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Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 1 1871

1. Diversion of Roads, Special No 1 Ordinance 1871

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 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 that the parcel of land mentioned and described in the Schedule to this Ordinance and delineated on the plan hereto annexed and thereon coloured Green should cease to be a public road.

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

1. Public road passing over parcel of land described in Schedule shall be closed up and cease to be Public Road.

From and after the passing of this Ordinance the Public Road passing over the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto and coloured Green on the plan hereto annexed shall be closed up and shall cease to be a public road.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 1 1871.”

Schedule.

All that Piece or Parcel of Land one chain wide containing by admeasurement one acre one rood and twenty-four perches more or less being the road separating sections 4477 and 4913 and extending from the intersection of the North Rakaia and Taumutu Junction road by Jollie’s road to the northernmost corner of section 4038 and more particularly delineated and described by the plan hereunto annexed and coloured green thereon.