OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority

Vol. VIII. DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864. No. 320

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 Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in that behalf, I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, did, by proclamation published in the Government Gazette of the said Province and dated the 22nd day of March, 1864, proclaim and declare a certain District, or portion of the said Province, in the said proclamation particularly described, to be an infected district, within the meaning and for the purposes of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861;” And whereas it is expedient to extend the limits of the said infected district, so as to include that portion of the said Province hereinafter described: And whereas by a proclamation issued by me on the 26th day of February last, I did make, publish, and proclaim certain regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle within certain districts therein mentioned, and for prohibiting the removal of cattle out of the said last mentioned districts: And whereas it is expedient that similar regulations should be in force in and be applicable to the whole of the district hereinafter declared to be an infected district:—Now therefore I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the said Province, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date hereof, and until further notice, that portion 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:” —

All that area within the Province of Otago, bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury, from Awarua Bay to the eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake, thence by the said eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake and the Clutha River to the Dunstan Mountains, thence by the Dunstan Mountains to Mount St. Bathans; thence by the Hawkdun Mountains, the Kakanui Mountains, and the Horse Ranges to the Ocean; thence towards the east by the Ocean to the Taieri River, thence by the Taieri River, the Waipori Lake and River, and a line in a north-westerly direction to the source of the Beaumont Burn, thence by Beaumont Burn to the Clutha River, thence by a line to the summit of the Tapanui Range, thence to Rankle Burn, at its source, and by Rankle Burn, the Pomahaka and Waipahi Rivers to the southern boundary line of Run 17, thence by the said southern boundary line to the Waikaka Stream, and by the Waikaka Stream to the Mataura River, and by the Mataura River and the northern boundary line of the Province of Southland to the Manipori Lake, and by the Waiau River to the Ocean, and thence towards the south and west by the Ocean to Awarua Bay, the starting point.

And by virtue of the powers in me vested in this behalf, I do further proclaim and declare that the regulations made, published, and proclaimed in a proclamation dated the 26th day of February last, for the destruction of cattle diseased with pleuro-pneumonia in the infected districts mentioned in the said proclamation, and for prohibiting the removal of cattle therefrom, and for preventing the further spread of the disease, shall be in full force and effect in the district hereinbefore proclaimed to be an infected district; and the said regulations as aforesaid, I do hereby make, publish, and proclaim to be regulations for the destruction of cattle diseased with pleuro-pneumonia within the district hereinbefore proclaimed to be an infected district, and for prohibiting the removal and transportation of cattle out of the said last mentioned district, and for preventing the further spread of the said disease.

Given under my hand at Dunedin, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, this first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
H. CLAPCOTT,
Provincial Treasurer.

Printed for the Provincial Government by DANIEL CAMPBELL, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.