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Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:—

1. The Public Roads described in the Schedules to this Ordinance and in the plans hereto annexed and therein coloured green shall be closed up and shall henceforth cease to be Public Roads.

2. This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 1, 1875.”

SCHEDULE I.

HALSWELL ROAD DISTRICT.

Description of Roads to be abandoned.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement three acres two roods and thirty perches more or less, being that portion of the road forming the south-eastern boundary of section No. 1850, extending from the continuation of the north-eastern boundary of that section to the continuation of the north-eastern side of the road forming the south-western boundary of the same section, which said piece or parcel of land is more particularly delineated and described by the plan hereunto annexed, and coloured green thereon.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement three roods and twenty-seven perches, more or less, being that portion of the road forming the south-western boundary of section No. 138, extending from the road reserved along the southern bank of the river Heathcote to its junction with the road running in a south easterly direction through the aforesaid section No. 138, a distance of about twenty chains sixty links, save and except portions of the following roads, namely, the New line of the Latter’s Spur road and the road passing through the above-mentioned section, No. 138, leading to the north eastern boundary of section 5657, which are included in the above description, and for which allowance has been made in the acreage, which said piece or parcel of land is more particularly delineated and described by the plan hereunto annexed, and coloured green thereon.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement five acres two roods and six perches, more or less, being the road forming the south-west boundary of section 549, and passing through section 1885, commencing on the road known as the base of the hills road at the northernmost corner of section 814, and extending in a south-easterly and northerly direction till it again joins the aforesaid base of hills road at the easternmost corner of section 549, and more particularly delineated and described by the plan hereunto annexed, and coloured green thereon.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement two acres three roods and thirty-two perches, more or less, being the road separating sections Nos. 1787 and 1738, extending from the road forming the western boundary of these sections to the road forming the north-western boundary of section No. 486, and more particularly delineated and described by the plan hereunto annexed, and coloured green thereon.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement eight acres one rood and eleven perches, more or less, being that portion of the Hoon Hay Valley Road, extending from the continuation of the southern boundary of sections Nos. 4620 and 4784, and running southerly along the eastern boundary of section No. 106; westerly through that section, and northerly along the western boundaries of sections Nos. 106, 838a, and 838b, to the continuation of the southern side of the road forming the north-western boundary of the latter section, and more particularly delineated and described by the plan hereunto annexed, and coloured green thereon.