OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XIV. DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1870. No. 705

THE OTAGO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, No. 705, dated Saturday, December 24, 1870, having been discovered to be defective for certain purposes, in consequence of the omission of advertisements required by law to be inserted, the present amended issue is published for general information, and may be substituted in lieu thereof. By order of His Honor the Superintendent.

JOHN LOGAN,
Secretary to the Superintendent.

Dunedin, January, 1871.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, passed in the Twenty-seventh Session of the said Provincial Council, number 316, and shortly intituled the “Management of Rivers Ordinance 1870,” the Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand which is shortly intituled “The Hawkes Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act 1868” was brought into operation in the Province of Otago aforesaid in pursuance of the power for that purpose contained in the fifty-fifth section of the said Act: And whereas by “The Hawkes Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act 1868” it is amongst other things enacted that upon the petition of the owners or occupiers of not less than three-fourths of the acreage of any district therein defined, any part of the Province intersected or bounded by any river or rivers from the overflow of which damage might be apprehended, the Superintendent should by proclamation in the Provincial Gazette declare that the said Act should come into operation within such part of the Province, and should by such proclamation define the boundaries of the same, and declare the same to be a district under the said Act, and should also fix the name by which such district should be named: And by the said Act it is also enacted that the Superintendent should in such proclamation determine the number of conservators who were to constitute the Board for each such district; but that in no case should the number of such conservators be less than five nor more than seven:

And whereas a petition signed by the owners or occupiers of more than three-fourths of the acreage of the district, the boundaries whereof are hereinafter defined, has been presented to me, James Macandrew, as Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, praying that the provisions of “The Hawkes Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act 1868” might be brought into operation within the said district: And whereas it has been made to appear to my satisfaction that the said district is bounded by a river from the overflow of which damage may be apprehended, and that it is expedient and necessary that the said Act should be brought into operation within the said district:

Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, and in exercise and pursuance of the power vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date hereof “The Hawkes Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act 1868” shall come into operation within that part of the Province of Otago which is described in the Schedule hereto: And I do with the like advice and consent and in further exercise and pursuance of the power aforesaid, proclaim and declare the said part of the Province of Otago so described in the said Schedule to be a district under “The Hawkes Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act 1868” to be known by the name of the “West Taieri River District” and that the boundaries of the said district shall be those defined in the said Schedule: And I do with the like advice and consent and in further exercise and pursuance of the power aforesaid, hereby proclaim and determine that the number of conservators who are to constitute the Board for the said district shall be seven.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Province of Otago situate in the Maungatua and West Taieri Survey Districts, bounded by the north-western boundary of River section numbered 38, to the Main Road to Maungatua; thence by the said Main Road to the north-western corner of sec-