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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1879.

Defining the Middle Line of portion of the Railway
from Auckland to Puniu.

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

WHEREAS by the one hundred and twenty-
second section of "The Public Works Act,
1876," it is enacted that every railway shall be made
only under the authority of a special Act, which
shall state as nearly as may be the line of the railway
and the two termini thereof; and, by the one hundred
and twenty-third section of the same Act, that the
several railways specified in the Fourth Schedule to
the said Act shall be deemed to have been made, and
in so far as any of them are unfinished may be com-
pleted, under the provisions of the Act now under
recital, and the said Act shall be deemed to be a
special Act authorizing the construction of each of
the said railways; and, by the one hundred and
twenty-fourth section of the same Act, that when
any railway is to be constructed under the provisions
of any special Act the Governor shall issue a Procla-
mation defining the middle line of the railway or any
part thereof, and may from time to time, by a Pro-
clamation revoking or amending such former Pro-
clamation, alter such line in any manner or to any
extent which may be found necessary for the con-
struction of such railway within the provisions of the
said special Act; and, by the one hundred and twenty-
fifth section of the same Act, that the Minister shall
cause to be made and deposited in the office of the
Registrar of the Supreme Court such maps and plans
as may be necessary to explain the said line and the
land through which the same passes, and such maps and
plans shall be referred to in any such Proclamation:

And whereas the railway from Auckland to Puniu is
one of the railways specified in the said Fourth
Schedule, and the same is unfinished, and it has been
determined to construct and maintain a further por-
tion of such railway:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in exercise and in pursuance of the
powers and authorities conferred on me by "The
Public Works Act, 1876," and in exercise of every
other power and authority enabling me in that be-
half, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle
line of the said further portion of the said railway
shall be that defined and set forth in the Schedule
hereto, commencing at a point on the ground formerly
known as Fort Britomart, and terminating at a point
on the eastern side of Queen Street Wharf, Waite-
mata Harbour, Provincial District of Auckland,
Colony of New Zealand. The said middle line and
the land through which the same passes are set forth
in the map and plan marked P.W.D. 6775, and
authenticated for the purposes of this Proclamation
by the signature of the Honorable James Macan-
drew, Minister for Public Works, and which said
map and plan is deposited in the office of the
Registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland, in the
Provincial District of Auckland.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point on the ground formerly
known as Fort Britomart, the said point being within
the limits of deviation of a portion of the railway
from Auckland to Mercer, as described in the Pro-
clamation dated the eighth day of August, 1872,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 40,
of the 12th of August, 1872, and proceeding thence
in a generally westerly direction for 23\u00bd chains, or
thereabouts, to a point on the eastern side of the
Queen Street Wharf, situate in the Waitemata Har-
bour, Provincial District of Auckland, Colony of
New Zealand, in the manner delineated on the map
and plan marked P.W.D. 6775, signed by the
Honorable James Macandrew, Minister for Public
Works, deposited in the office of the Registrar of
the Supreme Court at Auckland, in the Provincial
District of Auckland; the total length being 23\u00bd
chains, or thereabouts.

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 St. 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;