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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
and the lands proposed 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 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, notwithstand-
ing 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, notwithstand-
ing that such road may not have been made:
And whereas the Governor has determined to con-
struct and maintain a further portion of the railway
from Foxton to Manawatu, authorized to be con-
structed by "The Railways Act, 1874," 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 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 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 portion of the said railway to be at or near a
point which is situated on the Foxton to Manawatu
Railway opposite Section numbered 112 in the Town-
ship of Foxton, in the Province of Wellington, and
the point of termination thereof to be at or near a
point which is situated on the public road between
Sections numbered

FIRST SCHEDULE.
Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation
of a portion of the Foxton to Manawatu Railway, in
the Province of Wellington.
COMMENCING at or near a point which is situated on
the Foxton to Manawatu Railway opposite Section
numbered 112 in the Township of Foxton, passing in,
through, over or into the Township of Foxton, and
terminating at or near a point which is situated
on the public road between Sections numbered

236 and 248 in the same Township, as the
limits, description, and line thereof are set forth on
the plan (marked W. 495), and described in the
book of reference referred to on the face of
the said plan; and which plan and book are authen-
ticated 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 200 yards on either side of
the said line, unless otherwise delineated on the afore-
said 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 Foxton to Manawatu
Railway, 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.

TOWNSHIP OF FOXTON.
Block VIII., Block V., Sections numbered 121,
122 and 123, Government Ferry Reserve numbered
169, Government Reserve adjoining Manawatu River
Reserve numbered 249, Section numbered 248,
Manawatu River 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
Auckland, this tenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Delegating Powers to the Hon. H. A. Atkinson as
Commissioner of Customs.

NORMANBY, Governor.
WHEREAS by "The Customs Regulation Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, in the name and on behalf of Her
Majesty, from time to time to appoint and remove
a superior officer of Customs, who shall have the
control and direction of all other officers and persons
employed in or about the collection and management
of the revenue of Customs, and who shall be styled
"The Commissioner of Customs," and also in like
manner from time to time to appoint and remove, or
to depute to the Commissioner the power to appoint