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Diversion of Roads on Great Southern Railway, Special Ordinance No 2 1868

The Diversion of Roads on Great Southern Railway, Special No 2

Ordinance 1868.

Whereas by an Act of the Genera] 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 he 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 contained in the Tenth Subsection 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 ensuring the safety of Trains running upon the Great Southern Railway that the parcel of land mentioned and described in the Schedule hereto and in the Plan 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 by and the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:–

1. Road described in Schedule shall be stopped up.

From and after the passing of this Ordinance the Public Road passing over the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto and in the Plan 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 No. 2 1868.”

Schedule.

All that parcel of land part of the road one chain wide separating rural Sections Nos. 66 and 72 containing by admeasurement fourteen perches more or less the eastern and western boundaries being respectively the eastern and western sides of the road above mentioned the northern boundary being a straight line parallel to and 4 chains 55 links distant from the Town Belt south and the southern boundary being a line parallel to the last described boundary and 90 links distant therefrom.