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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
distance of a chain from the line of electric tele-
graph established in the said Province from the
Conway river to the Kahutara river, from the
Kahutara river to Kaikoura, from Kaikoura to the
Clarence river, from the Clarence river to the Flax-
bourne river, from the Flazbourne river to Blenheim,
from Blenheim to White's Bay, and from Blen-
heim to Picton, from Picton to Havelock, and from
Havelock to the boundary of the Province of Nelson,
is required for the purposes 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 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 Wellington, 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 Wellington, 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 laid down in the said Province, from
Cook Strait to Wellington, from Wellington to
the Hutt, from the Hutt to Mungaroa, from Mun-
garoa to Featherston, from Featherston to Masterton,
and from Masterton to Tauheru, from Tauheru to
Maungapakaheha, from Maungapakaheha to Castle
Point, and from Tinui to the river Waimata or along
so much of the said line as is within the Province of
Wellington, 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 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 Hawke's Bay, 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 Hawke's Bay, 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 laid
down in the said Province from the river Waimata to
Ephraima, and from Ephraima to Napier, or along so
much of the said line as is within the said Province, 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.

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