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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

George, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
eleventh day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Native Minister.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

eleventh day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!.

Defining the Middle Line of Portion of the Railway
from Masterton to Papatu, vid Woodville.

Land withdrawn from the Deferred-payment System
in Southland.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifty-third section of "The
Land Act, 1877," it is enacted that the
Governor, by Proclamation in the Gazette, may from
time to time set apart out of any suburban or rural
lands such blocks or allotments of land as he shall
think fit, and set the same aside for sale on deferred
payments, and in such Proclamation may fix a day
on which the land shall be open for application; and
that he may also in like manner set apart for sale on
deferred payments such blocks or allotments as may
be recommended by any Land Board, and may also
from time to time alter, amend, or revoke any such
Proclamation:

And whereas the land specified in the Schedule
hereto was, with other lands, on the tenth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, pro-
claimed as set apart for sale on deferred payments:

And whereas the Land Board of Southland did, on
the eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine, pass a resolution recommending
that the land described in the Schedule hereto
annexed should be withdrawn from the deferred-
payment system:

And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the
aforesaid recommendation :

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities vested in me by the above-named Acts,
do hereby revoke the Proclamation above referred to,
so far as it relates to the section therein mentioned
and included in the Schedule hereto, and do proclaim
and declare that the said section is hereby withdrawn
from the operation of the deferred-payment system.

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 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 Mas-
terton to Papatu, vid Woodville, is one of the rail-
ways specified in "The Immigration and Public
Works Appropriation Act, 1878," and which Act is
therein declared to be a special Act for the said rail-
way within the meaning of "The Public Works Act,
1876:" And whereas it has been determined to con-
struct and maintain a portion of such railway-
namely, from a point in Section 61, on the south
bank of the Waipoua River, Masterton Small Farm
Block, to a point in Section 20, Opaki Block, all
within the County of Wairarapa West, Provincial
District of Wellington:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert
Robinson, 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 behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the middle line of
the said railway shall be that defined and set forth in
the Schedule hereto. The said middle line and the
land through which the same passes are set forth in
the map and plan marked P.W.D. 7029, and authen-
ticated 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
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Southland
division of the Provincial District of Otago, contain-
ing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods and 14 poles,
more or less, being Section 39, Block III., Township
of Menzies Ferry. Bounded towards the South by
Section 41, 539.9 links; towards the West by Section
40, 643.8 links; and towards the North-east by Elba
Road, 812.2 links: as the same is more particularly
delineated on the working plan of the said block,
deposited in the Survey Office, Invercargill.

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, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this

COMMENCING at a point in Section 61, on the south
bank of the Waipoua River, Masterton Small Farm
Block, the said point being the termination of the
portion of the railway from Wellington to Masterton,
as described in the Proclamation dated the 13th
March, 1878, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette No. 25, of 21st March, 1878; and proceeding
in a generally north-westerly direction for a distance
of 5 miles 3 chains or thereabouts, passing in, into