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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Administrator of the Govern-
ment in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this fourth day of April, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for Road in Section 43, Block I., Kauroo
Survey District, County of Waitaki.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON,
Administrator of the Government.

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
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 description 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 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
thereof, signed by the Surveyor-General or some
certificated 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 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 land described in the Schedule
hereto is required to be taken under the said Act
for a certain public work, to wit, the construction of
a road in Section forty-three (43), Block one (I.),
Kauroo Survey District, in the County of Waitaki:
And whereas the Kakanui Road Board has laid
before the Administrator of the Government the
memorial and map mentioned in and signed and cer-
tified 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 Proclama-
tion to be issued:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, Administrator of the Government 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 pro-
claim and declare that the land described in the
Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of
a road; and that, from and after the twelfth day
of April instant, the land so described shall become
absolutely vested in fee-simple in Her Majesty, dis-
charged from all mortgages, charges, claims, estates,
and interests of what kind soever, for use as a road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land being part of Section num-
bered forty-three (43), Block one (I.), Kauroo Dis-
trict, containing by admeasurement one (1) acre three
(3) poles and four-tenths (ro) of another pole.
Bounded on the North by a line commencing at a
point in the western boundary line of said Section 43,
distant four hundred and fifty-five links and four-
tenths (455\cdot 4) of another link in a southerly
direction from the north-west corner of said section,
and terminating in the Serpentine Creek, such line
bearing ninety degrees eighteen and a half minutes
(90° 18\frac{1}{2}'), and being seventeen hundred and ten links
and half another link (1710\cdot 5); on the East by the
Serpentine Creek, sixty-eight (68) links; on the
South by a line parallel to and distant sixty (60) links
from the first-mentioned boundary line, one thousand
six hundred and ninety-five (1695) links; and on the
West by the western boundary line of said Section
43, sixty links and nine-tenths (60\cdot 9) of another
link: the above particulars being delineated on the
map attached to the memorial referred to.

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George; Administrator of the Govern-
ment in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this eighth day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.

J. T. FISHER,
Minister acting for the Minister
for Public Works.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!