To: The trustees, executors, or successors of the owners listed in the Schedule below (as registered proprietors).
1. Take notice that the Minister for Land Information proposes to take, under the Public Works Act 1981, your interests in the lands described in the Schedule to this notice.
2. The lands required are formed road and comprise part
of the eastern approach to the Selwyn River Bridge on State Highway 1, Selwyn. The land use is in accordance with the designation under the district plan.
Reasons for Taking Land
3. The reason why the Minister for Land Information considers it essential to take your interests in the lands is for the regularisation of land ownership and property boundaries.
Your Right to Object
4. Your interests in the lands have not yet been taken.
5. You have a right to object to the taking of your interests in the lands.
6. If you wish to object, you must send a written objection to the Registrar, Environment Court, 89 Armagh Street (PO Box 2069), Christchurch, within 20 working days after the date of publication of this notice.
7. If you make an objection, a public hearing of the objection will be held unless you give written notice to the tribunal that you want the hearing to be held in private.
8. If you make an objection:
(a) you will be advised of the time and place of the hearing; and
(b) you will have the right to appear and be heard personally or to be represented by a barrister or a solicitor or any other person you authorise.
Your Right to Compensation
9. This notice, and the right to object, described above, relate to the taking of your interests in the lands and not to your rights to compensation. Under the Public Works Act 1981, you are entitled to full compensation, if your interests in the lands are taken. If this compensation cannot be agreed between you and the Minister for Land Information, it can be determined in separate proceedings before the Land Valuation Tribunal.
Warning
This notice concerns your rights over the lands referred
to. If you are in any doubt about its effect, you should obtain legal advice immediately. Do not delay.
Canterbury Land Registry-Selwyn District
Schedule
Owner: George Hepburn Balls, mariner, of Sydney
New South Wales, Australia:
Area m2 Description
339 Part Rural Section 7004 (part Computer Freehold Register CB364/101); marked "G" on SO 16098.
Owner: William Wilson, commission agent, of Christchurch:
Area m2 Description
390 Part Rural Section 7004 (part Computer Freehold Register CB354/102); marked "H" on SO 16098.
382 Part Rural Section 7004 (part Computer Freehold Register CB364/102); marked "L" on SO 16098.
Owner: George Sinclair King, chemist, of Christchurch:
Area m2 Description
624 Part Rural Section 7004 (part Computer Freehold Register CB364/100); marked "I" on SO 1 6098.
Owner: Edward Strouts, gentleman, of England:
Area m2 Description
286 Part Rural Section 7004 (part Computer Freehold Register CB364/103); marked "J" on SO 16098.
Owner: William Collins, brewer, of Christchurch:
Area m2 Description
293 Part Rural Section 7004 (part Computer Freehold Register CB364/99); marked "K" on SO 16098.
Dated at Auckland this 29th day of August 2007.
DAVID PARKER, Minister for Land Information.
Note: The owners listed above were issued with these titles in 1925. There has been no transfer in ownership since
this time. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the trustees, executors or successors is requested to bring this notice to their attention.
(LINZ CPC/2007/12006)