✨ Land Reserves Notices
Waimakariri and Steven’s Creek; thence by the northern base of Purple Hill, and between Lake Sarah and Sugar Loaf Hill, crossing the Waimakariri at the northern branch; thence following westerly along the flat on the north bank of the Waimakariri to the Township of Bealey; subject, nevertheless, to the freehold land purchased to date—For the uses of the Provincial Government, and particularly for a road and railway.
No. 732, in red.—All that tract of land, being thirty-three feet in width on either side of the line of telegraph poles, and extending from the western boundary of Section No. 8437 on the Kowai to the top of Arthur’s Pass; subject, nevertheless, to freehold land and to reserves previously made.—For Provincial telegraph purposes.
No. 740, in red.—All that tract of land, two and a half chains wide, the centre line of which commences at a point marked A on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural land in the Timaru district, and situated on the northern bank of the river Pareora, about thirty-five chains in a northerly direction from the confluence of a small stream with the said river; thence following the centre line before mentioned, as indicated by a red line on the map above referred to, until it meets the road forming the south-west boundary of Section 8299, at a point being about forty chains south-east of the south-western corner of that section; subject, nevertheless, to the freehold land purchased to date through which the reserve above described may pass—For a water-race, for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of Timaru with water from the river Pareora.
No. 868, in red.—All that tract of land, three chains wide, commencing at the end of the present Railway Reserve through the Weka Pass across the Waikari Valley, thence passing east of Horsley Downs to the Gorge of the Hurunui, thence along the Valley of the Hurunui to Lake Sumner, a distance of about forty-and-a-half miles, subject to land purchased and finally reserved to date—For railway purposes.
No. 869, in red.—All that tract of land, forty chains in width, commencing at the western end of Reserve No. 868 in red; thence following along the southern shore of Lake Sumner and the slopes of the hills on the south side of the Hurunui Valley to the summit of the dividing range, a distance of about twenty-two miles, subject to land purchased and finally reserved to date—For railway purposes.
No. 870, in red.—All that piece of land, bounded by a Public Reserve (No. 806 on the Plan of the Ellesmere District), on the east by the shores of Lake Ellesmere, on the south by the Native Reserve, and on the west by a Public Road—For native purposes.
EDWD. JOLLIE,
Secretary for Public Works.
CHRISTCHURCH :
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Lyttelton Times Office, Gloucester Street, by CROSBIE WARD and WILLIAM REEVES, Official Printers for the time being to the said Government.
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 17
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Temporary Land Reserves for Public Works
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🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works10 April 1868
Land reserves, railway, road, ferry, township, Canterbury
- EDWD. JOLLIE, Secretary for Public Works