i PROCLAMATION. By His Honor William Cargill, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago. i TVTHEREAS by the Public "Roads Ordi- ' ' nance," passed in the first Session of j the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, I No. 10, it is inter alia enacted, that the Superintendent shall divide the whole Province into j Districts for the purposes of the said Ordinance, i and shall, previous to finally fixing the Districts, give one month's notice in the newspapers, of the Districts he intends to form, their boundaries, and the Roads, or portions of Roads, intended to be under the care of the i Trustees of each District, ; and in the said Notice shall appoint a day on which he will hear any complaint or suggestion which may be offered in regard to the extent of the boundaries, or the Roads intended to be under the care of the Trustees of such Districts; and thereafter shall finally fix and determine such Districts as aforesaid. And -whereas in terms of a Notice in the Gazette and newspaper, a public meeting was held within the Mechanics' Institution. Dunedin, on the 11th clay of July current, for the hearing any complaint or suggestion in terms of said Ordinance. Now therefore, I, the Superintendent of the said Province, do proclaim and declare the said Province to be divided into the following Districts, namely, — . No. I— North-East Valley District. This District comprises the District of the same name, as delineated on the public map. No. 2— Wakari District. This District comprises the District of the same name, as delineated on the Suburban selection maps of the Settlement — the Upper Kaikorai District; Sections Nos. 1 to 17 inclusive of the Lower Kaikorai District, and from thence in a straight line, being the north- ' eastern boundary of Section No. 50, Block VI. Town District, until it joins the Road line at Section No. 70, Block VI. Town District ; and from thence along the south-western boundary line of Nos. 76, 77, 78, and 79, to No. SO; and from thence again to the Town Belt of Dunedin, so as to include the Sections numbered SO to 90 inclusive, Block VI. Town District. From No. 21, Lower Kaikorai District, in a straight line running through the Trigonometrical Station on the Kaikorai hill until it joins Abbot's Creek, then following that stream to its source ; and from thence again in >a straight line to the south-western corner of Section No. 100, Wakari District. No. 3— Town District, This District comprises that part of the District of the same name not included in the Wakari District No. 2, to a road line running south-east, in a right line from the Town Belt of Dunedin to the Ocean Beach, together with Sections numbered IS to 33 inclusive of the Lower Kaikorai District, and the Sections numbered 1 to 32 of the Ocean Beach District. No. 4— Anderson's Bay District. , This. District comprises , the District of the same name,; also, that part of the original Town District lying to the east and north-east of the road line running south-east in a right, line from ■ the Town Belt of Dunedin to ( thei Ocean Beach,, together with the Tomahawk' Valley District, to the Ocean. j
.N.q.,,5— -Green Island District. •> • , j This District comprises :the south-.west'etn [ part of the L"bwer[Kaikorai District, from Sec-! tion N0.. 33 tOj Abbot's Creek, together with the unsurveyed lands to the weat and north-
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Otago Witness, Issue 163, 29 July 1854, Page 1
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