Numb. 36.

785

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1896.

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

(L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto
form parts of land reserved for the purposes of the
Wellington-Napier Railway, and it is considered desirable
to allocate such lands to the purposes of a road:

And whereas it has been certified by the Minister for Rail-
ways that such lands are not required for railway purposes:
And whereas such lands are situated in the Takapau 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 one hun-
dred and seventy-seven of “The Public Works Act, 1894,”
and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling
me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
lands described in the Schedule hereto shall, upon the pub-
lication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, become a road,
and that the said road shall be under the control of the
Takapau 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 Hawke’s Bay Land District, in the
Takapau Survey District, containing by admeasurement
8 acres 3 roods 3·8 perches, more or less, being a strip of
land 50 links wide (except at each extremity, where it nar-
rows to a point), and being part of a railway reserve on
the Wellington-Napier Railway, adjoining Sections 5, 6,
and 9, Otawhao A Block. Bounded towards the north, the
north-west and west by the northern, north-western, and
western boundary of the railway reserve, a distance of 178
chains 69·6 links; and on the south, south-east, and east by
other part of said railway reserve, a distance of 178 chains
75·5 links: the westernmost point thereof being distant 408·3
links from the north-east side of the road from Te Whiti,
measuring along the western boundary of the railway re-
serve.

Also all that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, in
the Takapau Survey District, containing by admeasurement
27·7 perches, more or less, being a portion of the railway
reserve at Takapau Station, on the said railway. Bounded
towards the north by the southern boundary of the Takapau

Township, a distance of 152·4 links; towards the west by
the western boundary of the railway reserve, a distance of
252·9 links; and towards the south-east by a line bearing
25° 43′ 30″, a distance of 230·6 links.

As the said two parcels of land are more particularly de-
lineated on the plan marked 6829, deposited in the office of
the Minister for Railways, at 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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Auckland, this
eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land declared to be Crown Land subject to “The Land for
Settlements Act, 1894.”

(L.S.) GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
has been acquired under the provisions of “The
Land for Settlements Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the
said Act”), and the purchase thereof has been concluded as
by the said Act is provided: And whereas it is enacted by
the said Act that all land so acquired shall be proclaimed as
Crown land subject to the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of
the power and authority conferred by the said Act, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule
hereto shall be and be deemed to be Crown land subject to
the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

PUKETAPU ESTATE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by
admeasurement 509 acres and 6 perches, more or less, and
being Sections Nos. 2 of 64, 1 of 71, 72, 73, and 2 of 69, and
parts of Sections Nos. 1 of 64, 2 of 71, 3 of 71, 1 of 70, 2 of