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Location

The Oamaru Police District Comprised

All that area bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury, towards the east by the Pacific Ocean, towards the south by the Kakanui Mountains, and towards the west by Hawkdun and Dunstan Mountains.
[Proclamation of Police Districts under Licensed Hawkers' Ordinance 1862 (16 November 1863, OPGG, 1863, Vol. VI, p.491]

(Although the District was thus defined in 1863, it does not appear to have been an administrative reality until 1870.)

For the period to 1876 (when provincial government was abolished - the subsequent period is not being documented at this stage), this District had the following stations:

Oamaru      1870-1876
Hampden    1870-1876
Maheno      1876
Kakanui      1874-1875

(Source:  Annual Police Reports, in AOV&P.)




Responsible Minister

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 provincial period (1853-1876).  It has been assumed however that the agency continued to exist after 1876, but with a different controlling organisation.

The documentation has been prepared almost exclusively from the annual returns for the Police Department, in the AOV&P, 1863-1876. 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 the return was not printed.  Years for which no returns are given are 1867, 1872, and 1873.
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Otago Provincial Council.  Ordinances, 1854-1876

Otago Provincial Council.  Votes and Proceedings, 1854-1876  (Appendices, Department Reports)

New Zealand Statutes,  1854-1876



Seconday sources

R.S. Hill, Policing the Colonial Frontier, Part II (Wellington, 1986)
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            [history] => In 1863 St John Branigan (Commissioner of Police in Otago) split Otago into several districts, the Officer-in-Charge of each district being responsible direct to the Police Commissioner. Each district had several police stations, though changes in population and resources meant the districts were adjusted from time to time. Although the Oamaru District was defined in 1863, it does not appear to have been established as a separate administrative entity until c.1870. 

Branigan pointed out the multiplicity of duties performed by the Otago police: 

Such as inspection of slaughter yards, registration of dogs, crown land rangers, inspection of licenses, the collection and supervision of tolls, the performance of branch mails, and shortly, as I hope, the inspection of weights and measures, for none of which do they receive extra pay. [20 December 1868, cit. Annual Report, 1869, AOV&P, 1869, Session 25, p. 46]. 

Between 1870 and 1876, staff numbers at the Oamaru station ranged between three and six. Other stations had one employee each, except for Hampden which in 1874 had two. [Annual reports, AOV&P.] 

The Oamaru police were responsible also for the District Gaol at Oamaru. 



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 

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) 
Armed Constabulary Act 1867 
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 (includes 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 section 20) 
Appointments - numerous (named) members of Police as Registrars of Cattle and Sheep, Registrars of Brands, Gaolers (e.g. OPGG, 1863, p. 464; OPGG, 1868, p. 112; OPGG, 1873, p. 329) 
Registration of dogs - penalty (between 20s. and £5) for each dog unregistered, from 1 July 1855; constabulary force officers instructed to require exhibition of registration tickets (OPGG, Vol. I, 1854, p. 81) 
Police Districts - Proclamation defining same (16 November 1863, OPGG, 1863, p. 491) 
Proclamation, extending Town and Country Police Ordinance 1862 to Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Oamaru, Hampton, Havelock, Molyneux, Outram, Clyde, Cromwell, Frankton, Queenstown, Kingston (16 December 1863, OPGG, 1863, pp 550-551) 
Diseased cattle - Regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle, and for preventing the spread of pleuro-pneumonia (18 January 1864, OPGG, 1864 pp 25-26) 
- powers of Inspectors of Diseased Cattle, and of Constables 
Quarantine - constables authorise to detain persons evading quarantine (Quarantine Regulations, 12 January 1864, OPGG, 1864, pp 71-72) 
Chinese - Proclamation: 'the Police are strictly enjoined to keep a protective watch over the Chinese population in their respective districts, and in case of their being made aware of any injury having been illegally inflicted on any of the Chinese Population to lose no time in bringing the perpetrators thereof to justice." (29 January 1868, OPGG, 1868, p. 39) 
Weights and measures - authorised copies of standard weights and measures to be kept at Central Police Station, Dunedin, and at main station of other Police Districts (OPGG, 1869, p. 76) 
Immigration - Police were the only persons authorised to receive passage money, outside the Government Buildings, Dunedin (Notice by Immigration Agent, 12 April 1870, OPGG, 1870, p. 174) 
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. 40
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1870 ‑ 

