OTAGO
PROVINCIAL
GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1866.

PROCLAMATION
Of Licensing
Districts
under the Licensing
Ordinance,
1865.

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

No. 405.

WHEREAS by the eleventh section of the "Licensing Ordinance, 1865," it is enacted that the Superintendent of Otago, as soon after the coming into operation of the said Ordinance as conveniently may be, shall for the purposes of this Ordinance, divide the settled portions of the said Province into such and so many districts as he may think fit to be called Licensing Districts, and when and so soon as such divisions shall have been made, the Superintendent shall, by proclamation published in the Government Gazette of the said Province, declare such districts, and by such proclamation define the boundaries thereof;

Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby Proclaim and Declare that from and after the day of the date hereof, and until further notice, there shall be within the Province of Otago, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, Eleven Licensing Districts, to be called respectively as follows:

1. Clyde Licensing District
2. Queenstown Licensing District
3. Oamaru Licensing District
4. Waikouaiti Licensing District
5. Dunedin Licensing District
6. Port Chalmers Licensing District
7. Taieri Licensing District
8. Tokomairiro Licensing District
9. Clutha Licensing District
10. Hamilton Licensing District
11. Lawrence Licensing District.

And I do hereby Proclaim and Declare that the said several districts shall be respectively bounded and defined in manner following, that is to say—

1. CLYDE LICENSING DISTRICT shall, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, comprise the towns of Alexandria, Clyde, Cromwell, Gladstone, Newcastle, Pembroke, and Wakefield, together with all that area bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury; towards the east by the Province of Canterbury and the Otamakau Creek to the Hawkdon Mountains; towards the south by the Dunstan Gold Field; and towards the west by a direct line from Parkburn at its source to the Wanaka Lake, and by the Wanaka Lake to the Province of Canterbury, also that area within the Dunstan Gold Field which has been or may be withdrawn from the operation of the Gold Fields Act.

2. QUEENSTOWN LICENSING DISTRICT shall, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, comprise the towns of Queenstown, Kingston, and Frankton, together with all that area bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury; towards the east by the Clyde Licensing District; towards the south by the Dunstan Gold Field; and towards the west by the Wakatipu Gold Field, also all that area within the Wakatipu Gold Field, which has been or may be withdrawn from the operations of the Gold Fields Act.

3. OAMARU LICENSING DISTRICT shall, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, comprise all that area bounded on the north by the Clyde Licensing District; on the east by the Province of Canterbury; on the south by the Ocean; and on the west by the Horse Range and Kakani Mountains and the Mount Ida and Dunstan Gold Fields.

4. WAIKOUAITI LICENSING DISTRICT shall, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, comprise all that area bounded on the north by the Oamaru Licensing District; on the east by the Ocean; on the south by a line running due west from Brinn’s Point to the Taieri Gold Field; and on the west by the Taieri and Mount Ida Gold Fields.

5. DUNEDIN LICENSING DISTRICT shall, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, comprise all that area bounded towards the north by Waikouaiti and Port Chalmers Licensing Districts; towards the east by the Port Chalmers Licensing District and the Ocean; towards the south by the Ocean; and towards the west by the Taieri River and the Taieri Gold Field.

6. PORT CHALMERS LICENSING DISTRICT shall, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, comprise all that area including the Town of Port Chalmers, the Lower Harbor West Survey District, the Sawyer’s Bay Survey District, Sections numbered 68 to 115 inclusive, North-East Valley Survey District, and Blocks 4, 5, 6, and part of 7, North Harbor and Blueskin Survey District: bounded from the north-west corner of Block 4, North Harbor and Blueskin Survey District; in a southerly direction by the