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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands set
forth in the said map so deposited as aforesaid have
been taken or acquired for the purposes of the
hereinbefore mentioned railway from Wellington to
Masterton, which said railway is, by "The Railways
Act, 1871," authorized to be constructed and main-
tained under the provisions of "The Immigration
and Public Works Act, 1870," and the several Acts
amending the same.

And in further pursuance and
exercise of the said power and authority, I do
hereby proclaim and declare that the lands intended
to be affected by this Proclamation are described and
delineated in the said map so deposited as aforesaid.

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 Auckland, this
thirteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Proclaiming certain Native Lands at Arowhenua and
elsewhere to have been taken for purposes of the
Railway from Town of Timaru to Temuka.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1872," it is, amongst 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 authorizing the construction of any rail-
way 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 hereafter 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 have been taken or
purchased under the said Acts, or any Act authorizing
the construction of any railway as aforesaid, or any
portion of such railway, to be prepared. Such map
shall fully and accurately set forth the pieces or
parcels of land intended to be taken and permanently
used, or which have been purchased or taken, or are
required to be vested in Her Majesty for the pur-
poses of any such railway ; and shall be authenticated
by the signature of the Minister, or by that of some
person to be appointed by him for that purpose from
time to time. And it is also enacted that the
Minister shall cause the map to be deposited in the
office of the Registrar of Deeds for the Registration
District within which the lands shall be situated ; or,
if the lands set forth on any such map shall extend
beyond the boundaries of any one district, then
such map shall be prepared in so many parts as shall
be requisite to delineate the lands within each such
district ; and the map, or the parts thereof, as afore-
said, shall be deposited in the office of the Registrar
of Deeds in each Registration District where the
lands shall be situated to which such map relates ;
but for the purposes of this Act, such map, although
consisting of several parts, shall only be deemed to
be one map : And whereas by the said Act it is

further enacted that it shall thereupon be lawful for
the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in
the New Zealand Gazette, to declare that the lands
taken or acquired for the purposes of the railway in
respect of which the same shall have been taken or
acquired under the said Acts, or any Act authorizing
the same to be taken or acquired, and in such
Proclamation the lands intended to be affected shall
be therein described by reference to such map so
be deposited as aforesaid. And whereas, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the said in part
recited Act, the Minister for Public Works has
caused a map of all such lands as have been taken
or purchased from the Native owners for that portion
of the Southern Trunk Line of Railway between the
Town of Timaru and Temuka, in the Province of
Canterbury, to be prepared as by the said in part
recited Act is required; and the said map is authen-
ticated by the signature of the Honorable Edward
Richardson, as such Minister for Public Works : And
whereas the said Minister, on or about the third day
of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four, caused the said map to be deposited in the
office of the Registrar of Deeds at Christchurch, in
the Province of Canterbury aforesaid :

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands set
forth in the said map so deposited as aforesaid have
been taken or acquired for the purposes of the said
portion of the Southern Trunk Line of Railway
between the Town of Timaru and Temuka, which
said railway is, by "The Railways Act, 1870,"
authorized to be constructed and maintained under
the provisions of "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1870," and the several Acts amending
the same.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the
said power and authority, I do hereby proclaim and
declare that the lands intended to be affected by this
Proclamation are described and delineated in the said
map so deposited as aforesaid.

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 Auckland, this
thirteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Description of Road Alterations, Tauranga to
Kati Kati, Sections 3 and 4.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the
seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two, made in pursuance of
"The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," a
certain road between Tauranga and Kati Kati was
proclaimed and declared to be a road under the said
Act, as therein mentioned : And whereas by the
said Act it is provided that the Governor may from