Railway Land Taking and Errata




Numb. 135.
1801

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1883.

Land taken for Further Portion of Hurunui-Waitaki Rail-
way.—Branch Line from Washdyke to Opawa, Fairlie
Creek, and Burke's Pass (Fairlie Creek Station).

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken for further portion of the
Hurunui-Waitaki Railway, viz., the branch line from Wash-
dyke to Opawa, Fairlie Creek, and Burke's Pass (Fairlie
Creek Station):
And whereas all conditions precedent required by law to
be observed and performed prior to the taking of such land
in the manner hereby provided have been observed and per-
formed:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of
the powers and authorities conferred by section one hundred
and thirty 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 de-
scribed in the Schedule hereto is taken for the further por-
tion of the said line of railway hereinbefore specified.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasure-
ment 1 rood, being portion of Rural Section No. 20810, com-
mencing at a point on the east side of the Mackenzie Country
Road 100 links from the south-west corner of said Rural
Section No. 20810, and bounded as follows: Towards the
West by the Mackenzie Country Road, 100 links; towards
the North by a line parallel to the southern boundary of said
Rural Section No. 20810, 249-9 links; towards the East by a
line parallel to the Mackenzie Country Road, 100 links; and
towards the South by a line parallel to the northern boun-
dary, 249.9 links, to the commencing point; and being lot
numbered 11 on the subdivision plan of said Rural Section
No. 20810.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasure-
ment 2 roods, being portion of Rural Section No. 20810,
commencing at a point on the east side of the Mackenzie
Country Road 200 links from the south-west corner of said
Rural Section No. 20810, and bounded as follows: Towards
the West by the Mackenzie Country Road, 200 links; towards
the North by a line parallel to the southern boundary of said
Rural Section No. 20810, 249-8 links; towards the East by a
line, 200 links; and towards the South by a line parallel
to the northern boundary, 249.9 links, to the commencing
point; and being lots numbered 9 and 10 on subdivision plan
of said Rural Section No. 20810.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasure-
ment 1 rood, being portion of Rural Section No. 20810, com-
mencing at the south-west corner thereof, and bounded as
follows: Towards the West by the Mackenzie Country Road,
100 links; towards the North by a line parallel to the
southern boundary of said Rural Section No. 20810, 249-9
links; towards the East by a line parallel to the western
boundary, 100 links; and towards the South by the southern
boundary of said Rural Section No. 20810, 249-9 links, to
the commencing point; and being lot numbered 12 on
subdivision plan of said Rural Section No. 20810.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasure-
ment 1 rood 17.4 perches, being portion of Rural Section
No. 20810, commencing at a point on the east side of the
Mackenzie Country Road, 400 links, from the south-west corner
of said Rural Section No. 20810, and bounded as follows:
Towards the West by the Mackenzie Country Road, 231 links;
towards the North-east by the Opihi Gorge Road, 305 links;
towards the East by a line parallel to the Mackenzie Country
Road, 56 links; and towards the South by a line parallel to
the southern boundary of said Rural Section No. 20810, 249-8
links, to the commencing point; and being lots numbered 7
and 8 on the subdivision plan of said Rural Section No.
20810.

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasure-
ment 2 acres 1 rood 34 perches, being portions of Rural
Sections Nos. 22280 and 21121, commencing at the north-
west corner of Rural Section No. 22280, and bounded as fol-
lows: Towards the North by the northern boundary of said
Rural Section No. 22280, 249-9 links; towards the East
by a right line, 844 links; towards the South-east by a right
line, 377-9 links; and towards the West by the Mackenzie
Country Road, 1127-3 links, to the commencing point.

Be all the above areas and linkages either more or less,
and the several parcels of land being situate in the Survey
District of Tengawai, Provincial District of Canterbury, and
are more particularly delineated upon the plan marked
P.W.D. 10978, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works at Wellington, in the Provincial District of
Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General
in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, 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 Wel-
lington, this fifteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-three.

WM. ROLLESTON,
(for the Minister for Public Works.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ERRATA.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 127, of the 6th December, 1883, page 1726, in rules respecting the places and times
for holding the sittings of the Supreme Court in the District of Wellington, for "Monday, 16th August," read
"Monday, 18th August;" and in rules respecting the places and times for holding sittings of the Supreme Court in the
Westland District, for "the year 1883," read "the year 1884."



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  • WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor
  • WM. ROLLESTON, (for the Minister for Public Works.)

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