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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 por-
tions 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 portion of the railway from
Waipukurau to Manawatu, authorized to be con-
structed by "The Railways Act, 1874," which said
portion is hereinafter described :

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation
of a portion of the Railway from Waipukurau to
Manawatu, in the Province of Hawke's Bay.
COMMENCING at or near a point which is marked 58
miles 32·12 chains, and situated on the Waipukurau-
Manawatu Railway, in Section numbered 234, passing
in or through Native land, and terminating at or
near a point which is marked 63 miles 60 chains,

and situated in Native land, 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 Proclama-
tion by the signature of the Honorable Edward
Richardson, the Minister for Public Works, to be
deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Napier, 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
lands, roads, reserves, streams, 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 Wai-
pukurau 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 or
book of reference aforesaid.
Section numbered 234, Native land, and all adjoin-
ing and intervening lands, roads, reserves, streams,
rivers, 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; Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at Wellington, this eleventh
day of August, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation of a further
portion of the Railway from Picton to Blenheim
-from 16 miles 60 chains to 4 chains south of the
southern bank of the Omaka River.
(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.

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
only such railways as shall from time to time be
determined by the General Assembly : And it is also
thereby enacted that, subject to the provisions con-
tained therein, the Governor may construct, or cause
to be constructed, any lines of railway which shall
be prescribed by the General Assembly as railways
to be constructed under the said Act, or any part