✨ Educational District Proclamation
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,
EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XV. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1868. No. XIV.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor William Sefton Moorhouse, Esquire, 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 the cottage lately occupied by Mr. Dyer, Governor’s Bay, on Monday, the 30th day of December last, 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 declare 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.
Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this 25th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent of Canterbury.
By His Honor’s command,
EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
SCHEDULE.
GOVERNOR’S BAY NORTH EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT.
Commencing at the point where the western boundary of the Native Reserve touches the sea beach, following the said boundary, and a line in continuation thereof to the ridge of hills; thence following the said ridge of hills westerly and southerly as far as Cooper’s Knobs; thence along the ridge of the spur to the end of the promontory forming the southern boundary of Governor’s Bay, and thence by the sea beach to the starting point.
Vol. XV. No. 14.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 14
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🎓 Proclamation of Governor's Bay North Educational District
🎓 Education, Culture & Science25 March 1868
Education, District Formation, Governor's Bay, Canterbury
- Dyer (Mr), Former occupant of cottage at meeting location
- William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of Canterbury
- Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary