Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1871 – No. 25

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✨ Road District Proclamation

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Vol. XVIII. MONDAY, JULY 3, 1871. No. XXV.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Roads Ordinance, 1869,” it is amongst 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 Malvern Road 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 hereinafter described and heretofore comprised in the Malvern District shall henceforth be a Road District, under the name of “The East Malvern District,” that is to say:

Vol. XVIII., No. 25.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 25

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🏗️ Proclamation of East Malvern Road District

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
KeywordsRoad District, Malvern, Canterbury Province, Proclamation
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WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Superintendent of the Province

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