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Public Domains Ordinance 1872

2. The Public Domains Ordinance 1872.

[24th December 1872.]

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament asssembled intituled “The Canterbury Public Domains Act 1872” after reciting that certain lands within the Province of Canterbury more particularly described in the schedule to the said Act are vested in the Superintendent of the said Province in trust for the public uses of the said province under and subject to the provisions of “The Canterbury Association’s Ordinance Session IV, No. 6” and of “The Canterbury Association’s Reserves Ordinance, Session V, No. 2” and more especially for the purposes of public domains gardens plantations and pleasure grounds It is enacted that the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Canterbury may by Ordinance to be passed in that behalf declare that the said lands named in the schedule to the said Act or any of them shall from and after a date to be determined by such Ordinance be held to be under the operation of the said Act and may from time to time by Ordinance as aforesaid declare that any lands which have been or may hereafter be vested in the said Superintendent for the purposes of public domains gardens or recreation grounds shall in like manner be subject to the provisions of the said Act and that from and after the date fixed in any such Ordinance the lands specified therein shall be subject to the provisions of the said Act:

And whereas the lands particularly described in the schedule to this Ordinance are vested in the said Superintendent for the purposes aforesaid or some of them:

And whereas it is expedient to bring the said Act into operation as to the said lands described in the schedule to the said Act and also as to the lands described in the schedule to this Ordinance:

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. Title.

This Ordinance shall be inituled and may be cited as “The Public Domains Ordinance 1872.”

2. Lands described in Schedule to be held to be under operation of Act.

It is hereby declared that the lands described in the schedule to the said Act and the lands described in the schedule to this Ordinance shall from and after the first day of January A.D. 1873 be held to be under the operation and subject to the provisions of the said Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand.


Schedule.

Description of reserve 262 (in red) being a site for a public garden and pleasure ground in the town of Timaru:

Twelve acres three roods thirty-seven perches more or less bounded on the northward by Brown street a distance of seven chains twenty-one links on the eastward by Ross street a distance of eighteen chains seventeen links on the southward by Catherine street a distance of six chains ninety-seven links and on the westward by rural section No 701 a distance of eighteen chains twenty links Subject nevertheless to the reserve for a boulevard two chains wide on the western boundary of the town for which reserve no allowance is made in the acreage, and numbered 262 (in red).

Description of reserve 344 (in red) being reserve for a public park &c in the town of Timaru:

Fifty-six acres more or less situate in the town of Timaru bounded on the northward by Queen street on the eastward by High street on the southward by the boulevard two chains wide and on the westward by the continuation of King street.

Description of reserve 307 (in red) being a reserve for a public garden and recreation ground in the township of Arowhenua:

One hundred and thirty-three acres in the township of Arowhenua bounded on north by High street and by reserve No 277 (in red) on west by the said reserve and also by the reserve for railway on east by Taumatahahu creek on south by the bank of river Temuku.

Ten acres situate at Rangiora north of and adjoining rural section 1197 having ten chains frontage on a road leading to the Ashley and back easterly adjoining section 1197 ten chains and numbered 132 in red on the maps in the Land Office Christchurch for purposes of public recreation as described in a notification of His Honour the Superintendent of the 13th December 1858 and published in the Provincial Government Gazette of the 31st December 1858.

Description of Reserve 251 (in red) being site for a racecourse in the Timaru District.

One hundred and ninety-seven acres more or less commencing at a point on the western side of the South road the same being the first bend or turn in the road north of the north-eastern corner of section 3789 following the said road in a northerly direction a distance of forty-one chains thence westerly at a right angle a distance of thirty-five chains fifty links thence again at a right angle southerly a distance of thirty-nine chains ninety-eight links to the north-eastern boundary of section 7457 following south-easterly along that boundary a distance of twenty- nine chains eighty links to the north-western corner of the before-mentioned

section 3789 following easterly along the northern boundary thereof a distance of twenty-one chains eighteen links to the road above mentioned and from thence returning along that road to the commencing point and numbered 251 (in red).


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