✨ 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. XVI.] THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1869. [No. XII.]
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor William Rolleston,
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 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 Mr Ward’s House, Forks of the Selwyn, on Thursday, the Eleventh day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, 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 did 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 Rolleston, 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 Sixth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Wm. Rolleston,
Superintendent of Canterbury.
SCHEDULE.
Hororata Educational District.
Commencing at the point where the road to the east of section 10,806 touches the River Hororata; thence westerly along such river to the western boundary of run 57; thence northerly along such western boundary, and easterly along the northern boundary of the same run to the River Wakaepa; thence easterly along such river to the road to the east of section 10,806; thence southerly along such road to the starting point.
Vol. XVI., No. 12.
Printed by John Steele Guthrie, Christchurch, at the “Press” Office, Cashel Street.
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🎓 Proclamation of Hororata Educational District
🎓 Education, Culture & Science6 April 1869
Education, District Formation, Hororata, Canterbury
- Ward, Hosted public meeting
- William Rolleston, Superintendent of Canterbury
- Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary