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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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

JOHN HALL,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Portion of the Wellington-Napier
Railway at Clareville Railway Station.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Proclamations 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 railway from
Wellington to a junction with the railway from Napier
to Sentry Hill, being one of the railways specified in
"The Public Works Act, 1876," was defined: And
whereas pursuant to the one hundred and twenty-fifth
section of "The Public Works Act, 1876," the Minis-
ter for Public Works has caused to be made and, on
the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, to be deposited in the
office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wel-
lington, in the Provincial District of Wellington,
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-
mations as aforesaid: And whereas the line of rail-
way from Wellington to Napier is the same railway as
that referred to in the Proclamation hereinabove
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 pro-
visions 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 a part of the said portion of the rail-
way from Wellington to Napier :

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 a part
of the said portion of the line of railway from Wel-
lington to Napier.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre 2 roods 7 perches, being portion
of Section No. 188, commencing at a point at the
intersection of the north-western boundary of land
acquired for the Wellington and Masterton Railway,
2nd July, 1879, with the south-western boundary of
public road. Bounded as follows: South-easterly by
said land, 1028 links; South-westerly by a line, 154
links; North-westerly by a line, 1035 links; North-
easterly by public road to commencing point, 154
links.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre and 4 perches, being portion of
Section No. 188, commencing at a point at the inter-
section of the south-eastern boundary of land acquired
[No. 8
for the Wellington and Masterton Railway, 2nd July,
1879, with the south-western boundary of public road.
Bounded as follows: North-easterly by said road, 102
links; South-easterly by a line, 1028 links; South-
westerly by a line, 100 links; North-westerly by land
already acquired to commencing point, 1028 links.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 1 acre 1 rood 14 perches, being portion
of Section No. 187, commencing at a point at the
intersection of the north-western boundary of land
acquired for the Wellington and Masterton Railway,
2nd July, 1879, with the north-eastern boundary of
public road. Bounded as follows: South-easterly by
land already acquired, 691 links; North-easterly by
a line, 200 links; North-westerly by a line, 644 links;
South-westerly by public road, 206 links.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 2 roods 35 perches, being portion
of Section No. 187, commencing at a point at the
intersection of the south-eastern boundary of land
acquired for the Wellington and Masterton Railway,
2nd July, 1879, with the north-eastern boundary of
public road. Bounded as follows: North-westerly by
said land, 713 links; North-easterly by a line, 99 links;
South-easterly by a line, 737 links; South-westerly
by a line to commencing point, 101 links: be all the
aforesaid areas and linkages either more or less, and
the several parcels of land being situate in the Tara-
tahi Plain Block, Wairarapa West County, Provincial
District of Wellington, and are more particularly
delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 8199, de-
posited in the office of the Minister for Public Works
at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wel-
lington.

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

JOHN HALL,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for Portion of Wellington-Napier
Railway.

(L.S.) ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a portion of a certain railway was
proclaimed in the New Zealand Gazette of the
twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two, under the name of the
Wellington to Masterton Railway, and the said
railway now forms part of the Wellington-Napier
Railway: And whereas the land described in the
Schedule hereto is required for a part of the said
Wellington-Napier Railway:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, by virtue and in pur-
suance of the power conferred upon him by the sixth
and fourteenth sections of "The Public Works Act
1876 Amendment Act, 1878," and of every other
power enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby de-
clare and proclaim that the said land so described in