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Canal Reserve Ordinance 1871

7. The Canal Reserve Ordinance 1871.

[19^th September 1871.]

Whereas by Grant from the Crown bearing date the eleventh day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five all that piece or parcel of land together with other parcels of land in the Province of Canterbury in the Colony of New Zealand situate in the Christchurch district and containing by admeasurement twenty- eight acres three roods more or less commencing at a point on the southern bank of the River Avon opposite the north-east corner of section No. 30 thence south-easterly following a straight line to the northernmost corner of Section No.300 thence following the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 300, 301, 347, 464, 39, 34, 28, 27, and 15 and a line in continuation of the north-eastern boundary of the latter section to the estuary of the rivers Avon and Heathcote thence northerly following the said estuary to the road forming the southwest boundary of Section No. 438 thence north-westerly following the said road and a line in continuation of the south-western side thereof to the southernmost corner of Section No. 326 thence following the south-west boundary of Section No. 326 and a line in continuation of the same to the southern bank of the river Avon before mentioned and from thence returning along the said bank to the commencing point Subject nevertheless to the road reserved along the southern bank of the Avon and also the one reserved round the estuary of the rivers Avon and Heathcote and more particularly referred to in the Schedule B of the “Canterbury Associations’ Ordinance Session IV. No. 6” and numbered 59 therein was granted unto the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust for a canal reserve And whereas it is expedient that the said Superintendent should have power to sell let or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the said parcel of land.

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

1. Superintendent may sell, let, or otherwise dispose of parcel of land referred to in Schedule B of the “ Canterbury Associations’ Ordinance,” Session IV., and numbered 59 therein.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the said Province with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof to sell let or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of that parcel of land referred to in Schedule B of the “Canterbury Association’s Ordinance Session IV. No. 6” and numbered 59 therein and granted to the Superintendent of the said Province as aforesaid.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as the “Canal Reserve Ordinance.”