JUNE 15.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 841

Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
seventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two.

H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a further Portion of the Foxton to
New Plymouth Railway (additional Portion for
Normanby Station).

(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 further portion of the railway
from Napier to a junction with the railway from
New Plymouth to Waitara at Sentry Hill, passing
by Pakipaki, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Takapau, the
Manawatu Gorge, Bunnythorpe, and Wanganui,
with a branch from the main line at Bunnythorpe
to Foxton through Palmerston, being one of the
railways specified in the said Act, 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 sixth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine, to be deposited in
the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at
New Plymouth, in the Provincial District of Taranaki,
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 Procla-
mation as aforesaid: And whereas the line of
railway from Foxton to New Plymouth is the same
railway as that referred to in the Proclamation here-
inabove recited and is one of the railways specified
in "The Public Works Act, 1879," and it is enacted
by the Act last named 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 described in the Schedule hereto is required
to be taken for Normanby Station purposes, on the
said further portion of the railway from Foxton to
New Plymouth :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
of the powers and authorities conferred by the sixth
section of "The Public Works Act 1876 Amendment
Act, 1878," and of every power and authority in that
behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land
described in the Schedule hereto is taken for the
said portion of the line of railway herein last above
named.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 3 roods 36 perches, situated in the
Provincial District of Taranaki, being portion of
Section No. 17, Hawera Survey District, com-
mencing at a point on the western boundary of
land already acquired for railway purposes distant
about 509 links from its intersection with the
north-eastern boundary of Section No. 17 aforesaid.
Bounded on the North by part of said section, 100
links; on the East and South-east by land taken for
railway purposes, 875 and 228 links respectively;
and on the West by part of the aforesaid section to
the commencing point, 1081 links.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 3 roods 14 perches, also being portion
of the aforesaid Section No. 17, commencing at a
point on the western boundary of Ketemarae Road
48 links distant from the north-eastern corner of
Section No. 17 aforesaid. Bounded on the North
by part of said section, 311 links; on the East by
the Ketemarae Road, 406 links; on the South by
land taken for railway purposes, 144 links; and on
the West to the commencing point by land so taken,
371 links: be the aforesaid linkages either more or
less; as the same is more particularly delineated
upon the plan marked P.W.D. 9048, deposited in
the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wel-
lington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

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

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Declaring "Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,"
in force within the Oxford Road District, County
of Ashley.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue of the power vested in me by the third
section of "The Regulation of Local Elections
Act, 1876," I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the said Act shall come into force, in
respect of all the elective offices of the Oxford Road
Board, within the district known as the Oxford Road
District.

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

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Allocating Land in the Kaikoura Public Cemetery to
certain Religious Denominations.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities enabling
me in that behalf by the thirty-second section of