Closure of the Church of England Burial Ground Rangiora Pursuant to section 41 (1) of the Burial and Cremation Act 1964, I, Tuariki John Delamere, Associate Minister of Health, hereby: 1. Direct that the denominational burial ground (``the ground''), being the land described in the Schedule hereto, and known as the Church of England Burial Ground Rangiora, shall be closed and that subject to the conditions set out below, burials there shall be discontinued from and including 1 October 1999; and 2. This closure notice is subject to the following conditions: (i) That the front portion of the land referred to in the Schedule fronting Ashley Street, Rangiora and described as Lot 1 containing 9735 square metres shown in the plan attached and marked ``A'' to this notice, will continue to be used for burials as set out in the original notice of Consecration set out as Attachment ``B''; (ii) The remaining portion of the ground (other than the portion described in (i) above) containing 1.0135 hectares described as Lot 2 in the plan attached and marked ``A'' to this notice, is excluded from section 42 and section 44 (4) of the Burial and Cremation Act 1964, and accordingly, that portion may be subdivided and sold. Schedule 1.9870 hectares, or thereabouts, being Lot 1, Deposited Plan 60514, survey block and district VI Rangiora, CT35C /779. TUARIKI DELAMERE, Associate Minister of Health. Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of August 1999. ATTACHMENT B In the name of God. Amen Whereas it has been represented to us Henry John Chitty by Divine permission Bishop of Christchurch and Primate of New Zealand by a petition under the hands of the Incumbent Church wardens and vestry men of the Parish of Rangiora for themselves and in the name of the members of the Church in the said Parish within the Diocese of Christchurch. That a piece or parcel or ground situated near Trigonometrical pole N 24. in the Mandeville District containing by admeasurement five acres more or less, commencing on the road at the Northwestern corner of section numbered 917, following Northerly along the Eastern side said road a distance of four chains forty links, and running back Easterly a distance of eleven chains fifty links in a rectangular block and numbered 124 in (red) on the tray of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the Church Land in the said Mandeville District has been duly conveyed in perpetuity by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury to the Church Property Trustees as use for a Cemetery or Burial Ground for the members of the Church in communion with the Church of England and Ireland and that the said piece or parcel of ground has been fenced and enclosed and is in other respects fitted and prepared for the purposes of Christian Burial. And whereas the said Petitioners have besought us by virtue of our authority Episcopal and ordinary to consecrate the said piece or parcel of ground as a Cemetery or Burial Ground in which the Bodies of the Christian Dead may be interred according to the Rites of the Branch of the Church of England and Ireland of General Resurrection. Therefore we Henry John Chitty Bishop of Christchurch and Primate of New Zealand do by virtue of our authority ordinary and Episcopal, and as far as in us has and by rule of law we may or can separate and set apart this said piece or parcel of ground from the profane and common uses whatsoever, and do dedicate and consecrate the same for the purposes afore recited and do openly and publicly pronounce and declare that the same ought so to remain separated and dedicated and consecrated accordingly. In testimony whereof we have subscribed this sentence of consecration on this the fourth day October in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine and in the fourteenth year of our Consecration. HJC Christchurch