✨ Proclamation of Police Districts
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
THOMAN DICK,
Provincial Secretary.
Vol. VII. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1863. [No. 276.]
PROCLAMATION
Of Police Districts under “Licensed Hawkers Ordinance, 1862.”
By the Honorable John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby Proclaim and Declare that from and after the date hereof, there shall be for the purposes of the “Licensed Hawkers’ Ordinance, 1862,” nine Police Districts, the names and boundaries whereof are as follows, that is to say:
The Oamaru Police District.
Comprising, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, all that area bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury, towards the east by the Pacific Ocean, towards the south by the Kakanui Mountains, and towards the west by Hawkdun and Dunstan Mountains.
The Hawksbury Police District.
Comprising, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, all that area bounded towards the north by the said Oamaru Police District, towards the east by the ocean aforesaid, towards the south by the Waitati Stream, the Silver Peak Hills, and the Taieri and Sutton Streams, and towards the west by the Lammerlaw Ranges.
The Dunedin Police District.
Comprising, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, all that area bounded towards the north by the Hawksbury Police District aforesaid, towards the east by the ocean aforesaid, towards the south by the Taieri and Waipori Rivers, and towards the west by the Verter Burn and Lammer-moor Ranges.
The Tokomairiro Police District.
Comprising, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, all that area bounded towards the north by Dunedin Police District aforesaid, towards the east by the ocean aforesaid, towards the south by the Wangaloa, Fraser’s, and Lovel’s Creeks, and towards the west by Smart and Waitahuna Ranges.
The Tuapeka Police District.
Comprising, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, all that area bounded towards the north by the Ranges between Mount Benger and Lammerlaw, towards the east by the said Police Districts of Dunedin and Tokomairiro, towards the south by Tuapeka and towards the west by the Clutha River, and the Ranges running from Black Cleugh Burn and the Ranges running from Papaanui Ranges to Mount Benger.
The boundaries further described towards the west by the Hook and Pillar Mountains, thence by the ranges to Deep Dell Creek, by the Deep Dell Creek and the Ranges to the Kakanui Mountains aforesaid.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1863, No 276
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⚖️ Proclamation of Police Districts under Licensed Hawkers Ordinance, 1862
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement18 November 1863
Police Districts, Licensed Hawkers Ordinance, Otago Province, Oamaru, Hawksbury, Dunedin, Tokomairiro, Tuapeka
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago