✨ Railway Land Proclamations




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Proclaiming Deposit of Memorial Plan of certain
Lands taken for purposes of the Line of Rail-
way from Rakaia to Ashburton.

(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 lands which the Governor or the Minister
is, by or under the Acts therein mentioned, or any
Act authorizing the construction of any railway 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 construc-
tion 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 purposes of any
such railway, and shall be authenticated by the sig-
nature 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 lands 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 the said 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 Pro-
clamation 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
accordance 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 the line of railway from Rakaia to
Ashburton, in the Province of Canterbury, which are
situated respectively between the northern bank of
the River Rakaia, at or near the northern end of the
Rakaia Bridge of the Great Southern Railway, in
the Province of Canterbury, and at or near the north-
eastern corner of Rural Section No. 3936, in the same
province, to be prepared as by the said in part recited
Act is required; and the said map is authenticated
by the signature of the Honorable Edward Richard-
son, as such Minister for Public Works: And
whereas the said Minister, on or about the tenth day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six, caused the said map to be deposited in the office
of the Registrar of Deeds at Christchurch, in the
Province of Canterbury 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 hereinbefore
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 pur-
poses of the said line of railway from Rakaia to Ash-
burton, which said railway is, by "The Railways Act,
1871," and "The Railways Act, 1872," 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 said
power and authority, I do hereby proclaim and declare
that the lands intended to be affected by this Pro-
clamation are described and delineated in the said
map so deposited as aforesaid.

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 Mul-
grave of New Ross, in the County of
Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a
Member of Her Majesty's Most Honor-
able 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!

Proclaiming Deposit of Memorial Plan of certain
Lands taken for purposes of the Railway from
Ashburton to Temuka.
(Portion from Rangitata Creek to Temuka.)

(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 railway 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 construc-
tion 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 purposes 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.



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πŸ—οΈ Proclamation regarding land taken for Rakaia to Ashburton Railway Line

πŸ—οΈ Infrastructure & Public Works
30 March 1876
Railway land acquisition, Rakaia, Ashburton, Proclamation, Canterbury, Public Works Act
  • Normanby, Governor
  • Honorable Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works

πŸ—οΈ Proclamation regarding land taken for Ashburton to Temuka Railway Portion

πŸ—οΈ Infrastructure & Public Works
Railway land acquisition, Ashburton, Temuka, Rangitata Creek, Proclamation
  • Normanby, Governor