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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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
construct and maintain a portion of the railway
from Wanganui to Manawatu, authorized to be con-
structed by "The Railways Act, 1871," and "The
Railways Act, 1872," which said portion is herein-
after 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 commence-
ment of the said portion of the said railway to be
at or near a point which is situated at or on that
part of the East Bank of the Wanganui River which
adjoins the western portion of Rural Section num-
bered eighty-nine, in the Province of Wellington,
and the point of termination thereof to be at or near a
point which is situated in Rural Section numbered
two hundred and forty-eight, in the same Province,
the said point being on the southern side of No. 2
line of road from Wanganui, and about thirty-five
chains, more or less, distant from the south-eastern-
most corner of Rural Section one hundred and ninety-
four, in the Province aforesaid.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation
of a portion of the Railway from Wanganui to
Manawatu, in the Province of Wellington.
COMMENCING at or near a point which is situated at
or on that part of the East Bank of the Wanganui
River which adjoins the western portion of Rural
Section numbered 89, in the Province of Wellington,
and terminating at or near a point which is situated
in Rural Section numbered 248, in the same Province,
the said point being on the southern side of No. 2
line of road from Wanganui, and about 35 chains, more
or less, distant from the south-easternmost corner of
Rural Section 194, in the Province 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 authenticated 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 110 yards on either side
of the said line, except where otherwise delineated on
the said plan, and passing in, through, into, or over
the several sections of land, roads, reserves, places,
beaches, 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
Wanganui to Manawatu, hereinbefore described.
So much of the lands and roads hereinafter men-
tioned as are required for the said portion of the said
railway 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.
WANGAEHU HIGHWAY DISTRICT.
Wanganui River, Rural Sections numbered 77, 89,
90, 91, 78, 64, 65, 79, 66, 67, 80, 81, 68, 69, 82, 70,
71, 72, 72A, 73, 74, 75, 76, 110, 56, 57, 112, 113, 58,
59A, 59, 123, 124, 125, 126, 126A, 128, 178, 270, 195,
196, 197, 198, 247, 248, and all adjoining and in-
tervening sections of land, reserves, places, 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 fifth day
of November, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
EDWARD RICHARDSON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Proclaiming certain Lands to have been taken for
purposes of the Railway from Wellington to
Masterton.
(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1872," it is, among other things,
enacted, that whenever it shall become necessary that
any lands which the Governor or the Minister is, by or
under the Acts therein mentioned, or any Act authoriz-
ing the construction of any railway by the Governor
or Minister, authorized to purchase or take for such
railway, or any portion thereof, on or over which a
railway authorized by the said Acts, or any Act to be
passed in pursuance thereof, has been or may here-
after be constructed, should be vested in Her Majesty
the Queen, it shall be lawful for the Governor or the
Minister to cause a map of all such lands as may