Land and Cemetery Notices




EASED UNDER "CATTLE ACT, 1861," ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND,

being section numbered 1, block X., North Harbour and Blueskin District, as the same is bounded on the Selection Map, in the Office of the Waste Land Board, Dunedin.

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

THOMAS DICK,
By His Honor's command,
Superintendent.

H. J. MILLER,
Provincial Secretary.

[Re-published from Gazette of 27th December, 1865, and from Supplement to Gazette of 3rd Jan., 1866, in consequence of a blank having been left in the notice as it then appeared.]

TOMAHAWK ROAD DISTRICT.—NOTICE

WHEREAS it is intended to stop up those Roads and Portions of Roads situate and being in the Tomahawk Road District, and which are hereinafter described, and are delineated on the map or plan mentioned and referred to in the "Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1865," a copy of which plan has been deposited in the Public School in the said District;—Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the power vested in me in that behalf by the "Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1865," do hereby give notice that all persons objecting to the stopping up of such roads, or portions of roads, for 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, within sixty days from the date hereof, otherwise such objections will not be considered by me.

Description of the Roads and Portions of Roads in the Tomahawk Road District which the Superintendent is empowered to Stop Up.

No. 20.—TOMAHAWK ROAD DISTRICT.

1.—60 chains in length, 60 links wide, from application 1528 Otago Peninsula Survey District, to Tomahawk Valley Creek; boundaries, north, sections 30 and 31, block III, and section 15, block II, and part of section 21, block I, Tomahawk; south, sections 28 and 29, block III, and section 14, block II, and part of 19, block I, Tomahawk.

2.—2 chains 50 links in length, 60 links wide, from District Road between blocks I and II to near Trunk Road on section 1, block I, Tomahawk; north, part of section 1, block I, Tomahawk District; south, part of section 4, block I, Otago Peninsula.

3.—16 chains in length, 60 links wide, from Trunk Road on section 1, block I, to District Road between block I, Tomahawk, and block I, Otago Peninsula; boundaries, towards the north, part of section 1, block I, Tomahawk; towards the south, part of section 4, block I, Otago Peninsula.

4.—5 chains in length, 60 links wide, from southwest angle of section 1, block I, Tomahawk, to Trunk Road on section 1, block I, Tomahawk; boundaries, towards the north by part of section 1, block I, Tomahawk; south, part of block I, Otago Peninsula.

5.—14 chains in length, 60 links wide, from District Road between blocks II and III, Tomahawk, to Trunk Road on section 1, block II, Tomahawk; boundaries, towards the north by part of section 1, block II, Tomahawk; south, by part of application 1749.

6.—5 chains in length, 60 links wide, from Trunk Road on section 1, block II, to south angle of application 1749; boundaries, towards the north by part of section 1, block II, Tomahawk; towards the south by part of application 1749.

Dated this twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

THOMAS DICK, Superintendent.

WOOLSHED CEMETERY.—The following Rules and Regulations have been submitted to the Superintendent and Executive Council, in terms of the "Cemetery Reserves Management Ordinance, 1864," and are published for general information.

H. J. MILLER,
Provincial Secretary.

9th January, 1866.

Rules and Regulations,

made in pursuance of Section V. of the "Cemetery Reserves Management Ordinance, 1864," for the management of the Public Cemetery at Woolshed. (See "Cemeteries Ordinance, 1865.")

  1. The said Managers shall divide a portion of the Cemetery into three classes, viz.:

  2. Class I., being ground of which the perpetual and exclusive right may be acquired, with the privilege of enclosing the ground, and of erecting headstones or other monuments thereon. A portion of ground of this Class shall be staked off along the present fence, into Lots of 8 feet by 10, each having a frontage to the road around the Cemetery. These Lots shall be sold—one Lot for £1 10s., and two Lots for £2 10s.

  3. Class II., being ground of which the perpetual and exclusive right may be acquired; but the purchaser shall not have right to enclose the same, or to erect a monument thereon other than a flat stone, laid horizontally, with inscription, or marked out by corner stones with initials or figures; provided that these horizontal or corner stones do not rise more than six inches above the surface of the adjoining ground. A portion of land of this Class shall be staked off into Lots for single graves, 8 feet by 6, having a frontage to the road, and directly opposite the Lots of the 1st Class. The price of each Lot shall be—for one Lot, 15s.; two Lots, £1 5s.

  4. Class III., being a portion of ground which has been set aside for the interment of such persons as are not purchasers of, and have not acquired, a right to private ground. On ground of this Class no monuments or memorials whatever shall be allowed, and no grave shall, under any circumstances, be opened for any new interment sooner than after the expiry of five years from the time of the first or last interment, as the case may be.

General Regulations

  1. All graves to be six feet deep; but in the event of the purchasers of private ground desiring a greater depth, an extra charge of 3s. shall be made for every foot more than six feet deep.

  2. The Manager shall provide all necessary furniture and attendance for properly conducting interments.

  3. Any purchasers of private ground in which no interment shall have taken place, may transfer his or her interest in said ground to any other person, upon payment being made to the Clerk for the time being, of a fee of 5s. for such transfer.

  4. A plan of the Cemetery shall be prepared showing particularly the Lots so laid off, together with the numbers thereof.

  5. The Clerk for the time being shall keep a Book, in which he shall enter, from time to time, the number of every Lot sold, the name of the purchaser thereof, together with the date of the sale of the same, and shall keep a Record of the burials in the Cemetery.

  6. The Clerk for the time being shall receive the purchase-money for the sale of such Lots, and shall give a receipt for the same, which receipt shall be held conclusive evidence of the purchase and selection of the Lots mentioned therein.

  7. In all cases of intended interment the person having the management or control of the same shall apply to the Clerk for the time being for warrant for...



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