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Diversion of Roads on Great Southern Railway Special Ordinance 1868

2. The Diversion of Roads on Great Southern Railway, Special Ordinance

1868.

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Highways and Watercourses Diversion Act 1858, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof by any Law or Ordinance to be made or ordained for that purpose to authorise and empower the Superintendent to divert or stop up any public street road highway or thoroughfare in any such Province and also to exchange the land over which any such public street road highway or thoroughfare was laid out or passed. And also that it should be lawful for the Governor in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty to make and execute Crown Grants of any land which should be so sold exchanged or disposed of. And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Provincial Council Powers Extension Act 1865" it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent and Provincial Council of any Province and notwithstanding the restriction containd in the Tenth Sub-section of the Nineteenth Section of the Constitution Act to ordain or pass any Law or Ordinance which but for such restriction might have been ordained or passed by such Superintendent and Council affecting any part of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province which then was or thereafter should be a public street road highway or thoroughfare. And whereas it is for the public benefit and for the

purpose of ensuing the safety of Trains running upon the Great Southern Railway that the parcels of land mentioned and described in the Schedule hereto and in the Plans hereunto annexed should be stopped up pursuant to the powers given to the Superintendent with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council by

the said recited Act intituled "The Highways and Watercourses Diversion Act

1858."

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

1. Roads to be stopped up.

From and after the passing of this Ordinance the Public Roads passing over the parcels of land described in the Schedule hereto and in the Plans hereunto annexed shall be stopped up.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as "The Diversion of Roads on Great Southern Railway Special Ordinance 1868.

Schedule.

No. 1.

All that parcel of land part of the road fifty links wide running through rural section No. 9 containing by admeasurement nine perches more or less the northern boundary being a straight line drawn at an angle of 129( 15' with the northeastern side of the said road from a point on the same situate nine chains eighteen links from the junction of the said road with the Lincoln Road the southern boundary being a line ninety links distant from and parallel to the northern boundary and the eastern and western boundaries respectively being the eastern and western sides of the road first mentioned.

No. 2.

All that parcel of land part of the road separating rural sections 1773 and 3058 containing by admeasurement twenty five perches more or less the centre line of which is the continuation of a straight line which crosses the eastern boundary of section 1637 at a point being twelve chains fifty seven links from the northernmost corner thereof and the northwestern boundary of section 3058 at a point being two chains from the northernmost corner of the latter section the northern and southern boundaries being respectively lines parallel to and forty- five links distant from the said centre line and the eastern and western boundaries being respectively the eastern and western sides of the above- mentioned road.

No. 3.

All that parcel of land part of the road dividing rural sections 1637 and 3058 containing by admeasurement sixteen perches more or less the centre line of which crosses the eastern boundary of the former section at a point being twelve chains fifty-seven links from the northernmost corner thereof and the north- western boundary of the latter section at a point being two chains from its northernmost corner the northern and southern boundaries being respectively lines parallel to and forty-five links distant from the said centre line and the eastern and western boundaries being respectively the eastern and western sides of the above-mentioned road.

No. 4.

AlI that parcel of land part of the road separating sections 1371 and 1637 containing by admeasurement fifteen perches more or less the centre line of which crosses the eastern boundary of the former section at a point being fifty- seven links from the northernmost corner thereof and the western boundary of the latter section at a point being one chain twenty links from its westernmost

corner the northern and southern boundaries being respectively lines parallel to and forty-five links distant from the said centre line and the eastern and western boundaries being respectively the eastern and western sides of the above- mentioned road.

No. 5.

All that parcel of land part of the road which forms the northwestern boundary of rural section 1791 containing by admeasurement one rood four perches more or less bounded on the westward by a line in continuation of the eastern boundary of section 4453 on the eastward by the northwestern boundary of sections 1791 and 1792 on the northward and southward respectively by the continuation of the northern and southern sides of the Railway Reserves separating sections 3353 and 3354.

No. 6.

All that parcel of land part of the Great South Road containing by admeasurement three acres one rood more or less bounded on the northward by the continuation of the southern boundary of section 5008 on the southward by the continuation of the northern boundary of section 4877 on the eastward by the continuation of the northwestern boundary of sections 4604 and 4881 and on the westward by a line in continuation of the southeastern boundary of section 4962.