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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
proclaim portions of such line from time to time, and
the commencing and termination points of any such
portion or portions, and the limits and description of
any such portion or portions, and the lands proposed
to be taken for the purpose of any such portion or
portions, and to construct any portion or portions
so fixed, and to take the lands for the same; and
any such portion so proclaimed shall be deemed
to be a railway within the meaning of the said Act
and the said amending Act and this Act:

And whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it is
also enacted that, at any time after the expiration of
twenty-one days from the publication in the New
Zealand Gazette, and in a newspaper ordinarily circu-
lating in the district, of a Proclamation, under the
thirteenth section of the said Act, whether of the
whole or a portion or portions of a line of railway,
the Governor, on behalf of Her Majesty, may enter
upon, take possession of, use and hold, or cause to be
entered upon, taken possession of, used and held, so
much of the lands defined in such Proclamation as
proposed to be taken as shall be required to be taken,
purchased, or permanently used for the purposes of
such railway, notwithstanding that an agreement
shall not have been come to or an award made for
the purchase or compensation money to be paid in
respect of such lands:

And whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it is
also enacted that in any case in which a road or
right of road has been or hereafter may be reserved
in any Crown grant, and in any case in which,
under "The Native Lands Act, 1865," or any law for
the time being in force relating to the sale of waste
lands of the Crown, or any law whatever, there is a
right to take a public road through any lands, it shall
be lawful, after such road shall have been surveyed,
to construct under the said Acts. any railway or any
part of any railway, on the road so surveyed, not-
withstanding that such road may not have been made:

And whereas the Governor has determined to con-
struct and maintain a railway from Waitara to New
Plymouth, being a portion of the railway authorized
to be constructed from Waitara to Wanganui by
"The Railways Act, 1871:"

And whereas Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, hath
departed thence for the Colony of New South Wales,
and Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Chief
Justice of the said Colony, under or by virtue of a
certain warrant under the Royal Sign Manual and
Signet, is now the person lawfully administering the
Government of the said Colony:

Now therefore I, Sir George Alfred Arney,
Knight, Administrator of the Government of New
Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers
and authorities conferred on me by the hereinbefore
recited Acts, and in exercise of every other power
enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim,
declare, and define the limits, description, and line
of the said railway, from Waitara to New Plymouth,
to be those set forth in the First Schedule hereto; and
that the lands specified and described in the Second
Schedule hereto are proposed to be taken for the
purposes of the said railway; and that the limits of
deviation shall be those set forth in the said First
Schedule hereto; and in pursuance and exercise of
all powers and authorities conferred on me in that
behalf, I do hereby fix the point of commencement
of the said railway from Waitara to New Plymouth,
being a portion of the said railway from Waitara
to Wanganui, to be a point on the bank of the
River Waitara, at the end of Whitaker Street, in
the Town of Raleigh, and the point of termination
thereof to be a point near the landing-place at New
Plymouth, in front of Mount Eliot Reserve.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WAITARA AND WANGANUI RAILWAY.
Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation of
a portion of the Railway from Waitara to Wan-
ganui, being that portion lying between the River
Waitara and the Town of New Plymouth, in the
Province of Taranaki.

COMMENCING on the bank of the River Waitara, at
the end of Whitaker Street, in the Town of Raleigh;
thence through the Town of Raleigh, Waitara West
District, Bell District, Hua District, Fitzroy Dis-
trict, and the Town of New Plymouth, and termin-
ating at a point near the landing-place in front of
Mount Eliot Reserve, as the limits, description, and
line thereof are set forth in the plan and described in
the book of reference referred to on the face of the
said plan, and which plan and book are authenticated,
for the purposes of the Proclamation, by the signature
of the Honorable William Hunter Reynolds, Minis-
ter acting for the Minister for Public Works, and
are deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at New Plymouth; or within the
limits of deviation set forth on the said plan by
dotted red lines, being not more than 110 yards
on either side of the said line, and passing through
or over the several sections of land, roads, reserves,
rivers, places, and watercourses enumerated in the
Second Schedule hereto.

SECOND SCHEDULE
OR BOOK OF REFERENCE.
Lands proposed to be taken for the purposes of the
Railway between Waitara and New Plymouth.

TOWN OF RALEIGH.
River Waitara, sections numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, Block XC.; 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Block
LXXXI.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Block LXXXIX.; 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Block LXXX.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
Block LXXXVIII.; 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Block
LXXIX.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Block LXXXVII.;
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Block LXXVIII; 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, Block LXXXVI.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Block
LXXXV.; Reserve, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
Block LXXXIV.; 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Block
LXXVII.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Block LXXXIII. ;
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Block LXXVI.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, Block LXXXII.; 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
Block LXXV., public road, and all intervening
streets, roads, and streams.

WAITARA WEST DISTRICT.
Sections numbered 25, 24, 26, 28, 27, Native
Reserve, Sections 127, 128, 129, 123, 121, 122, 102,
103, Government Reserve 98, and Sections 96, 97,
Native Reserve, Sections 80, 83, 82, 78, and all
intervening roads, streams, and rivers.

BELL DISTRICT.
Sections numbered 19, 19A, 6B, 18, 16, 14, 13, and
all intervening roads and streams.

HUA DISTRICT.
Sections numbered 36, 35, Native Reserve, Sec-
tions 6, 5, 4, Native Reserve, Sections 45, 15, 93, 38,
Native Reserve, unallotted land, and all intervening
roads and streams.

FITZROY DISTRICT.
Sections numbered 145, 126, Native Reserves, 23,
18, Sections 92, 90, H.G. and all intervening roads,
streams, and rivers.

TOWN OF NEW PLYMOUTH.
Public Road, sections numbered, 2316, 2317, 2318,
2319, 2320, 2321, 2322, 2323, 2324, 2325, 1368A,
1291A, 2087, 2130, 2144, 2086, 2091, 2092, 2093,
2094, 2095, 2096, 2114, 2115, 2116, 2128, 2129,