PROCLAMATION.

Boundaries of Pine Hill Road District altered and extended,

By His Honor Thomas Dick, 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 “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1865,” it is amongst other things enacted, that until otherwise provided, pursuant to the provisions of the said Ordinance, there should be sixty-one districts, which should be named as specified in the Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed, marked B: And it is also by the said Ordinance provided that it should be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the General Road Board, from time to time, by proclamation in the Gazette, to alter, vary, diminish, or enlarge the boundaries of any or all of such districts: And whereas it is expedient to alter and extend the boundaries of the Pine Hill Road District in manner hereinafter described:

Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Otago General Road Board, do hereby proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the said Pine Hill Road District shall, from and after the date hereof, be altered and extended, and that the boundaries of the Pine Hill Road District shall henceforth be as follows, that is to say:

THE PINE HILL ROAD DISTRICT, is bounded on the north by block II, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District; on the west by the western boundary of block III, in the same district, then following the southern boundary of the said block III to the Water of Leith, thence by the Water of Leith and Dunedin Town Belt; on the south-east by part of North-east Valley Survey District to section numbered 13 thereof, thence by sections numbered respectively 10, 11, 14, and 15, block X, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District aforesaid, thence in a direct line through sections numbered respectively 16 and 18, block X aforesaid to the north-west angle of section numbered 1, block XI, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District aforesaid, thence by sections numbered respectively 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15, block XI aforesaid; on the east by the eastern boundary of the said block XI, thence by a direct line to the south-west angle of block XII, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District aforesaid, thence by the western boundaries of blocks XII and I respectively, North Harbour and Blueskin Survey District aforesaid to the southern boundary of block II thereof.

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

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
H. J. MILLER,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION

Declaring a portion of the Province of Otago an Infected District, under the provisions of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”

By His Honor Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the said Province.

WHEREAS John Hyde Harris, Esquire, the then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in him as such Superintendent in that behalf, did, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, dated the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, proclaim and declare a certain District or portion of the said Province, in the said Proclamation particularly described, to be an Infected District within the meaning and for the purposes of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861:” And whereas by another Proclamation published in the said Gazette, and bearing date the sixth day of November following, the said John Hyde Harris, as such Superintendent as aforesaid, did extend the limits of the said Infected District, so as to include therein another portion of the said Province in the said last-mentioned Proclamation particularly described: And whereas by another Proclamation published in the said Gazette, and bearing date the twenty-seventh day of December following, the said John Hyde Harris, as such Superintendent as aforesaid, did again extend the limits of the said Infected District, so as to include therein another portion of the said Province in the said last-mentioned Proclamation particularly described: And whereas it is expedient still further to extend the limits of the said Infected District, so as to include therein the whole of the territory hereinafter described:

Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, by virtue and exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the twelfth day of December next, the limits and boundaries hereinafter described shall be the limits and boundaries of the said Infected District, and shall include the territory hereinafter mentioned, which territory shall be deemed an Infected District within the meaning and for the purposes of the said “Diseased Cattle Act 1861,” (that is to say)—

All that area within the Provinces of Otago, bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury, from Awaraun Bay to the eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake, thence by the said eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake and the Clutha River to the Dunstan Mountains, thence by the Dunstan Mountains to Mount Saint Bathans, thence by the Hawkdun Mountains, the Kakanui Mountains, and the Horse Ranges to the Ocean, thence towards the east by the Ocean to the Taieri River, thence by the Taieri River to the Waipori Lake and River, thence due west from Waipori River to Waitahuna Hill, thence in a direct line to the northern corner of the North Tokomairiro Hundred, thence in a direct line to Trig. Station E, Table Hill District, thence by the leading ridge to and across the road line forming the north-eastern boundary of block I, Table Hill District, thence along the south-western boundary of the said road line and its continuation to the Main South Road, thence by the north-western side of the Main South Road proceeding in a north-easterly direction to the Taieri River, thence by the Taieri River across the Main South Road, thence proceeding in a south-westerly direction by the south-eastern side of the Main South Road to the eastern branch of the Tokomairiro River, thence by the said eastern branch to its junction with the western branch of the said Tokomairiro River, thence by the said western branch of the Tokomairiro River to the Main South Road, thence by the south-eastern side of the Main South Road in a south-westerly direction to the Coal Reserve in Block X, North Tuakitoto District, thence by a line proceeding in a south-westerly direction along the south-eastern boundary of the aforesaid Coal Reserve and its continuation in the same direction to the head of the Tuakitoto Lake, thence in a southerly direction along the Tuakitoto Lake and Stream to the Kaitangata Lake, thence along the Kaitangata Lake and Stream to the Clutha River, thence in a northerly direction along the Clutha River to the Talla Burn, thence by a line to the summit of the Tapanui Range, thence to Rankleburn at its source, and by Rankleburn, Pomahaka, and Waipahi Rivers to the southern boundary line of Run numbered 167, thence by the said southern boundary line to the Waikaka Stream, and by the Waikaka Stream to the Mataura River, and by the Mataura River to the northern boundary line of the Province of Southland to the Manipori Lake, thence...