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[Republished from the New Zealand Gazette,
21st August, 1863.]

A PROCLAMATION

Constituting Hundreds in the Province of Southland.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the “Division of Districts Act, 1858,” that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony into Counties, Hundreds, Parishes, or such other divisions as he may deem expedient, which shall have such limits, and shall have and be known by such names or designations as in and by the Proclamation constituting the same shall be prescribed:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the power in me in this behalf vested by the said recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare as follows:

There shall be within the Province of Southland, in the said Colony, the several Hundreds bounded by the limits and known by the names or designations hereinafter written, that is to say:—

Mataura Hundred.

Comprises all that area, estimated to contain 18,000 acres, bounded on the south by a line running due west, in continuation of the north boundary line of the block under the Land Sales and Leases Ordinance, on the east by the Aparima River.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,

Alfred Domett.

God Save The Queen!

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting:

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New Zealand, intituled, “An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons,” Sessions 7, No. 7, the Governor is empowered from time to time to make such Rules and Regulations as to him shall seem fit touching the duties of the officers of any public Gaol, the classification, diet, instruction, treatment, and correction of the prisoners therein and generally to prescribe all such rules as may be necessary for the good discipline of any public Gaol and the safe custody of the prisoners therein:

And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of the said Colony, intituled, “The Secondary Punishment Act, 1854,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem meet, for the employment, safe custody, management, and discipline of the convicts under sentence of penal servitude and to enforce the observance of such rules and regulations by solitary confinement or by such other prison discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf: Provided always that no rule or regulation awarding any such punishment...

Aparima Hundred.

Comprises all that area estimated to contain 46,000 acres. Bounded on the south by Jacob’s River Hundred and by a meriodional line running through the summit of Ferndunlaw Hills, on the west by a line running due north (true) in continuation of the north boundary of the block under the Land Sales and Leases Ordinance, on the east by the Aparima River, on the north by a line running west (true) from the intersection of the south boundary of the Oteramika Hundred by a line running due east from the north-east corner of block 66 of the 2200-acre block, on the west by a line commencing at the said north-east corner of block 66, and running due 48° to the Oteramika stream until it meets the south boundary line.