1590

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 92

seventy-nine, to be deposited in the office of the
Registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland, in the
Provincial District of Auckland, 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 Proclamation as aforesaid: And
whereas the line of railway from Whangarei to
Kamo 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 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repealed by this Act, or of any Act or Ordinance
repealed by "The Public Works Act, 1876," and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, en-
forced, and completed under the provisions of this
Act: And whereas the land described in the Sche-
dule hereto is required to be taken for a part of the
said portion of the said railway from Whangarei to
Kamo:

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
portion of the line of railway herein last above
named.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods 10 perches, being
portion of Opau No. 1, Whangarei District, com-
mencing at a point 949 links from the northernmost
corner of Opau No. 2. Bounded-North-easterly by
a line, 1000 links; Westerly by high-water mark;
South-westerly by a line, 315 links; South-easterly
to commencing point by a line, 386 links.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 8 acres 1 rood 31 perches, being
portion of Opau No. 1, Whangarei District. Bounded
-North-easterly and North-westerly by right lines
1037, 25, and 2528 links respectively, and by a curved
line 1745 links; Northerly by a line, 200 links;
South-westerly by a right line 70 links, by a curved
line 1824 links, and by a right line 2528 links;
North-westerly by a line, 125 links; South-westerly
by a line, 500 links; Southerly to commencing point
by high-water mark.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by
admeasurement 3 acres 1 rood 2 perches, being portion
of Opau No. 2, Whangarei District, commencing at
a point 949 links from the northernmost corner of
said Opau No. 2. Bounded-Northerly by a line,
386 links; South-westerly and South-easterly by
lines, 284 and 100 links respectively; South-westerly
by a curved line 347 links, by a right line 1128
links; Easterly by a line, 327 links; North-easterly
to commencing point by a right line 870 links, by a
curved line 422 links, and by a right line 42 links.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by

admeasurement 3 acres 3 roods 24 perches, situate
in the Survey District of Whangarei, being portion
of the Whangarei High School Endowment. Bounded
-South-westerly by other portion of said endow-
ment, 1150 links; Northerly and Easterly to com-
mencing point by high-water mark.

The several parcels of land being situate in the
Provincial District of Auckland, and are more par-
ticularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D.
8720, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial Dis-
trict 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
twenty-eighth 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 Hurunui-Waitaki
Railway (Branch Line from the Washdyke to
Opawa, Fairlie Creek, and Burke's Pass).--Albury
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 Opawa Branch
Extension Railway (Albury Contract), being one of
the railways specified in "The Immigration and
Public Works Appropriation Act, 1878," was de-
fined: 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 twenty-first day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, to be
deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Christchurch, in the Provincial
District of Canterbury, 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 Proclamation as aforesaid :
And whereas the branch line of railway from
the Washdyke to Opawa, Fairlie Creek, and Burke's
Pass (Hurunui-Waitaki Railway) includes the rail-
way 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 rail-
ways 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,