MAY 25.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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generally to be the Engineer referred to in the said | tion and Land Act, 1881," shall include the direction
contract as "the Engineer."

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twentieth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
two.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

Polling-places appointed for Wakanui Electoral Dis-
trict.

A. GORDON, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections
Act, 1881," it is enacted that the Governor
may from time to time appoint, alter, and abolish
polling-places for each electoral district within the
limits thereof, and may appoint any one of such
polling-places to be the principal polling-place of the
district, and that no polling-place shall be appointed
unless the Governor shall be first satisfied that the
place to be appointed is more convenient than any
others for at least twenty electors to record their
votes thereat:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
abolish the existing polling-places for the Wakanui
Electoral District, and do hereby appoint the follow-
ing places to be the polling-places and the principal
polling-place for the said Wakanui Electoral Dis-
trict, namely :-

County Sale-yards, Ashburton (principal).
The Town Hall, Rakaia.
The Schoolhouse, Wakanui.
The Road Board Office, Longbeach.
The Pendarves Schoolhouse, Chertsey Road.
The Stationmaster's House, Hinds.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-second day of
May, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two.

THOMAS DICK.

Notice of Contract having been entered into by Her
Majesty the Queen and the Wellington and Mana-
watu Railway Company (Limited).

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council hereby
directs it to be notified that, under the powers
conferred upon the Governor in Council by "The
Railways Construction and Land Act, 1881," a con-
tract was, on the 20th day of March, 1882, made
between Her Majesty the Queen and the Wellington
and Manawatu Railway Company (Limited), of
which the following is the general purport, viz. :-

1. The Company shall, at its own expense, within
   five years, construct, and thereafter maintain and
   work, a line of railway between Wellington and the
   north side of the Manawatu River, connecting with
   the Foxton and New Plymouth Railway.

2. The specifications and drawings to be from time
   to time approved by an Engineer appointed for that
   purpose by the Governor, and are to accord as nearly
   as may be with the standard specifications and
   drawings in use on the New Zealand Government
   Railways.

3. All rolling-stock and plant to be of like charac-
   ter and strength as in use on the said Government
   railways.

4. The Company to expend within the first year
   not less than £50,000, so as to enable some complete
   section or sections to be fit for traffic as early as
   possible.

5. The power of inspection by the Governor, pro-
   vided for by section 48 of "The Railways Construc-

6. The Company shall not assign, charge, or dis-
   pose of any part of their contract without the consent
   of the Governor.

7. The Company to be put in possession of that
   portion of the line already partly constructed; the
   lands being subject to any conditions of contract or
   agreement entered into by the Queen or the Minister
   for Public Works.

8. The Company to have the right to deposit spoil
   or material taken from the works on the line upon
   certain land now covered with water in Wellington
   Harbour, so as to reclaim the same.

The Company to take such steps as the law
requires for obtaining legislative authority to reclaim ;
and, on obtaining such authority, the Company to
carry out the said reclamation within five years.

Upon the completion of the line of railway the
said reclamation to be conveyed to the Company.

No claim for compensation is to arise should
legislative sanction for the above reclamation be
refused.

9. The plant and material mentioned in the First
   Schedule to the contract to be granted and delivered
   to the Company from time to time as may be required
   for use on the said line of railway.

10. The lands mentioned in the Second Schedule
    to the contract, of the estimated value of £96,570, to
    be withdrawn from sale and set apart for the purpose
    of being granted to the Company. The selection of
    such land after the construction of the said railway,
    or of any completed section thereof, to be as follows:-

(a.) For the purposes of such selection the
estimated cost of constructing the line of
railway shall be £5,000 per mile, and the
whole length 84 miles;

(b.) The land to be valued at the prices fixed in
the said Second Schedule;

(c.) For the purposes of selection the line of
railway is divided into twelve sections, and, on
the Minister for Public Works being satisfied
that the line of railway or any section thereof
is completed and fit for traffic, the Company
shall select and receive a grant for so much of
the lands as, looking to the Schedule prices
thereof, it may be entitled to in respect of the
number of miles completed. Any dispute as
to the area to be selected to be decided by the
Governor, and the selection to be subject to
the Governor's approval.

Every grant of land to be subject to the provi-
sions of "The Railways Construction and
Land Act, 1881," and all dealings with land
by the Company to be in conformity with the
rules and regulations of the Third Schedule
of the contract; provided that no right, title,
or interest in any lands proposed to be with-
drawn from sale shall exist, unless the alloca-
tion of the land so set aside and intended to
be granted to the Company shall be approved
by the General Assembly, as prescribed by
sections 13 and 14 of "The Railways Con-
struction and Land Act, 1881."

The land mentioned in the Second Schedule not
being sufficient to provide the requisite endowment
of land, it is further agreed,–

11. That if the Queen shall within five years
    acquire certain additional specified lands, and such
    lands or a proportionate part thereof are, in the
    opinion of the Governor, available for the purpose,
    the same shall be withdrawn from sale, and subject