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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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 in the Poupou-
tahi Block, about five chains west of the southern
margin of Lake Roto A Kiwa, in the Province of
Hawke's Bay, and the point of termination thereof
to be at or near a point which is situated in Block
16, Crown Grant District of Waipukurau, in the
same Province, the said point being on the north side
of the road from Waipukurau to Ruataniwha, about
1470 links, more or less, east of dividing fence
between Blocks 16 and 31, in the district aforesaid.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation
of a portion of the Railway from Napier to
Waipukurau, in the Province of Hawke's Bay.
COMMENCING at or near a point in the Poupoutahi
Block, about five chains west of the southern margin
of Lake Roto A Kiwa, in the Province of Hawke's
Bay, and terminating at or near a point on the north
side of the road from Waipukurau to Ruataniwha,
about 1470 links, more or less, east of dividing
fence between Blocks 16 and 31, in the Crown
Grant District of Waipukurau, in the same Pro-
vince, 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 authenti-
cated 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
Napier, 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, and
passing in, through, over, or into 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 a portion of the Railway from Napier
to Waipukurau, 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 de-
viation aforesaid, as the lands are described and
defined in the plan or book of reference aforesaid :—
Poupoutahi Block, Otukotorewhero Block, College
land, Roto a Tara Block, College land, Awaporirua
Block, Otane Block, Tukura Block; Blocks num-
bered 37, 49, 45, 47, 46, 57, 16 in the Patangata
District; Waipawa River; Tapairu Block, Kaimotu-
motu North Block, Kaimotumotu South Block, Tuki
Tuki River, Waipukurau Native Reserve; Blocks
No. 14 and 16 in the Waipukurau District, and all
adjoining and intervening lands, places, roads,
streams, swamps, lakes, beaches, streams, and water-
courses.

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
sixth day of January, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Census to be taken.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Census Act, 1858," it is
provided that the account of the number and
condition of the population of New Zealand, and of
the live stock, and of the cultivations therein, re-
spectively, and of other particulars relating thereto,
which the said Act directs to be taken in every third
year succeeding the year one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-eight, shall be taken in the month of De-
cember; and that the forms of Returns for obtaining
the required information in that behalf shall be de-
livered by the several Sub-Enumerators at the
dwelling-houses in their respective sub-districts be-
tween the first and twenty-fourth days of December
in the years appointed, and that the said forms shall
be demanded and received by such Sub-Enumerators
on the twenty-sixth day of December, or as soon after
as practicable:

And whereas it is also provided by "The Census
Act Amendment Act, 1860," that it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council to appoint any other
month or any other day or days for the purposes
above cited in the year one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-four, or in any or every third year after,
instead of the month or the day or days appointed
by "The Census Act, 1858," and the time or times
so appointed by the Governor in Council shall be de-
clared by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette,
and also that all the provisions of "The Census Act,
1858," relating to taking an account of the popula-
tion of New Zealand, shall, except as therein provided,
be deemed and taken to apply to such time or times
as fully as if such month or day or days had been
specified in the said Act:

And whereas it is further provided by "The
Census Acts Amendment Act, 1873," that the
general account or census provided to be taken by
"The Census Act, 1858," as amended by "The Census
Act Amendment Act, 1860," "The Census Acts
Amendment Act, 1867," and "The Census Acts
Amendment Act, 1870," may, instead of being taken
in and for the year one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three, in accordance with the provisions of
the said Acts, be taken in such month and on such
day or days in the year one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four, not being later than the month of
April, as the Governor in Council shall, by Procla-
mation published in the New Zealand Gazette, ap-
point; and that all the provisions of the said "Census
Act, 1858," as amended by the said Acts and "The
Census Acts Amendment Act, 1873," shall, subject
to the said last-mentioned Act, apply to the account
or census to be then taken, and to the time or times
at which the same shall be taken: