THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 413

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, notwithstand-
ing 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 con-
struct and maintain portions of the railway from
Wanganui to Manawatu, authorized to be constructed
by "The Railways Act, 1871," and "The Railways Act,
1872," which said portions are 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, descriptions, and lines
of the said portions 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 portions 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 commencement
of one portion of the said railway to be at or
near a point which is situated in Section numbered
21 in the Wanganui District, in the Province of Wel-
lington; and the point of termination of the same
to be 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 Wanganui
Highway District, in the same Province; and the
point of commencement of the other portion of the
said railway to be at or near a point which is situated
in Rural Section numbered 248 in the Wangaehu
Highway District, in the Province of Wellington;
and the point of termination of the same to be at or
near a point which is situated in Section numbered 33
in the Turakina District, in the same Province.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits, Descriptions, Lines, and Limits of Deviation
of portions of the Railway from Wanganui to
Manawatu, in the Province of Wellington.

For one portion commencing at or near a point
which is situated in Section numbered 21 in the
Wanganui District, and terminating 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 Wanganui Highway District; and
for the other portion commencing at or near a point
which is situated in Rural Section numbered 248 in
the Wangaehu Highway District, and terminating at
or near a point which is situated in Section num-
bered 33 in the Turakina District, as the limits,
descriptions, and lines 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 Wellington, 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 lines, and passing in, through, into, or over
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 the portions of the Railway from
Wanganui to Manawatu, hereinbefore described.

So much of the lands and roads hereinafter mentioned
as are required for the said portions of the said rail-
way 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.

In the Wanganui District: Section on the Right
Bank of the Wanganui River numbered 21, Public
Road, Wanganui River, Public Road.

In the Wangaehu Highway District, Left Bank
of the Wanganui River, Rural Sections numbered
248 and 250; Native land; in the Turakina Dis-
trict, Section numbered 33; and all adjoining
and intervening places, roads, 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 twenty-
fourth day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Weights and Measures District proclaimed.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is enacted by "The Weights and
Measures Act, 1868," that it shall be lawful
for the Governor, from time to time, to appoint one
Inspector of Weights and Measures for any Province,
County, Borough, or District, or for each of two or
more divisions of any Province, County, Borough, or
District, the boundaries of which divisions shall be
proclaimed from time to time in the New Zealand
Gazette by the Governor; and the Governor may
from time to time remove any such Inspector and
appoint another in the room of any Inspector so
removed, or who may die, resign, or discontinue his
office: And whereas in exercise and pursuance of