Cheviot County

Cheviot County
	Cheviot County
	County of New Zealand
Capital	Cheviot
History
Area	847 km2(327 sq mi)
Today part of	Hurunui District

Last updated July 12, 2019

Cheviot County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the South Island.

A system of counties of New Zealand was instituted after the country dissolved its provinces in 1876, and these counties were similar to other countries' systems, lasting with little change until 1989, when they were reorganised into district and city councils within a system of larger regions.

The South Island, also officially named Te Waipounamu, is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area; the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean. The South Island covers 150,437 square kilometres (58,084 sq mi), making it the world's 12th-largest island. It has a temperate climate.

During the period 1853 to 1876, the area that would become Cheviot County was administered as part of Nelson Province. With the Abolition of Provinces Act 1876, Cheviot County was created, taking over administration of its area in January 1877. The county council's administrative headquarters was located in Cheviot.

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Cheviot, New Zealand town in Canterbury, New Zealand

Cheviot is a town in the Hurunui District of north Canterbury, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is on State Highway 1 approximately 110 kilometres (68 mi) north of Christchurch.

Cheviot County existed until the 1989 local government reforms, when the Hurunui District was formed through the amalgamation of the administrative areas Cheviot County, Amuri County and the part of Kaikoura County south of the Hundalee Hills (an area which had been the subject of a failed 1971 proposal to create a Hurunui County).^[1]

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References

↑ "Determination on proposal for the abolition of Kaikoura District and its inclusion in Hurunui District" (PDF). Local Government Commission . May 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2018.

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[2009_Hurunui_merger-1] "Determination on proposal for the abolition of Kaikoura District and its inclusion in Hurunui District" (PDF). Local Government Commission . May 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2018.