OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY).

VOL. XX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1876. No. 1030

IN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

His Excellency the Governor is recommended to approve in accordance with the 27th 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 2,600 acres of land in the Otakaramu Hundred, for settlement on the deferred payment system.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

13th June, 1876.

Approved—
N.

In Council, June 4th, 1876.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

PROCLAMATION

Setting apart 2,600 acres of Land in the Otakaramu Hundred, for occupation on the Deferred Payments.

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

WHEREAS by 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 license or lease on deferred payments, 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 hereinafter specified for alienation 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 advice and 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, 11 and 15, block IV., 2, 3, 15, 16, and V., 9 and 10, block XIII., Waikaka District, as sections open for license or lease as aforesaid, and that the said sections will be open on the 20th July, 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 twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

(L.S.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor George Turnbull, Esquire, Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by Section 10 of the "Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871, Amendment Ordinance, 1874," it is provided that if from any cause whatever the persons entitled to vote at any election for any district or for any subdivision of any district shall fail or neglect to hold an election of members of the District Board of such district on the day appointed by the "Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871," it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by proclamation in the Gazette, to appoint a day for the holding of such election: