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fit, on the recommendation of the Superintendent
and Provincial Council, from time to time, by Pro-
clamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to
constitute into a hundred any portion of the waste
lands not forming any part of any hundred previously
proclaimed, notwithstanding that such lands, or any
part thereof, shall be comprised within any pastoral
lease or license theretofore or thereafter to be granted
by the Crown under any law regulating the occupa-
tion or disposal of waste lands, and whether or not
the same shall have been included within the
boundaries of any proclaimed gold field:

And whereas by the said Act it is also further
provided, that no hundred shall be constituted which
shall consist wholly of land unsuitable for agriculture
and adapted for pastoral purposes only; and before
any hundred shall be constituted, it shall be the duty
of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief
Surveyor to certify to the Governor that in their
opinion not less than one third part of the area of
such hundred is land available for agriculture.

And whereas the Superintendent of the Province
of Otago, and the Provincial Council of the said
province have recommended that the waste lands
particularly described in the Schedule hereto should
be proclaimed to be a hundred under the provisions
of the said Act: And whereas the said lands do not
form part of any hundred previously proclaimed and
the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the Chief
Surveyor of the said province have, in accordance
with the hereinbefore recited provisions of the said
Act, certified to the Governor, as to such lands
hereinbefore in the said Schedule described, that in
their opinion not less than one third part of the
area thereof is land available for agriculture:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be
given to the said recommendation of the Superin-
tendent and Provincial Council of the Province of
Otago.

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority
vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act,
do hereby proclaim that the waste lands particularly
described in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the
same are hereby, constituted into a hundred under
and for the purposes of the said Act; and that the
same shall be called or known by the name set above
the description of the said hundred in the said
Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

DART HUNDRED.

All that parcel of land in the Province of Otago,
in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by esti-
mation seven thousand four hundred (7,400) acres,
more or less, situate in the Interior Pastoral District,
being part of Run numbered three hundred and
forty-six (346) on the map of the said district,
bounded by a line commencing at the outlet of
Diamond Lake into the Earnslaw Burn, and pro-
ceeding in a north-westerly direction along the north-
eastern shore of that lake to the northern boundary
of the said Run 346, ten thousand (10,000) links;
thence in an easterly direction along the edge of the
forest forming the northern boundary of the said
run, twenty-two thousand (22,000) links; thence in
a south-easterly direction along the boundary of the
said run to Rees River, seven thousand four hundred
(7,400) links; thence along that river to the head of
Lake Wakatipu, seventy-five thousand (75,000)
links; thence in a northerly direction along the Dart
River, forty-four thousand four hundred (44,400)
links; thence by a straight line in a north-easterly
direction across the southern point of the summit of
Mount Alfred, thirty thousand (30,000) links, to the
starting point; excepting out of the above descrip-
tion Section numbered 37, Block I., Earnslaw Dis-
triet, be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s
Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and
its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same; and issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at Wellington, this
second day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN,

God SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation constituting Tuapeka Hundred.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Otago Waste Lands Act,
1872,” it is, amongst other things, enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he think
fit, on the recommendation of the Superintendent
and Provincial Council, from time to time, by Pro-
clamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to
constitute into a hundred any portion of the waste
lands not forming any part of any hundred
previously proclaimed, notwithstanding that such
lands or any part thereof shall be comprised within
any pastoral lease or license theretofore or thereafter
to be granted by the Crown under any law regulating
the occupation or disposal of waste lands, and
whether or not the same shall have been included
within the boundaries of any proclaimed gold field:

And whereas by the said Act it is also further
provided that no hundred shall be constituted which
shall consist wholly of land unsuitable for agriculture
and adapted for pastoral purposes only; and before
any hundred shall be constituted it shall be the duty
of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief
Surveyor to certify to the Governor that in their
opinion not less than one third part of the area of
such hundred is land available for agriculture:

And whereas the Superintendent of the Province
of Otago and the Provincial Council of the said
province have recommended that the waste lands
particularly described in the Schedule hereto should
be proclaimed to be a hundred under the provisions
of the said Act: And whereas the said lands do not
form part of any hundred previously proclaimed,
and the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the Chief
Surveyor of the said province have, in accordance
with the hereinbefore recited provisions of the said
Act, certified to the Governor, as to such lands
hereinbefore in the said Schedule described, that in
their opinion not less than one third part of the
area thereof is land available for agriculture:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be
given to the said recommendation of the Superin-
tendent and Provincial Council of the Province of
Otago:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority
vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act,
do hereby proclaim that the waste lands particularly
described in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the
same are hereby, constituted into a hundred under
and for the purposes of the said Act; and that the
same shall be called or known by the name set above
the description of the said hundred in the said
Schedule.