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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Meeting of the General Assembly.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
(L.S.)
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME-GREETING :

A PROCLAMATION.

KNOW YE that I, being desirous that the General Assembly of New Zealand
should be holden as soon as may be, do hereby summon and call together the
said General Assembly to meet at the Parliament Buildings in Molesworth Street,
in the City of Wellington, on WEDNESDAY, the SEVENTEENTH day of SEPTEMBER
next, at Twelve of the clock at noon.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished 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 fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands taken for a Road in the Waipukurau Road
District, County of Waipawa.
(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 description
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 pub-
lication 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 evi-
dence 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 fol-
lowing 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 Pro-
clamation 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 Pro-
clamation the land therein specified shall become
absolutely vested in fee-simple in Her Majesty, dis-
charged from all mortgages, charges, claims, estates,
or interests of what kind soever, for the public use
named in the said Proclamation:
And whereas the lands described in the Schedule
hereto are required to be taken under the said Act
for a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a
road in the Survey Districts of Ruataniwha and Taka-
pau, in the Waipukurau Road District, County of
Waipawa, Provincial District of Hawke's Bay:
And whereas the Waipukurau Road Board has
laid before the Governor the memorial and map men-
tioned in and signed and certified as required by the
twenty-fifth section of the said Act:
And whereas all the requirements 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 Coun-
cil of the said colony, in exercise and pursuance of
the powers and authorities in me vested by the here-
inbefore in part recited Act, and of any other power
and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the lands described in the
Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purposes of
a road; and that, from and after the fifteenth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine, the lands so described shall become absolutely