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Date disestablished: Not researched (after 1876)



Location

Main station:  Invercargill.

For the period 1870-1876 (after the reunion of Southland with Otago Province, and until provincial government was abolished - the subsequent period is not being documented at this stage), this District had the following stations:

Invercargill                  1870-1876
Riverton                      1870-1876
Campbelltown (Bluff) 1870-1876
Winton                        1870-1876
Lowther                      1870-1876
Mataura                       1872-1876
Woodlands                  1874-1875
Orepuki                        1874-1876



Controlling Agencies

Not Researched   ?-1870



Responsible Minister

Otago Province
Provincial Treasurer                                                                       1870-1871
Provincial Secretary and Treasurer and Secretary for Lands      1871-1874
Provincial Secretary and Secretary for Lands and Works            1874-1875
Provincial Secretary and Secretary for Lands and Railways        1875-1876



Notes

This agency documentation has been prepared as part of a project on the archives of the Otago Provincial Government.  It therefore concentrates almost exclusively on the period of which the agency was part of the Province of Otago (1870-1876).  It has been assumed however that the agency continued to exist after 1876, but with a different controlling organisation and probably a different controlling agency also.

The documentation has been prepared almost exclusively from the annual returns for the Police Department, in the AOV&P, 1870-1876.  Returns for some years are not printed, however, which may mean there are some minor errors in the documentation, e.g. exact dates of stations, or the possible omission of stations that existed only in a year for which no return was printed.  Years for which no returns are given are 1872 and 1873.

There was an earlier station at Mataura (1863-1865):  See agencies AAHF and AASG.
                    [custom2] => Otago Provincial Government Gazette,  1870-1876

Otago Provincial Council.  Ordinances  1854-1876

Otago Provincial Council.  Votes and Proceedings, 1870-1876  (Appendices, Departmental Reports)

New Zealand Statutes,  1854-1876



Seconday sources
R.S. Hill, Policing the Colonial Frontier, Part II (Wellington, 1986)
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                    [17] => Municipal Corporations Act 1867
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                    [22] => Protection of Animals Act 1867
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            [history] => The Southland Police came under the jurisdiction of the Otago Police Department on the reunion of Southland with Otago Province in 1870, and became the Southland District of the Department. Staff numbers moved from four in 1871 to nine in 1876, at the Invercargill station, and two at Riverton, with one at each of the other stations. 



Relevant Legislation 

Ordinances administered (Otago Provincial Government): 
In addition to the Ordinances listed below, many Ordinances provided for summary proceedings and penalties against offenders. The police would have been involved in those proceedings. 

Dog Nuisance Ordinance 1862 (No. 85) 
- dogs registered at District Police Office 
 - registration details; registry book to be kept and open to inspection 
 - registration fees to be paid over to Provincial Treasurer 
Licensed Auctioneers' Ordinance 1862 (No. 99) 
- constable may inspect records of auction entries for sale of cattle; summary proceedings for offences 
Town and Country Police Ordinance 1862 (No. 103) 
Common Lodging-Houses' Ordinance 1862 (No. 105) 
- police may have access, for disinfecting house; powers 
Licensed Theatres' Ordinance 1862 (No. 108) 
- police to have free access (on duty) 
Impounding Ordinance 1862 (No. 112) 
- notices of impounded animals etc to be posted at police stations 
- constables empowered to impound animals trespassing 
Bread Ordinance 1863 (No. 117) 
- Inspector of Weights and Measures has authority to check accuracy of scales and of bread weight (and to enter premises, etc to do so) 
Town and Country Police Ordinance Extension and Amendment Ordinance 1863 (No. 129) 
- enforcement 
Pig and Poultry Nuisance Ordinance 1864 (No. 165) 
- police to keep register of animals destroyed 
Licensed Hawkers Ordinance 1864 (No. 170) 
- notice of applications to be given to police by Clerk to Resident Magistrate's Court 
Town and Country Police Ordinance Extension Ordinance 1865 (No. 214) 
- offence added to named ordinances 
Goat Nuisance Ordinance 1868 (No. 273) 
- police to keep register of goats; enforcement 
Licensing Ordinances Amendment Ordinance 1870 (No. 302) 
- Police or JP may object to renewal of licence 
- police etc may inspect premises of holders of bottle licences, at any time; penalty if search prevented 
Police Ordinance (Southland) Repeal Ordinance 1872 (No. 377) 
- Police Ordinance 1862 (Southland) repealed 
- Otago ordinances extended to areas in Otago which previously fell in Southland 

Acts administered (General Assembly) 
Provincial Constabulary Act 1865 
- powers conferred on Governor (Legislative Council: Ordinance to provide for the establishment and management of a Constabulary Force) to be exercised by Provincial Superintendents 
- Superintendents/Provincial Councils may make laws for regulating Constabulary Force 
Militia Act 1865 
- exempt from militia service: Sheriffs and Constables 
Justices of the Peace Act 1866 
- constable conveying accused/prisoners elsewhere to be allowed his expenses (paid by Colonial Treasurer, then chargeable against relevant Province) 
- constable, gaoler or turnkey must obey order to inflict punishment of whipping 
- constables - execution of search warrants; may take bail (including provision for record book thereof) 
Municipal Corporations Act 1867 
- police constables to assist fire inspectors 
Protection of Animals Act 1867 
- constables (etc) may demand production of licence for hunting/selling game 
Constabulary Force Ordinance Amendment Act 1868 
- Governor may delegate powers 
Contagious Diseases Act 1868 
- Superintendent of Police to lay information, serve notice, apprehend offenders, etc 
Fire Inspectors Act 1870 
- police constables authorised to assist Fire Inspectors: may close street, may remove person interfering with operations 
Bakers and Millers Act 1871 
- constable may search baker's premises etc 
- repeals Bread Ordinance 1863 and Bread Ordinance 1863 Amendment Ordinance 1864 
Assaults on Constables Act 1873 
- penalty of £10 or two months' imprisonment for assaulting/obstructing peace officers 
Licensing Act 1873 Amendment Act 1874 
- Chief Officer of Police (in each District) to furnish report to Licensing Court re licensed house in District 

Other Authorities: 
Rules, Orders, and Regulations...for the Government of Members of the Police Force of Otago ([April 1866,] Supplement, OPGG, 1866, pp 89-108) 
- details of organisation, structure, procedures 
 - districts, stations (incl. Goldfields) 
 - "The Province is divided into certain districts, and these again are sub-divided into stations. At one of the stations are the head-quarters of the officer in charge of the district, which is in most cases designated by the name of the station. The stations, with the exception of the head-quarters' station, are placed in charge of a non-commissioned officer, and where the station is of minor importance, in charge of a constable. In either case the party in charge is responsible to the officer in charge of the district for the locality over which he is placed. 
 "From the auriferous nature of the Province, and the migratory character of a great portion of the population...it is not possible to decide what shall be, for any lengthened period, the number of stations in each particular district. The number and boundaries of districts must necessarily be varied from time to time, as circumstances require, it often happening that a district of no great importance becomes, in a very short time, from an increase of population, far more than one officer can control". (p. 90). 
 - detectives 
 - detailed duties, powers of different ranks 
 - instructions re correspondence, reports etc 
 - books to be kept (see "Record Series Controlled") 
Employment - Police stations keep register of employment vacancies (as notified by employers) and are to give information to any men seeking employment ([17 October 1871], OPGG, 1871, p. 408).
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