All that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded towards the north-west and north generally by Ashley County, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 47, 19th June, 1902, to the ocean: thence towards the east by the ocean to the Borough of New Brighton; thence by the said Borough of New Brighton to the Avon River: thence towards the south generally by the said Avon River to the City of Christchurch; thence by the said City of Christchurch to its north-western corner: thence towards the east generally by the said City of Christchurch to its south-western corner at Lincoln Road; thence by a line to and along the middle of Lincoln Road to Archers Bridge: thence towards the south-west by a line along the middle of the Lincoln and Riccarton Junction Road, Hanson Road, Riccarton Road, and Yaldhurst Road to the Russley Road: and thence towards the west by a line along the middle of the said Russley Road and the Kaiapoi Junction Road and that line produced to the middle of the Waimakariri River aforesaid, the place of commencement.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded towards the north-east, east, and north generally by Ashley County, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 47, 19th June, 1902, from the summit of the Southern Alps to the Waimairi County hereinbefore described; thence by the said Waimairi County, the City of Christchurch, the Borough of Woolston, to the estuary of the Heathcote and Avon Rivers; thence by the estuary to the Borough of Sumner; thence by the Boroughs of Sumner and Lyttelton to the north-western boundary of the said Borough of Lyttelton; thence by the County of Akaroa, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 116, 24th October, 1884, to the ocean at Taumutu; thence by the ocean to the mouth of the Rakaia River: thence towards the south-west generally by a line along the middle of the said Rakaia River to its source near Whitcombe Pass; thence by a right line due west to the summit of the Southern Alps: and thence towards the north-west by the summit of the said Southern Alps to the County of Ashley, the place of commencement.

Also all that area in the said Canterbury Land District bounded towards the south-west and west by the Borough of Woolston and the City of Christchurch to the Waimairi County; thence towards the north and east generally by the Waimairi County and Borough of New Brighton to the estuary of the Avon and Heathcote Rivers; thence towards the south-east by the said estuary to its junction with the Borough of Woolston, the place of commencement.