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anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Otago; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 15616, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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 May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Vesting Control of Ford over Waimate Creek in Waimate County Council.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, upon the terms and conditions in the said section mentioned, by Proclamation publicly noticed, direct that any ferry or ford already established, or which may hereafter be established, over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively, shall, from and after a date to be fixed in such Proclamation, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of such local authority as shall be mentioned in that behalf in such Proclamation:

And whereas it is expedient that the control and management of the ford described in the Schedule hereto should be vested in the manner hereinafter described:

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 the said Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the ford described in the Schedule hereto and known as “the Waimate Creek Ford,” shall, from and after the date of the first publication hereof in the Waimate Times newspaper, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Waimate County Council; and I do hereby fix and determine that the Waimate County Council shall itself provide out of its own funds three-fourths of the cost of managing and maintaining the said ford, and the appliances, if any, connected therewith; and that the Borough Council of Waimate shall, on demand in writing from the said Waimate County Council, pay to the said Council from time to time one-fourth part of the actual cost of managing and maintaining the said ford and the appliances connected therewith.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the Gorge Road crossing the Waimate Creek in continuation of the street called the Gorge Road, in the Borough of Waimate, Provincial District of Canterbury; as indicated on the plan marked P.W.D. 15609, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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 May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Additional Land taken at Waitara for the Purposes of the Sentry Hill to Waitara Branch of the Foxton–New Plymouth Railway.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Sentry Hill to Waitara Branch of the Foxton–New Plymouth Railway, to take further land at Waitara, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by “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 purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Taranaki; as the said parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 15129, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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 May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Additional Land taken at Hackthorne Station for the Purposes of the Upper Ashburton Branch of the Hurunui–Waitaki Railway.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Upper Ashburton Branch of the Hurunui–Waitaki Railway, to take further land at Hackthorne Station, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by “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 purposes above mentioned.