Numb. 37.

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1893.

Allocating Land reserved and taken for a Railway to the
Purposes of a Road in Oxford Road District.

(L.s.)
GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
forms part of land taken for the purposes of the
Rangiora to Sheffield Railway, and it is considered desirable
to allocate such land to the purposes of a road:

And whereas it has been certified by the New Zealand
Railway Commissioners that such land is not required for
railway purposes: And whereas such land is situated in
the Oxford Road District, the local authority of which has
consented to the issue of this Proclamation:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor is of opinion
that the said local authority can conveniently construct and
maintain the said road:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance
of the powers and authorities in me vested by section five
of "The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1889," and of
every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in
that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land
described in the Schedule hereto shall, upon the publication
hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, become a road, and that
the said road shall be under the control of the Oxford Road
Board, and shall be maintained by the said Board in like
manner as other public highways are controlled and maintained by the said Board.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, situated in
Block X., Oxford Survey District, being a strip of land for
the most part 1 chain in width, and forming portion of
Reserve No. 1080 and of Rural Sections Nos. 3599 and 6766.
Bounded by a line commencing at a point on the west side
of the road forming the east boundary of subdivision Lot
No. 12 of Reserve No. 1080, distant 225·7 links in a south-
east direction from the south-east corner of said Lot No. 12;
and proceeding thence south-westerly, at a bearing of 243°
25', a distance of 724 links to the western boundary of the
railway land; thence southerly along the western boundary-
line of the railway land a distance of 27·6 links; thence
south-westerly and southerly along the north-western and
western boundary-line of the railway land a distance of
1050·9 links to the southern boundary of the said Rural
Section No. 6766; thence easterly, at a bearing of 89° 11',
along that boundary a distance of 100·4 links; thence
northerly, at a bearing of 354° 24', a distance of 254·6 links;
thence north-easterly, at bearings of 25° 43', 60° 55', and
63° 25', distances respectively of 99·6, 343·8, and 937·2 links,
to the west side of the road first mentioned; and thence

northerly along the west side of the said road to the com-
mencing-point, a distance of 104·7 links: be all the aforesaid
linkages more or less; as the same is delineated upon the
plan marked S.G. 19989, deposited in the Head Office of the
Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land
District of Wellington, and thereon coloured purple.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight
Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of
Saint Michael and Saint George; 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 Wellington, this
sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

God save the Queen!

Proclaiming Portion of Woodbury Domain Reserve, Canterbury, to be a Road.

(L.s.)
GLASGOW, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by
section thirteen of "The Land Act, 1892," I, David,
Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
do, by this notice, hereby proclaim the portion of the Wood-
bury Domain Reserve hereinafter described to be a road,
that is to say:-

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, situated
in Block VII., Orari Survey District, being part of Reserve
No. 1544, containing by admeasurement 2 roods 5 perches,
more or less, and bounded towards the south-east by a
cemetery reserve (R. 2828) and by the production of the
north-west boundary-line of the said cemetery reserve to the
road which bounds Reserve No. 1544 on the south-west;
towards the south-west by that road for a distance of 50·1
links; towards the north-west by a right line parallel to the
north-west boundary-line of the cemetery reserve before
mentioned; and towards the north-east by the production of
the north-east boundary-line of the said cemetery reserve for
a distance of 50·1 links: be the aforesaid linkages more or
less; as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G.
18403, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of
Wellington, and thereon coloured purple.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight

ERRATUM.--In the notice of the appointment of members of the Land Board of Marlborough, published at page 453
of the Gazette of the 27th ultimo, for "Athol Parsons," read "John Athelstan Parsons."