverpeak Hills to the source of Allen Creek, thence by the Allen Creek, Taieri, and Sutton to Lammerlaw, on the West by the watershed of Lammerlaw and Rough Ridge Ranges to Mount Ida.

Dunstan District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by Oamaru District, on the East by Waikouaiti District, on the South by the Minzion Burn, Clutha, and an East and West line to Mount Benger, and on the West by the watershed of Mount Benger, Obelisk, Carrick, Double Rock Ranges to Mount Pisa.

East Taieri District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by Waikouaiti District, on the East by Dunedin District, on the South by the Ocean, and on the West by the Taieri River.

West Taieri District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by Waikouaiti District, on the East by East Taieri District, on the South by the Waipori Lake and River to Lammerlaw.

Tohomairiro District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by East and West Taieri Districts, on the East by the Ocean, on the South by the Clutha River and North Branch, and on the West by the Waitahuna and Dullburn to Mount Stuart, thence by the watershed of Mount Stuart, Round Hill, and Waitahuna Ranges to the Waipori River.

Tuapeka District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by Dunstan and West Taieri Districts, on the East and South by Tokomairiro District, and on the West by the Clutha.

Warepa District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by Wakatip and Dunstan Districts, on the East by Tuapeka and Tokomairiro Districts, on the South by the Ocean, and on the West by the Mataura.

Oamaru District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Province of Canterbury, on the East by the Ocean, on the South by the Horse, Kakanui, Hawkdun Ranges, and on the West by Mount Saint Bathan’s, and the continuation of the Dunstan Mountains to the Province of Canterbury.

Wanaka District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Province of Canterbury, on the East by Oamaru District, on the South by the Dunstan District, thence by the Tinwald to Mount Pisa, on the West by the watershed of the Mount Pisa and Earnslaw Ranges to the Province of Canterbury.

Wakatip District

Comprises all that area bounded on the North by the Province of Canterbury and the Wanaka District, on the East by the Dunstan District, on the South by Warepa District, by the Province of Southland, and by the Ocean, and on the West by the Ocean.

PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND.

Campbelltown District

Bounded on the East by the Mataura, on the South by the Ocean, on the West by the estuary of the New River, and on the North by the Mokomoko Inlet and a right line from the South-east corner thereof drawn East to cut the Mataura.

Invercargill District

Bounded on the East by the Mataura, on the South by the Campbelltown District and the Ocean, on the west by the Waimatuku River to its source, thence by a right line North-west to cut the Aparima, thence by the Aparima to the junction of Hamilton Burn, thence by a right line North to the Oreti, thence by the Oreti to the junction of Winley River, and on the North by the North boundary of the Province.