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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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 Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1872," it is 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 circulating 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 law-
ful, after such road shall have been surveyed, to con-
struct under the said Acts any railway or any part of
any railway, on the road so surveyed, notwithstanding
that such road may not have been made:

And whereas the Governor has determined to con-
struct and maintain a portion of the railway from
Rangiora to the north bank of the North Kowai,
authorized to be constructed by "The Railways Act,
1871," and "The Railways Act, 1872," which said
portion is hereinafter described:

Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable Sir James
Fergusson, Baronet, Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers
and authorities conferred on me by the hereinbefore
in part 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 portion of the said railway, 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 portion 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 portion of the said railway to be at the
southernmost corner of Rural Section numbered 929
in the Province of Canterbury, and the point of
termination thereof to be at or near a point which is
situated at the intersection of the centre line of the
road which forms the eastern boundary of Rural
Section numbered 2163 with the centre line of the
road which forms the northern boundary of Rural
Section numbered 4454 in the Province of Canter-
bury aforesaid.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation
of a portion of the Railway from Rangiora to
North Bank of North Kowai, in the Province
of Canterbury.

COMMENCING at the southernmost corner of Rural
Section numbered 929 in the Province of Canter-
bury, and passing in, through, or into the following
Road Districts, viz.:-The Rangiora and Mandeville
Road District, the Ashley Road District, the Kowai
Road District, and terminating at or near a point
which is situated at the intersection of the centre
line of the road which forms the eastern boundary
of Rural Section numbered 2163 with the centre
line of the road which forms the northern boundary
of Rural Section numbered 4454 in the Province of
Canterbury aforesaid, 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 authen-
ticated for the purposes of this Proclamation by the
signature of the Honorable Edward Richardson,
Minister for Public Works, to be deposited in the
office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at
Christchurch, or within the limits of deviation set
forth in the said plan by dotted red lines, being not
more than 200 yards on either side of the said line,
and passing through or over the several sections
of land, roads, reserves, rivers, and watercourses
enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto.

SECOND SCHEDULE,
OR BOOK OF REFERENCE.
Lands and Roads, &c., proposed to be taken for the
purposes of the portion of the Railway from
Rangiora to North Bank of North Kowai herein-
before described.

So much of the lands and roads hereinafter mentioned
as are required for the said portion of the said rail-
way along the line of the said railway hereinbefore
defined, or within the limits of deviation aforesaid,
as the lands are described and defined in the plan
or book of reference aforesaid:

RANGIORA AND MANDEVILLE ROAD DISTRICT.
Rural Sections numbered 911, 709, 929, 912, 370,
387, 358A, 316, 356, 386, 349, 385, 386, 917, 511, 433;
reserves numbered 124, 132; Rural Sections num-
bered 1197, 1179, 2673, 1684; the River Ashley;
and all intervening roads, streams, and watercourses.

ASHLEY ROAD DISTRICT.
The River Ashley, Rural Section numbered 2163,
and all adjoining and intervening roads, streams, and
watercourses.

KOWAI ROAD DISTRICT.
The River Ashley, Rural Section numbered 4454,
and all adjoining and intervening roads, streams, and
watercourses.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this seventh
day of July, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Price of Land in a portion of the Province of Otago,
under "The Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865,"
raised to Sixty Shillings per Acre.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
ninth day of July, 1873.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Southland Waste Lands
Act, 1865," it is, among other things, pro-