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the powers and authorities conferred on me by section 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 extension of the said line of railway hereinbefore specified.

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SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Auckland; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 18774, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.

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-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Additional Land in Oamaru Survey District taken for the Purposes of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway.

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(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway to take further land in Oamaru Survey District in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor 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.

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SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Otago; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 18854, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured green and red.

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-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Additional Land in the Town of Stratford taken for the Purposes of the Foxton-New Plymouth Railway.

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(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Foxton-New Plymouth Railway to take further land in the Town of Stratford in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor 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.

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SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Land District of Taranaki; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 18858, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Defining the Middle Line of a Further Portion of the Gisborne-Karaka Railway.

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(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a part of the Gisborne-Karaka Railway—namely, from Gisborne to a point on the left bank of the Waipaoa River near its junction with the Ngakoroa Stream (hereinafter termed “the said railway”)—is a railway the construction of which is authorised by “The Railways Authorisation Act, 1899”: And whereas it has been determined to construct and maintain a further portion of the same:

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 conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and in exercise of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle line of the said portion of the said railway shall be that defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

Commencing at a point in the Tutaē-o-rewhanga Block, Block II., Turanganui Survey District, distant about 6 chains from the right bank of the Taruheru River, which point is also the point of termination of a portion of the above railway, described in a Proclamation dated the 24th day of February, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of the 1st day of March, 1900; proceeding thence generally in a north-westerly and then in a northerly direction for a distance of about six miles, and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands—viz., the said Tutaē-o-rewhanga Block; Subdivisions A and No. 3A, Matawhero Block; Subdivisions D, C, B, and A, Tahoka Block; Subdivisions 34A and 9, Makauri Block; all in Block II., Turanganui Survey District: Subdivisions 9, 33B, 18A, 33B, and 33A, Makauri Block; all in Block XIV., Waimata Survey District: Subdivision 33A, Makauri Block; Subdivisions Nos. 42, 46, 47, and 48, Mission Estate; Subdivisions Nos. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25, Muhunga Block; all in Block I., Waimata Survey District: Subdivisions Nos. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30, Muhunga Block; Town Sections Nos. 56, 55, and Suburban Section No. 1, Township of Ormond; all in Block