PROCLAMATION.

Kaitangata Road District abolished; Kaitangata Road District altered and diminished; and Tuakidoto, North Molyneux, and Stony Creek 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 Hillend Road District therein named is described as comprising all that area bounded on the north-east by Tokomairiro District; on the south-east by Kaitangata District; on the south-west by the River Clutha; and on the north-west by the boundary of the Hundreds.

And whereas in the said Schedule the Kaitangata Road District therein named is described as comprising all that area bounded on the north-east by Tokomairiro District; on the south-east by the watershed of the ranges leading from Mount Misery, over Stations I and J to Q; thence by an east and west line to the Matan River; on the south-west by the Matan and Clutha Rivers; and on the north-west by the Trunk Road.

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the said Hillend Road District, and to alter and diminish the boundaries of the said Kaitangata Road District, and to form three new Road Districts, to be called respectively the Tuakidoto, North Molyneux, and Stony Creek 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 Hillend Road District shall, from the day of the date hereof be abolished. And I do also, with the like advice and consent, proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the said Kaitangata Road District shall henceforth be altered and diminished, and that henceforth

Kaitangata Road District shall comprise all that area bounded on the north by the watershed of the ranges from Two Stone Hill, and by block IV Tuakidoto Survey District; on the west by the Tuakidoto Lake, the Kaitangata River and Lake, and the Matau River; on the south by block II North Molyneux Survey District; and on the east by the wathershed of the ranges to Two Stone Hill.

And I do also, with the like advice and consent, proclaim and declare from the date hereof there shall be three new Road Districts, to be called respectively the Tuakidoto, North Molyneux, and Stony Creek Road Districts; and that

The Tuakidoto Road District shall comprise all that area, bounded on the north by the Southern Trunk Road; on the west by Lovell’s Creek and the Tuakidoto Lake; on the south by block III, South Tuakidoto Survey District and the Watershed, from thence to Two Stone Hill; on the south-east by a direct line from Two Stone Hill to the north-west corner of section 34, block II, Kaitangata Survey District, by sections 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39, block II, and section 24, block I, Kaitangata Survey District; on the north-east by sections 2 and 11, blocks XXXVI, XXXVII, and XXXVIII, Tokomairiro Survey District; and that

The North Molyneux Road District shall comprise all that area bounded on the north by section 4, block X, South Tuakidoto Survey District, and sections 6, 17, 18 and 19, block I, Hillend Survey District; on the west by the Main South Road, and Balclutha Town Reserve; on the south-west by the rivers Clutha and Matau; and on the east by the Kaitangata Lake and River, and the Tuakidoto Lake; and that

The Stony Creek Road District shall comprise all that area bounded on the north by Lovell’s Creek; on the north-west by the north-west boundary of the North Tokomairiro Hundreds to Trig. Station D; on the west by the Southern Trunk Road; on the south by sections 14, 15, 16, 8, and 7, block I, Hillend Survey District, and section 3, block X, South Tuakidoto Survey District; and on the east by the Tuakidoto Lake and Lovell’s Creek.

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

J. Hyde Harris,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
Jas. Paterson,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION

Of certain Ordinances assented to by the Governor.

By His Honor John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS the following Ordinances passed by the Provincial Council of Otago, viz.:

• Roads Diversions Ordinance, 1864
• Northern Trunk Road Lands Ordinance, 1864
• Southern Trunk Road Lands Ordinance, 1864
• Kaitangata District Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864
• Anderson’s Bay District Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864
• Hawksbury Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864
• Taieri Districts Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864

Were presented to me (the Superintendent) for the Governor’s assent, and by me reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon: And whereas His Excellency has now been pleased to assent to the said Ordinances.

Now therefore I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby Proclaim that His Excellency