π’ Harbour Office, Bluff
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Not researched (after 1876)
Legislation
Acts of General Assembly
Diseased Cattle Act 1861
- Harbour Master to inform master of arriving ship of the Act, and to inform Inspector of the ship's arrival
Marine Board Act 1862
- Harbour Master under control of provincial Marine Boards (if established)
Marine Board Act 1863
- no local Marine Boards; their powers (incl. supervision of Harbour Masters etc) to Superintendent
Marine Act 1866
- Harbour Master under control of Governor (or Superintendent if delegated)
Marine Act 1867
- very similar to Marine Act 1866
Marine Act Amendment Act 1870
- Harbour Master may examine master and mate to receive pilotage certificate for particular ship
- if Harbour Master refuses to examine master and mate, Commissioner of Customs may take over
Abolition of Provinces Act 1875
- costs of harbours (etc) to be borne from Consolidated Fund
Other Authorities
Regulations for the Ports and Harbours of Otago 1859; and Quarantine Regulations, in OPGG, III (1859), pp 235-238
Quarantine Regulations for New Zealand (12 January 1864, in OPGG, 1864, VIII, pp 71-72)
- Harbour Master: powers, duties; Health Officer, Board of Health, etc
Harbour and quarantine regulations for the ports of New Zealand (25 June 1868, in OPGG, 1868, pp 238-246)
- Superintendent to license ballast lighters
- Superintendent to license watermen
- Superintendent to appoint Health Officer, Board of Health
N.B. Southland sources have not been searched (see Scope of Documentation below).
Responsbile Minister
Provincial Superintendent 1859-61
Not Researched 1861-70
Provincial Treasurer 1870-71
Provincial Secretary and Treasurer and Secretary for Lands 1871-74
Provincial Treasurer 1874-76
Notes
Scope of documentation
This agency documentation is concerned only with the period of Otago Provincial Government (1853-1876; but this agency was part of Southland Province rather than Otago, 1861-1870). Information outside this period had not been sought; and Southland sources for the period 1861-1870 have not been researched.
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[history] => In the 1857 Appropriations for the Provincial Government of Otago, some distinct financial provision was made, within the Harbour Department generally, for Bluff and New River. In December 1859 the Superintendent provisionally appointed Henry Oates, Harbour Master for New River and Bluff Harbour. New River and Bluff then became the Southland Harbour Department when Southland became a separate province in 1861. On the reunion of Southland with Otago in 1870, the Southland Harbour Department (i.e., Bluff Harbour Master) again came under the control of the Chief Harbour Master at Port Chalmers, but was still a separate agency, with responsibility also for New River, Riverton and Toi Tois apparently passed back to the control of the Port Chalmers department after that.
[Annual Reports, in Appendices to OV&P.]
Tide register/meter
Thomas Thomson, the Bluff Harbour Master in 1874, was obviously a practical and intelligent man, as shown in the following extract from his 1874 report to the Chief Harbour Master:
I received a book from you a short time ago to keep a register of the Tides in, but I could not see my way to keeping such a register as would be of any practical value, without serious inconvenience, as it would require constant attention both day and night. I therefore set about inventing a self-registering machine, which would record all phenomena connected with tides, and I have succeeded in doing so. It will register for a week at a time, the limits of high and low water and the time they take place, and any irregularities caused by storm or earthquake waves, showing the height to which they rise, and the time they take place. It will also record the time that elapses during the rise and fall of each foot.
When I completed my invention, I was not aware that anything of the kind was in use, but I have since been told that a machine which registers for one day, is in use in Newcastle, New South Wales, but on quite a different principle; and I cannot learn that it does any more the show the limit of each tide, and the time...
[Appendix, p. 87, in OV&P, 1874.]
Two years previously, he had twelve months' leave of absence, to go to Britain to patent and anchor he had invented. [Appendix, p. 72, in OV&P, 1872.]
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Agency
AAHO
1859 ‑
Other
Bluff, Southland
Show History
In the 1857 Appropriations for the Provincial Government of Otago, some distinct financial provision was made, within the Harbour Department generally, for Bluff and New River. In December 1859 the Superintendent provisionally appointed Henry Oates, Harbour Master for New River and Bluff Harbour. New River and Bluff then became the Southland Harbour Department when Southland became a separate province in 1861. On the reunion of Southland with Otago in 1870, the Southland Harbour Department (i.e., Bluff Harbour Master) again came under the control of the Chief Harbour Master at Port Chalmers, but was still a separate agency, with responsibility also for New River, Riverton and Toi Tois apparently passed back to the control of the Port Chalmers department after that.[Annual Reports, in Appendices to OV&P.]
