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Waiwera and Sefton Township Reserves Ordinance 1869

1. The Waiwera and Sefton Township Reserves Ordinance 1869

[November 2, 1869.]

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly intituled “The Canterbury Waste Lands Act 1869 " it is amongst other things enacted that it should be lawful for the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury by Ordinance to be passed by it in that behalf to enact that any lands which had already been or should thereafter be set apart and proclaimed as sites for Towns in the said Province and which might not have been sold for the purposes for which such Lands should have been set apart or which having been sold had been re-conveyed to the Crown or to the Superintendent of the said Province should be reserves for endowments for educational or other purposes) of public utility: And whereas by Proclamations in the Government Gazettes of the said province bearing date respectively the twenty-second day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight and the first day of February One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six Townships were constituted at Sefton and Wairewa in the said Province: And whereas it is desirable that the lands comprised in the said Townships .should be made into Reserves for endowments for educational purpose.

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

1. Lands known as Sefton Township to cease to be Town Lands and to be a

Reserve for the endowment for Ordinary Schools.

From and after the passing of this Ordinance the lands hitherto known as the Sefton Township as they are more particularly described in the Schedule A to this Ordinance shall cease to be Town Lands within the meaning of the Waste Lands Regulations of the Province of Canterbury and the said lands together with all Public Reserves thereon as now set forth on the authenticated maps of the Chief Surveyor and notified in the Government Gazettes of the said Province bearing dates the fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty- two and the twenty-first day of October One thousand eight hundred and sixty- three shall be a Reserve for an endowment for the maintenance of Ordinary Schools within the Province.

2. Lands known as Wairewa Township to cease to be Town Lands and to be a Reserve for the endowment for a High School.

From and after the passing of this Ordinance the lands hitherto known as the Wairewa Township as they are more particularly described in the Schedule B to this Ordinance shall cease to be Town Lands within the meaning ofthe Waste Lands Regulations of the Province of Canterbury and the said lands together with all Public Reserves thereon as now set forth on the authenticated maps of the Chief Surveyor and notified in the Government Gazettes of the Province bearing dates the fifteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five and the seventh day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven and together with the Sections thereon numbered 1 2 3 8 and 9 which were sold by the Crown and have been conveyed by the purchasers to the Superintendent by deeds bearing date the first day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty- nine and the twenty-second day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty- nine respectively shall be a Reserve for a site and for an endowment or as an endowment ony for a School within the Province for the education, of youths in classics mathematics and the higher branches of literature.

3. Superintendent may demise and lease the Reserves.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent as soon as the lands described in the schedules hereto or any parts of the said Lands have been granted or conveyed to him to demise and lease all or any parts of the said lands for any term or terms not exceeding twenty-one years in possession upon such terms and conditions and at such rent as to him may seem fit and the rent of the said Reserves shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer and appropriated to the purposes for which the said Reserves are severally set apart.

4. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as the Wairewa and Sefton

Township Reserves Ordinance, 1869.

Schedule A. Town of Sefton.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement six hundred and forty acres more or less bounded on the Northward by Sections Nos. 2096 2112 2167 2305 2309 and Cemetery Reserve No 163 in red for a distance of eighty chains and extending Southerly a distance of eighty chains in a rectangular block being bounded on the Eastward by Sections Nos. 1418 and 1434 on the Westward by Sections Nos. 2137 2055 2009 1981 1039 and 1291 and on the Southward by Sections Nos. 1976 1969 1953 1958 1918 1896 and 1881.

Schedule B. Town of Waiwera.

All that piece or parcel of land containing six hundred and forty acres more or less situate at Little River bounded on the West by Section 4888 and a line in continuation of its eastern boundary on the Northward by the Native Reserve and a line in continuation of the Southern boundary thereof on the Southward by the Rivers Okaua and Okute and on the Eastward by a line at right angles to the Northern boundary so as to include the above quantity.