✨ Proclamation of Educational District
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, 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,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIII.] TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1866. [No. LXV.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor William Sefton Moorhouse, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entitled “The Education Ordinance, 1864,” it is among other things enacted that whenever the Board of Education shall call by advertisement a public meeting of owners and occupiers of land and householders in any district, and such meeting shall declare by the votes of the majority of the persons present (being such owners and occupiers of land and householders as aforesaid,) that they are willing that the said district be formed into an Educational District under the provisions of the said Ordinance, and shall declare their willingness to provide the proportion of the annual expenses of an Educational District, the Superintendent shall, as soon as conveniently may be, by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette, declare such district to be an Educational District under the said Ordinance, and such district shall thereupon become an Educational District accordingly:
And whereas at a meeting duly called as aforesaid, and held at White’s Accommodation House, on the 3rd September, 1866, the owners and occupiers of land and householders in the district specified in the schedule hereunto annexed, did by the votes of the majority there present declare that they were willing that the said district should be formed into an Educational District; and further declared their willingness to provide the proportion of the annual expenses of an Educational District as provided in the said Ordinance:
Now, therefore, I, William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of the said Province, in pursuance of the power in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby proclaim that the district specified in the schedule hereunto annexed shall be an Educational District within the meaning of the said Ordinance.
Dated this Tenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
SCHEDULE.
COURTENAY DISTRICT.
Bounded on the north by the River Waimakariri, on the south by the Tramway Reserve, on the east by the road dividing sections 9917 and 8752 from sections 9614 and 9216, and on the west by the road running south from White’s old accommodation house.
Vol. 13.—No. 65.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 65
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🎓 Proclamation of Educational District
🎓 Education, Culture & Science10 September 1866
Education, District, Proclamation, Courtenay District, Waimakariri River
- William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent
- F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary