Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1871 – No. 24

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✨ Election Results and Education Proclamation

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

VOL. XVIII. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1871. No. XXIV.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, 14th June, 1871.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs
it to be notified, that a Writ, calling
for an Election to be held for the return of
a person to serve in the Provincial Council
as Member for the Town of Kaiapoi District,
has been returned to him with the endorsement that

THOMAS INGHAM JOYNT, Esq.,
has been duly elected.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

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 a meeting of residents in the
Geraldine District, duly called as aforesaid,
and held on Thursday the 6th 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 hereto 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. 24.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 24

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏘️ Election of Member for Kaiapoi District

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated14 June 1871
KeywordsElection, Kaiapoi District, Provincial Council
👱🏽 Names

Thomas Ingham Joint (Esquire), Elected Member for Kaiapoi District

👩‍💼 Officials

Walter Kennaway, Provincial Secretary

🎓 Proclamation of Geraldine Educational District

Domain🎓 Education, Culture & Science
KeywordsEducation Ordinance, Educational District, Geraldine

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