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NEW ZEALAND
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. VII.] DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1864. [No. 306
[The following proclamation is republished from Gazette, No. 291, of 24th February last, as the part of the proclamation printed in italics was omitted in that Gazette.]
PROCLAMATION.
Extending the limits of the Dunstan Gold Fields within the Province of Otago.
By the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the said Province.
WHEREAS it is desirable to alter and extend the limits of the Dunstan Gold Field in the Province of Otago. Now THEREFORE, I, JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue of the powers delegated to and vested in me by His Excellency the Governor under and by virtue of the Gold Fields Act, 1862, do hereby proclaim and declare that all that territory hereinafter described shall henceforth be included within and form part of the Dunstan Gold Field under the provisions of the said Act, that is to say: ALL that area situate in the Province of Otago, bounded towards the North-West by a line extending in a North-Easterly direction from the existing Dunstan Gold Field to Mount St. Bathan’s, thence towards the North by the watershed of the Manuherikia River to the Hawkdon Mountains, thence towards the North-East by the Hawkdon Mountains to Mount Ida, and thence, towards the South and West by the boundary of the existing Dunstan Gold Field to the starting point.
Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin,
this twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.
PROCLAMATION.
Reserving and withdrawing for Sale certain Waste Lands of the Crown situate on the Tuapeka Gold-Field.
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 and vested in me in that behalf, did by proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette constitute and appoint a certain portion of the said province to be a gold-field under the provisions of the “Gold-fields Act, 1862,” under the name of the Tuapeka Gold Field, and the limits of which Gold Field I did in and by the said proclamation define: AND WHEREAS the lands hereinafter described are Waste Lands of the Crown, and are within the said limits and form part of the said Tuapeka Gold Field so proclaimed as aforesaid: AND whereas it has been made to appear to me that the said lands hereinafter described are necessary for settlement, public purposes, and roads: Now, THEREFORE, I in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me do hereby Proclaim and declare that I do reserve and withdraw for the purposes of sale the lands hereinafter
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1864, No 306
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🗺️ Extending the limits of the Dunstan Gold Fields
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey22 February 1864
Gold Fields, Dunstan, Proclamation, Boundaries
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent
- Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary
🗺️ Reserving and withdrawing Waste Lands for Sale on the Tuapeka Gold Field
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyWaste Lands, Tuapeka Gold Field, Proclamation, Sale
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent