NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VOL. IX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1865. No. 348.

PROCLAMATION.

Tokomairiro Road District abolished, and Milburn, Helensbrook, Milton, Hillingdon, Coombe Hay, Southbridge, Glenore, Adamsthorpe, and Lovelsbrook 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, and to increase the number of districts, by forming and naming new districts, or by dividing any district into two or more districts.

And whereas in the said Schedule the Tokomairiro Road District therein named is described as comprising:

All that area bounded on the north-west by the boundary of the Hundreds; on the north-east by Waihola District; on the east, by the watershed of the ranges from Gorge Hill over stations I and S to the source of Shag Creek, thence by Shag Creek to the Ocean; on the south by the Ocean; and on the south-west by Rocky Valley Creek, and the watershed over Mount Misery and Station H, to the watershed of the Ranges leading towards Mount Stuart.

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the said Tokomairiro Road District, and to form nine new Road Districts, to be called respectively, the Milburn, Helensbrook, Milton, Hillingdon, Coombe Hay, Southbridge, Glenore, Adamsthorpe, and Lovelsbrook Road Districts.

Now therefore I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice and consent of the Otago General Road Board, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said Tokomairiro Road District shall, from the day of the date hereof, be abolished, and that in lieu thereof there shall be nine new Road Districts — that is to say, the Milburn, Helensbrook, Milton, Hillingdon, Coombe Hay, Southbridge, Glenore, Adamsthorpe, and Lovelsbrook Road Districts; and that

The Milburn Road District shall comprise all that area bounded on the north by the northern boundary of block I, Table Hill Survey District; on the west, by the north branch of the Tokomairiro River as far as section 2, block II, Table Hill Survey District; on the south-west, by sections 10 and 13, block I, Table Hill Survey District; sections 39, 46, 51, 58, 63, 70, 76, and 80, Tokomairiro Survey District; sections 9 and 4, and a direct line through sections 1 and 2 to the south-west angle of section 3, block II, Akatore Survey District; on the east, by block VIII, Akatore Survey District; and on the north-east, by block III, Clarendon, and blocks I and II, Waihola Survey District. And that

The Helensbrook Road District shall comprise all that area bounded on the north by section 8, block I, and sections 3 and 4, block II, Table Hill Survey District; on the west by sections 58, 57, 55, and 54, block II in the said district; on the south-west, by sections 51 and 50, block II, in the said district; sections 128, 116, 111, 104, 99, 92, and 87, Tokomairiro Survey District; and section 3, block I, Akatore Survey District; thence on the west by...