Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1872 – No. 28

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✨ Education Proclamation

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XIX. THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1872. No. XXVIII.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, intituled "The Education Ordinance, 1871," 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 duly called as aforesaid, 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 did 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 the Duvauchelles Bay District an Educational District within the meaning of the said Ordinance.

Given at Christchurch, this twenty-eighth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent of Canterbury.

Vol. XIX., No. 28.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1872, No 28

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🎓 Proclamation of Duvauchelles Bay as an Educational District

Domain🎓 Education, Culture & Science
Dated28 May 1872
KeywordsEducation, Proclamation, Educational District, Duvauchelles Bay, Canterbury
👩‍💼 Officials

William Rolleston, Superintendent of Canterbury

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