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 the house of Mr. McLachlan, North Moeraki Downs, on Monday, the Twenty-first day of March, One thousand eight hundred and seventy, 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 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 Twenty-fifth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and seventy.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent of Canterbury.

SCHEDULE.

Stoke Educational District.

Starting from a point on the River Ashley due north of the north-western corner of section 3245; thence in a straight line to such corner; thence southerly along the western boundary of that section and of section 3195, and easterly along the southern boundary of the latter section to the north-western corner of section 2991; thence southerly along the western boundary of the latter section, and easterly along its southern boundary to the road lying to the east of such section; thence southerly along such road to the River Cust; thence westerly along such river to the road to the south of section 6989; thence westerly along such road to the south-eastern corner of such section; thence northerly along the eastern boundary of such section to the road to the north of such section; thence westerly along such road to the road to the east of section 9461; thence northerly along such road to the south-eastern corner of section 7253; thence westerly along the southern boundary of this section and of sections 7999, 7095, 7673, and 7674 to the road to the west of the latter section; thence northerly along such road and a straight line in continuation thereof due north to the River Ashley, and easterly along such river to the starting point.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, 25th April, 1870.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following Reserves temporarily, under the 19th Clause of the Waste Lands Regulations, viz.:

No. 1249 (in red).—Ten acres (more or less), situate in the Christchurch district, bounded on the northward by Halkett’s road; on the southward by Bealey’s road; on the westward by section No. 7817; and on the eastward by a line at right angles to the first mentioned road, so as to contain the above quantity—For a Gravel Pit.

No. 1250 (in red).—All that tract of land ten chains wide, extending from the road forming the northern boundary of section No. 1765, to the northern bank of the Waimakariri, opposite sections Nos. 297 and 468, the eastern and western boundaries respectively being lines parallel to and five chains distant from the centre line of the Northern Railway, as shewn on the Map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural land in the Christchurch and Mandeville districts, save and except the freehold land purchased to date—For Railway Purposes.

No. 1251 (in red).—All that tract of land two chains wide, situate in the Lincoln district, extending from the southern boundary of Reserve No. 809 (in red), to the north-eastern boundary of section No. 4973, as shewn on the Maps of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural land in the Lincoln district aforesaid—For Tramway or Railway Purposes.

EDWD. JOLLIE,
Secretary for Public Works.