✨ Education 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. SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1868. No. XXII.
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 Southbridge Hotel Southbridge, on Monday, the Twenty-seventh day of April 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 11th day of May, 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.
SOUTHBRIDGE EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT.
Bounded on the east by Lake Ellesmere; on the north by the Leeston District, to the junction of the Tamutu and Bridge’s Road with Fereday’s Road; thence in a straight line to Trigpole I.; and thence continuing the same straight line to the River Rakaia; on the west by the River Rakaia; and on the south by the sea.
Vol. XV., No. 22.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 22
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🎓 Proclamation of Southbridge Educational District
🎓 Education, Culture & Science11 May 1868
Education, District Formation, Proclamation, Canterbury, Southbridge
- WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
- EDWARD JOLLIE, Provincial Secretary