MAR. 10.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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more particularly delineated on the map attached to
the memorial above referred to.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Her Majesty's High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
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
eighth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-one.
R. OLIVER.

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

lines, 194° 32', 155 links, 223° 53', 248 links, 209° 59',
260 links, 196° 14', 249 links, 199° 32', 268 links,
202° 45', 283 links, 201° 11', 140 links, 184° 48', 178
links; south-easterly by lines, 143° 40', 178 links,
126° 41', 268 links, 113° 33', 453 links, 110° 41',
187 links, 127° 6', 206 links, 115° 6', 439 links, 124°
52', 316 links, 175° 58', 188 links; south-westerly by
lines, 232° 35', 199 links, 242° 19′, 157 links, 198°
14', 207 links, 195° 5', 176 links; south-easterly by
lines, 139° 30', 91 links; 158° 13', 75 links, 168° 25',
231 links; south-westerly by lines, 214° 6', 176 links,
226° 20', 262 links, 227° 46', 214 links, 237° 49', 92
links, 262° 39', 97 links, 285° 47', 223 links, 257°,
290 links; south-easterly, 179° 25', 3264 links, to a
point on the north-eastern side of the Governor's
Bay Road before mentioned: save and excepting that
portion of an existing road passing through Sections
5095 and 5096 which crosses the above-described
land, near the south-east boundary of Section 1649;
the above particulars being either more or less, and
the same being more particularly delineated on the
map attached to the memorial above referred to, and
coloured red thereon.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Her Majesty's High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
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
eighth day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
R. OLIVER.

Land taken for Railway Purposes in Riverton Town-
ship Extension.

(L.S.) ARTHUR H. GORDON, 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 a portion of the line of railway
from Makarewa River to Riverton and Orepuki, with
branch to Otautau and Nightcaps Coal Field (Western
Railways), being one of the railways specified in
"The Public Works Act, 1879," 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 twelfth day of February, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one, 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
aforesaid: And whereas "The Public Works Act,
1879," enacts 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 taken for Road in the Port Victoria Road
District, County of Akaroa.

(L.S.) ARTHUR H. GORDON, 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 the Port Victoria
Road District, County of Akaroa:

And whereas the Port Victoria 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, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
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 pursu-
ance of the powers and authorities in me vested by sec-
tions 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 de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for
the purposes of a road; and that, from and after
the tenth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one, 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 area in the Halswell Survey District, Pro-
vincial District of Canterbury, part of Rural Sections
Nos. 1649, 5095, and 5096, being a strip of land 1
chain wide, containing by admeasurement 13 acres 1
rood 23 perches, more or less, the centre line of
which commences on the north-east side of the
Governor's Bay Road, situate about 290 links south-
east of the westernmost corner boundary of Section
1649; thence south-easterly by lines, 119° 14′ 30″,
502 links, 97° 37', 376 links; north-easterly by lines,
57° 56', 213 links, 44° 44′, 248 links, 36° 50′, 237
links, 40° 54', 185 links, 76° 41', 297 links, 59° 57',
254 links, 32° 26′, 649 links, 76° 22′, 320 links;
south-easterly by lines, 123° 4′, 135 links, 139° 22',
100 links, 156° 17′, 133 links; south-westerly by