Numb. 106.

1823

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1882.

Land taken for a Portion of the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway (Branch Line from the Washdyke to Opawa, Fairlie Creek, and Burke’s Pass).—Albury Downs Section.

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

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 branch line of railway from Washdyke to Opawa, Fairlie Creek, and Burke’s Pass from the main line, Hurunui to Waitaki Railway (Albury Downs Section), 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 nineteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, to be deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, such maps and plans as were necessary to explain the said portion of the aforesaid 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 two hundred and twenty-ninth section of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” enacts as follows: Any public work authorized under the authority of any Act repealed by this Act or of any Act or Ordinance repealed by “The Public Works Act, 1876,” and any land required to be taken, purchased, or acquired for such work, or anything commenced under any such authority as aforesaid, may be continued, taken, purchased or acquired, executed, carried out, enforced, and completed under the provisions of this Act: And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for the said portion of the branch line of railway from the Washdyke to Opawa, Fairlie Creek, and Burke’s Pass (Hurunui-Waitaki Railway):

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by sections one hundred and thirty and two hundred and twenty-nine of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is taken for the said portion of the said branch line of railway.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 1 rood 7 perches, being portion of Section No. 11607, commencing at a point on the south-easternmost corner of said section. Bounded as follows: North-easterly by a public road, 432 links; North-westerly by a line, 365 links; South-westerly by the Tengawai River to commencing point.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods 36 perches, being portion of Section No. 30839, commencing at a point situate 1442 links on a bearing of 34° 40′ from the north-easternmost corner of said section. Bounded as follows: North-easterly by a line, 240 links; South-easterly by a line, 347 links; North-easterly by a line, 1273 links; South-westerly by lines, 404 and 923 links respectively; North-westerly by a line to commencing point, 189 links.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods 12 perches, being portion of Section No. 11608, commencing at a point on the western boundary of public road about 6529 links distant from the southernmost corner of Section No. 18306. Bounded as follows: North-westerly by a line, 842 links; South-westerly by a line, 1111 links; Easterly by a line to commencing point, 1099 and 826 links respectively.