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Provincial Council Extension Ordinance 1861

4. The Provincial Council Extension Ordinance 1861.

Whereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria entituled “An Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand” it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor by proclamation to constitute within each of the Provinces by the said Act established convenient Electoral Districts for the Election of Members for the Provincial Council and of the Superintendent and to appoint and declare the number of Members to be elected for each such District for the Provincial Council and to make provisions for the registration and revision of lists of all persons qualified to vote at the elections to be holden within such districts: And whereas the then Governor of New Zealand did accordingly by a proclamation bearing date the fifth day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three constitute certain Districts for the Election of the Superintendent and Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury and did appoint and declare the number of Members to be elected to serve in the Provincial Council for each of the said several Districts and did further make certain provisions for the registration and revision of the lists of persons qualified to vote as aforesaid: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province entituled " The Provincial Council Extension Ordinance Session III. No. 1 " certain provisions of the said proclamation were repealed and certain other provisions enacted in lieu thereof: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council entituled “The Provincial Council Extension Ordinance Session VIII. No.

8” the said last recited Ordinance was repealed and certain other provisions were enacted in lieu thereof: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council entituled “The Provincial Council Extension Ordinance Session XVII. No. 4” the above recited Ordinances were repealed and certain other proisions were enacted in lieu thereof And whereas it is expedient that the said recited Ordinances should be repealed and that the provisions of the said proclamation should be further amended And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand entituled “The West Coast Gold Fields Provincial Representation Act 1865” it was enacted that two Members should be returned to the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury as Representatives of the West Coast Gold Fields and that the said Act should remain in force until

provision should have been made by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province for the due representation of the West Coast Gold Fields in the said Provincial Council and that from and after the day on which such Ordinance should have received the Governor’s Assent the said Act should cease to have any force or effect whatever And whereas it is expedient that such provision should be made and that the said Act should accordingly cease to have any foce or effect:

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

1. Repealing Clause.

The said recited Ordinances of the Superintendent and Provincial Council are hereby repealed.

2. Certain provisions of Proclamation of his Excellency the Governor to be null and void.

The provisions made in the said Proclamation by the Governor of New Zealand under the authority of the said recited Act of the Imperial Parliament in respect to the number and extent of the said Districts the number of Members of the Provincial Council to be elected for each District so far as the said provisions are repugnant to or interfere with the operation of this Ordinance shall be and they are hereby declared to be void and of no effect.

3. Province to be divided into twenty districts.

The Province of Canterbury for the election for the Superintendent and the Members of the Provincial Council thereof shall be divided into Twenty Districts to be named as follows:—

1.The Sefton District

2.The Oxford District

3.The Rangiora District

4.The Town of Kaiapoi District

5.The Mandeville District

6.The City of Christchurch District

7.The Avon District

8.The Town of Lyttelton

9.The Heathcote District

10. The Lincoln District

11. The Port Victoria District

12. The Town of Akaroa

13. The Wainui District

14. The Bays District

15. The Rakaia District

16. The Ashburton District

17. The Geraldine District

18. The Town of Timaru District

19. The Waitangi District

20. The Mount Cook District

And the boundaries of the said Districts shall be those particularly described in the schedule hereunto annexed.

4. Number of Members to be elected for each district.

The Provincial Council shall consist of Forty-four Members and the number of

Members to be elected for each of the said several Districts shall be as follows:—

1. For the City of Christchurch, four Members

2. For the Town of Lyttelton, four Members

3. For the Town of Kaiapoi, one Member

4. For the Mandeville District, two Members

5. For the Rangiora District, one Member

6. For the Avon District, four Members

7. For the Heathcote District three Members

8. For the Lincoln District, two Members

9. For the Port Victoria District, two Member

10. For the Town of Akaroa, one Member

11. For the Wainui District, one Member

12. For the Bay’s District, one Member

13. For the Oxford District, one Member

14. For the Sefton District, two Members

15. For the Rakaia District, one Member

16. For the Ashburton District, one Member

17. For the Geraldine District, one Member

18. For the Waitangi District one Member

19. For the Mount Cook District one Member

20. For the Town of Timaru one Member

5. The Ordinance, when to come into force.

This Ordinance shall come into operation on the day of the next dissolution of the

Provincial Council.

6. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Provincial Council

Extension Ordinance, Session XVII., No. 4.”

Schedule

1. The Sefton District

The Sefton District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the Province of Nelson ; on the east by the sea; on the south and west by the south bank of the river Ashley to its source at Ashley Head, the ridge of the hills, thence to Esk Head and Snowy peak, and a straight line thence to the saddle dividing the head waters of the Hurunui from those of the Teremakau.

2. The Oxford District

The Oxford District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north and east by the Province of Nelson, the Sefton district, and a true north and south line drawn through trig. pole c.30; on the south by the south bank of the river Waimakariri or Courtenay to the head waters of its westernmost source, and a true west straight line drawn thence to the West Coast, on the west by the sea.

3. The Rangiora District

The Rangiora District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the Sefton district; on the west by the Oxford district, on the south by the centre of the Harewood road from a point where it intersects the west boundary of the district to a point where it meets a road lying on the south-west boundary of section No. 1728, the middle of that road to the corner of section 1631, the middle of the road lying on the boundaries of sections 1631, 1539, and 1508, to the northwest corner of 1029, point where it meets South Brook, and the middle of South Brook to the west boundary of the native reserves; on the east by the boundary of the native reserve, the middle of a road lying on the southwest

boundary of sections 1655, 355, 355A, and 431, the west boundary of 432 to the Harewood Road, the middle of that road to the south corner of 544, and the middle of the road lying on the east boundary of 544 to the point where the said road meets the river Ashley.

