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291

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1879.

Defining the Middle Line of portion of Railway from
Napier to a Junction with the Railway from New
Plymouth to Waitara, at Sentry Hill (Mangama-
whete River to Township of Stratford), 8 miles 60
chains.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

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 Proclama-
tion 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
Napier to a junction with the railway from New
Plymouth to Waitara, at Sentry Hill, 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 portion of such
railway :

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, Adminis-
trator of the Government 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 behalf,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle
line of the said further portion of said railway shall
be that defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto,
commencing at a point within the limits of deviation
of a portion of the railway from Waitara to Wanga-
nui, as described in the Proclamation dated the
thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five, and terminating at a point within
the Township of Stratford, situate on the Mountain
Road, all within the Provincial District of Taranaki.
The said middle line and the land through which the
same passes are set forth in the map and plan marked
P.W.D. 6794, and authenticated for the purposes of
this Proclamation by the signature of the Honorable
James Temple Fisher, Minister acting for the
Minister for Public Works, and which said map
and plan is deposited in the office of the Registrar
of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point situate on the northern
bank of the Mangamawhete River, in Section num-
bered eighty-seven (87) in the Moa District, said
point being the termination of a portion of the rail-
way from Waitara to Wanganui, as described in the
Proclamation dated the 30th day of April, 1875, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 25, of the
6th of May, 1875, and proceeding thence in a generally
southerly direction for a distance of eight (8) miles
sixty (60) chains, or thereabouts, passing in, through,
or over the following: Township of Waipuku, Town-
ship of Midhurst, and terminating at a point
twenty-two (22) miles twenty (20) chains within
the Township of Stratford, including all lands, roads,
reserves, rivers, and watercourses, all situated within
the Provincial District of Taranaki, in the Colony
of New Zealand; in the manner delineated on the map
and plan marked P.W.D. 6794, signed by the Honor-
able James Temple Fisher, Minister acting for the
Minister for Public Works, deposited in the office of
the Registrar of the Supreme Court at New Ply-
mouth, in the Provincial District of Taranaki; the
total length being eight (8) miles sixty (60) chains,
or thereabouts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
James Prendergast, Esquire, Adminis-
trator of the Government in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zea-
land and its Dependencies, and Vice.