THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Majesty or dispose of in such other manner as for the
public interest may seem best, such of the Waste
Lands of the Crown in any of the Provinces of New
Zealand as may be required for the purposes of mili-
tary defence, or for the construction of trunk lines of
road, or as sites for public buildings for the use of
the General Government, or for other purposes of
public utility and convenience, and that all such
exceptions shall be deemed to have been made when-
ever the Governor, by writing under his hand, shall
have notified to the Superintendent of the Province
in which any land so excepted is situate that the
same is required for any of the purposes aforesaid,
and such notification shall have been published in
the New Zealand Gazette.

And whereas by "The Electric Telegraph Act,
1865," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor to establish lines of communication by
electric telegraph throughout the Colony, and for
this purpose it is expedient to except from sale the
land hereinafter described:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the
Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
and in exercise of the above powers, do by this
writing under my hand, notify to the Superintendent
of the Province of Canterbury, that the land herein-
after described, that is to say-so much and such
part of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the said
Province of Canterbury as is included between two
lines drawn on each side of parallel to and at a
distance of a chain from the line of electric
telegraph established in the said Province from the
Waitaki river to the Waiho river, from the Waiho river
to the Rakaia river, from the Rakaia river to Christ-
church, and from Christchurch to the Kowai river,
and from the Kowai river to the Hurunui river, is
required for the purpose of the electric telegraph.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, at
the Government House, at Wellington,
this twenty-ninth day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Approved in Council:

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Waste
Lands Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council, at any time, and from
time to time, to except from sale, and either reserve
to Her Majesty or dispose of in such other manner
as for the public interest may seem best, such of the
Waste Lands of the Crown in any of the Provinces
of New Zealand as may be required for the purposes
of military defence, or for the construction of trunk
lines of road, or as sites for public buildings for the
use of the General Government, or for other pur-
poses of public utility and convenience, and that
all such exceptions shall have been deemed to have
been made whenever the Governor, by writing under
his hand, shall have notified to the Superintendent of
the Province in which any land so excepted is situate
that the same is required for any of the purposes
aforesaid, and such notification shall have been
published in the New Zealand Gazette.

And whereas by "The Electric Telegraph Act,
1865," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor to establish lines of communication by
electric telegraph throughout the Colony, and for
this purpose it is expedient to except from sale the
land hereinafter described:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the
Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
and in exercise of the above powers, do by this
writing under my hand, notify to the Superintendent
of the Province of Marlborough, that the land
hereinafter described, that is to say-so much and
such part of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the
said Province of Marlborough as is included between
two lines drawn on each side of parallel to and at a
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And whereas by "The Electric Telegraph Act,
1865," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor to establish lines of communication by
electric telegraph throughout the Colony, and for;
this purpose it is expedient to except from sale the
land hereinafter described:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the
Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
and in exercise of the above powers, do by this
writing under my hand, notify to the Superintendent
of the Province of Nelson, that the land hereinafter
described, that is to say-so much and such part of
the Waste Lands of the Crown, in the said Province
of Nelson, as is included between two lines drawn
on each side of parallel to and at a distance of a
chain from the line of electric telegraph established
in the said Province from the Hurunui river to the
Waiau river, and from the Waiau river to the Con-.
way river, and from the boundary of the Province
between Havelock and Nelson to Nelson, is required
for the purpose of the electric telegraph.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander of
the Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of
New Zealand and its Dependencies, at
the Government House, at Wellington,
this twenty-ninth day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Approved in Council:

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand intituled "The Waste Lands
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, at any time, and from time
to time, to except from sale, and either reserve to
Her Majesty or dispose of in such other manner as
for the public interest may seem best, such of the
Waste Lands of the Crown in any of the Provinces
of New Zealand as may be required for the purposes
of military defence, or for the construction of trunk
lines of road, or as sites for public buildings for the
use of the General Government, or for other pur-
poses of public utility and convenience, and that all
such exceptions shall be deemed to have been made
whenever the Governor, by writing under his hand,)
shall have notified to the Superintendent of the Pro-
vince in which any land so excepted is situate that
the same is required for any of the purposes aforesaid,
and such notification shall have been published in
the New Zealand Gazette.

And whereas by "The Electric Telegraph Act,
1865," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor to establish lines of communication by
electric telegraph throughout the Colony, and for
this purpose it is expedient to except from sale the
land hereinafter described:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the
Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
and in exercise of the above powers, do by this
writing under my hand, notify to the Superintendent
of the Province of Marlborough, that the land
hereinafter described, that is to say-so much and
such part of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the
said Province of Marlborough as is included between
two lines drawn on each side of parallel to and at a