THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1795

direction from the north-east corner of the said Sec-

tion numbered thirty-one (31) of the said block,
proceeding thence in a north-westerly direction six
hundred and ninety-eight (698) links bearing one
hundred and twenty degrees ten minutes (120° 10'),
thence in a north-easterly direction three hundred
(300) links bearing one hundred and eighty-three
degrees forty-four minutes (183° 44') to a creek
there, thence along the southern bank of the said
creek in a north-westerly direction sixty-four (64)
links, thence in a south-westerly direction three
hundred and twenty (320) links bearing one hundred
and eighty-three degrees forty-four minutes (183°
44'), thence in a westerly direction nine hundred and
fifty-seven (957) links bearing eighty-nine degrees
thirty minutes (89° 30'), thence in a south-easterly
direction sixty-two (62) links, thence in an easterly
direction nine hundred and sixty-seven (967) links
bearing eighty-nine degrees thirty minutes (89° 30'),
thence in a south-easterly direction seven hundred
and seven (707) links bearing two hundred and
ninety-six degrees twenty-eight minutes (296° 28'),
and thence in a north-easterly direction sixty and
four-tenths (60%) links bearing nineteen degrees
twenty-six minutes thirty seconds (19° 26′30″) along
a public road home to the starting point. Bounded
towards the North in part by other part of said Sec-
tion numbered thirty-one (31) of said block, and in
part by the said creek; towards the North-east by
other part of said Section numbered thirty-one (31);
towards the South-east by a road line; towards the
South and South-west by other part of said Section
numbered thirty-one (31); and towards the West
by another road line: the above particulars being
delineated upon the plan hereto attached.

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-
cil; Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this seventeenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister acting for the Minister
for Public Works.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands taken for a Road in the Wanganui Survey
District, County of Wanganui.

(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 showing
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 de-
scription 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
publication of such notice to the said Road Board:
And by sections 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 de-
scription to be served upon the said 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 ap-
pear 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 objection 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
thereof, signed by the Surveyor-General or some
certificated surveyor as evidence of the accuracy
thereof; and the Governor in Council may there-
upon, if he think fit, by Proclamation gazetted and
publicly notified, declare that the said 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
fee-simple in Her Majesty, discharged from all
mortgages, charges, claims, estates, or interests of
what kind soever, for the public 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 through Sections 113, 59A, 271, and 270, in
the Wanganui Survey District, County of Wanga-
nui:

And whereas the Wangaehu Highway 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 pre-
scribed 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