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thence due east 5 chains; thence due south 2868 links; thence due east 20 chains; thence due north 7868 links; thence due east 20 chains; thence due south 7868 links; thence due east 9414 links to centre of road forming the east boundary of Block XIX., Invercargill Hundred; thence due south 18,880 links to south boundary of Block XIX., Invercargill Hundred; thence due west 2211 links, thence by a line at a bearing of 345 degrees 14 minutes, a distance of 2662 links; thence by a line at a bearing of 324 degrees 30 minutes, 7,406 links; thence by a line at a bearing of 190 degrees 23 minutes, 2,145 links; thence at a bearing of 333 degrees 14 minutes, 1,166 links; thence at a bearing of 243 degrees 14 minutes, 5,050 links; thence at a bearing of 327 degrees 10 minutes, 569 links; thence at a bearing of 329 degrees 49 minutes, 1,653 links; thence by a line at a bearing of 333 degrees 26 minutes, 183 links; thence at a bearing 63 degrees 14 minutes, 5,208 links; thence at a bearing of 333 degrees 14 minutes, 1,541 links; thence by a line running due east a distance of 3,146 links; thence by a line at a bearing of 190 degrees 23 minutes, 2,346 links; thence due east 3,723 links; thence due north 2,408 links; thence due east 1,700 links; thence due north 1,630 links; thence due west 5,100 links; thence due north 2,000 links; thence due west 7,600 links; thence due north 350 links; thence due west 3,912 links; thence in a northerly direction and forming the boundary of the Bluff Road, a distance of about 2,497 links; thence due east 4,224 links; thence due north 3,599 links; thence due west 3,916 links; thence due north 1,209 links to starting point.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, in the said Province, this 25th day of October, 1876.

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


PROCLAMATION

Constituting the Waitahuna and Tuapeka Road Districts.

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

WHEREAS by the sixth Section of the Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Otago passed in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled the “Otago Roads Ordinance, 1866,” it is provided that if a majority of the persons on the roll of electors in any part of the Province 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 name as in and by the Proclamation should be assigned to the same: And whereas such a majority in number of the persons resident in the portion of the Province hereinafter described as is required by the said recited section of the said Ordinance have signed and caused to be presented to me a petition in the form of the second Schedule to the said Ordinance, praying me to constitute the portions of the said Province hereinafter described Road Districts, under the said Ordinance: Now, therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim, constitute, and declare the areas described in the Schedule hereto Road Districts, to be called respectively the Waitahuna and Tuapeka Road Districts:

SCHEDULE

Waitahuna Road District shall comprise all that area commencing at the Gold Fields boundary, thence in a north-easterly direction by a line, being the south-eastern boundary of Section 15, block VII, Waitahuna West, Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction by the north-eastern boundary of said Section 15; thence in a northerly direction by the eastern boundaries of Sections 14, 10, and 11; thence in an easterly direction by the northern boundaries of Sections 9, 8, 7, 6, and 5, block VII, Waitahuna West District; thence again in a northerly direction by the western boundaries of Sections 63, 62, 53, 52, 47, and 16, block VII, Waitahuna East, Survey District; thence again in an easterly and north-easterly direction by the northern boundaries of Sections 16, 17, 18, 19, and 30, and the north-western boundaries of Sections 13 and 14; thence in a south-easterly direction by the north-eastern boundary of Section 14; thence again in an easterly direction by the northern boundaries of Sections 32, 28, and 29, block VII, Waitahuna East District, and the same line produced to the Bungton Creek, being the northern boundary of block X of said District; thence in a northern and north-easterly direction by said Bungton Creek to the north-eastern corner of Section 11, block IX, Tuapeka East, Survey District; thence by a line due east to the eastern boundary of Tuapeka East, Survey District; thence by a line due south, being the eastern boundary of Tuapeka East District; thence by a line due west to a point due north of Trigonometrical Station G; thence again by a line due south to said Trigonometrical Station G on the boundary of Watershed; thence in a south-westerly direction by said Watershed through Trigonometrical Station S, and by a road-line to Trigonometrical Station Q on Round Hill; thence again in an north-easterly direction by a road-line to the north-eastern boundary of Section 13, block IV, Waitahuna East District; thence in an easterly direction by the northern boundary of said block to the north-eastern corner of Section 26; thence in a south-westerly direction by the western boundary of Section 26; thence again in a westerly direction by the northern boundaries of Sections 18, 17, and 16, block VI; thence again in a south-easterly direction by a road-line to the north-eastern boundary of Section 24; thence again in a westerly direction by the northern boundary of said Section 24 to the boundary of Stuart Hundred; thence again in a north-westerly direction by said Stuart Hundred to the Waitahuna River, and continuing in the same direction by the Gold Fields boundary to the south-western boundary of Section 16, block VII, Waitahuna West, Survey District, being the starting point.

Tuapeka Road District shall comprise all that area commencing at a point on the east bank of the Tuapeka River, due west of the Trigonometrical Station W, Tuapeka East, Survey District; thence due east through said Trigonometrical Station W to a point on the south-west side of Gardner’s track; thence in a south-easterly direction along said track to its junction with Waipori Road; thence in a south-easterly direction along said road and south-west boundary of run 53c to trig Tuapeka East Survey District; thence due south to southern boundary of aforementioned run; thence again due east along the northern boundaries of sections 10 and 11, block IX.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1876, No 1046





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🏘️ Proclamation of the Municipality of South Invercargill (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
24 October 1876
Proclamation, Municipality, South Invercargill, Otago, Municipal Corporations Ordinance
  • J. Macandrew, Superintendent of Otago

🏘️ Constituting the Waitahuna and Tuapeka Road Districts

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
25 October 1876
Proclamation, Road Districts, Waitahuna, Tuapeka, Otago
  • James Macandrew, Superintendent of Otago