✨ 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.] THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1866. [No. LXVII]
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 by advertisement call 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 Messent’s Accommodation House, on Tuesday, the 11th day of 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 three 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 Eighteenth 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.
Cust District.
Commencing at the junction of the western boundary of the Fernside Educational District with the south bank of the River Ashley, following the said boundary southerly to the Harewood and Rangiora Road; thence westerly to the eastern boundary of the Cust Road Board District, following said boundary southward till it meets the boundary of the Eyerton Educational District, following this latter boundary westward and southward to the north bank of the Waimakariri River.
Vol. 13.— No. 67
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 67
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🎓 Proclamation of Cust District as an Educational District
🎓 Education, Culture & Science18 September 1866
Proclamation, Educational District, Cust District, Canterbury Province, Education Ordinance
- William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
- F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary