EDUCATION RESERVES at Wyndham and North Harbor

The Lease of Block X, Wyndham, comprising 7327 acres; and of Section 50, Block XI, North Harbor, comprising 10 acres, will be disposed of by auction at the Land Office, Dunedin, on Monday, the 4th day of September next, immediately after the sale of Crown Lands. For copies of Leasing Regulations apply to—JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT OF RIVERTON

NOTICE is hereby given that the Education Board has combined the former Educational Districts of North Riverton and South Riverton into one Educational District, to be called the Educational District of Riverton, and that said Educational District comprises all that area which is bounded on the north by Block III, Jacob’s River Hundred, and the Aparima River; on the east by the eastern boundaries of sections 59, 26, 27, 57, 61, and 63, block VI, Jacob’s River Hundred, and by the ocean; on the south by the ocean; and on the west by sections 20, 19, 18, Reserve, and sections 36 and 53, block I, Jacob’s River Hundred.

By order,
JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

RETURN OF NUMBER OF SHEEP IN THE PROVINCE

Laid on the table by the Provincial Treasurer, June 19.

Sheep Inspector’s Department,
Dunedin, 13th June, 1871.

Sir,—I have the honor to forward, for the information of the Government, Return of Sheep in the Province of Otago for the year ended 30th September, 1870.

The accompanying list shows a total of two millions four hundred and seventy-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-five (2,497,525) sheep above six months old, of which number one million five hundred and eighty-nine thousand and fifteen (1,589,515) are returned as depasturing on Runs, seven hundred and ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and thirteen (798,813) on freehold, seventy-five thousand six hundred and fifty (75,650) on Goldfields, and sixteen thousand and forty-seven (16,047) on hundreds.

The number forty-one thousand six hundred and fifty (41,650) appearing in the Return as diseased were confined in a corner of the Waitahuna District, and, with the exception of eleven hundred (1,100) in a paddock at Lovell’s Flat on last inspection in May, I found the disease so far reduced that no symptoms of scab could be noticed amongst any of the other flocks; but a few months must elapse before they can be pronounced clean. By careful monthly inspections which I propose making, I am sanguine of being able soon to report that all the sheep in the Province are free from disease.

The Waitahuna District being the only part of the Province where any scab has existed for the last two years, I have tried hard to get it stamped out. Although it has been kept from spreading, I have failed in getting it under until now. This particular part of the country being a commonage, the great difficulty I had to encounter was in separating the flocks of the different owners. On almost every examination of any particular flock, some stray sheep belonging to nearly all the owners in the commonage were sure to be found intermixed, there being no recognised boundaries; and I found it next to impossible to compel all to clean their sheep without oppressing individuals who were doing everything in their power to get rid of the disease.

To meet such cases as the above it would be necessary for the Inspector to have the power to compel owners of diseased sheep in a commonage to confine them in some safe place until they are free from disease.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
WM. LOGIE, Chief Inspector.

The Provincial Treasurer, Dunedin.

RETURN SHOWING THE INCREASE OF SHEEP IN THE PROVINCE FROM THE YEAR 1859 TO 1870

• 1859-60 include sheep within the Province of Southland, at that time a portion of Otago. Up to 1867 the returns did not distinguish between sheep on Runs or freehold, so it was impossible to state on what kind of property the sheep were depastured.

RETURN SHOWING THE NUMBER OF SHEEP IN THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1870