4. The Town of Kaiapoi District

The Town of Kaiapoi comprises the title of town of Kaiapoi as described in the Schedule to the "Town of Kaiapoi Town Ordinance, Session VIII., No. 7," and the remainder of rural section No. 320.

5. The Mandeville District

The Mandeville District comprises that part of the Province the town of Kaiapoi (not included as hereinbefore described) and bounded on the north by the Sefton district and the Rangiora district on the west by the Oxford district, on the south by the south bank of the river Courtenay (Waimakariri), and a line drawn from

trig. pole c. 19 on the south bank of that river to trig. pole c. 27 on the sea coast, on the east by the sea coast.

6. The City of Christchurch District

The City of Christchurch District comprises the site of the city of Christchurch, together with all the adjacent reserves lying between the said town and rural sections fronting upon such reserves.

7. The Avon District

The Avon District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the southern boundary of the Mandeville district, on the west by a true north and south line drawn through trig. pole c. 30, on the east by the sea, on the south by the north bank of the River Avon, the city of Christchurch district, the south boundary of section No. 10, the south-east boundary of section No. 145, till it is crossed by a creek running easterly into the Heathcote, the middle of that creek till it meets a line in continuation of the south-east boundary of section No. 180,

the line so continued to the south-east boundary of section No. 180, the middle of the road lying on the north-west boundary of Section No. 156, as far as a point where that road first meets a branch of the River Heathcote, a line drawn thence due west to a point where it crosses the Great South Road, the Great South

Road till it crosses the west boundary of the district.

8. The Town of Lyttelton

The Town of Lyttelton District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the ridge of the hill lying on the north side of Lyttelton on the east by the spur of the hill running down to the sea, immediately on the east side of Gollan's Bay, on the south by the sea, on the west by a true north line drawn through the most western point of the town of Lyttelton as originally laid out by the

Canterbury Association.

9. The Heathcote District

The Heathcote District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the Avon district and the city of Christchurch district, on the east by the sea, on the south by the town of Lyttelton district, the ridge of the Port Hills as far as

the highest of Cooper's Knobs, and a stream rising in Cooper's Knobs and falling into the River Halswell, on the west by the west boundary of the old river bed of the Courtenay and the middle of the River Halswell to its junction with the aforesaid stream.

10. The Lincoln District

The Lincoln District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the Avon district, the middle of the Great South Road as far as the north-west corner of section No. 967 and a direct line thence to the River Selwyn drawn through trig. pole L 15, on the east br the Heathcote district, on the south by the River Selwyn and Lake Ellesmere.

11. The Port Victoria District

The Port Victoria District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the north and west by the sea and the town of Lyttelton, Heathcote, and Lincoln districts, on the south by Lake Ellesmere and the sea, on the east by a line drawn from a point on the sea-coast half-way between the east head of Port Levy and the west head of Pigeon Bay to the head of the Little River, the Little River, and Lake Forsyth, including the islands in Port Lyttelton.

12. The Town of Akaroa

The Town of Akaroa comprises the site of the town of Akaroa, as set forth in a Proclamation issued by the Superintendent of the Province on the 1st May, 1856, and published in the Provincial Government Gazette, dated May 12,1856.

13. The Wainui District

The Wainui District comprises that Part of the Province not included in the town of Akaroa as hereinbefore described and bounded on the north by the highest ridge of the hills, and the ridge of the spur leading to Pulakolo Head, on the east and south by the sea on the west by the Port Victoria district.

14. The Bays District

The Bays District comprises that part of the Province included between the Port

Victoria district, the Wainui district, and the sea.

15. The Rakaia District

The Rakaia District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the Oxford district, on the east by the Avon and Lincoln districts, and Lake Ellesmere, on the south and west by the north bank of the Rakaia to the source of its middle branch, and a true west line thence to the West Coast, on the west by the sea.

16. The Ashburton District

The Ashburton District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the Rakaia district, on the east by the sea, on the south by the north bank of the Rangitata to the source of its northwest branch, and a true west line thence to the West Coast, on the west by the sea.

17. The Geraldine District

The Geraldine District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the Ashburton district, on the east by the sea, on the south by the south bank of the Opihi to its source near Burke's Pass, and a straight line thence to the summit of Burke's Pass on the west by the ridge of the hills dividing the waters of the Opihi and Rangitata from the waters of the Tekapo.

18. The Town of Timaru District

The Town of Timaru comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north and east by the Sea, on the south by the north boundary of section No. 1702, the

north side of a road lying to the north of section 2367, the Cemetery Reserve

1706, and the north boundaries of sections 1706 and 1607, on the west by the east boundary of section No. 1606, the east and north boundary of section No.

707, the east boundary of section 1652, till it meets Whale's Creek, to the sea.

19. The Waitangi District

The Waitangi District comprises that part of the Province not included in the town of Timaru hereinbefore described, and bounded on the north by the Geraldine district, on the east by the sea, on the south by the Province of Otago, on the west by the Hakateremea River to its source at the Hakateremea River Pass,

and the ridge of the hills to Mackenzie Pass and Burke's Pass.

20. The Mount Cook District

The Mount Cook District comprises that part of the Province bounded on the north by the Ashburton district, on the east by the Ashburton, Geraldine, and Waitangi districts on the south by the Province of Otago, and on the west by the sea.

Notes.

Assented to by the Governor. See Proclamation in New Zealand Gazette, No. 10,

7th February , page 91.