✨ Proclamation of Deputy Registrar Districts
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD,
Superintendent.
Vol. I.] TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1854. [No. VII.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieutenant Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand, entitled an Ordinance for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the colony of New Zealand," Sess. VIII. No. 9, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor by Proclamation to be for that purpose issued, to divide the colony of New Zealand into such and so many districts as he shall think fit, and every such district shall be called by a distinct name and shall be a Deputy Registrar’s District.
And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entitled the Empowering Ordinance, Sess. II. No. 2, it is enacted that the powers conferred on the Governor of New Zealand by the above-recited Ordinance, “are within the limits of the Province of Canterbury conferred on the Superintendent thereof.”
Now therefore I, James Edward Fitz Gerald, Superintendent of the said Province, in virtue of the powers in me vested as aforesaid, do hereby Proclaim and declare that the under-mentioned districts described by the boundaries set forth below severally, shall be Deputy Registrar’s districts according to the meaning of the said above-recited Ordinance, that is to say
The District of Kaiapoi:
Comprising all that part of the Province lying north of the River Courtenay.
The District of Christchurch:
Comprising all that part of the Province lying south of the river Courtenay, and west of a line, commencing at the mouth of that river extending along the sea-coast and north shore of the estuary at the mouth of the Avon and Heathcote rivers as far as the old ferry over the Heathcote at the end of the Ferry Road, thence straight to the Flag-staff on Mount Pleasant, thence along the highest ridge of the hills to Cooper’s Knobs, thence straight to the mouth of the river Halsewell, thence along the east edge of Lake Ellesmere, and the sea coast, to the mouth of the Waitangi river.
The District of Akaroa:
Comprising all that part of Banks’ Peninsula lying east of a line drawn from a point on the sea coast half way between the eastern headland of Port Levy and the western headland of Pigeon Bay, to the head of the north Branch of the Little River, thence down the course of that River and Lake Forsyth to the sea.
The District of Lyttelton:
That part of the Province comprised between the district of Christchurch, the sea, and the district of Akaroa.
Given under my hand at Christchurch, and issued under the public seal of the Province, this twenty-fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD,
Superintendent.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1854, No 7
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🏛️ Proclamation of Deputy Registrar Districts
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration24 March 1854
Proclamation, Deputy Registrar Districts, Kaiapoi, Christchurch, Akaroa, Lyttelton
- James Edward Fitz Gerald, Superintendent