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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 22

Proclaiming a Road as closed through Private Lands in
the Ongo Survey District.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by
section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, James
Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the
Colony of New Zealand, do by this notice hereby proclaim
as closed the road in the Rangitikei County hereinafter de-
scribed, that is to say:—

SCHEDULE.

As the same are delineated upon the plan marked as above
mentioned, deposited in the Head Office of the Department
of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land
District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James
Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, Administrator
of the Government in and over Her Majesty’s
Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
at the Government House, at Wellington; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this
twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Additional Land taken in Belmont Survey District for the
Purposes of the Wellington–Napier Railway.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, con-
venience, and enjoyment of the Wellington–Napier
Railway to take further land in Belmont Survey District,
in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of
the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
of the powers and authorities conferred on me by sections
twenty-eight and one hundred and sixty-seven of “The
Public Works Act, 1894,” and of every other power and
authority in anywise enabling me in this 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 Wellington; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 17870,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James
Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, Administrator
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 Wel-
ington, this twenty-sixth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Rural Lands in the Southland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section
of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New
Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby
declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-
second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven; and also that the lands mentioned in the said
Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase
or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable
stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be
sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold,
occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

| Southland | New River Hundred | 12 | XIX. | A. R. P. 110 3 30 | £ s. d. 1 0 0 | £ s. d. 110 18 9 | s. d. 1 0 | £ s. d. 2 15 6 | s. d. 0 9·6 | £ s. d. 2 4 4 |

This section is in the Waimatuku Bush, and consists of good black soil, covered with timber fit only for firewood.
Distance from Wright’s Bush, about four miles.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this twenty-fifth day of
February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.