Tide register/meter
Thomas Thomson, the Bluff Harbour Master in 1874, was obviously a practical and intelligent man, as shown in the following extract from his 1874 report to the Chief Harbour Master:
I received a book from you a short time ago to keep a register of the Tides in, but I could not see my way to keeping such a register as would be of any practical value, without serious inconvenience, as it would require constant attention both day and night. I therefore set about inventing a self-registering machine, which would record all phenomena connected with tides, and I have succeeded in doing so. It will register for a week at a time, the limits of high and low water and the time they take place, and any irregularities caused by storm or earthquake waves, showing the height to which they rise, and the time they take place. It will also record the time that elapses during the rise and fall of each foot.
When I completed my invention, I was not aware that anything of the kind was in use, but I have since been told that a machine which registers for one day, is in use in Newcastle, New South Wales, but on quite a different principle; and I cannot learn that it does any more the show the limit of each tide, and the time...
[Appendix, p. 87, in OV&P, 1874.]
Two years previously, he had twelve months' leave of absence, to go to Britain to patent and anchor he had invented. [Appendix, p. 72, in OV&P, 1872.]
Show Author Note
Date Disestablished
Not researched (after 1876)
Legislation
Acts of General Assembly
Diseased Cattle Act 1861
- Harbour Master to inform master of arriving ship of the Act, and to inform Inspector of the ship's arrival
Marine Board Act 1862
- Harbour Master under control of provincial Marine Boards (if established)
Marine Board Act 1863
- no local Marine Boards; their powers (incl. supervision of Harbour Masters etc) to Superintendent
Marine Act 1866
- Harbour Master under control of Governor (or Superintendent if delegated)
Marine Act 1867
- very similar to Marine Act 1866
Marine Act Amendment Act 1870
- Harbour Master may examine master and mate to receive pilotage certificate for particular ship
- if Harbour Master refuses to examine master and mate, Commissioner of Customs may take over
Abolition of Provinces Act 1875
- costs of harbours (etc) to be borne from Consolidated Fund
Other Authorities
Regulations for the Ports and Harbours of Otago 1859; and Quarantine Regulations, in OPGG, III (1859), pp 235-238
Quarantine Regulations for New Zealand (12 January 1864, in OPGG, 1864, VIII, pp 71-72)
- Harbour Master: powers, duties; Health Officer, Board of Health, etc
Harbour and quarantine regulations for the ports of New Zealand (25 June 1868, in OPGG, 1868, pp 238-246)
- Superintendent to license ballast lighters
- Superintendent to license watermen
- Superintendent to appoint Health Officer, Board of Health
N.B. Southland sources have not been searched (see Scope of Documentation below).
Responsbile Minister
Provincial Superintendent 1859-61
Not Researched 1861-70
Provincial Treasurer 1870-71
Provincial Secretary and Treasurer and Secretary for Lands 1871-74
Provincial Treasurer 1874-76
Notes
Scope of documentation
This agency documentation is concerned only with the period of Otago Provincial Government (1853-1876; but this agency was part of Southland Province rather than Otago, 1861-1870). Information outside this period had not been sought; and Southland sources for the period 1861-1870 have not been researched.
Otago Provincial Government Gazette, 1853-1876
Otago Provincial Council. Ordinances, 1854-1876
Otago Provincial Council. Votes and Proceedings (Appendices)
New Zealand Statutes, 1854-1876
- Quarantine Regulations for New Zealand (12 January 1864, in OPGG, 1864, VIII, pp 71-72)
- Abolition of Provinces Act 1875
- Diseased Cattle Act 1861
- Marine Act 1866
- Marine Act Amendment Act 1870
- Harbour and quarantine regulations for the ports of New Zealand (25 June 1868, in OPGG, 1868, pp 238-246)
- Marine Board Act 1862
- Regulations for the Ports and Harbours of Otago 1859; and Quarantine Regulations, in OPGG, III (1859), pp 235-238
- Marine Act 1867
- Marine Board Act 1863
- π’ Harbour Department, Port Chalmers (1859 ‑ )
- π’ Harbour Department, Port Chalmers (1870 ‑ 1876)
- π’ Harbour Department, Port Chalmers (1859 ‑ 1861)
- π Province of Southland (1861 ‑ 1870)
- π Province of Otago (1870 ‑ 1876)
- π Province of Otago (1859 ‑ 1861)