NOTICE.

Formation of Land District of Invercargill

WHEREAS by the 13th Section of "The Otago Waste Lands Act 1866" it is enacted that it should be lawful for the Waste Lands Board, with the consent of the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, to create districts for the sale and disposal of land; and that, for the purposes of the said Act, such districts should be called Land Districts; and that wherever in the said Act the term District is used, it should be taken to mean a Land District constituted thereby, or under the authority thereof; and that it should be lawful for the Board to appoint officers at such places as might be most convenient for the sale and disposal of land within such district; and also to appoint officers or other persons for conducting such sales, and for receiving applications for the sale, letting, disposal, or occupation of Waste Lands, and for generally carrying into effect the provisions of the said Act: And whereas the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Otago have, with the consent of the Superintendent of the said Province, resolved that the area hereinafter described shall be created a Land District within the meaning of the said Act, to be called the Invercargill Land District; that the Land Office at Invercargill shall be appointed as an office for the sale and disposal of land within such district, and that Walter Henry Pearson, Esquire, the Commissioner of Crown Lands for that part of the Province of Otago which was included within the late Province of Southland, shall be the officer for conducting sales, and for receiving applications for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands within such district, and for generally carrying into effect the provisions of the said Act within the said district: It is therefore notified, that the said area hereinafter described has been created a Land District within the meaning of the said "Otago Waste Lands Act 1866," and that the said W. H. Pearson has been appointed as and to be the officer for conducting sales, and issuing applications of the sale, letting, disposal, or occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the said area, and that from and after the 1st day of January, 1871, all applications for the sale, letting, disposal, or occupation of the Waste Lands within the said area may be made to the said W. H. Pearson at the Land Office, in Invercargill, aforesaid.

Governor,

or the Governor in Council, by the "Gold Fields Act 1866," as under or by virtue of the one hundred and ninth section of the said Act may be delegated by the Governor in Council, and in like manner to revoke any such delegation: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the "Executive Council Ordinance 1861," it is provided that the Superintendent of the said Province shall, in the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council: And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him by the "Gold Fields Act 1866," and subject to its provisions delegated unto the Executive Government for the time being of the Province of Otago all such powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the said last-mentioned Act, as under or by virtue of the 109th section of the said last-mentioned Act may be delegated by the Governor in Council, to have, hold, and exercise the said powers within the said Province of Otago: And whereas the said lands hereinafter described are Crown Lands subject to be dealt with under the provisions of the said 33rd section of the "Gold Fields Act 1866," and it is deemed expedient to set the same apart for the purpose of granting Agricultural Leases thereon and therefor:

Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province and by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the said Province in this behalf by His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand in Council, under the authority of the "Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1867," and of any and every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands comprised within the area hereinafter described, have been and are hereby selected and set apart by the Executive Government of the Province of Otago for the purpose of granting agricultural leases thereon and therefor (that is to say):

All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement two thousand nine hundred and fifty (2,950) acres, more or less, being a portion of Run 200, and now known as Block III, Benger Survey District: bounded towards the north-west by the remaining part of the said Run, twelve thousand one hundred (12,100) links; towards the north-east by a straight line passing through Trig. Stations V and X from Minzion burn in a north-westerly direction, sixteen thousand three hundred and sixty-seven (16,367) links; towards the south-east by Minzion burn, twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) links; and towards the south-west by the Clutha river, twenty-eight thousand six hundred (28,600) links.

Description of area above referred to.

All that portion of the Province of Otago bounded by a line drawn from Chasland’s Mistake to Black Horn Hill thence by the watershed line to the Forest Range and by the watershed of that Range and the east boundary of Run No. 162 to Catlin’s Cone thence by the south-west and south boundaries of Run No. 258 to Cairn Peak thence by the boundary of Run No. 132 and the Kaiwera and Waipahi Streams to the boundary between Runs Nos. 131 and 167A thence by the south and west boundaries of Run No. 167A thence by part of the Waikoikoi Stream and by the north-west boundary of Run No. 167B to the east branch of the Waikaka and thence by the east boundary of Run No. 175B thence by the north boundary of Run No. 175 to the Waikaka River thence by the Waikaka River to its source near the Black Umbrella thence by the watershed of the Umbrella Mountains to the head of Timber Gully thence by Timber Gully and Rocky Creek to its source near Rocky Mount thence by the north-east boundary of Run No. 359 to the Nokomai Stream thence by a line running through Lorn Peak to Lake Wakatipu, thence by the south and west shore of Lake Wakatipu to a point due east of Round Peak thence by a line running westerly to Moffat Peak thence by a line due west to a point north-west of Barrier Peaks thence by a line running due south to the Ocean at Rowallan Burn thence by the Ocean to the Waiau River thence by the Waiau River and the east shore of the Manipori.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, in presence of Donald Reid and George Duncan, Esquires, two of the members of the Executive Council of the said Province, being also members of the Provincial Council thereof, this thirteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

(L.s.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

D. REID,
GEO. DUNCAN,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and of the Provincial Council thereof.