THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1083

Defining the Middle Line of Portion of Railway from
Napier to a Junction with the Railway from New
Plymouth to Waitara, at Sentry Hill (Normanby
Section, 2 miles 60 chains).

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the railway from Napier to a junc-
tion with the railway from New Plymouth
to Waitara, at Sentry Hill, passing by Pakipaki,
Waipawa, Waipukurau, Takapau, the Manawatu
Gorge, Bunnythorpe, and Wanganui, with a branch
from the main line at Bunnythorpe to Foxton
through Palmerston, is one of the railways specified
in the Fourth Schedule to "The Public Works Act,
1876," and the same is unfinished, and it has been
determined to construct and maintain a further por-
tion of such railway:

Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
in exercise and in pursuance of the powers and
authorities conferred on me by sections one hundred
and twenty-two, one hundred and twenty-three, one
hundred and twenty-four, and one hundred and
twenty-five of "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 further
portion of said railway shall be from a point on the
Ohanghi Road at its intersection with the Mountain
Road to a point on the north-eastern boundary of
Section number three hundred and twenty-one, all
within the Provincial District of Taranaki. The
said middle line and the land through which the
same passes are set forth in the map and plan marked
P.W.D. 7177, and authenticated for the purposes of
this Proclamation by the signature of the Honorable
James Macandrew, Minister for Public Works, and
which said map and plan is deposited in the office of
the Registrar of the Supreme Court at New Ply-
mouth, Provincial District of Taranaki.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point situate on the Ohanghi Road
at its intersection with the Mountain Road, as de-
scribed in a Proclamation dated the 30th March, 1876,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 21, of
6th April, 1876, and proceeding thence in a generally
northerly direction for a distance of 2 miles 60 chains
or thereabouts, passing in, through, or over the follow-
ing lands, &c.: Sections Nos. 129, 560, 561, 562, 17,
11, 10, 9, 8, 324, 323, 322, and terminating at a point
on the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 321,
all within the County of Patea, Provincial District
of Taranaki, Colony of New Zealand; and including
all adjoining and intervening places, lands, roads,
reserves, streams, rivers, and watercourses; in the
manner delineated on the map and plan marked
P. W.D. 7177, signed by the Hon. James Macandrew,
Minister for Public Works, deposited in the office of
the Registrar of the Supreme Court at New Ply-
mouth, Provincial District of Taranaki; the total
length being 2 miles 60 chains or thereabouts.

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

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

J. MACANDREW.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Authorizing Auckland Timber Company (Limited)
to build a Wharf.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifth day of August, 1879.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the sixteenth, seventeenth, and
eighteenth sections of "The Harbours Act,
1878," it is enacted that the Governor in Council
may authorize any person to construct harbour works
(other than the reclamation of land from the sea or
any harbour, or the construction of any graving dock,
dock, or breakwater in any harbour or in the sea) in
any harbour where no Harbour Board is in existence:

And whereas by the one hundred and fifty-second sec-
tion of the said Act it is enacted that, where it shall
appear to the Governor in Council that any harbour
works are required for the use, benefit, or conve-
nience of the public within a harbour under the
control of a Harbour Board, and that such Board
cannot conveniently execute or carry out such works,
then, and in any such case, the Governor in Council
may exercise all or any of the powers vested in him
by the said sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth
sections of the said Act:

And whereas the Auckland Timber Company
(Limited) desire to build a wharf in Auckland Har-
bour, and the Auckland Harbour Board cannot
conveniently execute or carry out such work:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir Hercules
George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said colony,
doth hereby authorize the Auckland Timber Company
(Limited) to build, opposite Sections twenty-two,
twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six,
and twenty-seven of the reclaimed land, Customhouse
Street West, for the use and benefit of the public, a
wharf in accordance with the plans and specification
deposited in the office of the Marine Department,
on the following conditions, that is to say,-

That the right hereby conferred shall not exceed
fourteen years.

That it shall be lawful for the said Auckland
Timber Company to levy wharfage on all goods
landed or shipped from the said wharf at a rate not to
exceed two shillings per ton weight or measurement :
Provided, however, that nothing herein contained
shall authorize the Company to charge with
wharfage-

Any stores or goods required for the use of
Her Majesty's naval or military forces, or
for any ship in the naval service of any
Foreign Power.
Goods of or for the service of Her Majesty
in the colony.
Any goods under seizure by officers of
revenue.
The baggage of any person in the service of
Her Majesty whilst travelling on duty.

That the permission herein given to erect the wharf
shall be subject to the terms and conditions referred
to in a certain deed made between the Auckland