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                    [0] => Crown Grant Certificates for Crown Grants made under the Public Reserves Acts 1854 and 1862, setting aside land for purposes other than educational, for example for hospitals, cemeteries, etc.
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            [id] => 9352
            [idSort] => 9352
            [name] => Otago Crown Grants for Public Reserves under the Public Reserves Act 1854 and 1862 [P Series Certificates]
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            [authenticityNote] => This series description was compiled as part of a project to capture the finding aids created prior to 1987 into the GAIMS system.

These records were transferred by the Department of Lands and Survey, Dunedin District Office, DAAK, to the Hocken Library between 1976 and 1983. Hocken Library was the approved repository for Archives New Zealand until 1993. The end date for series relationship with DAAK, is taken to be 1983. The grouping of these records into series was done by the Hocken Library.
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            [history] => 
The Crown Grants in this series are the office copies held by the Crown Lands Department and successor agencies.
Land set aside for Reserves are gazetted in the New Zealand Government Gazette or the Otago Provincial Gazette and some may be vested in the local municipality or council.
Individual Crown Grants include these details: 

    

    
Crown Grant Number
    
    

    
Act under which Crown Grant is issued 
    
    

    
Dates Issued and  Registered by Head Office
    
    

    
Grantee's Name, Address and Occupation
    
    

    
References to the Head Office Registers of Crown Grant (Volume and Folio numbers)
    
    

    
Signature of the Colonial Secretary and Registrar 
    
    

    
Legal Description of the Land (Acreage, Section, Block and Survey District)
    
    

    
References to other land records (for example, applications, claims, maps, etc.)
    
    

    
Plan or drawing of the land the Crown Grant is for
    
    

    
Notes or other annotations. 
    

The Crown Grants do not have a "P" suffix, however some land records may include a "P" suffix at the end of the Crown Grant number. The "P'' relates to the spine title that the volume is in. There are six volumes of crown grants for public reserves, labelled P1 to P6.
In particular, the Allotment Books (Series 9341 and 9398) refer to the  number of the volume and the folio of the volume that the Crown Grant is in as well as the Crown Grant number, for example 1234 P1 200 or 5678 P5 200.
Series 9364 - The Register of Reserves, 1864-1935 records the land set aside for Reserves and usually gives the Crown Grant number in the "Remarks" column.
Former archives reference:
The arrangement of these records into series was done by the Hocken Library, using the 'record group' finding aid system. These records were assigned archives reference AG220/23 by Hocken Library.
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