✨ Proclamation of School District
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.
[VOL. X.] WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1863. [No. 3]
PROCLAMATION.
Featherston School District.
By His Excellency ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Second Session of the Provincial Council of Wellington, No. 6, intituled “An Act to promote the establishment of Common Schools in the Province of Wellington,” it is enacted that for the purposes of the said Act it should be lawful for the Superintendent by Proclamation to divide the Province into Districts, and from time to time to sub-divide such Districts, and to re-unite any sub-divisions; and also by Proclamation to declare that the said Act should come into operation within such District or sub-division at such time as he might appoint:
AND WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to proclaim that portion of the Province within the boundaries hereinafter set forth to be a District for the purposes of the said Act:
Now THEREFORE, I, the said ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in virtue of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that such portion of the said Province as is comprised within the following boundaries shall form and constitute a District for the purposes of the said Act, to be called the “Featherston School District,” which said District shall be bounded as follows, namely:—
North—By the Tauherenikau River.
East—By the Tauherenikitu River and Upper Wairarapa Lake.
South—By the Tauherenikau River, Upper Wairarapa Lake, and Papoporopo Stream, and
West—By the summit of the Rimutaka range of hills.
And also that the said Act shall come into operation within such District on and from the day of the date of this Proclamation.
Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
L.S.
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s Command,
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1863, No 3
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🎓 Proclamation of Featherston School District
🎓 Education, Culture & Science24 January 1863
School District, Proclamation, Featherston, Wellington Province
- Isaac Earl Featherston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington
- J. Woodward, Acting Provincial Secretary