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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 previously 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 herein-after 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 Superintendent 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.

Otaria Hundred.

All that parcel of land, in the Province of Otago, containing by estimation twenty thousand (20,000) acres, more or less, situate in the South-Eastern Pastoral District, being Run numbered one hundred and two (102) on the map of the said district; bounded towards the North-west by Runs numbered respectively one hundred and thirty-one (181) and one hundred and thirty-two (182), forty-four thousand (44,000) links; towards the North-east by Runs numbered respectively seventy-eight A (78A) and ninety (90), seven hundred and twenty thousand (720,000) links; towards the South-east by Run numbered two hundred and fifty-eight (258), thirty-three thousand five hundred (33,500) links; and towards the South-west by Run numbered one hundred and thirty-two (132), sixty-six thousand (66,000) links, 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 Waipahi 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 Proclamation 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 herein-after 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 Superintendent 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.

Waipahi Hundred.

All that parcel of land in the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by estimation fourteen thousand five hundred (14,500) acres, more or less, situate in the South-Eastern Pastoral District; being Run numbered seventy-eight A (78A) on the map of the said district; bounded towards the North-east by the Wairuna Hundred from its southern corner, and proceeding in a north-westerly direction, twenty-seven thousand two hundred (27,200) links; thence by a line due north along the