PROCLAMATION

Waipori Road District Divided, and Henley Road District 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, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, 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 by proclamation in the Government Gazette, number 317, and dated August the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, the West Taieri Road District, named and described in the schedule to the said Ordinance, was divided, and the Waipori Road District formed. And Whereas the said Waipori Road District is by the said proclamation described as comprising all that area bounded on the north-west by the boundary of the Hundreds; on the north-east by the West Taieri Road District; on the south-east by the Taieri River; and on the south-west by the Waipori Lake and Waipori River. And Whereas it is expedient to divide the said Waipori Road District, and to form a new Road District, to be called the Henley 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 boundaries of the said Waipori Road District shall from the day of the date hereof be altered and diminished. And that from the day of the date hereof there shall be a New Road District, to be called

The Waipori Road District shall comprise All that area bounded on the north-west by the boundary Hundreds; on the south and south-west by the Waipori River; on the south-east by blocks VI, V, IV, and III, Maung Atua Survey District; to the western corner of section 4, block II, West Taieri Survey District; thence on the north-east by the boundary line between sections 11 and 12, block II, West Taieri Survey District, and its continuation in the same direction to the boundary of the Hundreds.

The Henley Road District, comprising All that area bounded on the north by section 38, irregular block, West Taieri Survey District; on the north-west by blocks I and II, Maung Atua Survey District; on the west by the Waipori River and Lake; on the south and south-east by the Taieri River; and on the north-east by block III, Maung Atua Survey District.

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

J. Hyde Harris,
Superintendent.

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

NOTICE.

WHEREAS, it is intended to stop up those Roads and Portions of Roads situate and being in the Hawksbury Hundred and which are hereinafter described, and are delineated in the map or plan mentioned and referred to in the “Hawksbury Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864,” copy of which map or plan is deposited at the Public School in the said Hundred. Now, therefore, I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf by the “Hawksbury Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864,” do hereby give notice that all persons objecting to the stopping up of such Roads, or portions of Roads, or any of them, are required to set forth a statement in writing of any well-grounded objection they may have to the stopping up of such Roads, or portions of Roads, and to leave such statement addressed to me at my office in Dunedin, or at the Police Office, within the said Hawksbury Hundred, within sixty days from the date hereof; otherwise such objections will not be considered by me.

Description of Roads and Portions of Roads proposed to be stopped up, viz.:

43 chains 50 links in length, 1 chain wide; from the Northern Trunk Road at Waikouaiti Bridge to the Northern Trunk Road; bounded on the north-west by land the property of John Jones, Esq., on the south-east by Application 246.

2 chains 50 links in length, 1 chain wide; from Northern Trunk to old North Road; bounded on the south-west by the property of John Jones, Esq., south-east by Application 246.

6 chains 10 links in length, 1 chain wide; from old North Road to Northern Trunk; bounded on both sides by the property of John Jones, Esq.

33 chains in length, 1 chain wide; from Northern Trunk to old North Road; bounded on both sides by the property of John Jones, Esq.

8 chains in length, 1 chain wide; from Waikouaiti River to Mill Track; bounded on both sides by the property of John Jones, Esq.

54 chains in length, 1 chain wide; from Waikouaiti River to south-west angle of old purchase of Mr. John Jones adjoining section 1, block V. Hawksbury; bounded by parts of sections 1, 2, and 3, block V. Hawksbury.

7 chains in length, 50 links wide; from road on section 8, block V. Hawksbury to boundary of sections 4 and 5, block V. Hawksbury; bounded by parts of section 3, block V. Hawksbury.

22 chains in length, 50 links wide; from Waikouaiti River to southern boundary of Grant of 168 acres to Mr. John Jones; bounded by parts of sections 1, block V. Hawksbury.