Road District Proclamation




things enacted in the 12th Section thereof, that for the purposes of the said Ordinance, the said Province, except as is therein excepted, may from time to time be divided into districts; and until otherwise provided, pursuant to the provisions of the said Ordinance, there shall be twenty-five districts, which shall be named and bounded as in the Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed; and it is also in the said 12th Section provided that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the General Road Board, from time to time, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, to alter, vary, diminish, or enlarge the boundaries of any or all of such districts, and to increase the number of districts by forming and naming new districts, or by dividing any district into two or more districts;

And whereas in the said Schedule the Blueskin Bay Road District is described as comprising all that area bounded on the north by the ocean; on the east and south by North Harbor and North-East Valley Districts; and on the west by the boundary of Heddreds;

And whereas in the said Schedule the North Harbor Road District is described as comprising all that area bounded on the north by the Watershed of the Range extending from Mihiwaka to Point Heyward; on the east and south by the Harbor and the Town of Port of Chalmers; and on the west by Pelichet Creek, thence by the Watershed of the Ranges extending over Signal Hill and Mount Cargill to Mihiwaka;

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the Blueskin Bay and North Harbor Road Districts, and to form new Road Districts, to be called respectively the Landon, Papakio, Pukeuri, Weymouth, Awamoa, Teneraki, Lambton, Totara, Lambourne, Enfield, Incholme, Chelsea, Sydney, Herbert, Allday, Copmanhurst, Chalgrove, Chalfont, Bushey, Richmond, Goodwood, Montroyal, Matanaka, Cranbourne, West Hawksbury, Township of Hampden, Clevedon, Mereton, Beaconsfield, Blueskin, Purakanui, Heyward, Deborah Bay, and Sawyer’s Bay Road Districts:

Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice and consent of the said General Road Board, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said Blueskin Bay and North Harbor Road Districts shall, from the day of the date hereof, be abolished. And that henceforth

In the Hundred of Oamaru.

1.—LANDON ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by an east and west line through Trig. Station A, block I, Papakio; on the west by Oamaru Brook; on the south by the Town of Oamaru; on the south-west by the ocean; and on the east by Landon Stream and part of Block II, Papakio.

2.—PAPAKIO ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by the Waitaki River; on the north-west by the boundary of the Hundred; on the south by an east and west line through Trig. Station A, block I, Papakio, and Block II, Papakio; and on the east by the Main North Road.

3.—PUKEURI ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by block IV, Papakio Survey District; on the west by block I, Papakio Survey District; on the south-west by Landon Stream; and on the south-east by the Ocean.

4.—WEYMOUTH ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by the Waitaki River; on the west by the Main North Road; on the south by block II, Papakio Survey District; and on the south-east by the Ocean.

5.—AWAMOA ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by the Main North Road; on the west by the Quarry Reserve and Sections 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, block IV., Oamaru and the Awamoa stream to the Ocean; on the south-east and east by the Ocean; and on the north-east by the town of Oamaru.

6.—TENERAKI ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by block VIII, Awamoko Survey District; on the west by the Waiareka River; on the south by the Awamoa stream to the Ocean.

7.—LAMBTON ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by block III, and part of sections 1 and 2, block II, Oamaru Survey District; on the west by the Waiareka Stream; on the south-east by the Main North Road; and on the east by the Awamoa Creek.

8.—TOTARA ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north-west by the Main North Road; on the west by sections 15, 19, 21, 23, and 24, block VII, Oamaru Survey District; south and west by the Kakanui River; south-east by the Ocean; on the east by the Awamoa Brook, and sections 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23, block IV, Oamaru Survey District.

9.—LAMBOURNE ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by sections 56, 53, 48, and 16, block IX, Oamaru Survey District; west and south by the Kakanui River; east by sections 33 and 29, block VII, Oamaru Survey District, and the Main North Road.

10.—ENFIELD ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north and west by the boundary of the Hundred; south by sections 17, 47, 46, 43, and 57, block IX, Oamaru Survey District; east by the Waiareka River.

In the Hundred of Otepopo.

11.—INCHOLME ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by the Kauroo River; on the west by the Kauroo Survey District and the Serpentine Brook; on the south by Island Stream; and on the east by the Kaikanui River.

12.—CHELSEA ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by the Kakanui River and Island Stream; on the west by blocks VI and V, Otepopo Survey District; on the south by block III, Otepopo Survey District; and on the east by the Ocean and the Kakanui River.

13.—SYDNEY ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by Island Stream; on the west by blocks VII and VIII, Otepopo Survey District; on the south and south-west by section 34, block V, Otepopo and the Town of Herbert, Main North Road, and sections 56, 78, 79, and 80, block V, Otepopo Survey District; and on the east by block IV, Otepopo Survey District.

14.—HERBERT ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by sections 64, 30, 31, 9, and 10, block V, Otepopo; on the west by block VIII, Otepopo; south by the Waianakarua River; and on the east by the Waianakarua River and the Ocean.

15.—ALLDAY ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by block IV, Otepopo, and sections 77, 76, 75, 74, and 55, block V, Otepopo; on the west by Main North Road, Town of Herbert, and sections 114, 108, 109, 102, and 103, block V, Otepopo; on the south by the Waianakarua River; on the east by the Ocean.

16.—COPMANHURST ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north and north-east by the Waianakarua River; on the west by the boundary of the Hundred; on the south and south-west by the Otepopo River.

In the Hundred of Moeraki.

17.—CHALONER ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by the Waianakarua River; north-west by the Otepopo River; south by the Moeraki Survey District, and the Township of Hampden; east by the Township of Hampden and the Ocean.

18.—CHALFONT ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north by the Otepopo Survey District and the Township of Hampden; west by block XIII, and part of block II, Moeraki; north-west by Main North Road; south-west by the Watershed of the Horse Range; south by block III, Moeraki Survey District; east by the Ocean, and the Township of Hampden.

19.—BUSHEY ROAD DISTRICT is bounded on the north and west by the Main North Road and...



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1865, No 383





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🏗️ Proclamation of New Road Districts

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Road districts, Landon, Papakio, Pukeuri, Weymouth, Awamoa, Teneraki, Lambton, Totara, Lambourne, Enfield, Incholme, Chelsea, Sydney, Herbert, Allday, Copmanhurst, Chalgrove, Chalfont, Bushey, Richmond, Goodwood, Montroyal, Matanaka, Cranbourne, West Hawksbury, Township of Hampden, Clevedon, Mereton, Beaconsfield, Blueskin, Purakanui, Heyward, Deborah Bay, Sawyer’s Bay
  • Thomas Dick, Superintendent