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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1885.

Land taken for Further Portion of Wellington-Napier Railway (Land at Waiohine River).

(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 Wellington-Napier Railway, namely, land at Waiohine River:

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 performed:

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 described in the Schedule hereto is taken for the further portion of the said line of railway hereinbefore specified.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 8 acres 2 roods 31 perches, more or less, situate in the Survey District of Tiffen, Provincial District of Wellington, being portion of Section No. 216, Block IX.; commencing at a point on the Wellington and Masterton Railway fence being the most eastern corner of land already acquired for railway purposes by Transfer No. 8561. Bounded—South-easterly by the Wellington and Masterton Railway, 188 links; Southerly and Westerly by the land already acquired 2075 links or thereabouts, by the Waiohine River 850 links or thereabouts, by river-bed 504 links and 380 links respectively; North-westerly by river-bed and other part of said Section No. 216, 336 links; North-easterly by other part of said Section No. 216, 1940, 580, 390, and 379 links respectively, to the commencing point: as the same is more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 12289, 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 Christchurch, this twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

J. BALLANCE,
(for the Minister for Public Works.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Land set apart on Deferred Payments in Auckland.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifty-third section of “The Land Act, 1877,” it is enacted that the Governor, by Proclamation in the Gazette, may from time to time set apart out of any suburban or rural lands such blocks or allotments of land as he shall think fit, and set the same aside for sale on deferred payments, and in such Proclamation may fix a day on which the land shall be open for application; and that he may also in like manner set apart for sale on deferred payments such blocks or allotments as may be recommended by any Land Board, and may also from time to time alter, amend, or revoke any such Proclamation:

And whereas the Land Board of Auckland have passed resolutions recommending that the land described in the Schedule hereto annexed should be set apart for sale on deferred payments:

And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the aforesaid recommendations, and to set apart the said land accordingly:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the above-named Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is set apart for sale on deferred payments; and that Wednesday, the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, shall be the day on which the said land shall be open for application in allotments, as surveyed and marked on the selection map in the principal land office of the district.

And, further, in pursuance of the fifth section of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” I do hereby fix the price at which the land so described shall be sold to be the price stated in the Schedule hereto.