✨ Education Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Vol. XVIII. THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1871. No. XXI.
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 of residents in
the West Melton District, duly called as
aforesaid, and held on Wednesday, the First
day of March, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, 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 :
Vol. XVIII., No. 21.
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- William Rolleston, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury