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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

"The Public Works Act, 1876."

"To the Owners or Reputed Owners, Lessees
or Reputed Lessees, and Occupiers of
Allotment number Twelve, of Section
number Eleven, of the Suburbs of Auck-
land, Parish of Waitemata, and County
of Eden.

"TAKE NOTICE that, in pursuance of 'The Public
Works Act, 1876,' the plan and specifications re-
lating to a road which the One Tree Hill District
Highway Board propose to take over the above-
mentioned allotment, are deposited for inspection
at the Junction Hotel, Epsom. The general de-
scription of works proposed to be executed is, to
alter the old road and to form a new line of road
fifty links wide, and the land required to be taken
for the said new line of road is fifty links wide
in its narrowest part, commencing one hundred
and fifty links from Fountain Street. Bounded
on the East by a line one hundred and seventy-
eight links; on the South by a line forty-nine
links; on the West by a line one hundred and
fifty-seven links; being a triangular piece of
land containing five perches; be the said ad-
measurements a little more or less.

"And also all that other piece of land, in its
narrowest part commencing at the north-east
corner of Mr. Murdoch's enclosed property in
Fountain Street, and proceeding in a southerly
direction to the Quarry Reserve at Mount St.
John, containing thirty-seven perches, more or
less. Bounded on the North by Fountain Street,
fifty links; on the East by land in the occupa-
tion of Mr. James Dilworth, three hundred and
seven links; on the North-east by the same land,
one hundred and twenty-eight links; on the
East by land in the occupation of Mr. D. L.
Murdoch, twenty-nine links; on the South by
the Quarry Reserve, two hundred and ten links;
on the West-north-west and again on the West
by land in the occupation of Mr. D. L. Murdoch,
three, forty-five, and three hundred and twenty-
eight links; be the said admeasurements a little
more or less.

"And that all persons affected by the pro-
posed road are hereby called upon and required
to set forth in writing any well-grounded ob-
jections to the execution such works or the
taking of such lands, and to send such writing
within forty days from the publication of this
notice to the said One Tree Hill District High-
way Board, whose office is at the Junction
Hotel, Epsom, Provincial District of Auckland.

"Dated at Epsom, this ninth day of June,
1877.

"THOMAS A. BROWN,
"Chairman of the One Tree Hill District
Highway Board."

A copy of which said Gazette is hereunto annexed
marked "A."

4. That your memorialists also, in pursuance of
   the said section number twenty-two of "The Public
   Works Act, 1876," aforesaid, caused to be twice
   publicly notified in the New Zealand Herald and
   Daily Southern Cross, published at Auckland, in the
   Provincial District of Auckland aforesaid, on Wed-
   nesday and Thursday, the fourth and fifth days of
   July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven,
   respectively, and circulating in the said district, the
   aforesaid notice published in the New Zealand
   Government Gazette, on Thursday, the twenty-eighth
   day of June, one thousand eight hundred and
   seventy-seven.

5. That your memorialists have ascertained that
   David L. Murdoch, and James Dilworth, and George
   Howard, and Every Maclean, Trustees of the as-
   signed estate of Henry Hardington, are the only
   owners and occupiers of the said two portions of
   land so required to be taken by the said One Tree
   Hill District Highway Board, for the purposes afore-
   said.

6. That your memorialists have caused a copy of
   such notice and description so gazetted or published
   in the New Zealand Government Gazette, and twice
   notified in the New Zealand Herald and Daily
   Southern Cross newspaper, as aforesaid, to be served
   upon the said owners and occupiers, in the manner
   and on the dates set opposite their respective names,
   as follows:—

7. That forty days from the first publication of
   the aforesaid notice in the New Zealand Government
   Gazette have elapsed, and your memorialists have not
   within the said forty days from the said publication
   received any well-grounded objections, nor have any
   objections in writing whatever been made within the
   said forty days to your memorialists as to the execu-
   tion of such works or the taking of such lands.

8. That your memorialists are of opinion that it
   is expedient that the proposed works should be exe-
   cuted, and that no private injury will be done thereby
   for which due compensation is not provided by the
   said "Public Works Act, 1876."

Therefore your memorialists humbly pray that
your Excellency in Council, in accordance
with section number twenty-five of "The
Public Works Act, 1876," will be pleased, by
Proclamation gazetted and publicly notified,
to declare that the said lands are taken for
the use of a road for the purposes above-men-
tioned.

ROBERT HALL,
Chairman of the One Tree Hill District
Highway Board.

JOSEPH MAY,
WILLIAM WALL,
JAMES DOWNEY,
HENRY HAYE,
Members the said One Tree Hill Dis-
trict Highway Board.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Public Works Act, 1876," it
is enacted that, whenever lands are required
to be taken for public works, the Minister for Public
Works in the case of Government Works, and the
County Council or Road Board in the case of county