Numb. 30.

405

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1880.

Declaring Diversion of Buller River duly executed
under Public Works Acts.

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

WHEREAS for the safety and proper mainte-
nance of the railway works of the Westport
to Ngakawau Railway it has been found desirable to
alter and divert the course of the Buller River, and
the said alteration and diversion have been partially
executed:

Now, therefore, by virtue and in pursuance of the
powers and authorities conferred upon me in that
behalf by the sixteenth and seventeenth sections
of "The Public Works Act, 1879," and all other
powers thereunto me enabling, I, Sir Hercules
George Robert Robinson, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the work above mentioned, and more
particularly described in the Schedule hereto, has
been executed for the purpose hereinbefore men-
tioned, and shall for all purposes be taken and
deemed to have been executed under the authority
of "The Public Works Act, 1876," and "The
Public Works Act, 1879."

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in the middle of the Buller
River, opposite the junction of the Waimea Creek
with the said river, and proceeding thence in a
generally easterly direction for a distance of 136
chains or thereabouts to a point situate in the
Buller River about 8 chains north of the junction of
Island Creek with said river, passing in, through, or
over Sections Nos. 52, 53, 54, and 55, within Native
Reserves Nos. 69 and 70, also the Buller River, and
all intervening roads, streams, and watercourses; all
being situated within the Provincial District of
Nelson, Colony of New Zealand; in the manner
delineated on the map and plan marked P.W.D.
6819, signed by the Hon. the Minister for Public
Works, deposited in the office of the Registrar of the

Supreme Court at Nelson, in the Provincial District
of Nelson; the total length being 136 chains or
thereabouts.

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 twenty-fourth day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty.

R. OLIVER.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Portion of the Invercargill to
Kingston Railway-Branch Line from Lumsden
to Mararoa River (Lumsden Section).

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
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 the railway from Lumsden to
Mararoa (Lumsden Section), being one of the railways
specified in "The Immigration and Public Works
Appropriation Act, 1878," 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
thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine, to be deposited in the office of the
Registrar of the Supreme Court at Invercargill, such
maps and plans as were necessary to explain the
said portion of the said line of railway and the land
through which the same passes, and such maps and
plans were referred to in such Proclamation as afore-

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette of the 11th March, 1880, page 299, Lands to be sold upon Deferred Payments,
upset price of Lot 88 of Reserve 350, for "£254" read "£454."