Numb. 46.

547

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1879.

Declaring Land open for Sale within Mining Dis-
tricts, Westland.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

Wellington, this sixteenth day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

WHEREAS by the one hundred and fifty-fourth
section of "The Land Act, 1877," it is enacted
that the Governor, by Proclamation, may from time
to time declare any Crown lands within any mining
district, not held under license or lease at the date of
such Proclamation, or over which the license or lease
has been cancelled, to be open for sale or selection,
in sections of such size and form, and on such date,
as he may determine; and any lands so proclaimed
may thereafter be sold at a like price, and subject to
the like terms and conditions, or as near thereto as
may be, as Crown lands of the same class not within
a mining district: And the Governor may from
time to time alter, amend, or revoke any such Pro-
clamation:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, Administrator of the Government of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the
land specified in the Schedule hereto shall be open
for sale, and that the nineteenth day of May next
ensuing shall be the day on which the said land shall
be open for sale.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing by ad-
measurement thirty (30) acres, more or less, being
Block numbered one hundred and forty-two
(142) on the map of the Mahinapua Survey
District. Bounded towards the North by Section
1888; towards the East by Railway Reserve (in red)
No. 9; towards the South by Section 1053; and to-
wards the West by the Beach Road: subject to
necessary reserves, and exclusive of roads and gold-
workings.

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

Defining the Middle Line of Portion of the Railway
from Whangarei to Kamo.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, 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-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
Whangarei to Kamo is one of the railways specified
in "The Immigration and Public Works Appropria-
tion Act, 1878," and which Act is therein declared
to be a special Act for the said railway within the
meaning of "The Public Works Act, 1876:" And
whereas it has been determined to construct and
maintain a portion of the said railway-namely, from
a point within Lot fifty (50), portion of Mair's grant,
Parish of Whangarei, Whangarei Highway District,
to a point on the Whangarei Inlet:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, in exercise and in pursuance of the powers and
authorities conferred on me by "The Public Works

ERRATUM.—In the New Zealand Gazette No. 39, of 10th April, 1879, at page 472, for "William Wilding, Esq.," read
"Henry Wilding, Esq."