OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)

Vol. XVIII. Dunedin: Wednesday, November 18, 1874. No. 935

PROCLAMATION.

Setting apart Crown Lands in the Otago Gold Field for the purpose of granting Agricultural Leases.

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

WHEREAS by the 3rd section of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted amongst other things that it shall be lawful for the Governor to cause Crown lands situate within a Gold Field to be selected and set apart for the purpose of granting Agricultural Leases thereon and therefor: And whereas Thomas Dick, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in him in that behalf, did, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, bearing date the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, constitute and appoint all the territory therein described, including amongst other lands, the lands hereinafter described, to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” to be called “Otago Gold Field:”

And whereas by the “Gold Fields Act Amendment Act 1867,” it is enacted that within any Province in which by any Act or Ordinance, it is provided that the Superintendent shall, in the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand, and under the public seal of the Colony, from time to time as occasion may require, to delegate to the Executive Government for the time being of such Province, subject or not to any restrictions or limitations as he may think fit, all or any of such powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” as under or by virtue of the 109th section of the said last-mentioned Act, may be delegated by the Governor in Council, and in like manner to revoke any such delegation: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the “Executive Council Ordinance 1861,” it is provided that the Superintendent of the said Province shall, in the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council:

Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, and 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 every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands comprised within the area hereinafter described have been and are hereby selected and set apart by the Executive Government of the Province of Otago for the purpose of granting agricultural leases thereon and therefor (that is to say)—

SCHEDULE.

All that area of land in the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement two thousand five hundred (2500) acres, more or less, situate in Benger District, being part of Run numbered two hundred (200), comprising portion of Block numbered ten (X) on the map of the said district; bounded by a line commencing at the south-western corner of Section numbered 20, and proceeding over trigonometrical station X, and along the south-western