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Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 1 1872

2. The Diversion of Roads, Special, No 1 Ordinance 1872

[16^th January 1872.]

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 exchanged.

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 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 hereafter should be a public street road highway or thoroughfare.
And whereas it is for the public benefit that the parcels of land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto should become a public highway in lieu of the parcels of land described in the second column of the said Schedule and that the last-mentioned parcels of land should cease to be a public road and should be granted in exchange for the first-mentioned parcel of land in manner hereinafter mentioned.

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

1. Public road passing over parcels of land described in second column of

Schedule shall be stopped up.

When and so soon as the parcel of land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall have been conveyed to the Superintendent and his successors for a public road the same shall be and remain for ever a public highway and a public highway passing over the parcel of land described in the second column of the said Schedule shall be stopped up.

2. Parcels of land described in the second column of schedule shall be granted to persons conveying parcels of land described in first column. When and so soon as the parcels of land described in the first column of the said Schedule has been so conveyed each parcel of land described in the second column of the said Schedule shall be granted in fee to the person or persons severally conveying the parcels of land in the first column in exchange for the land transferred by them.

3. Title.

This Ordinance shall be inituled and may be cited as “The Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 1. 1872.

Schedule.

All that piece or parcel of land one chain wide containing by admeasurement one acre and eight perches (more or less) being part of section No. 4294 commencing on the north-western boundary of the said section at a point situate about eight chains fifty links from the westernmost corner thereof and running in a south- easterly direction a distance of about ten chains fifty links to the north- western boundary of section No. 5689 crossing that boundary at a point being about five chains fifty links from the westernmost corner of the latter section.

All that piece or parcel of land one chain wide containing by admeasurement one acre and thirty- two perches (more or less) being part of section No. 4294 commencing on the south-eastern boundary of the said section at a point situate about ten chains twenty links from the southernmost corner thereof and running in a north-westerly and north- easterly direction a distance of about twelve chains to the north-western

boundary of section 5689 crossing that boundary at a point being about fourteen chains fifty links from the westernmost corner of the latter section.

All that piece or parcel of land one chain wide containing by admeasurement two roods (more or seventeen perches (more or less) being that portion of the road lying between section 5689 and reserve No.222 (in red).

All that piece or parcel of land one chain wide containing by admeasurement one acre (more or less) being that portion of the road lying between section 4294 and reserve No.222 (in red)



All that piece or parcel of land one chain wide containing by admeasurement three roods and less) being part of section No. 5689 commencing on the north-western boundary of the said section at a point situate about five chains fifty links from the westernmost corner thereof and running in a southeasterly and north- easterly direction a distance of about five chains to the north-western boundary of section 5689 aforesaid crossing the same at a point being about ten chains twenty links from the westernmost corner before-mentioned.

All that piece or parcel of land one chain wide containing by admeasurement two acres and two roods (more or less) being part of section No. 5689 commencing at a point on the north-western boundary of the said section situate fourteen chain fifty links from the westernmost corner thereof and running south-easterly

north-westerly and again south-easterly a distance of about twenty-five chains

to the north-western boundary of native reserve No. 902 (in red) crossing that boundary at a point being twenty-seven chains fifty links from the westernmost corner of the said reserve.