✨ Proclamation of Infected District
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. VII.] DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1864. [No. 285.
PROCLAMATION
Declaring a certain portion of the Province of Otago to be an Infected District, under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."
By the Honorable John Hyde Harris,
Superintendent of the said Province.
WHEREAS by Section 10 of the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand it is enacted, that if at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out amongst Cattle in any District of the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, to declare that such District is Infected within the meaning of the said Act, and from time to time to make such Regulations for destroying Cattle therein, and for prohibiting the removal or transportation of Cattle from one part of the Colony to another, and for preventing the further spread of such disease: And Whereas by Section 14 of the same Act it is enacted, that the Governor in Council may, by Warrant under his hand from time to time, delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the Colony, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or Governor in Council by the said Act:
And Whereas, the Governor in Council hath, by Warrant under his hand, delegated to me, John Hyde Harris, so long as I shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Otago, the several powers vested in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth Sections of the said Act:
And Whereas it has been made to appear to me that a certain infectious or contagious disease has broken out amongst Cattle imported into the District of Waikouaiti, in the said Province:
Now, therefore, I the said John Hyde Harris, by virtue of the powers delegated to me in this behalf, do hereby Proclaim and Declare that from and after the date hereof, until further notice, that portion of the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, hereinafter described, shall be deemed an Infected District within the meaning, and for the purposes of the said "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," that is to say, all that area situate in the North Eastern District of the Province of Otago, bounded towards the North, by Shag River; towards the East, by the Ocean; towards the South, by the Southern boundary line of the Waikouaiti Native Reserve, thence by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station L in the said Waikouaiti Survey District; thence towards the West by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station J of the Waikouaiti Survey District; thence by a line due North to the Waikouaiti River, and thence by the boundary of New Hawkesbury Hundred to the Shag River.
And that no Cattle, from and after the date hereof, until further notice, shall be permitted to be removed, or transported from the said infected District.
Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this fourteenth day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Four.
(L.S.)
J. Hyde Harris,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
By His Honor’s Command.
Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1864, No 285
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🌾 Declaration of Infected District under the Diseased Cattle Act, 1861
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources14 January 1864
Diseased Cattle Act, Infected District, Waikouaiti, Cattle Disease, Proclamation
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
- Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary