✨ Proclamation of Town District
Num. 55. 2111
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1913.
Constituting the Town District of Edendale, in the County of Southland.
[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it is enacted by the Town Boards Act, 1908, that the Governor may declare that any locality outside a borough wherein there are not less than fifty householders shall be a town district:
And whereas a petition was presented to the Governor by the inhabitants within the area mentioned in such petition, praying that such area in the County of Southland might be constituted a town district under the Town Boards Act, 1908:
And whereas a Commission was appointed under the Town Boards Amendment Act, 1912, to hold an inquiry and make a report as to the suitability or otherwise for municipal control of the said area, and to make such alterations of the boundaries thereof as they deemed advisable: And whereas the Commission so appointed reported that the area mentioned in such petition and described in the Schedule hereto is suitable for municipal control:
Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Town Boards Act, 1908, and its amendments, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the area described as aforesaid in the Schedule hereto shall be a town district and the same is hereby constituted a town district under the Town Boards Act, 1908, by the name of the Edendale Town District. And, in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers, I do hereby proclaim, declare, and appoint that the Board of Commissioners for the said district shall consist of seven members.
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SCHEDULE.
EDENDALE TOWN DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the Southland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point on the eastern side of the Dunedin-Invercargill Railway Reserve at the north-western corner of Section No. 61E, Edendale Settlement; thence along the southern side of Crescent Road to the north-eastern corner of Section No. 72E; thence along the south-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 72E, 73E, 74E, 75E, 76E, 77E, 78E, 79E, 80E, 81E, and 82E, Edendale Settlement, and across a railway reserve and Ferry Road; thence along the southern side of Ferry Road to McKinnon’s Road; thence along the western side of the last-mentioned road to the road at the south-eastern corner of Section No. 197, Suburbs of Edendale; thence along the northern side of the road forming the southern boundaries of Sections Nos. 197, 183, 182, and 178, Suburbs of Edendale, to Seaward Road, across that road, and along the southern and south-western boundaries of part of Section No. 231A to Section No. 5, Block VI, Edendale Township; thence along the southern boundary of that section to its south-western corner, and along its western boundary, across the railway reserve, along the western boundaries of Sections Nos. 5 and 1, Block V, Edendale Township, the abutment of a road, and along the western boundaries of Sections Nos. 12 and 11, Block II, Edendale Township, to Ferry Road; thence across that road, and along its northern side to the south-western corner of Allotment No. 15 on plan No. 1273, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Invercargill; thence along the western boundaries of Allotments Nos. 15 and 14, and along the north-eastern boundaries of Allotments Nos. 14, 13, 12, road reserve, 11, 10, 9, 8, on plan No. 1273 aforesaid, and a recreation reserve, to Allotment No. 1 on plan No. 534, deposited as aforesaid; thence along the north-western boundary of that allotment and Allotment No. 1 on plan No. 809, deposited as aforesaid; thence along part of the south-western boundary of Allotment No. 1 on plan No. 1273 aforesaid to its westernmost corner; thence along the north-western boundaries of Allotments Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 on plan No. 1273 aforesaid, along the northern boundary of the last-mentioned allotment, and across a road and railway reserve, to the place of commencement.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.
H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
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🏘️ Proclamation constituting the Town District of Edendale
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government7 July 1913
Proclamation, Town District, Edendale, Southland, Municipal Control
- Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor
- H. D. Bell, Minister of Internal Affairs