NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XVII. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1870. No. 6.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the Roads Ordinance, 1869, it is among other things enacted that if at any time previous to the first day of August in any year a majority of the ratepayers of any portion of a district described in Schedule B to the said Ordinance, should petition the Superintendent that a portion of the district to be specified in such petition should be formed into a separate district, it should be lawful for the Superintendent in Council by Proclamation to be inserted in the Government Gazette and one newspaper circulating in the district, to declare that such part of the district mentioned in the said petition should be a road district.

And whereas a petition signed by a majority of ratepayers within a portion of the Geraldine district being a district described in the Schedule B to the said Ordinance, was duly forwarded to the Superintendent pursuant to the said Ordinance, and it was thereby prayed that the portion of the province therein mentioned might be formed into a separate district.

Now, therefore, I, William Rolleston, Superintendent of the said province, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise and execution of the powers vested in me by the said Ordinance, do hereby declare that the portion of the Province of Canterbury hereinafter described and heretofore comprised in the Geraldine district, shall henceforth be a Road District under the name of the Mount Peel district, that is to say: All that portion of the province bounded on the north by the

Ashburton district; on the east by a road leading from the Rangitata river within Reserve No. 1237 (in red), to Tripp’s cutting, on the high bank of the Orari river, following the continuation of that road to its junction with the road passing through section 9548; thence south-easterly, following the latter road to the road running through section 9010; thence south-westerly, following that road to the eastern boundary of run 546; thence westerly and southerly, following that boundary to the stream running from the south-eastern corner of run 546; thence following down that stream to its confluence with the southern branch of the river Hae Hae-temoana, following up the said branch to the western boundary of run 548; thence following that boundary and the eastern bank of the river Opuha to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary of run 416; thence following that line to the southern bank of the river Opihi before mentioned; on the south by the south bank of the river Opihi from the easternmost corner of run No. 416 to a point in line with the eastern boundary of run 254, a branch of the river Opuha, forming the northern boundary of runs 254 and 357, and an east and west line forming part of the northern boundary of run No. 357, continued to the ridge; on the west by the east boundary of run 254, and the ridge of the hills dividing the waters of the Opihi and the Rangitata from the waters of the Tekapo.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this 11th day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

Vol. XVII., No. 6.