Numb. 109.

1641

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1880.

Defining the Middle Line of further Portion of the Foxton-New Plymouth Railway (Hawera Contract).

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the line of railway from Foxton to New Plymouth is one of the railways specified in the First Schedule to "The Public Works Act, 1879," and which Act is therein declared to be a special Act authorizing the construction of such railway; and the same is unfinished, and it has been determined to construct and maintain a further portion of such railway:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, Chief Justice of the Colony of New Zealand, and Administrator of the Government thereof, 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 enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle line of the said further portion of the said railway shall be from a point on the Ohanghi Road to a point on the east side of the road to Tawhiti, all within the Hawera Survey District, County of Patea, Provincial District of Taranaki, 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. 7890, and authenticated for the purposes of this Proclamation by the signature of the Honorable Richard Oliver, Minister for Public Works, and which said map and plan is deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, in the Provincial District of Taranaki.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point on the Ohanghi Road, the said point being the termination of a portion of the railway from Foxton to New Plymouth, as described in a Proclamation dated the 6th August, 1879, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 83, of the 7th August, 1879, proceeding thence in a generally south-easterly direction for a distance of 2 miles 57 chains or thereabouts and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands, &c.: Rural Sections Nos. 136, 137, 141, 144, 146, 145, 149, 178, 179, 180, and terminating at a point on the east side of the road to Tawhiti; all within the Hawera Survey District, County of Patea, Provincial District of Taranaki, Colony of New Zealand; and including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, roads, reserves, streams, rivers, and watercourses; in the manner delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 7890, signed by the Honorable Richard Oliver, Minister for Public Works, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, in the Provincial District of Taranaki. The total length being 2 miles 57 chains.

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 fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

R. OLIVER.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!