SEPT. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1221

signature of the Honorable Walter Woods Johnston,
Minister for Public Works, and which said map and
plan is deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Christchurch, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury.

described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for
the purposes of a road; and that, from and after the
day of the date hereof, 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.

COMMENCING at a point in Crown land known as
Birdling's Flat, in the Little River Road District,
the said point being the termination of the Ellesmere
portion of the Little River and Akaroa Railway, as
described in the Proclamation dated the 8th July,
1879, and published in the New Zealand Gazette
No. 73, of the 10th July, 1879; proceeding thence in
a generally easterly direction for a distance of two
miles or thereabouts, and passing in, into, through,
or over the following lands, viz.: Crown lands, Bird-
ling's Flat, Reserve No. 250, and along the northern
shore of Lake Forsyth, and terminating at a point on
the shore of Lake Forsyth distant about 5 chains in
an easterly direction from the south-westernmost
corner of Rural Section No. 1850; including all ad-
joining roads, reserves, streams, rivers, and water-
courses; all within the said Little River Road Dis-
trict, Provincial District of Canterbury, Colony of
New Zealand; in the manner delineated upon the plan
marked P.W.D. 9182, signed by the Honorable
Walter Woods Johnston, Minister for Public Works,
and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Christchurch; the total length
being two miles or thereabouts.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land in the Hororata
Survey District, Provincial District of Canterbury,
Nos. 1A and 2A, containing by admeasurement 25
perches, being part of Rural Section No. 14758,
commencing at a point at the intersection of the
north-west boundary of Rural Section No. 328 with
the north-eastern boundary of the Christchurch Road.
Bounded as follows: South-westerly by said road, 115
links; North-westerly by Short Street, 124 links;
North-easterly by public road, 100 links; South-
easterly by Rural Section No. 328 to commencing
point, 163 links: be all the aforesaid linkages either
more or less; and the same being more particularly
delineated upon the map attached to the memorial
above referred to.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice,
the Administrator of the Government of
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
second day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice,
the Administrator of the Government of
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
fourth day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for Road in the South Malvern Road
District, Canterbury.

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

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 South
Malvern Road District, Provincial District of Can-
terbury:

And whereas the South Malvern 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, James Prendergast, the Admin-
istrator of the Government of the Colony of New
Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said colony, in exercise and
pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested
by sections 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

Regulations under the Property Assessment Acts.

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fourth day of September, 1882.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and in pursuance of all powers vested
in him by "The Property Assessment Act, 1879,"
"The Property Assessment Act Amendment Act,
1880," and "The Property Assessment Act Amend-
ment Act, 1881," and all other powers and authori-
ties in that behalf enabling him, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the
following regulations for the purposes of the said
Acts, to take effect from the date of the gazetting
hereof, that is to say, -

The form of statement of property required by the
said Acts to be made by persons owning, or trustees
or agents for, any property in the colony shall be that
set forth in the Schedule A hereto, in lieu of that
hitherto in use.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.