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LEICHHARDT DISTRICT.   
 

COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS
MR. W. A. WISEMAN

Tenders for pastoral runs in the new districts of Leichhardt and Port Curtis were received on the 1st of March 1854,  Leichhardt district is situated to the northeast of Burnett & Wide Bay district & occupies the intervening Country betwixt Port Curtis district in the North of Burnet [Burnett] & Wide Bay District in the South.  Henry Gardiner Esqr P.M. was appointed Crown land Commissioner for this district in July 1854.
 
PORT CURTIS DISTRICT
 

COUNTIES AT PORT CURTIS

Clinton, Deas Thomson, Livingstone, Palmerston, Liebig, Raglan, Pelham & Flinders.
The counties Clinton, Deas Thomson, and Livingstone are withheld from pastoral occupation, the remaining five counties to be of the intermediate class of lands, which with the exception of the counties of Liebig, Palmerston, and Flinders, bordering on the sea coast are open for tender for pastoral purposes, & were created into a Commissioners district to be called the Port Curtis District. Maurice Charles
O Connell was appointed resident crown land Commissioner for Port Curtis District in January 1954. Residence Gladstone Port Curtis.

WIDE BAY & BURNETT DISTRICT

Arthur Edward Halloran Esqr. P.M. was appointed resident Crown Land Commissioner for this district in January 1854. Residence Gayndah. Burnett River.
 

BOUNDARIES OF THE PASTORAL DISTRICT
OF LEICHHARDT.

Bounded in the east from the great dividing range by the range dividing the waters of the Burnett & Dawson rivers separating this district from that of Wide Bay & Burnett to the junction of the range dividing the Waters of Tunks Creek from other tributaries of the Dawson, by that range & by a spur range to the Confluence of  Kroombit Creek with Tunks creek, thence crossing Tunks creek by a spur Northerly and by the range forming the western watershed of Tunks Creek & thence by the range to the great with west bend of the Fitzroy river separating this district from that of Port Curtis; thence on the north by a spur range to the range forming the Northern Watershed of the Mackenzie River

 

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