Public Works and Land Reservations




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

Native Land proposed to be taken on the Opaki Section of the Wellington-Napier Railway.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of June, 1887.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work authorized to be constructed by the Government, to wit, the Opaki Section of the Wellington-Napier Railway: And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and the amendments thereof, 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 Opaki Section of the Wellington-Napier Railway shall and may be constructed on or through the parcel of land more particularly mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

Approximate Area of the Parcel of Land required to be taken. Being Section or Portion of Section No. Situated in Block No. Situated in the Survey District of
A. R. P. 8 2 8 60 IX. Kopuaranga.

In the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 14762, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.


Lands permanently reserved.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two hundred and twenty-seventh section of “The Land Act, 1885,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the two hundred and twenty-eighth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two hundred and twenty-seventh section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the several warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

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 said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

First Column. Second Column. Third Column. Fourth Column.
DESCRIPTION OF RESERVES. Purpose for which Land reserved. Date of Warrant. Gazette.
Land District. Locality. Section. Block. Area.
Auckland Tuakau 80 .. A. R. P. 23 2 30 Cemetery .. 1887. 30 May 1887. No. 34, 2 June.
Taranaki Town of Opunake .. XI. 2 1 0 Police purposes " "
" " .. VII. 3 0 0 " " "
Hawke’s Bay Tahoraite 79 III. 1 2 0 Travelling stock .. " "
" Borough of Napier 621 .. 0 1 0 School site " "
Wellington Wairoa Run No. 2 XI. 150 2 0 Recreation " "
" " Run No. 3 " 17 1 0 " " "
" " Run No. 4 " 51 3 0 " " "
Marlborough Kaikoura Suburban 347 .. 3 1 5 Road and harbour purposes " "
Canterbury Cook, Mueller, and Cass 2756 (in red) .. .. Recreation " "
Auckland Town of Papakura Lots 6 to 13, 21, 22, 24 Sec. 10 5 3 33 Cemetery 14 June No. 36, 16 June.
Hawke’s Bay Tautane 45 XI. 0 2 33 Signal station " "
" " 46 " 2 0 26 Police station and paddock " "
Wellington Town of Hunter-ville 249 .. 0 0 36·3 Site for a town hall " "
" Mangaone 201 XII. 100 0 0 Recreation " "
" " 202 " 20 0 0 Site for a school " "
Otago Maungatua 31 VII. 373 1 8 Recreation " "
" Town of Roxburgh 16 XVII. 1 0 10 For water-supply for the Town of Roxburgh " "
" " 7, 9, 10 XIX.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

P. A. BUCKLEY,
(For the Minister of Lands.)



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🗺️ Land for Wellington-Napier Railway

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
14 June 1887
Public Works, Railway, Opaki Section, Wellington-Napier, Native Land, Schedule
  • Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council

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26 July 1887
Land Act, Reservations, Cemetery, Police, Travelling Stock, School, Recreation, Road, Harbour, Signal Station, Town Hall, Water Supply
  • Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
  • P. A. Buckley, (For the Minister of Lands)