Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1874 – No. 12

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✨ Education District Proclamation

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, intituled "The Education Ordinance, 1873," it is among other things provided that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to alter boundaries of any Educational District, and to divide any Educational District into two or more Districts, or parts of Districts, or to combine two or more Districts or parts of Districts into one, or to add portions of any District to any adjoining District, or to add any locality not being or forming part of a District to an Educational District, and in every such case the District or Districts constituted or affected thereby shall be deemed to be and shall be proclaimed as provided in the said Ordinance as newly constituted Educational District or Districts:

Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Superintendent of the said Province, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the 27th section of the said before-recited Ordinance, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby alter the limits of the Waihi Bush Educational District, and I do hereby proclaim the District as specified in the schedule thereunto annexed to be a newly constituted Educational District within the meaning of "The Educational Ordinance, 1873."

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

W. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

WAIHI BUSH DISTRICT.

Bounded on the north-east by the river Orari; and on the south by the northern boundaries of the Geraldine District (which touches the northern points of Sections 5232, 3612, 14523, 11567); and the Pleasant Valley District (which touches the northern points of Sections 5232, 3612, 14523, 6705, 1905, 6106, and 8774) on the south-west and west by the river Hae-te-Moana; and on the north and north-west by the hills.

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🏘️ Proclamation altering the boundaries of the Waihi Bush Educational District

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated9 March 1874
KeywordsEducation, Educational District, Waihi Bush, Canterbury, Boundaries, Proclamation
👩‍💼 Officials

William Rolleston, Superintendent

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