THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 581

proclaim portions of such line from time to time, and
the commencing and termination points of any such
portion or portions, and the limits and description of
any such portion or portions, and the lands proposed
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, 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, notwithstand-
ing that such road may not have been made:

And whereas among the lines of railway authorized
to be constructed in the Province of Canterbury by
"The Railways Act, 1871," and mentioned in the
Third Schedule thereof, is a branch line from Kaiapoi
to Eyreton, the same being the line mentioned in
the third part of the Second Schedule to "The Rail-
ways Act, 1872," and also in the First Schedule of
"The Railways Act, 1873," as the Kaiapoi to Eyreton
Branch Railway:

And whereas the Governor has determined to con-
struct and maintain the said branch railway from
Kaiapoi to Eyreton, authorized to be constructed
by "The Railways Act, 1871," and also by "The
Railways Act, 1872," and "The Railways Act, 1873,"
which said branch railway 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 branch railway from Kaiapoi to Eyreton
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 branch 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
the said branch railway to be at a point in Rural
Section numbered 468, in the Eyreton Road District,
in the Province of Canterbury, close to the centre of
the Goods Shed in the Kaiapoi Station-yard of the
Addington to Rangiora Railway, and the point of
termination thereof to be at or near the north-west
corner of Rural Section numbered 9598, in the West
Eyreton Road District in the same province.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation
of the Branch Railway from Kaiapoi to Eyreton,
in the Province of Canterbury.

COMMENCING at a point in Rural Section numbered
468, in the Eyreton Road District close to the centre
of the Goods Shed in the Kaiapoi Station-yard of
the Addington to Rangiora Railway, and passing in,
through, over or into the following territorial sub-
divisions, viz.,—The Town of Kaiapoi, the Rangiora
and Mandeville Road District, the Eyreton Road
District, the West Eyreton Road District, and ter-
minating at or near the north-west corner of Rural
Section numbered 9598, in the West Eyreton Road
District, 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 pur-
poses 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 on the said plan by dotted
red lines, being generally not more than 110 yards on
either side of the said line, unless where otherwise
indicated on plan, and passing in, through, over or
into the several places, lands, 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 Branch Railway from Kaiapoi to
Eyreton, in the Province of Canterbury.

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

TOWN OF ΚΑΙΑΡΟΙ.
Rural Sections numbered 468, 297, 321, and all
adjoining and intervening places, lands, roads,
streams, and watercourses.

RANGIORA AND MANDEVILLE ROAD DISTRICT.
The North branch of the River Waimakariri, Rural
Sections numbered 13738, 338D, 402, 403, the Rangi-
ora main drain, and all adjoining and intervening
places, lands, roads, streams, and watercourses.

EYRETON ROAD DISTRICT.
Rural Sections numbered 468, 297, 365, 366, 760,
472, 564, 1821, Reserve numbered 366, the Rangiora
main drain, Rural Sections numbered 404, 1168,
1058, 503, 698, 1078, 1221, 1222, 1616, 1685,
339, 1302, 2556, 1695, 1103, 1615, 1694, 1894,
2312, 8503, 8504, 8505, 1114, 2562, 2561, 1115,
1500, 2560, 2220, 2899, 2685, 4133, 3176, 3182,
6450, 6195, 3591, 3662, 6458, 6459, 3980, 7229,
8215, 8216, 17046, 12736, Reserves numbered 1340,
1302, Rural Sections numbered 13604, 13952, 12395,
20380, 20917, 18464, 13660, 20324, 18587, 18586,
18600, 15457, 15523, 18611, 16909, 12648, Reserves
numbered 1305, 1546, Rural Sections numbered
15472, 12629, 12615, 12443, 8800, Reserve numbered
1545, Rural Sections numbered 12604, 9812, 12579,
12419, 10446, 9726, 8082, 7038, 4989, 14387 I.P.R.C.,
Reserve numbered 1290, Rural Section numbered
I.P.R.M. 14388, Rural Sections numbered 11008,
4990, 4676, 4677, and all adjoining and intervening
places, lands, roads, streams, and watercourses.