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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Land set apart on Deferred Payments in Southland.

(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 Board of Southland did, on
the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-nine, pass a resolution recommend-
ing that the land described in the Schedule hereto
annexed should be set apart for sale on deferred
payments:

And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the
aforesaid recommendation, and to set apart the said
land accordingly:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority vested in me by the above-named Act, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the land described
in the Schedule hereto is set apart for sale on
deferred payments; and that Friday, the twenty-sixth
day of September, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine, shall be the day on which the said land
shall be open for application at the Land Office at
Orepuki, in allotments as surveyed and marked on
the survey map in the office of the Chief Surveyor.

SCHEDULE.

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

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Defining the Middle Line of Portion of the Rail-
way, Foxton Deviation.

(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 Zea-
land, 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 en-
abling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the middle line of the said further
portion of such railway shall be from a point situate
opposite to the north-eastern boundary of Race-
course Reserve, number five hundred and thirty-
seven, Township of Foxton, to a point on low-water
mark on the Manawatu River opposite Section
number one hundred and twenty-two, Block five,
all within the County of Manawatu, Provincial
District of Wellington, Colony of New Zealand,
as 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. 7154, and authenticated for the pur-
poses 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
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point situate opposite the north-
eastern boundary of Racecourse Reserve No. 537,
the said point being within the limits of deviation of
a portion of the railway from Foxton to Manawatu,
as described in the Proclamation dated the 1st May,
1875, and published in the New Zealand Gazette
No. 25, of 6th May, 1875, and proceeding thence in a
generally southerly, westerly, and southerly direction
for a distance of 1 mile 44:50 chains or thereabouts,
passing in, into, through, or over the following lands:
Township of Foxton, Racecourse Reserve No. 537,
Subsection No. 90, Block IV., and terminating at a
point on low-water mark on the Manawatu River,
opposite to the western boundary and in a line
in continuation of the southern boundary of Sec-
tion No. 122, Block V., all within the County of
Manawatu, Provincial District of Wellington,
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. 7154, signed by the Honorable James
Macandrew, Minister for Public Works, deposited in
the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington;
the total length being 1 mile 44:50 chains, or there-
abouts.

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