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Reserve No. 168 Ordinance 1875

10. The Reserve No. 168 Ordinance 1875.

[16^th August 1875.]

Whereas by Grant from the Crown bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five all that piece or parcel of land in the Province of Canterbury in the Colony of New Zealand situate in the Timaru District and containing by admeasurement ten acres more or less being Reserve numbered 168 (in red) on the Map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the rural land in the Timaru District aforesaid with all rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging was granted unto the Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust as a site for a Cemetery:

And whereas by “The Public Reserves Act 1854” under and by virtue of which the aforesaid grant was made it is enacted that the specific purposes for which any lands granted under the said Act within any Province should be held might be changed and the same lands might be appropriated to other and different purposes of public utility for the public service of such Province: And whereas it has become necessary in respect of the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto and being part of the aforesaid land to alter the purpose for which the same is held as hereinafter described:

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. Specific purposes for which land is held shall be changed.

The specific purposes of public utility for which the land herein-before described is held shall be and is hereby in so far as it affects the portion of the said land described in the Schedule hereto changed and the parcel of land described in the Schedule shall be henceforth held by the Superintendent of the said Province and his successors in trust for and for the purposes of a Fire Brigade Station.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as “The Reserve No. 168 Ordinance 1875.”

Schedule.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement seventeen perches more or less being part of Reserve No. 168 (in red) bounded on the eastward by the South Road on the northward by the site for Mechanic’s Institute on the southward by a line parallel to the northern boundary and 54 links distant therefrom and on the westward by a line at right angles to the southern boundary and two chains distant on the average from the South Road before mentioned.