1494
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 87

Woods Johnston, Minister for Public Works, de-
posited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme
Court at New Plymouth, in the Provincial District
of Taranaki; the total length being 1 mile 17
chains or thereabouts.

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

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Portion of the Picton-Hurunui
Railway. Further Portion of Vernon Contract.

(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 line of railway from
Picton to Hurunui (Vernon Contract), 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 thirteenth day of
December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
one, to be deposited in the office of the Registrar of
the Supreme Court at Blenheim, in the Provincial
District of Marlborough, such maps and plans as were
necessary to explain the said portion of the said 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under the authority of any Act repealed by this Act,
or of any Act or Ordinance repealed by "The Public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 a part of the said portion of the said line
of railway from Picton to Hurunui:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Adminis-
trator 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 part of the said
line of railway.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 36 perches, being part of Allotment
No. 63 of the subdivision of Section No. 46; com-
mencing at the north-west corner of said Allotment
No. 63. Bounded-Northerly by Allotment No. 61,
159 links; North-easterly by other part of said
Allotment No. 63, 103.8 links; Easterly by Freswick
Street, 50 links; Southerly by Allotment No. 65,
250 links; and Westerly by Allotment No. 62 to
commencing point, 100 links.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 33 perches, being part of Allotment
No. 114 of Section No. 46; commencing at the north-
west corner of said Allotment No. 114. Bounded-
Northerly by Kinross Street, 250 links; Easterly by
Allotment No. 115, 100 links; Southerly by Allot-
ment No. 112, 126.3 links; South-westerly by other
parts of said Allotment No. 114, 141.1 links; and
Westerly by Freswick Street to commencing point,
32 links.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing
by admeasurement 39 perches, being part of Allot-
ment No. 113 of the subdivision of Section No. 46;
commencing at the north-west corner of said Allot-
ment No. 113. Bounded-Northerly by Allotment
No. 115, 250 links; Easterly by a street, 100
links; Southerly by Allotment No. 111, 194.4 links;
South-westerly by other part of said Allotment No.
113, 63.4 links; and Westerly by Allotment No. 112
to commencing point, 69.4 links.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 39 perches, being part of Allotment
No. 108 of the subdivision of Section No. 46;
commencing at the north-west corner of said Allot-
ment No. 108. Bounded-Northerly by Allotment
No. 110, 196.7 links; North-easterly by other part of
said Allotment No. 108, 60.8 links; Easterly by Allot-
ment No. 109, 70.7 links; Southerly by Allotment
No. 106, 250 links; and Westerly by Freswick Street
to commencing point, 100 links.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 33 perches, being part of Allotment
No. 107 of the subdivision of Section No. 46; com-
mencing at the north-west corner of said Allotment
No. 107. Bounded-Northerly by Allotment No. 109
of said subdivision, 128.7 links; North-easterly by
other part of said Allotment No. 107, 138.4 links;
Easterly by a Street, 33.3 links; Southerly by Allot-
ment No. 105, 250 links; and Westerly by Allotment
No. 106 of said subdivision to commencing point,
100 links.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 27 perches, being part of Section
No. 46; commencing at a point on the north side of
South Street 1152 links east of Redwood Street.
Bounded-Westerly by a street, 191.4 links; North-
easterly by other portion of said part of Section No.
46, 96.1 links; Easterly by Nicholson Terrace, 149.8
links; and Southerly by South Street to commencing
point, 121.7 links.

Be all the aforesaid linkages and areas either more
or less; the several parcels of land being situated in
the Borough of Blenheim, Survey District of Opawa,
Provincial District of Marlborough, Colony of New
Zealand; and are more particularly delineated upon
the plan marked P.W.D. 9281, deposited in the
office of the Minister for Public Works, at Welling-
ton, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

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