Other

Oamaru, Otago

Show HistoryIn 1863 St John Branigan (Commissioner of Police in Otago) split Otago into several districts, the Officer-in-Charge of each district being responsible direct to the Police Commissioner. Each district had several police stations, though changes in population and resources meant the districts were adjusted from time to time. Although the Oamaru District was defined in 1863, it does not appear to have been established as a separate administrative entity until c.1870.

Branigan pointed out the multiplicity of duties performed by the Otago police:

Such as inspection of slaughter yards, registration of dogs, crown land rangers, inspection of licenses, the collection and supervision of tolls, the performance of branch mails, and shortly, as I hope, the inspection of weights and measures, for none of which do they receive extra pay. [20 December 1868, cit. Annual Report, 1869, AOV&P, 1869, Session 25, p. 46].

Between 1870 and 1876, staff numbers at the Oamaru station ranged between three and six. Other stations had one employee each, except for Hampden which in 1874 had two. [Annual reports, AOV&P.]

The Oamaru police were responsible also for the District Gaol at Oamaru.



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

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)
Armed Constabulary Act 1867
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 (includes 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 section 20)
Appointments - numerous (named) members of Police as Registrars of Cattle and Sheep, Registrars of Brands, Gaolers (e.g. OPGG, 1863, p. 464; OPGG, 1868, p. 112; OPGG, 1873, p. 329)
Registration of dogs - penalty (between 20s. and £5) for each dog unregistered, from 1 July 1855; constabulary force officers instructed to require exhibition of registration tickets (OPGG, Vol. I, 1854, p. 81)
Police Districts - Proclamation defining same (16 November 1863, OPGG, 1863, p. 491)
Proclamation, extending Town and Country Police Ordinance 1862 to Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Oamaru, Hampton, Havelock, Molyneux, Outram, Clyde, Cromwell, Frankton, Queenstown, Kingston (16 December 1863, OPGG, 1863, pp 550-551)
Diseased cattle - Regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle, and for preventing the spread of pleuro-pneumonia (18 January 1864, OPGG, 1864 pp 25-26)
- powers of Inspectors of Diseased Cattle, and of Constables
Quarantine - constables authorise to detain persons evading quarantine (Quarantine Regulations, 12 January 1864, OPGG, 1864, pp 71-72)
Chinese - Proclamation: 'the Police are strictly enjoined to keep a protective watch over the Chinese population in their respective districts, and in case of their being made aware of any injury having been illegally inflicted on any of the Chinese Population to lose no time in bringing the perpetrators thereof to justice." (29 January 1868, OPGG, 1868, p. 39)
Weights and measures - authorised copies of standard weights and measures to be kept at Central Police Station, Dunedin, and at main station of other Police Districts (OPGG, 1869, p. 76)
Immigration - Police were the only persons authorised to receive passage money, outside the Government Buildings, Dunedin (Notice by Immigration Agent, 12 April 1870, OPGG, 1870, p. 174)
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. 40

Show Author Note

Date disestablished: Not researched (after 1876)

Location

The Oamaru Police District Comprised

All that area bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury, towards the east by the Pacific Ocean, towards the south by the Kakanui Mountains, and towards the west by Hawkdun and Dunstan Mountains.

[Proclamation of Police Districts under Licensed Hawkers' Ordinance 1862 (16 November 1863, OPGG, 1863, Vol. VI, p.491]

(Although the District was thus defined in 1863, it does not appear to have been an administrative reality until 1870.)

