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At back of Hundred, behind Mr Thomson’s purchased land, known as Gull’s Hill, and that part of Mataura Flat situated between north bank of Marairua Creek and sod fence erected by Mr Galt across main road from edge of terrace to bank of Mataura River.

5th. Great cattle may be depastured on the remainder of the Hundred.

It having been brought to the notice of the Board, that a number of the returns for 1873 have been incorrectly made, and also that persons are depasturing cattle without licences, notice is given that returns, in the form provided in the fourteenth schedule to the Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872, must be sent to the ranger, on or before the 24th May, 1873, otherwise immediate steps will be taken to enforce terms of clauses 130 and 131 of Waste Lands Act, 1872, which provide for a penalty of £50.

Bye-Laws.

1st. No cattle from any diseased district, or which shall have been driven through any diseased district, shall be placed on the Hundred until the owner or person in charge of the same shall have produced to the Ranger a certificate from a duly qualified inspector, to the effect that such cattle are free from the disease called pleuro pneumonia, and satisfactory evidence that they have been free of that disease during the preceding six months.

2nd. No person shall disturb or harass cattle lawfully depasturing upon the Hundred; provided always that any person holding a licence to depasture cattle within the Hundred, or any person duly authorised by him, may drive such cattle for the purpose of collecting such as may belong to him, and for the legitimate use of the right of pasturage within the Hundred; but in case it should be necessary for such purpose to drive any cattle belonging to any other person a greater distance than half a mile, the person so driving such cattle must take them to the nearest available stockyard, and there separate his own cattle from those of other persons, and return the latter to the place from whence they were driven.

3rd. Every person removing cattle from the Hundred shall give twenty-four hours’ notice in writing of number and description of the same to the nearest Warden.

4th. All cattle which may die from any cause whatever, the owner, or person in charge thereof, shall bury the same within twenty-four hours from death, or within twenty-four hours of information of the death being given to such owner or person in charge.

5th. If any cattle be suspected of being diseased, the Ranger may appoint certain boundaries within the Hundred, within which such cattle shall be confined.

6th. Any person offending against any of the foregoing Bye-laws shall forfeit any sum not exceeding five pounds for every such offence.

Mokoreta Hundred.

1st. The number of cattle which may be depastured on the Mokoreta Hundred, in the year 1873, shall be two thousand one hundred and sixty great cattle, or thirteen thousand eight hundred small cattle.

2nd. Each holder of a licence to depasture cattle upon the Waste Lands within the Mokoreta Hundred shall be entitled to depasture in the year 1873 one head of great cattle or five head of small cattle for every seven acres of land which he shall own or occupy therein, exclusive of those which he is entitled to depasture free.

3rd. No sheep shall be depastured during the current year on that part of the Hundred north of the Wyndham, excepting on the ground between the Redan and the Wyndham, and on the plain between the swamp on the east and the Mataura on the west, and the Wyndham and the Mimihau on the south and north; also on that part of the Hundred south of the Wyndham, excepting on the ground between the Don and the east boundary of the Hundred.

4th. Great cattle may be depastured on the remainder of the Hundred.

Tapanui Hundred.

1st. That the common Waste Lands within the Hundred are capable of depasturing 3016 great cattle or 15,080 sheep.

2nd. That license holders shall be entitled to depasture at the rate of 25 head great cattle or 125 sheep for every 100 acres owned or occupied, exclusive of those they are entitled to depasture free.

3rd. Sheep may be depastured on that part of the Hundred bounded on the north by the boundary of the Hundred, on the west by the Mataura river, on the south by the Tapanui district boundary.

License Holders

Name of License holder ... Great Small
G. F. Richardson ... 9 4046
D. Doull ... 225 756
L. D. Nichol ... 50 276
A. N. Campbell ... 130 ...
W. Borrie ... 13 ...
H. Robson ... 47 ...
T. Ayson ... 140 ...
H. Carswell ... 105 1997
H. Golden ... 45 ...
Bank of Otago ... 353 ...
K. McKenzie ... 60 ...
J. Campbell ... 130 ...

Bye-Laws.

1st. All license holders within fourteen days from date hereof register with the Ranger a statement of all cattle (great and small) being depastured by them on the common waste lands of the Hundred, in the form provided in the 14th schedule of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872.”

2nd. Anyone, whether license holder or person travelling stock, about to bring stock on the Hundred or to remove stock therefrom, shall before doing so give written notice to the Ranger.

3rd. No person shall in any way disturb or harass cattle, great or small, depastured within the Hundred, further than may be necessary for the purpose of collecting and dealing with such of them as may belong to him.

4th. The penalty for any breach of the foregoing Bye-laws shall be a sum not exceeding five pounds, to be recovered in a summary way in accordance with the 172nd section of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1872.”

Approved,
J. T. Thomson,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 10th April, 1873.

AMENDED NOTICE.

PROVINCIAL COMPULSORY LAND TAKING ACT 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended to introduce a Bill into the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, at its next Session, authorising the Superintendent of the Province of Otago to take compulsorily for the purpose of completing a road in the Walton Road District, parts of sections numbered respectively forty-nine and fifty (49 and 50), block seven (7), Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District, of the Province of Otago aforesaid; also for the purpose of completing a road in the Portobello Road District, part of section numbered twenty-eight (28) block five (5), Portobello Survey District, of the Province of Otago aforesaid; also for the purpose of completing a road in the Portobello Road District, part of section numbered twenty-two (22) block five (5) of the Portobello Survey District, of the Province aforesaid; also for the purpose of completing a road in the Port Molyneux Road District, parts of sections numbered respectively eleven (11) and twelve (12), block two (2), South Molyneux Survey District, of the Province of Otago aforesaid; also for the purpose of completing a road in the Port Molyneux Road District, part of section numbered fifteen (15), block two (2), Glenomaru Survey District of the Province of Otago aforesaid; and for the purpose of completing a road in the Motupipi Road District, parts of sections numbered respectively five (5) and six (6), block thirty (30), Waihola Survey District, of the said Province of Otago; and also for the purpose of completing a road in the Caversham and Mornington Road Districts, parts of sections numbered respectively five (5) six (6) and sixty-five (65) block six (6), Town District, Province aforesaid; and also for the purpose of completing a road in the Mornington Road District, parts of sections numbered respectively six (6), block two (2), and sections seven (7) and eight (8), block three (3), Township of Mornington.