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✨ Provincial Notices

ERRATA.

GAZETTE, No. 1.— January 30th, 1866.— Page 2.

For “And so on in proportion,”

Read—

“Packages of one ton and upwards at the rate of 10s. per ton.”

THE following occupiers of land in the several Hundreds below mentioned have been elected Wardens for the respective Hundreds, in terms of the 42nd Clause of “The Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865”:—

INVERCARGILL HUNDRED.

Messrs. P. DALRYMPLE,
W. R. PERKINS,
J. H. WILSON,
R. COUPLAND,
W. LAWRENCE.

NEW RIVER HUNDRED.

Messrs. W. MACKEN,
H. ARMSTRONG,
W. LAWRENCE,
J. GRIEVE, and
J. MORTON.

OTERAMIKA HUNDRED.

Messrs. W. JOHNSTON,
J. F. DUNDAS,
P. NICHOLSON,
W. KEER, and
D. M’KAY.

Walter H. Pearson,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Invercargill, 26th March, 1866.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, March 26th, 1866.

IT is hereby notified that, under the provisions of Clause 16 of “The Southland Waste Land Act, 1865,” I have temporarily reserved the Lands hereinafter described for the use of the Provincial Government:—

All that parcel of land, bounded on the north by an east and west line in transit with the top of Ferndudlaw Hill; on the east by Block Nos. I. and III., Apa ... prima Hundred, and Block Nos. VIII., XIII., V., III., I., and XVII., Jacob’s River Hundred; on the south and south-west by the ocean, and on the north-west by the Waiau River.

All those pieces of land in the Hokanui District, marked on the Selection Map in the Chief Surveyor’s office, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, and A¹, B¹, C¹, D¹, Dn¹, F¹, containing by admeasurement 15,265 acres.

Also that parcel of land in Taringatura District, marked on the Selection Map in the Chief Surveyor’s office A, containing by admeasurement 2,000 acres.

John P. Taylor,
Superintendent.

Chief Commissioner’s Office,
Southland, March 26th, 1866.

IT is hereby notified that Sections No. 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, and 48, Block I., Winton District, and Sections No. 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, Block IX., New River Hundred, which were temporarily reserved for Railway purposes, will be open for free selection on or after the 1st day of May, 1865.

Walter H. Pearson,
Chief Commissioner.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1866.

IN virtue of the power vested in me for that purpose, the following appointments have been made in the service of the Colony.

E. W. Stafford.

SOUTHLAND.

Thomas McWilliam,
to be Postmaster at Winton, from 1st December, 1865.

Joseph Hatch,
to be Postmaster at Riverton, from 9th January, 1866.

VUW Te Waharoa — Southland Provincial Gazette 1866, No 7

Built in 1864 as a Masonic lodge, this building was purchased by the Southland Provincial Council as their council chambers in 1866. It still stands today.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

📰 Erratum in Gazette No. 1

Domain📰 NZ Gazette
KeywordsCorrection, Rates, Packages

🏘️ Election of Wardens for Southland Hundreds

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated26 March 1866
KeywordsWardens, Election, Invercargill Hundred, New River Hundred, Oteramika Hundred
👱🏽 Names

14 names identified

P. Dalrymple, Elected Warden for Invercargill Hundred
W. R. Perkins, Elected Warden for Invercargill Hundred
J. H. Wilson, Elected Warden for Invercargill Hundred
R. Coupland, Elected Warden for Invercargill Hundred
W. Lawrence, Elected Warden for Invercargill Hundred
W. Macken, Elected Warden for New River Hundred
H. Armstrong, Elected Warden for New River Hundred
J. Grieve, Elected Warden for New River Hundred
J. Morton, Elected Warden for New River Hundred
W. Johnston, Elected Warden for Oteramika Hundred
J. F. Dundas, Elected Warden for Oteramika Hundred
P. Nicholson, Elected Warden for Oteramika Hundred
W. Keer, Elected Warden for Oteramika Hundred
D. McKay, Elected Warden for Oteramika Hundred

👩‍💼 Officials

Walter H. Pearson, Chief Commissioner

🗺️ Temporary Reservation of Lands for Provincial Government

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated26 March 1866
KeywordsLand Reservation, Ferndudlaw Hill, Hokanui District, Taringatura District
👩‍💼 Officials

John P. Taylor, Superintendent

🗺️ Lands Open for Free Selection

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated26 March 1866
KeywordsLand Selection, Winton District, New River Hundred
👩‍💼 Officials

Walter H. Pearson, Chief Commissioner

🚂 Postmaster Appointments in Southland

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated26 February 1866
KeywordsPostmaster, Winton, Riverton
👱🏽 Names

Thomas McWilliam, Appointed Postmaster at Winton
Joseph Hatch, Appointed Postmaster at Riverton

👩‍💼 Officials

E. W. Stafford

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