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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1880.

Land taken for Road in Section 43, Block VI.,
Invercargill Hundred, County of Southland.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule
hereto is required to be taken under "The
Public Works Act, 1876," and "The Public Works
Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," for a certain work,
to wit, the construction of a road in Section forty-
three, Block six, Invercargill Hundred, County of
Southland:

And whereas the Lindhurst Road Board has laid
before the Governor the memorial and map mentioned
in and signed and certified as required by the said
Acts:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, 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 powers and authorities in me vested by sections
twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four,
and twenty-five of "The Public Works Act, 1876,"
and by section twenty-eight of "The Public Works
Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," and of any other
power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the land described
in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes
of a road; and that, from and after the seventeenth
day of February, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty, the land so described 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 road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Southland
Division of the Provincial District of Otago, contain-
ing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods 6 perches,
more or less, being part of Section 43, Block VI.,
Invercargill Hundred, which is an education reserve;
and bounded by a line commencing at a point on
the south-east corner of Section 6 of said block, and
running due north a distance of 4200 links; thence
at a bearing of 68° 58′ a distance of 469 links; thence
thence at a bearing of 248° 58′ a distance of 362
links; thence due south a distance of 4058 links;
thence at a bearing of 233° 50′ a distance of 123
links back to the starting point: be the aforesaid
linkages either more or less; the above particulars
being delineated on the map attached to the memorial
referred to.

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
tenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty.

JOHN HALL,
(Minister acting for Minister for
Public Works.)

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Defining the Middle Line of Portion of the Waitaki-
Bluff Railway, Branch Line from Waipahi to Heriot
Burn (Tapanui Section).

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the branch line of railway from
Waitaki to the Bluff, 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 portion of
such railway: