OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY)

Vol. XX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1876. No. 40

PROCLAMATION

Setting apart 2,000 Acres of Land in the Otaria and Kawerau Hundreds for occupation on deferred payments.

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

WHEREAS, the 47th Section of the Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council, to set apart in any part of the province, districts or blocks of land within which licenses to occupy land and leases thereof on deferred payments may be granted either exclusively, or within which the land shall be open for immediate or lease on deferred payment, or for sale on immediate payment. And whereas by the "Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," it is enacted that until the day next after the last day of the first session of the next or sixth Parliament of New Zealand all powers, duties, and functions which immediately before the passing of this Act were under or by virtue of any law vested in or to be exercised or performed by the Superintendent of any Province on the recommendation or resolution of the Provincial Council of such Province under any law or ordinance for the time being in force shall be exercised by the Superintendent, with the consent of the Governor in Council. And whereas the Superintendent of the Province of Otago has recommended the Governor in Council to set apart the lands herein-after specified for attention on deferred payments! And whereas His Excellency the Governor in Council has given his consent to this proclamation and to such setting apart.

Now, therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the consent of the Governor in Council, as aforesaid, do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the "Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872," and of every other power in this behalf enabling me, proclaim, declare, and set apart all those sections numbered respectively, 1, 6, 9, 10, 11, 17, 19, 23, and 24, block II, Slope Down District; sections 12, and 13, block II E, Slope Down District, on the map of the said Slope Down District as sections open for license or lease as aforesaid, and that the said sections will be open on the 7th day of May, 1876, for application for license and lease on deferred payment, as provided in the "Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872."

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, this seventh day of April, 1876.

(L.S.)

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

V. R.

In Executive Council.

His Excellency the Governor is recommended to approve in accordance with the 47th Section of "The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875," the accompanying Proclamation by His Honor the Superintendent of Otago, under "The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872," setting aside 3,000 acres in the Otaria and Kawerau Hundreds for settlement on the deferred payment system.

H. A. ATKINSON,
29th April, 1876.

Approved this 3rd day of May, 1876.

In Council, May 3, 1876.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Districts under "The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858."

Normanby, Governor,

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS by "The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the colony for the purposes of the said Act into such and so