1794 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

scribed in the Schedule hereto are free from Native
claims and all difficulties in connection therewith, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in me by "The Waste Lands Administration
Act, 1876," do hereby proclaim and declare the said
lands to be waste lands of the Crown, subject to be
sold and dealt with according to the provisions of
the laws regulating the sale and disposal of waste
lands of the Crown in force in the Land District of
Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
MANGOIRA RUAHINE.

ALL that piece of land at Mangoira Ruahine, in the
District of Wanganui, in the Provincial District
of Wellington, known by the name of Mangoira
Ruahine, containing by admeasurement thirty-five
thousand six hundred and sixty (35,660) acres, be
the same more or less. Bounded towards the North-
east by the Poungaraki River and lines, 80825 links;
towards the East and South-east by lines, 60623 links;
towards the South-west and West by the Nga-
moko (Manawatu No. 5) Block and lines, and the
Oroa River and lines, 120438 links.

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
Zealand, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Grand Cross 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 the Government House, at Welling-
ton, this fourteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.

JOHN SHEEHAN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands taken for a Road in the Waiaraka Road
District, Oamaru Survey District, County of Wai-
taki.
(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section twenty-one of "The
Public Works Act, 1876" (herein referred
to as "the said Act"), it is enacted that whenever
lands are required to be taken for public works the
Road Board, in the case of district works, shall cause
a survey to be made and plans to be prepared show-
ing generally the nature of the works proposed to be
executed and the lands required to be taken for the
same, together with the names of the owners and
occupiers of such lands so far as they can be ascer-
tained, and shall cause a copy of such plans to be
deposited in some place in the road district in which
such lands are: And by section twenty-two of the
said Act it is further enacted that the said Road
Board shall cause a notice to be gazetted, and to be
twice publicly notified, stating the place where such
plans are open for inspection, with a general descrip-
tion of the works proposed to be executed and of the
land required to be taken, and in such notice shall
call upon all persons affected to set forth in writing
any well-founded objections to the execution of such
works or to the taking of such lands, and to send
such writing within forty days from the first publica-
tion of such notice to the said Road Board: And by
section twenty-three and twenty-four of the said Act
it is further enacted that the Road Board shall cause
a copy of such notice and description to be served
upon the owners and occupiers so far as they can
be ascertained; and that the said Road Board shall,
upon receiving any objection, appoint a time and
place within the colony within which the objector
may appear before the said Road Board, and support
the objection by such evidence as the objector thinks
fit; and by section twenty-five of the said Act it is
enacted that, if within the said forty days no such
objection is made, or if after due consideration of
such objections the said Road Board is of opinion
that it is expedient that the proposed works should be
executed, and that no private injury will be done
thereby for which due compensation is not provided
by the said Act, the land proposed to be taken shall
be taken in the following manner, that is to say:
The said Road Board shall lay before the Governor a
memorial containing an accurate description of the
land proposed to be taken, together with a map there-
of, signed by the Surveyor-General or some certifi-
cated surveyor as evidence of the accuracy thereof; and
the Governor in Council may thereupon, if he think
fit, by Proclamation gazetted and publicly notified,
declare that the lands are taken for the use of a
railway, road, or other public work, as the case may
be; and from and after a date to be named in the
said Proclamation, the land therein specified shall
become absolutely vested in Her Majesty, discharged
from all mortgages, charges, claims, estates, or interests
of what kind soever, for use named in the said Proclamation:

And whereas the lands described in the Schedule
hereto are required to be taken under the said Act
for a certain public work, to wit, the construction
of a road in Section thirty-one (31), Block four
(IV.), Oamaru Survey District, in the County of
Waitaki:

And whereas the Waiaraka Road Board has laid
before the Governor the memorial and map mentioned
in and signed and certified as required by the twenty-
fifth section of the said Act: And whereas all the
requirements and conditions prescribed by the said
Act have been duly performed and fulfilled, and all
things have happened and all times elapsed to lawfully
authorize this Proclamation to be issued:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, 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 powers and authorities in me
vested by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and
of any other power and authority enabling me in that
behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands
described in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for
the purposes of a road; and that, from and after the
nineteenth day of December instant, the lands so
described shall become absolutely vested in fee-
simple in Her Majesty, discharged from all mortgages,
charges, claims, estates, and interests of what kind
soever, for use as a road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land in the Provincial District of
Otago and Colony of New Zealand, containing by
admeasurement one acre thirty-two poles and five-
tenths of a pole, being part of Section numbered
thirty-one (31), Block four (IV.), Oamaru Survey
District: Commencing at a point distant eight hun-
dred and fifty-five (855) links in a south-westerly