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Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 6 1874

9. The Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 6 1874.

[23rd January 1874.]

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Highways and Watercourses Diversion Aet 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 thereafter should be a public street road highway or thoroughfare.

And whereas it is for the public benefit that the parcel of land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto should become a public highway in lieu of the parcel of land described in the second column of the said Schedule and that the last-mentioned parcel 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 therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:

1. Land described in first column of Schedule be transferred to Superintendent for Public Road.

When and so soon as the parcel of land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall have been transferred 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. Land described in second column of Schedule to be given in exchange for land described in first Schedule.

When and so soon as the parcel of land described in the first column the said Schedule has been so transferred as aforesaid the parcel of land described in the second column of the said Schedule shall be granted in fee to the persons transferring the parcel of land described in the first column in exchange for the land transferred by them.

3. Title.

This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The Diversion of Roads Special Ordinance No. 6 1874.”


Waimate Road District.

First Column
Second Column.
The parcels of land coloured Blue in the annexed tracing, viz:—
No. 1A.—A strip of land one chain wide, being part of section No. 7105, containing by admeasurement 6 acres 3 roods and 24 perches, bounded on the north-eastward by the River Pareora; on the south-westward by the Pareora Valley Road; and on the north-westward and south-eastward by lines in
continuation of the north-west and south- east sides of the road passing through that section in a north-easterly direction south-east of and next to trig station No.
56.
No. 2A.—A strip of land one chain wide, being part of sections Nos. 6227, 6632,
The parcels of land coloured Green in the annexed tracing, viz:—
No. 1.—Containing by admeasurement
18 acres and 32 perches (more or less), being the road separating sections 14800 and 14801, commencing at the Otaio Valley Road, and extending in a north- easterly direction to the road passing north-westerly through section 14789.
No. 2.—Containing by admeasurement
19 acres 2 roods (more or less), being portion of the Main South Road, extending from the proposed New South Road at the south-west corner of section
7103 to the same road near the easternmost corner of section 6227.




and 7104, containing by admeasurement

7 acres (more or less), extending from the Main South Road in a westerly direction to the junction of the Pareora Valley Road with the road forming the south-western boundary of section 6227.

No. 3A.—A strip of land one chain wide, being part of sections 6632, 7104, and reserve No. 640 (in red), containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods (more or less), extending between the land last above-described and the Main South Road.

No. 4A.—All that piece or parcel of land one chain wide, being part of sections

6228 and 7103, containing by admeasurement 19 acres 3 roods 24 perches (more or less), commencing on the eastern side of the Main South Road, at a point distant about eight chains

south of the easternmost corner of section 6632, and running in a southerly, direction to the south-west corner of section 7103, being partly bounded on the south-eastward by the railway reserve, save and except those portions of the roads passing through sections

6228 and 7103, which cross the above- described land in an easterly direction.

No. 3.—Containing by admeasurement
10 acres 3 roods 24 perches (more or less), being the road forming the south- west boundary of section 6227, commencing where the proposed new road joins the road passing through section 6228, and extending in a north- westerly direction to the Pareora Valley Road, save and except that portion of the Main South Road to be abandoned, described in No. 2, which is included in this description.

No. 4.—Containing by admeasurement 6 acres 3 roods 24 perches (more or less), being that portion of the Pareora Valley Road extending between the South Road and the road forming the south-western boundary of section 6227, save and except that portion of the proposed new road described in No. 3A, which is included in this description.


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