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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 101

north-east corner of Section No. 63. Bounded
-Generally Easterly by lines, 623 and 166 links or
thereabouts; generally Northerly by a line, 240 links
or thereabouts; generally Westerly by lines, 639 and
227 links; and generally Southerly by a line, 320
links to point of commencement.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre 1 rood 37 perches, more or
less, situate in the Survey District of Masterton
Small Farm Block, being portion of Section No. 65,
commencing at about 2395 links westerly from
north-east corner of Section No. 64. Bounded
-Generally Easterly by lines, 568 and 227 links or
thereabouts; generally Northerly by a line, 228 links
or thereabouts; generally Westerly by lines, 140 and
459 links; and generally Southerly by a line, 240
links to point of commencement.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre 1 rood 31 perches, more or
less, situate in the Survey District of Masterton
Small Farm Block, being portion of Section No. 66,
commencing at about 2270 links westerly from
north-east corner of Section No. 65. Bounded
-Generally Easterly by lines, 372 and 270 links or
thereabouts; generally Northerly by a line, 228 links
or thereabouts; generally Westerly by lines, 281 and
367 links; and generally Southerly by a line, 228
links to point of commencement.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre 1 rood 15 perches, more or
less, situate in the Survey District of Masterton
Small Farm Block, being portion of Section No. 67,
commencing at about 2320 links westerly from
north-east corner of Section No. 66. Bounded
-Generally Easterly by a line, 618 links or there-
abouts; generally Northerly by a line, 219 links or
thereabouts; generally Westerly by a line, 614 links;
and generally Southerly by a line, 228 links to point
of commencement.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre 1 rood 9 perches, more or less,
situate in the Survey District of Masterton Small
Farm Block, being portion of Section No. 68,
commencing at about 2450 links westerly from
north-east corner of Section No. 67. Bounded-
Generally Easterly by lines, 341 and 295 links or
thereabouts; generally Northerly by a line, 192 links
or thereabouts; generally Westerly by lines, 344 and
284 links; and generally Southerly by a line, 219
links to point of commencement.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre and 14 perches, more or less,
situate in the Survey District of Masterton Small
Farm Block, being portion of Section No. 69,
commencing at about 2600 links westerly from
north-east corner of Section No. 68. Bounded-
Generally Easterly by a line, 658 links or there-
abouts; generally Northerly by a line, 145 links or
thereabouts; generally Westerly by a line, 649 links;
and generally Southerly by a line, 192 links to point
of commencement.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 3 roods 14 perches, more or less,
situate in the Survey District of Opaki, being por-
tion of Section No. 65, commencing at about 2760
links westerly from north-east corner of Section No.
69. Bounded-Generally Easterly by lines, 608 and
89 links or thereabouts; generally Northerly by a
line, 102 links or thereabouts; generally Westerly
by lines, 101 and 586 links; and thence generally
Southerly by a line, 145 links to point of commence-
ment.

The above parcels of land being situate in the
Provincial District of Wellington, Colony of New
Zealand, and are more particularly delineated upon
the plan marked P.W.D. 7980, deposited in the office

of the Minister for Public Works at Wellington, in
the Provincial District of Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency James
Prendergast, Esquire, Chief Justice, the
Administrator of the Government of Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington,
this twentieth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
R. OLIVER.

Land taken for a Portion of the Wellington to Napier
Railway (Ballast-pit at 55 miles 45 chains).

(L.S.)
JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation issued under the
authority of sections one hundred and twenty-
two, one hundred and twenty-three, and one hundred
and twenty-four of "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
the middle line of a further portion of the railway
from Wellington to a junction with the railway from
Napier to Sentry Hill, at a point near the Manawatu
Gorge, passing through the Hutt, Featherston, and
Masterton, being one of the railways specified in the
said Act, was defined: And whereas pursuant to the
one hundred and twenty-fifth section of "The Public
Works Act, 1876," the Minister for Public Works
has caused to be made and, on the twenty-sixth day
of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, to be deposited in the office of the Registrar
of the Supreme Court at Wellington, such maps and
plans as were necessary to explain the said further
portion of the said line of railway and the land
through which the same passes, such maps and
plans were referred to in such Proclamation as
aforesaid: And whereas the line of railway from
Wellington to Napier is the same railway as that
referred to in the Proclamation hereinabove recited,
and is one of the railways specified in "The Public
Works Act, 1879," and it is enacted by the Act last
named that such of the railways mentioned therein as
are unfinished may be completed under the provisions
of "The Public Works Act, 1876," "The Public Works
Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," and "The Public
Works Act, 1879:" And whereas the land described
in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a
part of the said further portion of the railway from
Wellington to Napier:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
by the sixth section of "The Public Works Act 1876
Amendment Act, 1878," and of every power and
authority in that behalf, doth hereby proclaim and
declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto
is taken for a part of the said further portion of the
line of railway herein last above named.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 3 acres and 6 perches, more or less,
situate in the Taratahi Plain, Provincial District
of Wellington, being portion of Section No. 211,
commencing at a point 235 links south-east
from north-west corner of Section No. 211;
thence 451 links east to the point of com-
mencement. Bounded-North-easterly by a cur-
vilineal line, 3000 links radius, 1135 links; North-
casterly by a line, 300 links; South-westerly by a