Num. 52.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1886.

Land taken for Further Portion of Waimea-Switzers Railway (Riversdale Section).

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for further portion of the Waimea-Switzers Railway, namely, Riversdale Section:

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

SCHEDULE.

The several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Otago; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 12809, deposited in the office for the Minister for Public Works, at 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 eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Lands declared to be Waste Lands of the Crown.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto have been purchased out of the sums authorized under “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870,” and Acts amending the same, to be issued and expended in the purchase of lands in the North Island of New Zealand, and it is expedient that the said lands should be declared to be waste lands of the Crown:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, being satisfied that the lands described in the Schedule hereto are free from Native claims and all difficulties in connection therewith, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the seventeenth section of “The Waste Lands Administration Act, 1876,” and the twenty-eighth section of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” and all other authorities enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare the said lands to be waste lands of the Crown, subject, except as in the first-mentioned Act provided, to be sold and dealt with according to the provisions of the laws regulating the sale and disposal of waste lands of the Crown in force in the land districts in which they are respectively situated.

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 39, of the 18th June, 1885, page 777, in Notice of Appointment of Members of Examination Board, Otago District, for “Captain Robert Smith,” Dunedin Naval Artillery Volunteers, read “Captain George Roberts Smith.”