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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned in list hereunder :—

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the Head Office, 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 the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 Wellington, this twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto form part of land taken for the purposes of the Kaiapoi–Eyreton branch of the Hurunui–Waitaki Railway, and it is considered desirable to allocate such land to the purposes of a road:

And whereas it has been certified by the Minister for Railways that such lands are not required for railway purposes: And whereas such lands are situated in West Eyreton 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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by section one hundred 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 publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, become a road, and that the said road shall be under the control of the West Eyreton 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, in the Mairaki Survey District, containing 11 perches, more or less, being a portion of Rural Section 10038, in Block X., in said survey district. Bounded on the south-west by a public road, a distance of 299 links; on the north-east by other portion of said Section 10038, a distance of 280 links; and on the south-east by a public road, a distance of 52 links.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, in the Mairaki Survey District, containing 2 roods 31 perches, more or less, being a portion of Rural Section 6416, in Block X., in said survey district, bounded on the south by a public road, a distance of 970 links; on the west by a public road, a distance of 96 links; on the north by other portion of said Section 6416, a distance of 955 links; and on the east by other portion of said Section 6416, a distance of 50 links.

As the said two parcels of land are more particularly delineated on the plan marked 8190, 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 Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Declaring Drains in Ngaire Survey District to be Public Drains.

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section two hundred and forty-one of “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that any drain made by the Government or by any public Board or Commissioners before the passing of the said Act, or made or declared to be a public drain under the said Act, or made upon, above, or under any road or other land vested in the Crown, is a public drain within the meaning of the said Act:

And whereas the Government has made drains within the limits of the Ngaire Swamp:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers granted by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the drains constructed in the Ngaire Swamp, described in the Schedule hereto, are public drains in accordance with sections two hundred and forty-one and two hundred and forty-two of “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

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SCHEDULE.

ALL those drains lying within Blocks VI., X., XI., and XV., Ngaire Survey District, in the Taranaki Land District, as delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 22276, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red and blue.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Land set apart for Lease as Village-homestead Allotments in the Wellington Land District.

(l.s.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-sixty-eighth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the allotments of Crown land respectively described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are hereby set apart and declared open for lease as village-homestead allotments.

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PAHIATUA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.—SUBDIVISIONS OF SECTION 77, BLOCK XVIII., MANGAHAO SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5: 2 acres.
Subdivision 6: 1 acre.
Subdivision 7: 1 acre.
Subdivision 8: 3 roods 38 perches.