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Land Description

Town of Riverton;

Bounded towards the north-east by Block VI, Jacob’s River Survey District, 5750 links; towards the south-east by the Maori Reserve, 8100 links; and towards the west by Jacob’s River Estuary 10,600 links, be all the aforesaid link ages, more or less.

More or less, now known as the Town of Riverton.

South Ward.

Comprises all that area, containing by admeasurement 499 acres 2 roods 25 poles, more or less, now known as the village of South Riverton: bounded on the north and east by the Ocean and Jacob’s River Estuary; on the south and east by the south-eastern boundary of Section 3, Block II, Jacob’s River Hundred; on the south and west by the south-western boundary of Sections 9 and 13, Block I, and 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, Block I, Jacob’s River Hundred; and on the north-west by the north-western boundary of Section 7, Block I, Jacob’s River Hundred, aforesaid.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

(L.S.)

James Macandrew,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
D. Reid, Provincial Secretary.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF RIVERTON

Appointment of William De Gonge Wood to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the Incorporated Town of Riverton.

WHEREAS the Town of Riverton was, by Proclamation dated the twenty-eighth day of June current, and published in the Otago Government Gazette, No. 741, incorporated by the name of the “Corporation of the Town of Riverton,” and certain provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865,” were, by such Proclamation, extended to and declared applicable to and within the Municipality thereby created: And whereas by the 117th section of the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865,” it is amongst other things enacted that for the purposes of the first elections under the said Ordinance of Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors for any town or place to which the provisions of the said Ordinance or any of them, should be extended as therein provided, the Superintendent of Otago for the time being should appoint some fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for such town and places, the expense of which should be borne and paid by the Council of the town or place elected thereunder, for which any such Citizens’ Roll should be prepared: And whereas William De Gonge Wood, of Riverton, has been represented to me to be a fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said incorporated Town of Riverton: Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865,” and of all other powers in any wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby nominate and appoint

William De Gonge Wood,
to be the person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said Incorporated Town of Riverton.

As witness my hand this twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

James Macandrew,
Superintendent of Otago.

WARRANT

Appointing an Officer for the Revision of the Citizens’ List and for other purposes in the Incorporated Town of Riverton, in the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS the Town of Riverton has been incorporated under the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865”: And whereas by the 113th Section of the said Ordinance, it is amongst other things enacted that in cases where no special provision is made for the conduct of the first Elections under the said Ordinance, it should be lawful for the Superintendent of Otago to appoint such and so many persons as might be necessary to perform any of the said acts in the said Ordinance, before required to be done by the Mayor, Councillors, Town Clerk, Collector, or other officers, before such officers could be appointed or elected under the provisions of the said Ordinance: And whereas by the 46th Section of the said Ordinance, the Mayor and Councillors of any Town incorporated under the said Ordinance (in the said section called the Council), are constituted open Courts for the revision of the Citizens’ Lists and for hearing and determining the claims of the Citizens thereof to be inserted in such Lists, and the objections of such Citizens to any other Citizen having his name retained thereon: And whereas it is expedient to appoint a fit and proper person to perform the acts required to be done by the Mayor and Councillors, as constituting Courts of Revision under the said 46th Section of the said Ordinance, and to do the several other matters and things directed and required by the said Ordinance in the revision of the Citizens’ List for the said incorporated Town of Riverton: Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865,” and of all other powers in any wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby nominate and appoint

Edward Simpson, Senior, Esquire,
to perform the acts required to be done by the Council in the revision of the Citizens’ List for the Town of Riverton, and hearing and determining the claims of the Citizens thereof to be inserted in such List, and the objections of such citizens to any other Citizen having his name retained thereon.

As witness my hand, this twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

J. Macandrew,
Superintendent of Otago.

PROCLAMATION

Of the Municipality of Invercargill.

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, made and passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Ordinance to amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865,” it is amongst other things enacted that it should be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice of his Executive Council, and he was thereby authorised and required, on the petition of not less than Fifty Persons comprising a majority of the householders resident in any Township within the Province, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, to extend the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865” to such Township, with such modifications as to the names and numbers of the members of such proposed Corporation, and the Office-bearers thereof.