Numb. 110.
1517

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1878.

Taking of Land for Dunedin Corporation Water
Supply.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and seventy-
nine of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876"
(herein referred to as "the said Act"), it is enacted
that the Council of a borough constituted under
the said Act may take any land within the borough
for any of the purposes of the said Act, in the manner
provided by the Second Part of "The Public Works
Act, 1876:" And by the two hundred and forty-
fourth section of the said Act it is enacted that the
Council may construct waterworks for the supply of
pure water for the use of the inhabitants of the
borough, or of the shipping in any harbour
adjoining, and may do all things necessary thereto,
and therein especially may purchase or take, under
the provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
land within or beyond the borough, and the waters
of any stream within or beyond the borough: And
by the two hundred and forty-fifth section of the
said Act it is enacted, that any land or water so
taken shall be taken under the provisions of "The
Public Works Act, 1876:"

And whereas by section seven of "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1876 Amendment Act, 1877," it is
enacted that the Council of every borough may pur-
chase or take, under the provisions of "The Public
Works Act, 1876," any lands outside of as well as
within the borough for any purpose connected with
the drainage of the borough, the maintenance and
repair of the roads, streets, and public places thereof,
or the public health, protection, and safety of its
inhabitants, or for any other purpose for which the
Council is authorized to take land within the borough:
And whereas the Council of the City of Dunedin
propose to construct the following works, viz.: A
water-race or aqueduct for obtaining a supply of
water for the inhabitants of the City of Dunedin
and its suburbs, from the river called the Silver
Stream and its tributaries, and other smaller streams
flowing through portions of the lands which the said
race or aqueduct would intersect, and for such pur-
pose require to take the land and the waters of the
several streams specified in the Schedule hereto:
And whereas the Council aforesaid has laid before
me the memorial and map required by the twenty-
fifth section of "The Public Works Act, 1876:"
And whereas it appears to me that all things
required by the said "Municipal Corporations Act,
1876," "The Municipal Corporations Act 1876
Amendment Act, 1877," and "The Public Works
Act, 1876," to be done and performed to authorize
the taking of such land and the waters of the said
streams have been done and performed:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, in
exercise and pursuance of the power and authority
in me vested by the twenty-fifth section of "The
Public Works Act, 1876," and by the said Acts, and
of every other power and authority enabling me in
that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
land described in the Schedule hereto, and the waters
of the several streams specified in the said Schedule,
are hereby taken for the purpose of such works as
aforesaid; and that, from and after the twenty-second
day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight, the land described in the Schedule,
hereto, and the waters of the several streams therein
specified, shall become vested in fee-simple in the Cor-
poration of the City of Dunedin, discharged from all
mortgages, charges, claims, estates, and interest of
what kind soever, for the purpose of such works as
aforesaid.

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-