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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

subdivision of Awarua, 4A No. 3A, distant about 16 chains in
an easterly direction from the north-western corner thereof:
including all adjoining and intervening lands, places, roads,
tracks, streams, watercourses, and reserves: in the manner
delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 17962, a copy of
which is deposited in the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court at Wellington.

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
seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Additional Land taken in the City of Wellington for the
Purposes of the Wellington-Napier Railway (Te Aro Ex-
tension).

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found necessary for the use,
convenience, and enjoyment of works heretofore
executed upon the Wellington-Napier Railway (Te Aro
Extension) to take further land in the City of Wellington,
in addition to land previously acquired, for the purposes of
the said railway: And whereas the land which it is proposed
to take for the said purposes is in the possession of the
Corporation constituted under “The Municipal Corpora-
tions Act, 1886,” and known as “The Mayor, Councillors,
and Citizens of the City of Wellington,” and the said land
has by such Corporation been devoted to the purposes of a
public street, and forms part of a street called Customhouse
Quay, in the said city, and also to the erection thereon of
certain public conveniences: And whereas the exclusive
use of the land comprised in the said part of Customhouse
Quay is required for the said railway, and it is also ex-
pedient that the soil of the said part of Customhouse Quay
should be taken as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Adminis-
trator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand,
in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authori-
ties conferred on me by the twenty-eighth and one hun-
dred and sixty-seventh sections of “The Public Works
Act, 1894,” and of every other power and authority enabling
me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for
the purposes of the railway hereinbefore mentioned; and
in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers and
authorities, or any of them, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the part of the public street in the City of Wellington
known as Customhouse Quay which is described in the
Schedule hereto, and which is required for the exclusive use
of the said railway, shall be and the same is hereby wholly
closed for the width and length of the said part of the said
street; and also do hereby proclaim and declare that the
soil of the said part of the said street is hereby taken for
the purposes aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

The land as defined in the First Schedule of “The Wel-
ington Corporation and Harbour Board Streets and Lands
Act, 1892” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), and therein
described as follows: “All that piece or parcel of land,
forming a portion of the land reclaimed from the sea, and
contiguous to the Queen’s Wharf approach and Custom-
house Quay, formerly known as the Boat Harbour, con-
taining by admeasurement 1 rood and 21·5 perches, more
or less. Bounded as follows: To the northward by a line,
being the production in a westerly direction of the northern
side of the Brandon Street approach to the Queen’s Wharf;
to the eastward by a curve being the western boundary of
the land reserved for the extension of the Wellington-Wood-
ville Railway to Te Aro; to the south-westward by a portion
of the north-eastern boundary of the land described in the
Second Schedule of ‘The Wellington Harbour Board Land
and Reclamation Act, 1883,’ being land vested in the Harbour

Board and Corporation for road purposes; and to the west-
ward by the breastwork retaining the street known as
Customhouse Quay: the same being shown on a plan
deposited at the office of the Marine Department, and
numbered M.D. 1739, and being thereon bordered green.”
Save and excepting therefrom that portion of the above-de-
scribed land which lies to the north of a line being the pro-
duction in an easterly direction of the southern side of
Brandon Street, and which forms part of the Brandon
Street approach to the Queen’s Wharf; the net area of the
land thus reduced as aforesaid containing 1 rood 18·2
perches, being shown on a plan marked P.W.D. 17915, de-
posited 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, Adminis-
trator of the Government in and over Her
Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its De-
pendencies, at the Government House, at Welling-
ton; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
this tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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

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

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, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exer-
cise 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, on the date of the
publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, be and be
deemed to be Crown land subject to the provisions of “The
Land for Settlements Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

PUHI PUHI SETTLEMENT.

All that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing
by admeasurement 240 acres, more or less, situated in the
Kaitarau Survey District, being Section No. 50. Bounded
on the north, 4500 links, by Crown land; on the east, 9500
links, by a road-line; and on the west by the Puhi Puhi
River: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

Also all that area in the Marlborough Land District, con-
taining by admeasurement 80 acres, more or less, situated
in the Kaitarau Survey District, being Section No. 51.
Bounded on the north, 4000 links, by Crown land; on the
east, 2350 links, by a road-line; on the south, 3275 links, and
on the west, 2200 links, by Crown land: be all the aforesaid
linkages a little more or less; as the same are delineated on
the plan marked S.G. 18863, deposited in the Head Office,
Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the
Land District of Wellington.

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
tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!