Numb. 53.
677

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1879.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1879.

Warrant giving the Duntroon and Hakateramea
Railway Company Permission to use Crown Lands
and Public Reserves vested in the Crown.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS the Duntroon and Hakateramea Rail-
way Company (Limited) is a company under
and within the meaning of "The District Railways
Act, 1877," formed for, amongst other purposes, the
purpose of constructing a railway under the said Act
from Duntroon, in the Provincial District of Otago,
to the Round Hill, Hakateramea Valley, in the Pro-
vincial District of Canterbury: And whereas the
said Company, with a view to obtain the Governor's
approval of the construction of the said railway,
deposited at the Public Works Office, Dunedin, a
plan showing, as prescribed by the said Act, the
middle line and direction of the said railway, and
the limits of deviation in respect thereof: And
whereas the Governor approved of the construction
of the said railway, and notice of such approval was
gazetted in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-
seventh day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight: And whereas the
Governor is desirous of exercising, on behalf of the
said Company, the powers and authorities conferred
on him by the thirty-second and thirty-third sec-
tions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, do, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred as aforesaid, hereby give to the
said Company exclusive permission to use such
portions of the land required for the purposes of the
said railway, within the limits of deviation shown on
the said deposited plan, as may be now vested in the
Crown, or as may be subject to any Waste Lands Act
in force in that part of the colony where the said
railway is to be constructed, including such portions
of the land required as aforesaid as are held under
lease or license for pastoral purposes; and do hereby
permit such part or parts of the said railway as may

intersect public reserves vested in Her Majesty the
Queen to be constructed on or through such public
reserves.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this nineteenth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

J. MACANDREW.

Consent in terms of Section 61 of "The District Rail-
ways Act, 1877," re Duntroon and Hakateramea
Railway Company (Limited).

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS the construction of a railway from
Duntroon, in the Provincial District of Otago,
to the Round Hill, Hakateramea Valley, in the Pro-
vincial District of Canterbury, under "The District
Railways Act, 1877," and "The District Railways
Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1878," by the Duntroon
and Hakateramea Railway Company (Limited) (a
company within the meaning of the aforesaid Acts),
has been duly approved by the Governor as pre-
scribed by the said Acts: And whereas the said Com-
pany proposes to raise and borrow under the pro-
visions of the said Acts the sum of eighty-six thousand
pounds (£86,000), payable on the twenty-first day of
May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and to
bear interest at the rate of six pounds (£6) per
centum per annum, to be secured by means of deben-
tures and coupons according to the form prescribed
by "The District Railways Act 1877 Amendment
Act, 1878," or to the effect thereof, upon the whole
of the said Company's railway, including all present
and future lands, all permanent works and buildings,
rolling-stock, machinery, and plant of every kind of
the said Company, and all the rights, powers, and
privileges of the said Company under or by virtue of
the said Act, or "The District Railways Act, 1877,"
and all other the present and future assets of the
said Company; and including also, to the extent of
eighty-six thousand pounds (£86,000), the uncalled-