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393

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1875.

Proclaiming certain Lands to have been taken for
purposes of the Railway from Brunner to Grey-
mouth.

(L.S.)

NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1872," it is, among other
things, enacted, that whenever it shall become
necessary that any land 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 land 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
set forth in such map, or any of them, have been
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
to 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 for that further portion of the line of
railway from Brunner to Greymouth, in the Pro-
vince of Westland, the description, line, and limits
whereof are proclaimed, declared, and defined by a
Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, dated the sixteenth day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, to be
prepared as by the said in part recited Act is re-
quired; and the said map is authenticated by the
signature of the Honorable Edward Richardson, as
such Minister for Public Works: And whereas the
said Minister, on or about the seventh day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, caused
the said map to be deposited in the office of the
Registrar of Deeds at Hokitika, in the said Province
of Westland aforesaid:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me by the herein-
before 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 railway from Brunner
to Greymouth, which said railway is, by "The Rail-
ways Act, 1871," "The Railways Act, 1872," "The
Railways Act, 1873," and "The Railways Act, 1874,"
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