✨ Road Diversion Ordinance
"The Diversion of Roads Ordinance Session XI. No. 3" It is ordained
that excepting as therein otherwise provided no public road shall be
closed up or diverted except under the authority of a Special Ordinance of the said Superintendent
and Provincial Council: And
whereas it is expedient to stop up part of the public road reserved along the north bank of the River Avon in the Christchurch
District in the Province of Canterbury so far as part of such road forms
part of the southern boundary of a certain rural section numbered 7 in
the said district of which section Joseph Cornish Helmore is tenant in
fee simple in possession and to divert part of such road in through and
over the said section and to connect the road on the south side of the
said river (hereinafter called the North Park Road) running through
the northern part of Hagley Park Reserve in the said province and
leading from the north-west corner of Christchurch Town Belt to the
Riccarton Road with the retained portion of the said public road on the
north bank aforesaid by means of a bridge across the said river and a
new road from the said bridge to the said North Park Road: And
whereas the said Joseph Cornish Helmore is willing at his own expense
to set out and form the road so to be diverted through in and over the
said section and to build the bridge and make the new road hereinafter
described.
Be it enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as
follows:
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The strip of land in Hagley Park in the said Christchurch district described in the schedule to this Ordinance and in the plan hereto
annexed and therein colored green leading from the said North Park
Road to the southern bank of the River Avon in the said district and
which strip of land is fifty links in width throughout is hereby
reserved as a public road and shall henceforth be and be deemed to be
a public highway to all intents and purposes whatsoever. -
It shall be lawful for the said Joseph Cornish Helmore his heirs
and assigns but at his or their own cost to cut lay out form and metal
the strip of land last aforesaid so that the same may be duly serviceable
as a public highway: Provided that the same shall be so cut set out
formed and metalled to the satisfaction of the Chief Surveyor of the
Province certified as hereinafter provided. -
The portion of the said map colored black of the public road
heretofore reserved along the north bank of the said River Avon such
portion being fifty links wide in a continuous line with the other roads
hereby reserved is hereby declared to be and remain a public highway
to all intents and purposes anything in this Ordinance notwithstanding.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1865, No 51
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Diversion of Roads Ordinance for North Avon Bridge and Road
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🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationRoad Diversion, North Avon Bridge, Public Highway, Christchurch, Canterbury
- Joseph Cornish Helmore, Tenant in fee simple, agrees to road diversion and bridge construction