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NOW therefore, I, WILLIAM ROLLESTON,
Superintendent of the said Province, in
pursuance of the powers 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 Twentieth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

WEST MERTON EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT.

Commencing at a point on the Coal Road,
cut by the continuation of a straight line
drawn from the junction of roads to the
south-east of section 6469 to the eastern-
most corner of section 7995; thence south-
westerly along such straight line to the
above-mentioned junction of roads; thence
south-westerly along Bealey’s Road to
Hoskins’ Road; thence south-easterly to
Newton’s and Coal Tramway Road; thence
north-easterly along the latter road to the
Templeton Educational District; thence
north-westerly along the western boundary
of the said district, viz., along the road to
the south-west of section 7491, to the western-
most corner of this section; thence easterly
along Bealey’s Road to the road which
touches the north-west corner of section
12,491; thence north-easterly along the
latter road, and northerly along the road to
the west of reserve 919 to the Coal Road;
and thence westerly along the Coal Road
to the starting point.

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 adver-
tisement 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 New Brighton District, duly called as
aforesaid, and held on Wednesday, the Fifth
day of April, 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:

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 Twentieth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

NEW BRIGHTON EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT.

Commencing at a point where the creek
forming the western boundary of section
184A runs into the river Avon; thence
north-westerly up the said creek to the
Canal Reserve; thence northerly along the
Canal Reserve to the road to the north of
section 1705; thence easterly along this
latter road and along the roads to the south
of sections 5674 and 5625 respectively to
the Sandy Beach; thence southerly along
the beach to a point due east of the eastern-
most corner of section 7989; thence in a
straight line to such corner; thence south-
westerly along the south-eastern boundary
of this section, and north-westerly along its
south-western boundary, and the south-
western boundaries of sections 4684 and
9477 to the western corner of the latter
section; thence in a straight line to the
southernmost corner of section 2808; thence
north-westerly along the south-western
boundary of this section, and a line in con-
tinuation thereof to the river Avon, and
thence following up the river Avon to the
starting point.