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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 lawful, after such road shall have been surveyed, to construct 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 railway from Featherston Northward, being a further portion of the railway from Wellington to Masterton, authorized to be constructed by “The Railways Act, 1871,” and “The Railways Act, 1872,” which said portion is hereinafter described:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, 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 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 on the Wellington-Masterton Railway in the Government Reserve numbered 153 in the Township of Featherston, in the Province of Wellington, the said point being the point of termination of a portion of the Wellington-Masterton Railway as proclaimed on the 13th day of May, 1874, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 27, of May 21st, 1874; and the point of termination thereof to be at or near a point which is situated in section numbered 70 in the same Township of Featherston.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation of a portion of the Wellington-Masterton Railway, in the Province of Wellington.

COMMENCING at or near a point which is situated on the Wellington-Masterton Railway in Government Reserve numbered 153 in the Township of Featherston, passing in, through, over or into the said Township of Featherston, and terminating at or near a point which is situated in section numbered 70 in the same Township of Featherston, as the limits, description, and line thereof are set forth on the plan (marked W. 534), 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 Richardson, 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 on 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 the aforesaid plan, and passing in, through, over or into the several places, lands, roads, reserves, streams 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 Wellington-Masterton Railway 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.

TOWNSHIP OF FEATHERSTON.

Government Reserves numbered 153, 152, 198, 200, and 202, Market Reserves numbered 123 and 116, Sections numbered 148, 150, 154, 197, 199, 151, 155, 156, 161, 163, 165, 206, 208, 210, 164, 166, 207, 209, 211, 213, 173, 175, 215, 217, 219, 221, 223, 176, 216, 218, 220, 222, 224, 117, 109, 110, 103, 104, 96, 97, 90, 91, 84, 85, 77, 73 and 70, Rural Section numbered 27, and all adjoining and intervening places, lands, roads, streams and watercourses.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, 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 Napier, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Defining Roads from the Hawera Township to the Northern boundary of the Mangamawhete River, in the Province of Taranaki.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,” and the Acts amending the