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853

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1881.

Defining the Middle Line of Portion of the Branch
Line of Railway from the Main Line-Waitaki
to Bluff-to Ngapara, with a Sub-Branch to Living-
ston (Windsor Section, Further Portion).

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the branch line of railway from
the main line-Waitaki to Bluff to Ngapara,
with a sub-branch to Livingston, is one of the rail-
ways 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 the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
and in pursuance of the powers and authorities con-
ferred 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 in Section number four, Block one,
Maruwhenua Survey District, to a point in Section
number one, Block eight, in the said survey district,
all within the Provincial District of Otago, Colony of
New Zealand, 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. 8325, and authenticated
for the purposes of this Proclamation by the signa-
ture of the Honorable John Hall, the Minister acting
for the Minister for Public Works, and which said
map and plan is deposited in the office of the
Registrar of the Supreme Court at Dunedin, in the
Provincial District of Otago.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Section No. 4, Block I.,
Maruwhenua Survey District, which point is also the

point of termination of portion of said railway, as
described in the Proclamation dated the 15th August,
1879, and published in the New Zealand Gazette
No. 88, of the 21st August, 1879; proceeding thence
in a generally north-westerly, northerly, south-
westerly, and westerly direction for a distance of
6 miles 42 chains or thereabouts, and passing in, into,
through or over the following lands, &c.: Maru-
whenua Survey District-Block I., Sections Nos. 4,
35, 9, 2, 13, 1, 8, and 12; Block II., Section No. 7;
Block VII., Section No. 18; Block VIII., Sections
Nos. 3 and 1; and terminating at a point in Section
No. 1, Block VIII., aforesaid, distant about 25 chains
in a south-easterly direction from the north-west
corner of said Section No. 1; all within the Provin-
cial District of Otago, 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.
8325, which plan is signed by the Honorable John
Hall, the Minister acting for the Minister for Public
Works, and deposited in the office of the Registrar
of the Supreme Court at Dunedin, in the said pro-
vincial district; the total length being 6 miles 42
chains or thereabouts.

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

JOHN HALL,
Acting Minister for Public Works.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!