this twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

JAMES MACANDREW, Superintendent.

(L.S.)

By his Honor’s command,

JULIUS VOGEL, Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION

Increasing the Number of Wards in the Incorporated Town of Queenstown.

By His Honor JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province of Otago, bearing date the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, Thomas Dick, Esquire, the then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, did, with the advice of his Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him in that behalf amongst other things proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date of the said proclamation certain provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865” specified in the first schedule to the now reciting proclamation, should extend to the said township of Queenstown, by and under the name of the Corporation of the Town of Queenstown, and should be applicable to and within the Municipality thereby created, and the said Superintendent with the advice aforesaid, did, by the said Proclamation, further declare that the said Municipality thereby created should be divided into two Wards, to be known respectively as North Ward and South Ward, and that the boundaries of the said Wards should be those respectively defined in the fourth Schedule to the said proclamation:

And whereas, by the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1866,” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, from time to time to alter in any way he may think fit, the boundaries of any Municipality at any time proclaimed under the said therein recited Ordinance, and also to increase or diminish the number of Wards, and to name or alter the name and boundaries of any or every Ward of any such Municipality:

And whereas it is expedient to increase the number of Wards in the said Municipality, and to alter the boundaries of the whole of the Wards thereof as defined in the said Proclamation, in manner hereinafter provided:

Now therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me in this behalf, do hereby Proclaim and Declare, that from and after the thirty-first day of July next, the number of Wards into which the said Municipality is divided, shall be increased, and that from and after the said thirty-first day of July next, the said Municipality of Queenstown shall be divided into three Wards, to be known respectively as Lake Ward, South Ward, and North Ward, and that the boundaries of the said Wards shall, from and after the said thirty-first day of July next, be those respectively defined in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

Ward Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Queenstown.

Lake Ward shall comprise all that area bounded by a line along the centre of Beach street to a line in the centre of Camp street; thence along the centre of Camp street to a line in the centre of Ballarat street; thence along that line to Lake Wakatipu; thence along that Lake to a point in a straight line with the western boundary of Sections numbered respectively 13 and 14 Block XIV; thence along the western boundary of those sections to section numbered 15; thence along the south-western boundary of section numbered 15, and its continuation in the same direction to the centre of Beach street.

South Ward shall comprise all that area bounded towards the North West by a line along the centre of Ballarat street, extending from Lake Wakatipu to a line in the centre of Camp street; thence along the centre of Camp street to a point in a straight line with the north-western boundary of section numbered 17, block V; thence along that line to section numbered 5; thence along a line between sections numbered 5 and 17, to section numbered 6; thence along a line between sections numbered respectively 5 and 6, and its continuation in the same direction to the town boundary; towards the North-east by Crown Lands, three thousand eight hundred (3800) links; towards the South-east by Crown Lands, one thousand seven hundred (1700) links; and towards the South-west by Lake Wakatipu.

North Ward shall comprise all that area bounded towards the North-west by Crown Lands, three thousand one hundred and thirty (3130) links, by Cemetery Reserve, two thousand one hundred and ten (2110) links, also by Crown Lands, one thousand nine hundred and thirty (1930) links; towards the North-east by Crown Lands, one thousand one hundred (1100) links; towards the South-east by Lake Ward, South Ward, and the Wakatipu Lake to the Town Boundary; and towards the South-west by Crown Lands; one thousand one hundred (1100) links.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

(L.S.)

JAMES MACANDREW, Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,

JULIUS VOGEL, Provincial Secretary.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR UNSURVEYED LANDS,

under “Otago Waste Land Act, 1866.”

It is hereby notified to the Applicants whose names appear in the subjoined Schedule, that the Waste Land Board has declared them to be the purchasers of the sections set opposite to their names in the Schedule, and that the purchase money of these sections must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue in Dunedin, on or before Thursday, the 14th day of November, 1867, otherwise the applications will be deemed withdrawn, cancelled, and void, and the deposit made at the time of lodging the application will be forfeited.

SCHEDULE

W. H. CUTTEN,

Chief Commissioner Waste Land Board.

Waste Land Board Office,

Dunedin, 30th October, 1867.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.