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 house of Mr. P. C. Threlkeld, on Friday, the 3rd day of January 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 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.

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.

FLAXTON EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT.

Commencing at the point where the northern boundary of the Eyreton District toucheth the right bank of the River Waimakariri (such point being the south-eastern corner of section 3768); thence following north-easterly along that bank to Boys’ Rangiora Direct Road; thence north-westerly along that road to the north-western boundary of section 4295; thence along that boundary round the eastern boundary of section 8194; thence along the eastern and north-eastern boundaries of section 10,090, and along the north-eastern boundary of section 10,089 to the road to the east of sections 4146 and 2229; thence following north-easterly along that road to the River Cam, following that river north-westerly to Young’s Road; thence westerly along this latter road to its junction with the Boys’ Rangiora Direct Road, following south-easterly along this latter road to its junction with the Ashley and Kaiapoi Road; thence north-westerly along this latter road to the north-east corner of section 1579; thence southerly along the eastern boundary of this latter section, and westerly along its southern boundary, and northerly along the road on its western boundary to its junction with the road on the north of section 6610; thence westerly along this latter road, and southerly along the same road, where it forms the western boundary of the same section, and following southerly the eastern boundary of section 6592 (such boundary being the eastern boundary of the Fernside District) to the main Drain; thence north-westerly along the drain to the road between sections 4102 and 4101; thence south-westerly along that road to the north-west corner of section 6191; thence along the western boundaries of sections 6196, 3980, and 7229, to the road on the south-east boundary of this latter section; thence south-westerly along this latter road to the northern boundary of the Eyreton District, and thence easterly along that boundary to the starting point.

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.