✨ Diversion of Roads Special Bill
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Public Works Office,
Christchurch, Canterbury, April 6, 1871.
The following Bill is published in accordance with Clause 2 of
"The Diversion of Roads Ordinance, Session XI., No. 3," and will be
introduced at the next Session of the Provincial Council.
WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
The Diversion of Roads Special Bill,
No. 4, 1871.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand
intituled "The Highways and Watercourses Diversions Act 1858" it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of
any Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof by any Law or Ordinance to be made or ordained for that purpose to authorise and empower the Superintendent to divert or stop up
any public street road highway or thoroughfare in any such Province
and also to exchange the land over which any such public street road
highway or thoroughfare was laid out or passed. And also that it should
be lawful for the Governor in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty
to make and execute Crown Grants of any land which should be so sold
exchanged or disposed of.
And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand
intituled "The Provincial Council Powers Extension Act 1865" it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of any Province and notwithstanding the restriction contained
in the Tenth Subsection of the Nineteenth Section of the Constitution
Act to ordain or pass any Law or Ordinance which but for such restriction might have been ordained or passed by such Superintendent and
Council affecting any part of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the
Province which then was or thereafter should be a public street road
highway or thoroughfare.
And whereas it is for the public benefit that the parcels of land
mentioned and described in the Schedule A to this Ordinance and
delineated on the Plan hereto annexed and thereon coloured Pink
should become a Public Highway in lieu of the parcel of land mentioned and described in the Schedule B to this Ordinance and deli-
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 13
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Ordinance for Diversion of Roads and Exchange of Land
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🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works6 April 1871
Road diversion, Land exchange, Public highway, Provincial Council, Canterbury
- Walter Kennaway, Secretary for Public Works