For the period to 1876 (when provincial government was abolished - the subsequent period is not being documented at this stage), this District had the following stations:

Oamaru 1870-1876

Hampden 1870-1876

Maheno 1876

Kakanui 1874-1875

(Source: Annual Police Reports, in AOV&P.)

Responsible Minister

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 provincial period (1853-1876). It has been assumed however that the agency continued to exist after 1876, but with a different controlling organisation.

The documentation has been prepared almost exclusively from the annual returns for the Police Department, in the AOV&P, 1863-1876. 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 the return was not printed. Years for which no returns are given are 1867, 1872, and 1873.


Otago Provincial Government Gazette, 1853-1876

Otago Provincial Council. Ordinances, 1854-1876

Otago Provincial Council. Votes and Proceedings, 1854-1876 (Appendices, Department Reports)

New Zealand Statutes, 1854-1876

Seconday sources

R.S. Hill, Policing the Colonial Frontier, Part II (Wellington, 1986)


Show Other Mandates
  • Town and Country Police Ordinance Extension and Amendment Ordinance 1863 (No. 129)
  • Town Cattle Trespass Ordinance 1856 (No. 16)
  • Cattle Trespass Ordinance 1858 (No. 27)
  • Licensing Ordinance 1864 (No. 162)
    • Show 47 items
  • Otago Roads Ordinance 1865 (No. 190)
  • Turnpikes Ordinance 1866 (No. 232)
  • Electric Telegraphs' Ordinance 1862 (No. 111)
  • Lake Steam Navigation Ordinance 1863 (No. 130)
  • Pawnbrokers' Ordinance 1862 (No. 113)
  • Cattle Trespass Ordinance 1858 Amendment Ordinance 1867 (No. 272)
  • Thistle Prevention Ordinance 1862 (No. 93)
  • Justices of the Peace Act 1866
  • Vagrant Ordinance 1861 (No. 62)
  • Goat Nuisance Ordinance 1868 (No. 273)
  • Kerosine and Parafine (sic) Oils Ordinance 1863 (No. 131)
  • Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance (No. 65)
  • Gold Fields Provincial Management Ordinance 1867 (No. 245)
  • Sheep Ordinance 1856 (No. 12)
  • Cattle Ordinance 1864 (No. 169)
  • Assaults on Constables Act 1873
  • Municipal Corporations Act 1867
  • Bakers and Millers Act 1871
  • Bush Fires Ordinance 1864 (No. 166)
  • Impounding Ordinance 1872 (No. 365)
  • Protection of Animals Act 1867
  • Trigonometrical Station Ordinance 1861 (No. 48)
  • Militia Act 1865
  • Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1862 (No. 78)
  • Licensing Ordinance 1865 (No. 207)
  • Licensed Autioneers Ordinance 1862 Amendment Irdubabce 1869 (No. 283)
  • Bread Ordinance 1863 (No. 117)
  • Licensed Hawkers' Ordinance 1864 (No. 170)
  • Licensing Act 1873 Amendment Act 1874
  • Common Lodging-Houses' Ordinance 1862 (No. 105)
  • Contagious Diseases Act 1868
  • Otago Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1872 (No. 364)
  • Licensed Theatres Ordinance 1870 (No. 310)
  • Fencing Ordinance 1867 (No. 246)
  • Licensing Ordinance 1861 (No. 56)
  • Fire Inspectors Act 1870
  • Medical Practitioners' Ordinance 1864 (No. 183)
  • Armed Constabulary Act 1867
  • Constabulary Force Ordinance Amendment Act 1868
  • Sheep Ordinances Amendment Ordinance 1870 (No. 303)
  • Provincial Constabulary Act 1865
  • Cattle Ordinance 1864 Amendment Ordinance 1869 (No 284)
  • Sheep Ordinance 1867 Amendment Ordinance 1867 (No. 266)
  • Licensed Carriages' Ordinance 1862 (No. 102)
  • Licensed Hawkers' Ordinance 1862 (No. 109)
  • American Blight Prevention Ordinance 1861 (No. 50)
  • Licensed Auctioneers' Ordinance 1862 (No. 99)




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