Num. 72.

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1883.

Land taken for a Road in Wairoa Road District, Provincial District of Auckland.

(l.s.) Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1876,” and “The Public Works Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878,” for a certain work, to wit, the construction of a road in the Wairoa Road District, Provincial District of Auckland:

And whereas the Wairoa Road Board has laid before the Governor the memorial and map mentioned in, and signed and certified as required by, the said Acts:

And whereas the two hundred and twenty-ninth section of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” enacts that any public work authorized under the authority of any Act repealed by this Act or of any Act or Ordinance repealed by “The Public Works Act, 1876,” and any land required to be taken, purchased, or acquired for such work, or anything commenced under any such authority as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:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by sections eleven 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 hereby taken for the purposes of a road; and that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the land so described shall become absolutely vested in fee-simple in Her Majesty, discharged from all mortgages, charges, claims, estates, or interests of what kind soever, for use as a road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 3 roods 6 perches, more or less, situated in the Parish of Taupo, in the Wairoa Highway District, and being a road-line 100 links wide traversing Allotment No. 4. Bounded—North-westerly generally by lines, 1155 and 3736 links respectively; Easterly by a line, 124 links; South-easterly generally by lines, 3632 and 1052 links respectively; Southerly by a road-line, 124 links, to the commencing point: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan attached to the memorial above referred to.

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-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Extension of Time for Preparation of Burgess Roll, Borough of Greymouth.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of July, 1883.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the valuation roll of the Borough of Greymouth was not completed in sufficient time to prepare therefrom the burgess roll of the said borough within the times prescribed by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876:” And whereas the burgesses of the said borough failed to elect auditors on the first day of June last as required by the said Act; and it is expedient to extend the times for preparing the said burgess roll, and for holding the said election of auditors:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority vested in him by the twelfth section of the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby extend the time for the doing of the matters and things in connection with the burgess list or rolls of the said Borough of Greymouth, and for holding the said election of auditors; and doth hereby declare that the times of the doing of such several matters and things shall be those which are specified in the Schedule hereto annexed.