PROCLAMATION

Of Vaccination Districts in the Province of Otago,
under “The Vaccination Act, 1863.”

BY THE HONORABLE JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the said Province.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, made and passed in the
twenty-seventh year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “The Vaccination Act, 1863,” it is
provided that within three months after the passing of
the said Act, the Superintendent of each Province in
New Zealand, should divide such Province or such
part of such Province as he should think fit, into convenient Districts for affording increased facilities for
Vaccination.

Now therefore, I, 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, so much of the Province of Otago as is contained within the nine Districts hereinafter mentioned
shall be divided into nine Districts, and the said Districts shall be for the purposes of the said “Vaccination
Act, 1863,” nine Vaccination Districts, and the names
and boundaries whereof shall be as follows, that is to
say:—

The Oamaru Vaccination District.

Comprising, for the purposes of the said Act, 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 the Dunstan
Mountains.

The Hawkesbury Vaccination District.

Comprising, for the purposes of the said Act, all that
area bounded towards the North by the said Oamaru
Vaccination 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 Rock and Pillar
Mountains, thence by the ranges to the Kakanui
Mountains aforesaid.

The Dunedin Vaccination District,

Comprising, for the purposes of the said Act, all that
area bounded towards the North by the Hawkesbury
Vaccination 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 Lammermoor Ranges.

The Tokomairiro District,

Comprising, for the purposes of the said Act, all that
area bounded towards the North by the Dunedin Vaccination District aforesaid, towards the East by the
Ocean aforesaid, towards the South by the Wangaloo,
Fraser’s, and Lovel’s Creeks, and towards the West by
Stuart and Waitahuna Ranges.

The Tuapeka Vaccination District,

Comprising, for the purposes of the said Act, all that
area bounded towards the North by the ranges between
Mount Benger and Lammerlaw, towards the East by
the Vaccination Districts of Dunedin and Tokomairiro,
towards the South by the Dull Burn, Waitahuna, and
Clutha Rivers, and towards the West by the Black
Cleugh Burn and the Ranges running from Papanui
Ranges to Mount Benger.

The Molyneux Vaccination District,

Comprising, for the purposes of the said Act, all that
area bounded towards the North by the Umbrella
Ranges, and the said Vaccination Districts of Tuapeka
and Tokomairiro, towards the East and South by the
Ocean aforesaid, and towards the West by the Mataura
River.

The Mount Ida Vaccination District,

Comprising for the purposes of the said Act, all that
area bounded towards the North by the Oamaru Vaccination District aforesaid, towards the East by the
said Vaccination Districts of Hawkesbury and Dunedin,
towards the South by the Tuapeka Vaccination District aforesaid, and towards the West by Roughridge,
thence to the Hawkdun Mountains aforesaid.

The Dunstan Vaccination District,

Comprising, for the purposes of the said Act, all that
area bounded towards the North by the said Province
of Canterbury and the Oamaru Vaccination District
aforesaid, towards the East by Mount Ida Vaccination
District aforesaid, towards the South by the Tuapeka
Vaccination District aforesaid, and towards the West
by the Umbrella Ranges, Cairn-muir, Pisa, and Earnslaw Ranges.

The Wakatipu Vaccination District,

Comprising, for the purposes of the said Act, all that
area bounded towards the North by the Canterbury
Province aforesaid, towards the East by the said Vaccination Districts of Dunedin and Molyneux, towards
the South by the Province of Southland, and the said
Ocean, and towards the West by the said Ocean.

Given under my hand, and issued under
the Public Seal of the Province of
Otago, this ninth day of January,
One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four.

J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

By his Honor’s command,

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION

Extending the limits of Mount Benger and Dunstan
Gold Fields.

BY THE HONORABLE JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of
Otago.

WHEREAS on the fifteenth day of September
last, I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of
the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers delegated to me in that behalf, did, by proclamation in the
Provincial Government Gazette, constitute and appoint
certain portions of the Province of Otago to be Gold
Fields, under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act,
1862,” under the respective names of the Mount Benger Gold Field, and the Dunstan Gold Field, and the
limits of which Gold Fields I did by the same proclamation define, and whereas it has become expedient to
extend the limits of the Mount Benger Gold Field and
the Dunstan Gold Field respectively, as hereinafter
mentioned.

Now, therefore, I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent as aforesaid, by virtue of the powers delegated