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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 the Governor has determined to
construct and maintain a further portion of the rail-
way from Manawatu to Wanganui, authorized to be
constructed by "The Railways Act, 1871," "The
Railways Act, 1872," and "The Railways Act, 1874,"
which said portion is hereinafter described:
Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constan-
tine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pur-
suance 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
further portion 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 further 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 further portion of the said railway to be
at or near a point which is situated in Section
numbered 33 in the Turakina District, in the
Province of Wellington, the said point being the
point of termination of a portion of the same rail-
way, as described in the Proclamation dated the
24th day of June, 1874, and issued in the New
Zealand Gazette, No. 34, of June 25, 1874; and the
point of termination thereof to be at or near a point
which is situated on the western side of Cliff Road,
in Block numbered VA of the Rangitikei District in
the same province.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation
of a portion of the Railway from Wanganui to
Manawatu, in the Province of Wellington.
COMMENCING at or near a point which is situated in

Section numbered 33 in the Turakina District, the
said point being the point of termination of a portion
of the same railway as described in the Proclamation
dated the 24th of June, 1874, and issued in the
New Zealand Gazette, No. 34, of June 25, 1874,
and passing in, through, over, or into the following
territorial divisions, namely, the Turakina District,
the Rangitikei District, and terminating at or near a
point which is situated on the western side of Cliff
Road, in Block numbered VA of the Rangitikei Dis-
trict, 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 Charles Christopher Bowen, Minister
acting for the Minister for Public Works, to be de-
posited 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
generally not more than 110 yards on either side of
the said line, unless otherwise delineated 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 portion of the Railway from
Wanganui to Manawatu, hereinbefore described.
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 lands are described and defined in the plan
(marked W. 352) or book of reference aforesaid.

TURAKINA DISTRICT.
Sections numbered 33, 32, 28, 26, 24, 22, 20, 18,
54, 42, and all adjoining and intervening places, lands,
roads, streams, and watercourses.

RANGITIKEI DISTRICT.
Sections in the Agricultural Reserve numbered 23,
24, 25, 26, 15, and 14, Blocks numbered VIII, VII,
VÍA, VB, VA, 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
Council; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; 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 nineteenth day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN,
(Minister Acting for the Minister for
Public Works.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!