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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[SEPT. 18

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

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 power and authority in me vested by sections
twenty-one to twenty-five, both inclusive, of "The
Public Works Act, 1876," 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 annexed, and shown on the plan
marked P.W.D. 6792, deposited in the office of the
Minister for Public Works at Wellington, are hereby
taken for the purposes of a railway; and that, from and
after the eighteenth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine, the said lands 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 railway.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situated within
Native Reserve No. 31, in the Town of Greymouth,
Provincial District of Westland, Colony of New
Zealand, containing by admeasurement 2 acres and
28 perches, being subdivisions Nos. 132, 133, 134,
and 312, formerly known as Block IX., 311, formerly
known as Block X., and portion of 310, formerly
known as Block XI., of the said reserve. Bounded
by lines as follows, that is to say: Commencing at
the junction of eastern side of Mount Street with
southern side of Mawhera Quay; thence by a line
running southerly along said eastern side of Mount
Street for a distance of 622 links; thence by a line
running easterly at right angles to line last mentioned
for a distance of 350 links; thence by a line running
northerly at right angles to line last mentioned for
a distance of 622 links to southern side of Mawhera
Quay; and thence by a line running westerly along
said southern side of Mawhera Quay for a distance
of 350 links to the starting point: as the same is
delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 6792, de-
posited in the office of the Minister for Public Works
at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wel-
lington.

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
sixteenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.
J. MACANDREW.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Constituting Palmerston Rabbit District.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of September, 1879.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by "The Rabbit Nuisance Act 1876
Amendment Act, 1877," it is enacted that, in
addition to the power of proclaiming districts given
by the third section of "The Rabbit Nuisance Act,
1876," the Governor might from time to time, by
Order in Council, direct that any part of the colony
to be defined therein should be a rabbit district for
the purposes of "The Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1876:"

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, and in exercise of the powers vested in him
by the firstly hereinbefore recited Act, doth hereby
order and direct that that part of the colony described
in the Schedule hereto shall, from and after the date
hereof, be and the same is hereby constituted a
district for the purposes of "The Rabbit Nuisance
Act, 1876," and shall be named and known as the
Palmerston Rabbit District, and the boundaries of
such district shall be those defined in the Schedule
hereto. And with the like advice and consent His
Excellency doth hereby order that the first election
of Trustees for the said district shall be held on the
eleventh day of November, at three o'clock p.m., at
the Public Hall, Palmerston.

SCHEDULE.

THE boundary commences at the junction of the
Oroua and Manawatu Rivers, and runs thence up
the Oroua River to a point where it is crossed by the
Main Road from Feilding to Ashurst, thence along
the said road through the Town of Ashurst to the
Manawatu River, thence up the Manawatu River for
a distance of about two miles, thence along the summit
of the Tararua Range to the north-eastern boundary
of the Horowhenua Riding, thence along the said
north-eastern boundary to the Manawatu River, and
thence down the said river to the starting point.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Plans for Powder Magazine at Bluff approved.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of September, 1879.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS certain plans of a powder magazine
to be erected at the Port of Bluff have been
submitted by the Bluff Harbour Board for the
approval of the Governor in Council, in accordance
with the provisions of "The Harbours Act, 1878,"
and it having been made to appear to the Governor
in Council that the said works will not be or tend to
the injury of navigation :

Now, therefore, 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 approve of the plans of a powder magazine at
the Bluff, as shown on plans marked M.D. 287 and
M.D. 288, the said plans being deposited in the
office of the Marine Department, Wellington, sub-
ject, however, to certain alterations and additions as
described in a memorandum from the Marine Engi-
neer to the Secretary to the Marine Department,
dated the twenty-second day of August, one thou-
sand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and marked
M. 79/2225, the said memorandum being deposited
in the office of the Marine Department aforesaid.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.