✨ Proclamation of District
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
Vol. XIX. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1872. No. X.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Canterbury Rivers Act, 1870," it is enacted that the Provincial Council may by resolution from time to time decide that any part or parts of the Province shall be constituted a district for the purposes of the said Act; and that such resolution shall describe the limits of such district and designate the name by which such district shall be known, and mention the number of conservators, being not less than three nor more than five, of which the Board of the district shall be constituted:
And it is further enacted that the Superintendent shall, by Proclamation in the Provincial Gazette, make regulations for conducting the elections of members of a Board;
And whereas by a resolution passed by the Provincial Council on the fifth day of January, 1872, it was decided that the following district should be so constituted, that is to say:—Bounded on the south-eastward by the sea; on the eastward by Lake Ellesmere; on the south-westward by the Rakaia River; on the north-westward by the western side of the South Road; and on the northward by the top of the Rakaia Terrace, commencing where it intersects the west side of the South road at a point about 3 miles 25 chains from the Rakaia; thence following the top of the said terrace in an easterly direction to where it is crossed by the western boundary of section 10,543; thence by a straight line to the south-east corner of section 6931; thence by the road forming the southern boundary of sections 9940 and 5950 to the southernmost corner of the latter section; thence by a straight line to the south-east corner of section 6981; thence by the road forming the southern boundary of sections 9940 and 5950 to the southernmost corner of the latter section; thence by a straight line drawn through trig. station E. 11 to Lake Ellesmere before-mentioned; and that
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