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Public Domains Ordinance 1873

11. The Public Domains Ordinance 1873.

[16^th June 1873.]

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled intituled” The Canterbury Public Domains Act 1872” It is enacted that the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Canterbury may from time to time by Ordinance to be passed in that behalf declare (inter alia) 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 from and after a date to be determined by such Ordinance be held to be under the operation of the said Act 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:

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

1. Lands described in Schedule to be held to be under operation of Act on and after 1^st July 1873.

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

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entitled and may be cited as “The Public Domains Ordinance 1873.”

Schedule.

Description of reserve No. 74 (in red), being a site for a Public Recreation

Ground

All that parcel of land situate in the Mandeville, in the Province of Canterbury, containing 15 acres and 82 perches, more or less, commencing at a point on the North Road, the same being the north-west corner of section No. 388 E., following along the said road in a northerly direction a distance of 19 chains, and running back easterly a distance of 8 chains in a rectangular block, and numbered 74 in red on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the rural land in the Mandeville district aforesaid.

Description of reserve No. 1252 (in red), being a site for a Public Recreation

Ground and Racecourse

All that parcel of land in the Province of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, situate in the Malvern district, containing by admeasurement one hundred acres, more or less, commencing at a point on the north-eastern side of the Coal Tramway Reserve, the said point being the westernmost corner of section 14381; thence north-westerly following the said reserve a distance of eleven chains sixty links; thence northerly following the road forming the eastern boundary of Reserve No. 1248 (in red) thirty-four chains eleven links; thence easterly along the southern boundary of section No. 9256, a distance of twenty- seven chains seventy-five links to the high bank of an old river bed; thence south-easterly following the said high bank to a point in line with the north- western boundary of the said section No. 14881, and from thence returning south-westerly along the said line and boundary forty-two chains ten links to the commencing point, and numbered 1252 (in red) on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury, setting out and describing the rural land in the Malvern district aforesaid.