THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 the Governor has determined to con-
struct and maintain a portion of the railway from
Waitara to Wanganui, authorized to be constructed
by "The Railways Act, 1871," "The Railways Act,
1872," and "The Railways Act, 1873," which said
portion is hereinafter described :
Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exer-
cise 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 railway to be those set forth in
the First Schedule hereto; and that the lands speci-
fied 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 commencement of
the said portion of the said railway to be at a point
which is situated on the western side of the Wanga-
nui River, in Section on the Right Bank of the
Wanganui River numbered 21, in the Province of
Wellington, and the point of termination thereof to
be at or near a point which is situated in the Kai-Iwi
Block, in the same province, the said point being in
a south-easterly direction about 60 chains, more or
less, distant from the Kai-Iwi Creek.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation
of a portion of the Railway from Waitara to
Wanganui, the said portion being in the Province
of Wellington.

COMMENCING at or near a point which is situated on
the western side of the Wanganui River, in Section

871
on the Right Bank of the Wanganui River num-
bered 21, and passing in, through, over or into the
following lands, viz. Sections on the Right Bank of
the Wanganui River, the Kai-Iwi Block, and ter-
minating at or near a point which is situated in the
Kai-Iwi Block, the said point being in a south-
easterly direction about 60 chains, more or less, dis-
tant from the Kai-Iwi Creek, as the limits, descrip-
tion, 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
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 line,
except where otherwise delineated on the said 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 portion of the Railway from Waitara
to Wanganui hereinbefore described.

So much of the lands and roads hereinafter mentioned
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 deviation aforesaid, as the
lands are described and defined in the plan or book
of reference aforesaid.

Sections on the right bank of the Wanganui River
numbered 21, 22, 23, 33, 228, 134, 112, 113, 114, 93,
94, 158, 159, 171, 172, 173, 247, 246, 242, 245, 241,
Hands purchased by J. Gotty, land purchased by John
Nairn, land purchased by W. E. Gudgeon, Kai-Iwi
Block, and all adjoining and intervening places,
lands, roads, streams, and watercourses.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Administrator of the
Government in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House
at Wellington, this thirtieth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation of the
Awamoko Railway, being a Provincial Railway in
the Province of Otago.

(L.S.)

NORMANBY,

Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1870," it is enacted that the rail-
ways to be constructed under the said Act shall be