Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1860 – No. 9

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✨ Land Reservation Notices

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
June 21, 1860,

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the following notification to be published for general information:—

CHARLES ROBERT BLAKISTON,
Provincial Secretary.

I, WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in virtue of the powers vested in me by the 43rd clause of the Waste Lands Regulations, now in force within the said Province, do hereby reserve from sale, until the 30th day of September next ensuing, the several portions of land hereinafter described, that is to say:—

Twenty acres at Harewood, near trig pole O, 21, having frontage to the road north-east of section 1504, and running back north-easterly one chain from a parallel to the south-eastern boundary of section 2535, a distance of 40 chains, in a rectangular block, subject to the road leading to the Ashley.

One hundred acres in the Ashley district, bounded on the north by the upper bank of the Kowai, and on the west by a road continued from the road from Sefton, and near Mr. J. W. Wilson’s wool-shed, and on the south and east by lines to include the quantity, and subject to a road if found necessary on survey.

The whole of such land, or such part thereof as the Waste Lands Board shall adjudge, to be granted to Harry Kenrick, by way of payment for work done in accordance with a contract approved by me the 20th day of December last past, for the construction of a road at Harewood Forest.

WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent.

CHRISTCHURCH, PRINTED AT THE UNION PRINTING OFFICE, GLOUCESTER STREET.

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🗺️ Reservation of Land for Road Construction Payment

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated21 June 1860
KeywordsLand reservation, Waste Lands Regulations, Road construction, Harewood, Ashley district, Canterbury
👱🏽 Names

Harry Kenrick, Granted land for road construction work
J. W. Wilson, Mentioned as landowner near wool-shed

👩‍💼 Officials

Charles Robert Blakiston, Provincial Secretary
William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury

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