1194 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Bounded North-eastward by Sections 924S and 3201;
North-westward by a road line; South-westward by
Sections 2810 and 2773, and also by Reserve 327 (in
red); and South-eastward by a road line and by the
same reserve; and numbered 2418 (in red) on the
official map in the Survey Office, Christchurch. For
a recreation-ground.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-sixth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE,
(for the Minister of Lands.)

"Highways Act, 1871," brought into Operation within
the Takapau Highway District.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council
of Hawke's Bay intituled "The Highways
Act, 1871," it is, amongst other things, enacted that
the Superintendent might, from time to time, on the
requisition of five voters, by notification in the Pro-
vincial Government Gazette, bring that Act into
operation in any district, and thereupon, but not
previously, that Act should come into and remain in
full operation therein; and in such notification the
day, hour, and place of meeting for the first meeting
of ratepayers for such district should be appointed:
And whereas, under the provisions of the said Act, a
portion of the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay
has been created a highway district by the name of
the Takapau Highway District: And whereas the
powers vested in the Superintendent by the said Act
are now, by "The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875,"
vested in the Governor: And whereas His Excellency
the Governor has received a requisition signed by five
voters of the Takapau District, requesting him to bring
the said Act into operation in the said Takapau District:
Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of every power and authority
enabling me in that behalf do, by this notification,
bring "The Highways Act, 1871," into operation
within the Takapau Highway District, and do declare
that the first meeting of ratepayers under the said
Act shall be held at Mr. Ferguson's Hotel, Takapau,
on the sixth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine, at noon.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-sixth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

"Municipal Police Act 1866 Amendment Act, 1871,"
to come into force in Borough of Parnell.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by a notification bearing date the
eleventh day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine, published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the thirteenth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, the
Administrator of the Government of New Zea-
land did appoint and define the limits of the
Borough of Parnell for the purposes of "The Auck-
land Municipal Police Ordinance, 1866;" and did
also, by the said notification, declare that, from and
after the date thereof, the said Act shall apply to the
said borough so defined as aforesaid: And whereas
the said Act hath been amended by "The Municipal
Police Act 1866 Amendment Act, 1871" (herein-
after called "the said Act"):

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in me
vested by the sixth section of the said Act and the
"Abolition of Provinces Act,"
powers enabling me in
that behalf, do hereby name the day of the date
hereof as the day on and from which sections
two, three, four, and five of the said Act shall come
into force within the limits of the said Borough of
Parnell.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-seventh day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Notice of taking Land in Dunedin under Sections 142,
143, 144, and 145, of "The Harbours Act, 1878."

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

BY virtue and in pursuance of the power and
authorities vested in me by the one hundred and
forty-second, one hundred and forty-third, one
hundred and forty-fourth, and one hundred and
forty-fifth sections of "The Harbours Act, 1878," I,
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, on behalf
of Her Majesty the Queen, give notice to the Otago
Harbour Board that, one month from the day of the
date hereof, I shall enter upon and take possession
of the land particularly described in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Otago and Colony of New Zealand, containing by
admeasurement 67 acres 2 roods, more or less,
being part of the foreshore of the Port of Dunedin,
granted by the Crown to the Superintendent of the
Province of Otago under "The Public Reserves Act,
1854," by grant dated the 8th day of October, 1861
(hereinafter referred to as "the said grant"), and
to the Superintendent of
the Province of Otago under "The Public Reserves
Act, 1854," in trust for wharves and quays in the
City of Dunedin, by grant dated the 26th day of
June, 1866, and comprised within the boundary lines
following, that is to say: Commencing at a point on
the eastern boundary line of Forth Street, distant
700 links from the southernmost corner at the junc-
tion of Forth Street and Albany Street, and extend-
ing from the point of commencement in a line running
in an east-north-easterly direction for a distance of
2297 links; Bounded on or towards the North-
west partly by other part of the Wharves and
Quays Reserve, Albany Street, and by land com-
prised in the said grant; thence in a line running in
a south-westerly direction for a distance of 608
links: bounded on or towards the East-south-east by
land comprised in the said grant shown as a proposed
street on the plan hereinafter referred to; thence in
a line running in a west-south-westerly direction for
a distance of 2565 links: bounded on or towards the
South-south-east partly by the Wharves and Quays
Reserves and partly by land comprised in the said
grant; thence in a line running in a south-westerly
direction for a distance of 2830 links: bounded on
or towards the South-east partly by land comprised
in the said grant partly by the said Wharves and
Quays Reserve, partly shown as a continuation of
Hanover Street, a proposed street, and a continuation
of St. Andrew Street on the said plan; thence in
a line running in a south-south-westerly direction for
a distance of 665 links: bounded on or towards the