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Run No. 393. Bounded on the north-east and East by the edge of the Long-wood bush, on the north-west by the Waiau river, and on the south-west and south by the high water mark of the ocean in Foveaux Straits and the township reserve of Orepuki.
Run No. 395. Bounded on the north-east and south by the edge of the Long-wood bush, and on the west by the high-water mark of the ocean in Foveaux Straits and the native reserve on Pahia point.
G. Grey, Governor.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the Act now in recital, except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, sixty-nine, and one hundred and seven, of the said Act, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit, and in like manner to alter or revoke any such powers:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in the exercise of the power and authority for this purpose in me vested, do hereby delegate unto...
John Parkin Taylor, Esq.,
as Superintendent of the Province of Southland, all the powers vested in me, under or by virtue of the said “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty-eight, sixty, sixty-nine, and one hundred and seven, to have, hold, and exercise, within the Province of Southland, the said powers hereby given to the said John Parkin Taylor, Esq., so long as he shall continue and remain Superintendent of the said Province, and no longer:
Provided always that copies of all Rules and Regulations made under the delegation aforesaid shall be forthwith transmitted to the Colonial Secretary, in order that the same may be laid before the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of the one hundred and tenth clause of “The Goldfields Act, 1866.”
Given under the hand of 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, at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued under the seal of the said Colony this twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
E. W. Stafford,
Approved in Council:
Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 27th October, 1866.
It is hereby notified that I have appointed
F. B. Holt, Esq.,
to be a member of the Sheep Board, for the Province of Southland, in succession to J. R. Cuthbertson, Esquire.
J. P. Taylor,
Superintendent.
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Southland Provincial Gazette 1866, No 20
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Proclamation of Slaughter House District
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🏥 Health & Social Welfare27 October 1866
Slaughter House Ordinance, District Proclamation, Orepuki, Longwood, Southland
🏛️ Delegation of Powers under the Gold Fields Act, 1866
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration12 October 1866
Delegation of Powers, Gold Fields Act, Southland, Superintendent
- John Parkin Taylor (Esquire), Delegated powers under the Gold Fields Act
- G. Grey, Governor
- E. W. Stafford
- Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council
🌾 Appointment to Sheep Board
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources27 October 1866
Sheep Board, Appointment, Southland
- F. B. Holt (Esquire), Appointed member of the Sheep Board
- J. P. Taylor, Superintendent