✨ Government Proclamations and Appointments
NEW ZEALAND
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. IX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1865. No. 846.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
To all to whom these presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS it is expedient that a Commission should be appointed, to inquire into the present state of the Civil Service of the Province of Otago, with a view to the consolidation and re-organization of the various Departments of the said Service,—Now therefore I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the said Province, do hereby nominate and appoint
FRANCIS DILLON BELL, Esquire,
CHARLES LOGIE, Esquire,
FREDERICK WALKER, Esquire,
JOHN BATRGATE, Esquire,
to be Commissioners to inquire into and report upon the existing state of the Civil Service of the said Province, and the best measures that can be taken for consolidating and re-organizing the same, without impairing the efficiency thereof.
J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.
PROCLAMATION
Reserving and withdrawing for the purposes of Sale certain Waste Lands of the Crown situate on the Wahatipu Gold Field.
By His Honor JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS it is expedient that the Lands herein-after described should be reserved and withdrawn for the purposes of sale—Now, therefore, I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that I do reserve and withdraw for the purposes of sale the lands hereinafter described, that is to say, All that area bounded on the north-west by a line from Ben Lomond to the source of Hayes’ Creek, and thence in an easterly direction to Arrowtown, on the south-west by a line from Frankton to Ben Lomond, on the south by the Kawarau River, and on the east by the Arrow River.
Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this seventeenth day of January, 1865.
J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.
by His Honor’s command,
JAMES PATERSON,
Provincial Secretary.
PROCLAMATION
Saddle Hill Road District Altered; Moeraki Bush Road District Divided; and Walton, Greyton, Brighton, Kurimoto, Motupipi, and Otakia Road Districts Formed.
By His Honor JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the “Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1862,” it is among other things enacted in the 12th section thereof, that for the purposes of the said Ordinance the said Province, except as is therein excepted, may, from time to time, be divided into districts; and until otherwise provided pursuant to the provisions of the said Ordinance, there shall be twenty-five districts, which shall be named and bounded as described in the Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed; and it is also in the said 12th section provided that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the General Road Board, from time to time to alter, vary, diminish, or enlarge the boundaries of any or all of such districts,
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1865, No 346
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🏛️ Appointment of Civil Service Commission
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration18 January 1865
Civil Service, Commission, Appointments, Otago
- Francis Dillon Bell (Esquire), Appointed as Commissioner
- Charles Logie (Esquire), Appointed as Commissioner
- Frederick Walker (Esquire), Appointed as Commissioner
- John Batrgate (Esquire), Appointed as Commissioner
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent
🗺️ Reserving and Withdrawing Lands for Sale
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey17 January 1865
Land Sale, Wahatipu Gold Field, Otago
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent
- James Paterson, Provincial Secretary
🏗️ Alteration and Formation of Road Districts
🏗️ Infrastructure & Public WorksRoad Districts, Saddle Hill, Moeraki Bush, Walton, Greyton, Brighton, Kurimoto, Motupipi, Otakia
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent