OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

Published by Authority.

Vol. XVII. Dunedin: Wednesday, April 30, 1873. No. 846

PROCLAMATION.

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

I, JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Otago in this behalf by the “Roads Diversion Ordinance 1872,” and of the powers vested in me as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, hereby proclaim and declare that all those roads and all those portions of roads in the Province of Otago, mentioned and referred to in the said “Roads Diversion Ordinance 1872,” and particularly described in the Schedule hereto, shall from and after the day of the date hereof, cease to be public roads or thoroughfares; and shall no longer form part of the public roads in the several Road Districts in the Province of Otago, mentioned in the Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed.

6. Goodwood Road District (now Palmerston).

(1.) All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement 3a Or 28p more or less being a road line situate in the Hawksbury Survey District bounded towards the north-east by sections numbered 28 31 and 33 block I six thousand three hundred (6300) links more or less and towards the south-west by other part of said sections 28 31 and 33 six thousand three hundred (6300) links more or less.

Dated at Dunedin this twenty-eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

PROCLAMATION.

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

PURSUANT to the powers delegated to me in that behalf, and under and by virtue of “The Protection of Animals Act 1867,” and “The Protection of Animals Act Amendment Act 1868,” I, James Macandrew, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and appoint the months of March, April, May, and June as the months in which native game may be hunted, shot, taken, and killed within the Province of Otago, excluding the late Province of Southland: And I do further proclaim all that area of land lying between the Waikouaiti River and the Horse Range, within ten miles distance from the sea coast, to be open for the purpose of pheasant shooting from the day of the date hereof.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

(L.S.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

SECONDARY PUNISHMENT.

The following Delegation is published for general information:—

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

WHEREAS, by the ninth section of “The Secondary Punishment Act 1854,” it is enacted that every person, except as hereinafter mentioned, who shall be kept in penal servitude still, during the term of his servitude, be employed on the roads or public works, or otherwise be kept to hard labor, in such part of the Colony of New Zealand as the Governor shall in that behalf direct, and either in irons or under such other restraint, and subject to such correction as may be necessary for his safe custody and strict discipline; and for the purposes of being so employed, as aforesaid, every such convict may be removed from place, either by sea or land, and may be confined in such public gaol, at such penal station, or in such place of confinement, or may otherwise be kept in custody, as the Governor shall from time to time direct:

And Whereas, by the seventeenth section of the said Act, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by instructions under his hand, to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, on such terms and conditions and subject to such limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed in that behalf, all or any of the powers thereinbefore reserved to the Governor by the ninth clause of the said Act.

And Whereas it is expedient that the powers reserved to the Governor by the said ninth section of the said Act should, so far as the same are exercisable with regard to persons sentenced to penal servitude by any Court of competent jurisdiction sitting within the Province of Otago, and so far as the same are exercisable with regard to persons sentenced to penal servitude by any Court of competent jurisdiction sitting and acting beyond the limits of the said Province, and removed under lawful authority to any prison within the said Province, should be delegated to the Superintendent of the said Province.

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said seventeenth section, do hereby, by this instrument under my hand, delegate to JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the said Province, all the powers reserved to the Governor by the ninth section of the said Act, but only so far as the same are exercisable with regard to persons heretofore or hereafter to be sentenced to penal servitude by any Court of competent jurisdiction sitting and acting within the said Province, so far as the same are exercisable within the said Province.