OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY).

Vol XX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876. No. 1042.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor George Turnbull, Esquire, Deputy 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 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 Deputy-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, George Turnbull, the Deputy-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 on me by “The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872,” and of every other power in this behalf enabling me to proclaim, declare, and set apart all that area in the said Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement one thousand nine hundred and seventy-four (1,974) acres more or less, situate in the Rock and Pillar District, being sections numbered 6, 8, and 9, Block VI, Sections numbered 27, 28, 29, and 30, Block VII, and Sections numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, Block X, on the map of the said District, together with the road lines intersecting the said area. The boundary lines are as follow:— Commencing at the south west corner of section numbered 6, said Block X, thence due east to the Taieri River, ten thousand four hundred (10,400) links, thence north-easterly along the said River twenty-one thousand four hundred (21,400) links, thence north-west, bearing 290 deg., fourteen thousand and twenty (14,020) links, thence due south, eleven thousand four hundred and ninety-four (11,494) links, thence due west two thousand four hundred and ninety-three (2,493) links, thence due south, six thousand nine hundred and eighty (6,980) links, to the starting point, the area above described being exclusive of Section numbered 7, said Block VI, reserved for mining purposes.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, this twenty-fifth day of September, 1876.

GEO. TURNBULL,
Deputy Superintendent of Otago.

PROCLAMATION

Constituting the Dunback Road District.

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

WHEREAS by the sixth section of the Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago passed in the twenty-ninth session of the said Provincial Council No. 363, and shortly intituled the “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1871,” it is provided that if a majority in number of the persons on the roll or rolls for the time being in force under the “Registration of Electors Act, 1866,” or any other Act for the like purpose, should sign and cause to be presented to the Superintendent a petition in the form in the second Schedule thereto, or to the like effect, praying him to constitute the portion of the Province in which such persons should reside a Road District under the now recited Ordinance, and in such petition should set forth the boundaries of the portion of the Province to which such petition should refer, it should be lawful for the Superintendent, if he should think fit so to do, by Proclamation to constitute such portion of the Province a Road District, of such