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415

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1889.

Village-homestead Special-settlement Land in Otago with-
drawn and opened as an Ordinary Village Settlement.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by the sixth section of "The Land
Act, 1885," I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare
that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the Procla-
mation of the seventh day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-six, so far as it relates to the sections
mentioned in the Schedule to an Order in Council of even
date herewith, shall be and the same is hereby revoked; and
do proclaim and declare that the said sections are hereby
withdrawn from the village-homestead special-settlement
system; and, in pursuance of the provisions of section one
hundred and sixty-six of the said Act, I do hereby set apart
the said sections as a village settlement, upon the terms and
conditions set forth in the said Order in Council, and made
under the one hundred and sixty-seventh section of the said
Act.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James
Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, the Adminis-
trator of the Government of Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this eighteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-nine.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
(For the Minister of Lands.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Declaring that certain Fences constructed in connection
with the Picton-Hurunui Railway shall be maintained
at the Cost of Her Majesty the Queen.

(L.S.) JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section fifteen of "The
Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1887," that the
Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation publicly
gazetted, declare, on behalf of Her Majesty, that any fences

constructed, or intended to be constructed, by or on behalf of
Her Majesty, for separating land taken for the use of any
railway in such Proclamation mentioned from the adjoining
lands not taken, shall, to such extent as is mentioned in
such Proclamation, be thereafter maintained, or erected and
maintained, as the case may require, at the cost of Her
Majesty during such time as the railway may continue to be
used by or on behalf of the Government of New Zealand:

And whereas it is desirable that the fences constructed
on behalf of Her Majesty (to the extent mentioned in the
Schedule below) shall be maintained, as hereinafter set
forth:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me
by section fifteen of "The Public Works Acts Amendment
Act, 1887," and of every other power and authority in any-
wise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby declare that the
fences erected on behalf of Her Majesty, to the extent indi-
cated in the Schedule hereunder, shall be hereafter wholly
maintained at the cost of Her said Majesty during such time
as the said railway may continue to be used by the Govern-
ment of New Zealand or by the New Zealand Railway Com-
missioners.

SCHEDULE.

PICTON-HURUNUI RAILWAY: DASHWOOD SECTION.

FENCING at both sides of railway throughout the whole ex-
tent to which it passes through Sections Nos. 16 and 17,
Opawa District, and those portions of Sections Nos. 6 and 7
of Block II., Omaka District, which formed part of the estate
of Ralph Richardson the younger at the date of such por-
tions of such sections being taken for railway purposes; all
in the Survey District of Clifford Bay, Provincial District of
Marlborough.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James
Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, the Adminis-
trator of the Government of Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this twenty-second day of April, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-nine.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!