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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
revoke or alter any such Proclamation: And
whereas by "The Immigration and Public Works
Act, 1872," it is, among other things, enacted that all
the provisions contained in Part I. and Part VI. of
"The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,"
shall be applicable to the County of Westland and
the Nelson South-West Gold Fields, and may be
adapted and used with reference to those portions of
the Colony, as if such portions had formed part of
the North Island: And whereas it is expedient that
the roads mentioned and defined in the Schedules
hereto should be constructed under the said Acts:
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, and the Executive
Council of New Zealand, the said roads are not
roads which should be constructed by the Superin-
tendent and the Provincial Council of the Province
of Nelson:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
exercise and pursuance of the power and authority
in me vested by the said Acts, and of every other
power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the roads within
the Nelson South-West Gold Fields, described, and
the boundaries whereof are set forth, in the several
Schedules hereto, shall respectively be and be deemed
to be roads under the provisions of the said Acts;
and in further pursuance of "The Immigration
and Public Works Act, 1870," I do hereby proclaim
and declare that I have caused a map and survey
plan of the road defined in the First Schedule
hereto, describing the course and bearings and the
admeasurements required for the same, and through
what lands the same is proposed to pass, and the
names of the owners or occupiers thereof, so far as
known, to be deposited in the office of the Public
Works Department at Westport, in the Province
of Nelson; and I have also caused a like map and
survey plan of the road defined in the Second Sche-
dule, and containing like particulars, to be deposited
in the office of the said Department at Westport
aforesaid, which said maps and survey plans are
authenticated, for the purposes of this Proclamation,
by the signature of the Honorable Edward Richard-
son, Minister for Public Works.

SCHEDULE No. 1.

From the Arnould River by way of Grey Valley,
Little Grey Valley, and Inangahua Valley, to the
Buller River.

COMMENCING at the bridge over the Arnould River,
and proceeding thence in a general N.E. direction to
the Ahaura River, about eleven miles, crossing that
river and through the Ahaura Township; thence in
the same general direction crossing Ohinetakitaki
Plain and Ikangatua Plain to the River Grey, about
eight miles, crossing that river at a point about
three-quarters of a mile above the junction of the
Little Grey River; thence up the Little Grey River,
partly on the left bank and partly on the right
bank, in a general northerly direction, for about ten
miles; thence crossing the Little Grey and pro-
ceeding by way of Slab Hut Creek in a general
N.E. direction, and across the Inangahua River to
Reefton Township, a distance of about eight miles;
thence through the Township and down the Valley
of the Inangahua to Fern Flat, about five miles, in a
general northerly direction; thence in a N.N.E.
direction, about five miles to and crossing Larry's
Creek; thence in a general northerly direction, about
seven miles, to the crossing of the Inangahua River
at a place known as the "Landing;" thence across
the river and down the left bank thereof in a general
northerly direction, about five miles, till it meets the
road between Westport and the Lyell near the junc-
tion of the Inangahua River with the Buller; thence down
the Inangahua River to the Buller. The above
described roads not to be less than one chain wide.

SCHEDULE No. 2.

From Ahaura to Amuri.

COMMENCING at the Ahaura Township, and proceed-
ing thence across the Ahaura Plain in an easterly
direction about four miles; thence following gene-
rally the course of the Ahaura River to the saddle
between it and the River Wai-au-ua; thence across
the saddle and down a branch of the Wai-au-ua.

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 twentieth
day of August, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Notice of the intention of the Governor to make a
Road from Ahaura to Amuri.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Governor of
New Zealand having, under the powers in him
vested by "The Immigration and Public Works Act,
1870," and the Acts amending the same, deemed it ex-
pedient to open and make a line of road from Ahaura
to Amuri, which road is, in the opinion of the Governor
and the Executive Council of the Colony, not a road
to be constructed by the Superintendent and Provin-
cial Council of the Province of Nelson, and the course
and bearings of which said road, the admeasurements
required for the same, and the land through which
the same passes, together with the names of the
owners and occupiers thereof, so far as known, are
respectively shown and delineated on a certain plan
marked A. No. 2, and which said road is also described
in a certain Proclamation made under the said Act,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 51,
dated 21st August, 1873, and reprinted in same
Gazette as that in which this notice appears:

A copy of the said plan, marked A. No. 2, is
deposited and may be seen and inspected at the
office of the Public Works Department at Westport.

And notice is hereby further given, that all or
any person or persons affected by the making of
the said line of road from Ahaura to Amuri
are required to set forth in writing, addressed
to the Governor, and left at the office of the said
Public Works Department at Westport, within forty
days from the first publication hereof, any well-
grounded objection he or they may have to the said
line of road.

Dated this twenty-third day of August, 1873.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

Warrant appointing an additional Polling Place.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Regulation
of Elections Act, 1870," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, by Warrant under his hand,