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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 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 among the lines of railway authorized
by "The Railways Act, 1871," and mentioned in the
Third Schedule thereof, is a branch line on the Can-
terbury Great Northern Railway from the Town of
Rangiora to Oxford, the same being the line men-
tioned in the First Schedule to "The Railways Act,
1872," as the Rangiora to Oxford Railway:

And whereas the Governor has determined to con-
struct and maintain a portion of the said branch
railway from Rangiora to Oxford, being a branch
railway authorized to be constructed by "The Rail-
ways Act, 1871," and also by "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 branch railway from
Rangiora to Oxford 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 branch railway, and that the limits of devia-
tion 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 branch railway to be at or near
the north-eastern corner of Rural Section numbered
4370 in the Province of Canterbury, and the point of
termination thereof to be in the western boundary
of Rural Section numbered 201 in the same Province,
the said point being about 400 links, more or less,
distant from the southern extremity of the said
western boundary.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation of
a portion of the Branch Railway from Rangiora
to Oxford, in the Province of Canterbury.

COMMENCING at a point at or near the north-eastern
corner of Rural Section numbered 4370 in the Pro-
vince of Canterbury, and passing in, through, and into
the following Road Districts, namely, the Eyreton Road
District, the Rangiora and Mandeville Road District,
the Cust Road District, the West Eyreton Road
District, the Oxford Road District, and terminating
in the western boundary of Rural Section numbered
201, in the same Province, and about 400 links,
more or less, distant from the southern extremity of
the said western boundary, 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 Richard-
son, 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 on 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
places, 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 Branch Railway from
Rangiora to Oxford.

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 said lands are described and defined in the plan
or book of reference aforesaid.

THE EYRETON ROAD DISTRICT.
Rural Sections numbered 4370, 4202, 6249, and
all adjoining and intervening places, roads, streams,
and watercourses.

THE RANGIORA AND MANDEVILLE ROAD DISTRICT.
Rural Sections numbered 14383, 3811, 4553, and
all adjoining and intervening places, roads, streams,
and watercourses.

THE CUST ROAD DISTRICT.
Rural Sections numbered 4553, 4552, 3812, 6249,
4368, 5004, 4551, 7029, 7231, 7031, 6990, Reserve
numbered 629, Rural Sections numbered 5486, 4254,
5653, 4195, 5606, 5343, 5987, 4091, 5193, 3759, 5236,
3669, 10250, 4515, 3221, 5332, 3220, 9626, 5777, 3219,
9785, 3218, 3764, 5142, 5141, 5140, 5214, 5338, 5496,
Reserves numbered 362, 357, Rural Section numbered
12326, Reserves numbered 927, 1076, Rural Sections
numbered 15089, 5897, 14451, Reserve numbered
1314, Rural Sections numbered 6077, 4469, 4215,
7332, 4214, 4466, 5903, 4467, 4614, 5896, 15467, 4643,
13633, I.P.R.V., and all adjoining and intervening
places, roads, streams, and watercourses.

THE WEST EYRETON ROAD DISTRICT.
Rural Sections numbered 5896, 4643, 13633,
Reserve numbered 1025, I.P.R.H., and all adjoining
and intervening places, roads, streams, and water-
courses.

THE OXFORD ROAD DISTRICT.
Reserve numbered 1025, Rural Sections numbered
5896, 15467, 13633, 4643, 15239, I.P.R.H., I.P.R.V.,
I.P.R.U., I.P.R.T., Reserve numbered 361, Rural
Sections numbered 18889, 18048, 18154, 4642, 4645,