✨ Government Proclamation
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.
By His Honor’s command,
JOHN OLLIVIER,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL VI.] WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1859. [No. V.]
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly, entitled “The Registration Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony, for the purposes of the said Act, 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 Registrar’s District: Provided always, that the Governor may, at any time, revoke the whole or any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new Proclamation, dividing the Colony or any portion of it anew into Districts, or increasing the number, or altering the boundaries of Districts, as from time to time he may think requisite; and it is provided that the Districts existing at the time of the passing of the said Act should, until duly altered, be deemed to be Districts proclaimed under the said Act.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the said Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Act, do hereby revoke every Proclamation at any time heretofore issued, appointing and declaring Registrars’ Districts for the purposes of the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. And I do by this Proclamation divide the said Colony, for the purposes of the said Act, into Districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:
MOUNT GREY DISTRICT.
From the South bank of the Hurunui to the North bank of the Ashley.
KAIAPOI DISTRICT.
From the South bank of the Ashley to the North bank of the Waimakariri.
CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT.
From the South bank of the Waimakariri to the North bank of the Rakaia, except Lyttelton and Akaroa Districts.
ASHBURTON DISTRICT.
From the North bank of the Rakaia, including the Islands, to the North bank of the Rangitata.
TIMARU DISTRICT.
From the South bank of the Rangitata to the North bank of the Opihi.
LYTTELTON DISTRICT.
From the Old Ferry over the Heathcote, at the end of the Ferry road, thence along the South bank of the Estuary of the Avon and Heathcote and the Sea coast (including the Islands in Port Victoria) to a point half way between the Eastern headland
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1859, No 5
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🏛️ Proclamation of Registrar's Districts
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- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and Vice-Admiral of the same