Road Closure and Cemetery Regulations




NOTICE

Of Closing Portion of Northern Trunk Road.

WHEREAS it is intended to stop up those portions of the Road leading from Dunedin, through North-East Valley, Blueskin, and Moeraki, commonly called the “Northern Trunk Road,” which are described in the Schedule hereunder written marked A, and which are also delineated on the map or plan mentioned and referred to in the “Northern Trunk Road Lands Ordinance, 1864,” copies of which map or plan are deposited at each of the Public Schools at the places specified in the Schedule hereunder written marked B.

Now therefore I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me in this behalf by the “Northern Trunk Road Lands Ordinance, 1864,” do hereby give notice that all persons objecting to the stopping up of the said portions of the said Road, or any of them, are required to set forth a statement in writing of any well grounded objection they may have to the stopping up of the said portions of the said Road, and to leave such statement addressed to me at my office in Dunedin, within sixty days from the date hereof, otherwise such objections will not be considered by me.


SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.

Roads and portions of Roads in the Hawksbury Hundred declared to be no longer Public Roads.

43 chains 50 links in length, 1 chain wide; from the Northern Trunk Road at Waikouaiti Bridge to the Northern Trunk Road; bounded on the north-west by land the property of John Jones, Esq., on the south-east by Application 246.

  • 2 chains 50 links in length, 1 chain wide; from Northern Trunk to old North Road; bounded on the south-west by the property of John Jones, Esq., south-east by Application 246.

  • 6 chains 10 links in length, 1 chain wide; from old North Road to Northern Trunk; bounded on both sides by the property of John Jones, Esq.

  • 33 chains in length, 1 chain wide; from Northern Trunk to old North Road; bounded on both sides by the property of John Jones, Esq.

  • 8 chains in length, 1 chain wide; from Waikouaiti River to Mill Track; bounded on both sides by the property of John Jones, Esq.

  • 54 chains in length, 1 chain wide; from Waikouaiti River to south-west angle of old purchase of Mr. John Jones adjoining section 1, block V, Hawksbury; bounded by parts of sections 1, 2, and 3, block V. Hawksbury.

  • 7 chains in length, 50 links wide; from road on section 3, block V, Hawksbury to boundary of sections 4 and 5, block V, Hawksbury; bounded by parts of section 3, block V, Hawksbury.

  • 92 chains in length, 50 links wide; from Waikouaiti River to southern boundary of Grant of 168 acres to Mr. John Jones; bounded by parts of section 1, block V. Hawksbury.

  • 40½ chains in length, 50 links wide; from District Road on section 31, block V, Hawksbury to District Road on section 35, block V, Hawksbury; bounded by parts of sections 31, 82, 83, 34, and 35, block V. Hawksbury.


SCHEDULE A.

Description of Portions of Road to be stopped up.

NORTH-EAST VALLEY.

13 chains, 50 links wide from New North-East Valley Road at its junction with District Road, between Sections 39 and 41, North-East Valley, to Old North-East Valley Road at South-Eastern angle on Section 45, North-East Valley; boundaries, South-East, Sections 42, 44, and part of 46; North-West, Sections 41 and 43, North-East Valley.

BLUESKIN.

52 chains, 55 links wide from boundary line between Sections 38 and 36, Block II, North Harbor and Blueskin to Northern Trunk Road on Section 37, Block II, North Harbor and Blueskin; boundaries, both sides Sections 36 and 37, Block II, North Harbor and Blueskin.

MOERAKI.

8 chains, from 80 links downwards wide from District Road between Blocks I and II, Moeraki, to intersection with Northern Trunk Road; boundaries, West, Northern Trunk Road; East, Section 8, Block II.

17 chains, 80 links; 1 chain wide from Northern Trunk Road, Section 29, Block I, Moeraki, to District Road between Blocks I and II, Moeraki; boundaries, West, Section 32; East, Section 29, Block I, Moeraki.


SCHEDULE B.

NORTH-EAST VALLEY

BLUESKIN
MOERAKI.

Dated at Dunedin, the tenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

J. Hyde Harris,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
Frederick J. Moss,
Secretary for Public Works.


Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Dunedin, 24th April, 1865.

THE following Rules and Regulations have been submitted to the Superintendent and Executive Council, in terms of the “Cemeteries Reserves Ordinance, 1864,” and are published for general information.

Thomas Dick,
Provincial Secretary.


GREEN ISLAND CEMETERY.

Rules and Regulations, made in pursuance of Section V. of the “Cemeteries Ordinance, 1864,” for the management of the Public Cemetery at Green Island.

  1. The said Managers shall divide a portion of the Cemetery into three Classes, viz.:

  2. CLASS I. being ground of which the perpetual and exclusive right may be acquired, with the privilege of enclosing the ground, and of erecting.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1865, No 363





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🏗️ Notice of Closing Portion of Northern Trunk Road

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
10 May 1865
Road closure, Northern Trunk Road, Otago, Land, Objection notice
  • John Jones (Esquire), Landowner adjacent to closed roads

  • John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
  • Frederick J. Moss, Secretary for Public Works

🏥 Cemeteries Reserves Ordinance Rules and Regulations

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
24 April 1865
Cemetery regulations, Green Island Cemetery, Ordinance
  • Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary