OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XVII. Dunedin: Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1873. No. 872.

PROCLAMATION
Of the Waipori Depasturing District, and Regulations for the Depasturing of Stock therein.

By His Honor John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Esq., Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in Council.

WHEREAS by the fourteenth section of “The Gold Fields Act 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make, alter, and revoke regulations for the depasturing of stock upon any lands within proclaimed gold fields for which a lease or license for depasturing purposes has not been granted, or has been cancelled or suspended, and to regulate the number of horses or cattle which may be run upon such lands by the holders of miners’ rights and business licenses, or of mining, mineral, and agricultural leases, and to issue depasturing licenses, and to regulate the fees that shall be paid therefor: And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him by “The Gold Fields Act 1866” and subject to its provisions, delegated unto the Executive Government for the time being of the Province of Otago all such powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said last-mentioned Act as under or by virtue of the 109th section of the said last-mentioned Act may be delegated by the Governor in Council, to have, hold, and exercise the said powers within the said Province of Otago:

And whereas it is expedient that regulations should be made for the depasturing of stock upon that part of the waste lands of the Crown within the Otago gold field known as the Waipori District:

Now therefore I, John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the said Province in this behalf by His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand in Council, under the authority of “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1867,” and of any and every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date hereof, the district specified in the Schedule hereto shall be and is hereby constituted and appointed a depasturing district, and the Regulations of the 23rd day of June, 1868, published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette, No. 553, and the Regulations of the 6th day of October, 1868, published in the said Gazette, No. 572, shall be the Depasturing Regulations for the said district as if the said district had been originally included in the Schedules to the said Regulations respectively.

THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.

Waipori District.

All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement seven thousand six hundred and fifty acres, more or less, being originally portions of Runs numbered respectively 186 and 51 on the map of the south-eastern district of the said Province: bounded by a line commencing at the Lammerlaw Creek and proceeding due east through Trigonometrical Station M, Waipori Survey District, to Commonage Creek, thence by Commonage Creek and the Waipori River to the junction of Pioneer Creek with the Waipori River; thence by Pioneer Creek to its junction with Ox Burn; thence by Ox Burn and a direct line to the Dunedin road, at a point due south of the source of the Pastoral Creek; thence by Pastoral Creek and the Waipori River to the junction of the Lammerlaw Creek; thence along Lammerlaw Creek to the starting point.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, in presence of Geo. Turnbull and Horace Bastings, Esqs., two of the members of the Executive Council of the said Province, being also members of the Provincial Council thereof, this sixteenth day of September, 1873.

(L.S.)
J. T. BOYD,
Deputy Superintendent.

NOTICE is hereby given, that in conformity with the “Depasturing Regulations,” the first election of Wardens for the depasturing district of Waipori will be held on Thursday, the sixteenth day of October next ensuing.

The Board of Wardens for the district aforesaid shall consist of five elective members, one of whom shall hereafter be appointed chairman.

The following Regulations shall be the Regulations for the first election as aforesaid.

I. Nominations of candidates must be made in writing, addressed to the Warden at Lawrence, on or before Monday, the thirteenth day of October next, and in the following form, which must be signed in full by the proposer and seconder of every such candidate.

FORM.

To the Warden at Lawrence.

(Place and date.)

We hereby nominate (here insert name in full) to be a member of the first board of Wardens of the Waipori Depasturing District.

(Signatures.)

After the signatures of the proposer and seconder, the nature and particulars of the qualification under which they claim to vote must be stated.