Reserve No 424 Ordinance 1873 (C)

Reserve No 424 Ordinance 1873 (C)

Provincial Act
Date of assent18 June 1873

Anno Tricessimo Sexto Victoriae Reginae

  • Preamble

    WHEREAS by grant from the Crown bearing date the 4th day of December 1872 all that piece or parcel of land in the Province of Canterbury in the Colony of New Zealand situate in tile Malvern District and containing by admeasurement 447 acres more air less being Reserve numbered 424 (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 was granted unto the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust for the uses of the Provincial Government and particularly as a depot for Police purposes: AND WHEREAS it is expedient to appropriate or set apart that portion of the said Reserve described in the Schedule hereto as a site for a telegraph office and for other purposes of public utility connected with the administration of the General Government of New Zealand.

1 Power given to Superintendent to surrender to the Crown the parcel of land comprised in the annexed Schedule

  • The specific purposes of public utility for which all that parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto are held shall be and the same are hereby changed and such land shall be appropriated as a site for a telegraph office and for other purposes of public utility connected with the administration of the General Government of New Zealand and it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to surrender such land to the Crown.

2 Title

  • This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as the Reserve No 424 Ordinance 1873.

Schedule

Ten acres (more or less) situate in the Malvern District being part of Reserve No 424 (in red) commencing at the northernmost corner of the said Reserve thence south-easterly following the Coal Tramway Reserve a distance of 9 chains 85 links thence south-westerly at a right angle a distance of 10 chains thence again at a right angle north-westerly following a straight line to the road forming the north-western boundary of the Reserve above-mentioned and from thence returning along the said road to the commencing point.