✨ Railway Land Proclamations
JUNE 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 811
this fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Land taken for a Portion of the Hamilton to Cambridge Railway (Cambridge Station).
(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.
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 the line of railway
from Hamilton to Cambridge, being one of the railways speci-
fied in “The Railways Authorization Act, 1881,” 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 the twenty-
fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two,
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 line of
railway and the land through which the same passes, and such
maps and plans were referred to in such Proclamation as afore-
said : 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public work authorized under the authority of any Act repealed
by this Act, or of any Act or Ordinance repealed by “The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 portion of the said line of railway from Hamilton to
Cambridge :
Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor 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 portion of the said line of railway.
SCHEDULE.
ALL those parcels of land containing by admeasurement
16 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Sections Nos. 411, 412,
413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 422A, 423,
595, 596, 597, 582, and 583, as also portion of Chapel Street
lying between Sections Nos. 418 and 419 aforesaid ; the said
parcels of land being bounded—Northerly by Whitaker Terrace ;
Easterly by Albert Street ; Southerly by Queen Street East ; and
Westerly by Lake Street : the whole being situated in the Town
of Cambridge East, Provincial District of Auckland ; and are
more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P W.D.
10160, 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 Wellington,
this twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Defining the Middle Line of Portion of the Nelson–Greymouth Railway—Nelson to Roundell Section (Wai-iti Contract).
(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the line of railway from Nelson to Greymouth
is one of the railways specified in the First Schedule to
“The Public Works Act, 1879,” and which Act is, in the seventh
section thereof, declared to be a special Act authorizing the
construction of such railway ; and the same is unfinished, and
it has been determined to construct and maintain a further
portion of such railway :
Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and in
pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the
aforesaid section seven of “The Public Works Act, 1879,” and
by sections one hundred and twenty-nine and one hundred and
thirty of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and in exercise of
every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that
behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle line of
the said further portion of the said railway shall be from a
point in Rural Section number forty-six, Wai-iti Survey Dis-
trict, to a point in Section number fifty-two, Gordon Survey
District, all in the Provincial District of Nelson, as defined
and set forth in the Schedule hereto. The said middle line
and the land through which the same passes are set forth in
the map and plan marked P.W.D. 10109, and authenticated for
the purposes of this Proclamation by the signature of the
Honourable Walter Woods Johnston, the Minister for Public
Works, and which said map and plan is deposited in the office
of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Nelson, in the Pro-
vincial District of Nelson.
SCHEDULE.
COMMENCING at a point in Rural Section No. 46, in the Wai-iti
Survey District, the said point being the termination of the
Belgrove portion of the said railway, as described in the
Proclamation dated the 11th June, 1879, and published in
the New Zealand Gazette No. 67, of the 19th June, 1879 ;
and proceeding thence in a generally southerly direction for
2 miles 47 chains or thereabouts, passing in, into, through, or
over the following lands : Sections Nos. 46, 81, 3 of 46, 47, 49,
and terminating at a point in Section No. 52 ; including all
adjoining roads, reserves, streams, rivers, and watercourses ;
all within the Wai-iti and Gordon Survey Districts, Provincial
District of Nelson, Colony of New Zealand ; in the manner
delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 10109, signed by the
Hon. Walter Woods Johnston, the Minister for Public
Works, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Nelson, in the Provincial District of Nelson ;
the total length being 2 miles and 47 chains or thereabouts.
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 Wellington,
this twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.
WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Defining the Middle Line of further Portion of the Hurunui–Waitaki Railway (Siding in Borough of Sydenham).
(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the line of railway from Hurunui to Waitaki
is one of the railways specified in the First Schedule to
“The Public Works Act, 1879,” and which Act is, in the seventh
section thereof, declared to be a special Act authorizing the
construction of such railway ; and the same is unfinished, and
it has been determined to construct and maintain a further
portion of such railway :
Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and in
pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the
aforesaid section seven of “The Public Works Act, 1879,” and
by sections one hundred and twenty-nine and one hundred and
thirty of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and in exercise of
every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that
behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle line of
the said further portion of the said railway shall be from a
point about seven miles from Lyttelton, and one chain east of
the western boundary of Windmill Street, to a point on the
Hurunui–Waitaki Railway aforesaid, as defined and set forth in
the Schedule hereto. The said middle line and the land through
which the same passes are set forth in the map and plan
marked P.W.D. 10155, and authenticated for the purposes of
this Proclamation by the signature of the Honourable Walter.
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