OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)

Vol. XVIII. Dunedin: Wednesday, June 17, 1874. No. 913

PROROGATION OF PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,

By His Honor the Superintendent, Monday, 15th June, 1874:—

Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council—

On behalf of the Governor, on the 14th day of May last, I assented to the Imprest Supply Ordinance, 1874, passed by you.

I have this day, on behalf of the Governor, assented to the following Ordinances passed by you:—

• Naseby Waterworks Empowering Ordinance, 1874;
• Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act, 1873; Introduction Ordinance, 1874;
• Dunedin City Council Borrowing Powers Extension Ordinance, 1874;
• The Otago Dock Trust Ordinance, 1865; Repeal Ordinance, 1874;
• Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinances Amendment Ordinance, 1874;
• Sawyer’s Bay Lands Leasing Ordinance, 1874;
• Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871 Amendment Ordinance, 1874;
• Clyde Corporation Borrowing Powers Extension Ordinance, 1874;
• Roslyn Institute Ordinance, 1874;
• Licensing Ordinance, 1865, Amendment Ordinance, 1874;
• Caledonian Society of Otago Incorporation Ordinance, 1874;
• Oamaru Harbour Board Ordinance, 1874;
• Hospital Ordinance, 1874;
• Otago Gold Duty Repayment Ordinance, 1874;
• Appropriation Ordinance, 1874-5.

I have also this day reserved, for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, the following Bills passed by you:—

• Riverton Government Reserve Bill, 1874;
• Portobello Cemetery Reserve Sale Bill, 1874;
• Lower Taieri Road Lands Exchange Bill, 1874;
• Papakaia Railway Reserve Sale Bill, 1874;
• Roads Diversion Bill, 1874;
• Dunedin School Site Bill, 1874;
• New River Harbour Board Bill, 1874;
• Education Reserves Management and Leasing Bill, 1874;
• Castle-street Diversion Bill, 1874;
• New River and Jacob’s River Ferries Reserves Leasing Bill, 1874;
• Waitahuna West District Road Compulsory Land Taking Bill, 1874;
• Riverton Drill-shed Reserve Management Bill, 1874;
• Lawrence Reserves Sale Bill, 1874;
• Riverton Harbour Board Bill, 1874;
• Roads Diversion Bill (No. 2), 1874;
• Palmerston School Glebe Exchange Bill, 1874;
• Port Chalmers School Reserves Sale Bill, 1874;
• Otago Harbour Board Bill, 1874;
• Dunedin Presbyterian Church Lands Ordinance Amendment Bill, 1874;
• Lawrence Reserves Sale Bill (No. 2), 1874;
• Naseby Recreation Reserve Management Bill, 1874;
• Invercargill Reserves Management Ordinance Amendment Bill, 1874; and from the Oamaru Rifle Range Reserve Management Bill, 1874.\n
  I withhold the Governor’s assent.

I have now to thank you for your attendance, and to express a hope, in which I am sure you all share, that under the Divine blessing, the result of the Session may conduce towards the best interests of the Province. The various and important matters which you have remitted to the Executive Government shall have my best attention, and the large expenditure which has been authorised by you will be disposed of with due regard to economy and efficiency.

Gentlemen, I now declare this Council prorogued,” and it stands prorogued accordingly.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

Dunedin, 15th June, 1874.

PROCLAMATION

Constituting the Tuturau Road District.

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

WHEREAS by the sixth section of the Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago passed in the twenty-ninth session of the said Provincial Council No. 363, and shortly intituled the “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871,” it is provided that if a majority in number of the persons on the roll or rolls for the time being in force under the “Registration of Electors Act, 1866,” or any other Act for the like purpose, should sign and cause to be presented to the Superintendent a petition in the form in the second Schedule thereto, or to the like effect, praying him to constitute the portion of the Province in which such persons should reside a Road District under the now recited Ordinance, and in such petition should set forth the boundaries of the portion of the Province to which such petition should refer, it should be lawful for the Superintendent, if he think fit so to do, by Proclamation to constitute such portion of the Province a Road District, and by the Proclamation assign to the same; and whereas such a majority in number of the persons resident in the portion of the Province hereinafter described as is required by the said recited section of the said Ordinance have signed and caused to be presented to me a petition in the form of the second Schedule to the said Ordinance praying me to constitute the portion of the said Province hereinafter described a Road District under the said Ordinance: Now therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim, constitute, and declare all that area in the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by estimation forty-three thousand five hundred and sixty (48,560) acres, more or less, bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Otakaramu Stream, thence along that stream and its northern branch to its...