Numb. 69.

867

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1879.

Land taken for Road in Section No. 21, Wangaehu
Highway District, Wanganui Survey District,
County of Wanganui.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

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 showing
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-grounded 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 publi-
cation 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 work, to wit, the construction of a road
in section twenty-one, Wanganui Survey District, in
the County of Wanganui:

And whereas the Wangaehu Highway Board has
laid before the Governor the memorial and map
mentioned in and signed and certified as required by
the twenty-fifth section of the said Act:

And whereas all the requirments 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 Proclamation
to be issued:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, Governor 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 herein-
before in part recited Act, and of any other power
and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby
proclaim 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 twenty-fifth day
of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine, the land so described shall become absolutely
vested in fee-simple in Her Majesty, discharged from
all mortgages, charges, claims, estates, and interests
of what kind soever, for use as a road.

ERRATA. In the New Zealand Gazette No. 64, of 12th June, pages 798 and 799, under "Services of Volunteer Corps
accepted," and "Appointment of Volunteer Officers," for "Urenui," read "Taranaki Mounted Rifle Volunteers." In New
Zealand Gazette No. 67, of 19th June, 1879, page 824, second column, on thirteenth and thirty-eighth lines from the bottom,
for "Albany," read "Albury."