Num. 67. 907

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1884.

Defining the Middle Line of Further Portion of the Otago Central Railway (Nenthorn Contract).

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Otago Central Railway 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 such railway is unfinished, and it has been determined to construct and maintain a further portion of the same:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and 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 as defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Section No. 1, Block VII., Nenthorn Survey District, the said point being the termination of a portion of a railway, as described in a Proclamation dated the 26th October, 1880, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 101, of the 28th October, 1880; proceeding thence in a generally north-westerly direction for a distance of nine miles or thereabouts, and passing in, into, through, or over, the following lands: Nenthorn Survey District, Block VII., Section No. 1; Block VI., Section Nos. 1 and 2 respectively; Block V., Section No. 1; Block 1, Section No. 2; and terminating at a point in said Sections No. 2 distant about 30 chains in a north-easterly direction from the south-west corner of Section No. 2, Block I. aforesaid; all within the Provincial District of Otago and Colony of New Zealand; including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, streams, rivers, and watercourses; in the manner delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 11339, signed by the Hon. John Bryce, the Minister acting for the Minister for Public Works, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago; the total length being nine miles 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 Auckland, this seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Road in Otaki Road District, Provincial District of Wellington.

(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, 1882,” for a certain work, to wit, the construction of a road in the Otaki Road District, Provincial District of Wellington:

And whereas the Otaki Road Board has laid before the Governor the memorial, accompanied by a map, and also the statutory declaration, as required by the said 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 section eleven 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 piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 5 acres 1 rood 30 perches; commencing at a point where the south-western boundary of the Pahianui A Block intersects the south-eastern side of the Otaki River to Township Road. Bounded—Generally North-easterly by the Pahianui A, Pahianui B, Kaingaraki No. 7, and Kainga-

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 119, of the 15th November, 1883, page 1624, appointment of Trustees for the Mauku Cemetery, for “William Barber” read “Hugh Barber.”