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bearing 130° 7′ for 120 links; by a line bearing 16° 23′ for 340 links; by the bank of the Grey River in a general north-westerly direction for 1265 and 2790 links respectively; by the bank of the Grey River in a general westerly direction for 500 and 1400 links respectively; by the outer edge of the quay-wall and the wharf on the Grey River in a general westerly direction for 2735 links; thence to the commencing-point by a line bearing 186° 15′ for 91 links.

Also all that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 10 acres 3 roods 8 perches, more or less, situate in the Survey District of Arnold, Provincial District of Westland, being portion of Native Reserve No. 33, commencing at a point marked Y on plan, distant 375 links, and bearing 228° 25′ from the 3-miles 30-chains peg on the Brunner Railway. Bounded as follows: By a line bearing 73° 33′ for 777·3 links; by a line bearing 96° 40′ for 2770·4 links; by a line bearing 1° 57′ 42″ for 302·2 links; by a line bearing 276° 40′ for 2804·3 links; by a line bearing 252° 12′ for 747 links; thence to the commencing-point by a line bearing 182° 1′ 53″ for 296·8 links.

Be all the above areas and linkages either more or less; as the same are more particularly delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 13946, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow and green.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Native Land taken for a Portion of the North Island Main Trunk Line of Railway from a Point at or near Marton to Te Awamutu, via Murimotu, Taumarunui, and the Ongaruhe River Valley (Portion of Porewa Contract).

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Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of July, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order that the Government work known as the North Island Main Trunk Line of Railway, from a point at or near Marton to Te Awamutu, via Murimotu, Taumarunui, and the Ongaruhe River Valley (portion of Porewa Contract), shall and may be constructed on or through the parcel of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 13729, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Vesting Reserves in the Town of Gordon (East Gore).

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Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor:

WHEREAS by section seventeen of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is provided that the reserves to be made for any borough or town district under such section shall be made only in cases where no such reserves for the purpose of sections three, five, and six of “The Plans of Towns Regulation Act, 1875,” exist therein, or, if existing, do not equal or exceed the amount of reserves authorized to be made under such last-mentioned Act:

And whereas the existing reserves for the Town of Gordon do not equal the amount of reserves authorized to be made under “The Plans of Towns Regulation Act, 1875,” and it appears expedient to make the reserves hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the seventeenth section of “The Land Act, 1885,” and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby declare that the lands enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby reserved for the purpose stated opposite to the descriptions of such land in the second column hereto, for the benefit of the Town of Gordon, as constituted under the provisions of “The Town Districts Act, 1881,” on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.

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SCHEDULE.

TOWN OF GORDON.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

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Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve at Westport.

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Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to make, change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in Her Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and, in the case of any reserves made under the authority of section two hundred and twenty-seven of “The Land Act, 1885,” if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserves or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II., the Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, declare his intention to make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the first column of the Schedule hereto to the specific purpose set opposite such description in the second column of the said Schedule.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands,