Saddle Hill Road District. (No. 21.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 0a 2r 24p more or less being a road line situate in the Dunedin and East Taieri District bounded on the west by section No. 2 of 4 block VIII 650 links more or less and on the east by section No. 1 of 34 block VII 650 links more or less.

Sydney Road District. (No. 22.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 4a 3r 0p more or less being a road line situate in the Otepopo Survey District bounded on the east by sections numbered 1 2 9 10 and part of 34 block V 9500 links more or less and on the north-west by sections numbered 1 2 9 10 and part of 34 block V 9500 links more or less.

Waihola West Road District. (No. 23.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 2a 2r 3p more or less being a road line situate in the Waihola Survey District bounded on the north-west by sections numbered 50 51 and part of 49 block VII 4200 links, more or less and on the south-east by sections numbered 52 53 54 and part of 55 block VIII 4200 links more or less.

Cranbourne Road District. (No. 24.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 2a 0r 32p more or less being a road line situate in the Hawksbury Survey District bounded on the north by section No 46 block V 4300 links more or less and on the south by section No 46 block V 4300 links more or less.

Warepa Road District. (No. 25.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 2a 0r 16p more or less being a road line situate in the Clutha Survey District bounded on the north by section No 1 block XL 3500 links more or less and on the south by section No 11 block XXXIX 3500 links more or less.

Windsor Road District. (No. 26.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 0a 3r 8p more or less being a road line situate in the Awamoko Survey District bounded on each side by sections numbered 8 and 9 block VII 1600 links more or less.

2. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 3a 2r 32p more or less being a road line situate in the Awamoko Survey District bounded on each side by sections numbered 25 and 26 block V and part of 19 block VII 3700 links more or less.

3. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 1a 0r 4p more or less being a road line situate in the Awamoko Survey District bounded on the north by part of section No 20 block V 2050 links more or less and on the south by section No 28 and part of 21 block V 2050 links more or less.

4. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 1a 1r 0p more or less being a road line situate in the Awamoko Survey District bounded on the north by sections numbered 25 and 26 block V 2500 links more or less and on the south by sections numbered 23 and 30 block V 2500 links.

5. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 4a 2r 24p more or less being a road line situate in the Awamoko Survey District bounded on the north by sections numbered 26 25 24 and part of 23 block IX 9300 links more or less and on the south by sections numbered 27 30 31 and part of 35 block IX 9350 links more or less.

6. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 6a 2r 20p more or less being a road line situate in the Awamoko Survey District bounded on each side by sections numbered 2 15 16 and 18 block X 9250 links more or less.

7. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 5a 1r 0p more or less being a road line situate in the Awamoko Survey District bounded on the north by sections numbered 1 and 2 block 10,500 links more or less and on the south by sections numbered 21 and 22 block X 10,500 links more or less.

Tuapeka District. (No. 28.)

1. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 0a 1r 19p more or less being a road line situate in the Tuapeka District bounded on the north-east by section No. 54 block I 870 links more or less and on the south-west by sections numbered 58 and 59 920 links more or less.

2. All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 1a 1r 11p more or less being a road line situate in the Tuapeka District bounded on the north-east by sections numbered 52 58 and 61 block I 2646 links more or less and on the south-west by sections numbered 57 and 62 block I 2646 links more or less.

Dated at Dunedin this twenty-ninth day of May one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

J. Macandrew,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT,

ON OPENING THE TWENTY-NINTH SESSION OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO, MAY 25, 1871.

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council:

In opening this, the first Session of the sixth Provincial Council of Otago, we are naturally led to reflect upon what has been accomplished under the auspices of preceding Provincial Councils. Probably the history of colonisation does not afford an instance of greater progress than has been attained by this Province since the Provincial Council was first instituted in 1858—progress which would have been much greater had the Province been a distinct Colony and left to its own resources. I am sure it is the earnest desire of each and all of us that, when the present Council shall have expired, the amount of progress to which it may be able to lay claim will be equal to that of any of its predecessors.

Gentlemen,—I have to congratulate you upon the fact that the Southern Trunk Railway has, at last, been commenced; and that the work will be vigorously prosecuted upon terms much more advantageous to the Province than had hitherto been anticipated. Also that the necessary surveys are being effected for an extension of the line right through, by Winton, to Lake Wakatipu. I need not say that this road will open up a considerable area of unsold land available for population, and will be largely conducive towards the settlement of the country. A line is also being surveyed from the northern boundary of the Province to Moeraki, which will be ultimately extended to Dunedin. Application has been made to the General Government to survey a branch line of the Southern Trunk Railway to Tuapeka. I trust you will concur with me in endeavoring to secure the immediate carrying out of these works by means of the Colonial Loan—the more especially seeing that their construction upon a scale adequate to our requirements will not involve much greater pecuniary outlay than we shall be subject to in the formation and maintenance of ordinary roads over the same ground. While the Railway works now indicated are probably as extensive as we can enter upon at...