Numb. 88.

1525

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1882.

Land taken for a Portion of the Waikato-Thames
Railway. Portion of Thames to Hikutaia (4 miles
50 chains).

(L.S) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.
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 lines of portions of the lines of railway
from Waikato to the Thames, and the branch
line to Hamilton, being railways specified in "The
Immigration and Public Works Appropriation
Act, 1878," were 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 twelfth
day of April, and the twenty-ninth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, to be
deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Auckland, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Auckland, such maps and plans as were
necessary to explain the said portions of the said
lines of railway and the land through which the
same passes, and such maps and plans were referred
to in such Proclamations as aforesaid: And whereas
the line of railway from Waikato to the Thames is
the same railway as that referred to in the Proclama-
tions hereinabove recited, and is one of the railways
specified in the "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 two hundred and
twenty-ninth section of "The Public Works Act,
1882," enacts as follows: Any public work autho-
rized under the authority of any Act repealed by
this Act, or of any Act or Ordinance repealed by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, pur-
chased, 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
portions of the railway from Waikato to the Thames :
Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Admin-
istrator 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 a part of the said por-
tions of the line of railway herein last above named.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 55 acres 1 rood 28 perches, being
portion of land below high-water mark vested in the
Thames Harbour Board, commencing at a point 95 links
from the junction of the western boundary of Beach
Road with Burk Street. Bounded-North-easterly
and Northerly by lines, 179 and 1182 links respec-
tively; South-westerly by lines, 2061, 113, and 989
links respectively; South-easterly by a line, 863 links;
South-westerly by lines, 114 and 980 links respectively;
South-easterly by a line, 715 links; South-westerly by
a line, 3465 links; North-westerly by a line, 248 links;
South-westerly by lines, 1833 and 232 links re-
spectively; Westerly by a line, 75 links; Southerly
by a line, 168 links; Easterly by a line, 75 links;
Southerly by a line, 40 links; Easterly by lines, 190
and 395 links respectively; Southerly by a line, 66
links; North-easterly to commencing point by lines
and high-water mark, 1431, 118, 2124, 102, 2131, 122,
832, 223, 113, 804, and 860 links respectively.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 3 roods 16 perches, being portion of
Kauaeranga South No. 28, commencing at the western-