PROCLAMATION

North-East Valley Road District decided and diminished, and the Pine Hill Road District formed.

By His Honor John Hyde Harris, Esquire, 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 North East Valley Road District therein named is described as comprising all that area bounded on the north by the watershed of the range extending from Mihiwaka to Point Heyward; on the east and south by the Harbour and the town of Port Chalmers; and on the west by Pelichet Creek; thence by the watershed of the ranges extending over Signal Hill and Mount Cargill to Mihiwaka.

And whereas it is expedient to divide and diminish the said North East Valley Road District, and to form a new Road District, to be named "The Pine Hill Road District."

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 North East Valley Road District shall, from the day of the date hereof, be divided and diminished, and that from the day of the date hereof there shall be a new Road District, to be named the "Pine Hill Road District," and that henceforth the North East Valley Road District shall comprise all that area bounded on the north-west by part of block VIII, and sections 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2, block XIII; thence by a direct line through sections 18 and 16, block X, and sections 13, 12, 9, 8, 7, 6, 3, and 2, block IX; on the south-west by the Dunedin Town Belt and sections 51 and 53, block IX; on the south by sections 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, and 61, block IX; on the south-east by sections 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, and 8, block IX; on the north-east by section 6; thence to the south-eastward by sections 6 and 5; thence on the north-east by sections 4 and 38, block IX, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District, sections 84 and 85, North East Valley Survey District, and section 42, block VII, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District; and that the Pine Hill Road District shall comprise all that area bounded on the north by block III, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District; on the west by the Water of Leith and the Dunedin Town Belt; on the south-east by part of North East Valley Survey District, to section 13; thence by sections 10, 11, 14, 15, a direct line through sections 16 and 18, block X, to the north-west corner of section 1, block XI, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District; thence by sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 of the last-named block; on the east by the eastern boundary of block XI.

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

J. Hyde Harris,
Superintendent.

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

PROCLAMATION

Rescinding Proclamation of thirtieth day of May last, so far as the said Proclamation reserved and withdrew for the purposes of Sale the Lands hereinafter described.

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

WHEREAS 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 that behalf, did by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, dated the thirtieth day of May last, reserve and withdraw for the purposes of sale certain Waste Lands of the Crown, situate on the Tuapeka Gold-field, which said lands were in the said Proclamation particularly described: And whereas it is expedient to rescind the said Proclamation of the thirtieth day of May last, so far as the lands hereinafter described are affected thereby: Now therefore I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and declare that I do hereby rescind the said Proclamation of the thirtieth day of May last, so far as the lands hereinafter described are affected thereby, that is to say—All that area containing by admeasurement two hundred and twenty-six (226) acres and one (1) rood and seventeen (17) poles, more or less, situate in the Tuapeka District, being sections numbered respectively, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 55, 69, 81, and 88, block I, on the Map of the said District, bounded towards the north by Crown Lands, towards the east by Crown Lands, towards the south by Crown Lands, and towards the west by Crown Lands: And I do proclaim and declare that the lands hereinafter described shall, from and after the day of the date hereof, be included within and form part of the said Tuapeka Gold-field.

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

J. Hyde Harris,
Superintendent.

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

PROCLAMATION

Also, All that area situated on the Tuapeka Gold-fields aforesaid, containing by admeasurement three hundred and fifty-three (353) acres, more or less, being sections numbered respectively—3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27, block III, Tuapeka East district, bounded towards the north by a road line, towards the east by sections numbered respectively 1, 2, and 28, block III, Tuapeka East district, towards the south by Crown lands, and towards the west by a road line.