Num. 103. 2319

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1901.

Defining the Middle Line of a Further Portion of the Orepuhi-Waiau Railway (Waiau Section).

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Orepuhi-Waiau Railway — namely, from Orepuhi Railway-station to a point on the left bank of the Waiau River near the north-west corner of the Longwood Survey District (hereinafter termed “the said railway”) — is a railway the construction of which is authorised by “The Railways Authorisation Act, 1899”: And whereas the said railway has been partly constructed, and it has been determined to construct and maintain a further portion of the same, namely, the Waiau Section:

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.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Block I., Longwood Survey District, on the western boundary of Section No. 5, distant about 34½ chains from the north-western corner thereof, which point is also the terminal point of a portion of the Orepuhi-Waiau Railway as described in a Proclamation dated the eleventh day of July, 1900, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 62, of the twelfth day of July, 1900; proceeding thence generally in a northerly direction for a distance of about 8 miles 13½ chains, and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands—viz., Section No. 6, and Mining Reserve, Block I.; Section No. 7, Block XVI.; Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 18, 17, 15, 14, and 13, Block XV.; Sections Nos. 15, 12, 10, 9, and 8, Block XVII.—and terminating at a point on the northern boundary of the said Section No. 8, Block XVII., distant about 3½ chains from the north-western corner thereof: including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, roads, reserves, rivers, streams, and watercourses: all in the Longwood Survey District, in the Land District of Southland: as the same is shown by a red line on the plan marked

P.W.D. 19576, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His 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 November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land taken for a Portion of the Branch of the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway from Waipara to a Point in the Neighbourhood of the Township of Mackenzie (Waipara-Hurunui River Section).

(L.S.) RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a portion of the Branch of the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway from Waipara to a point in the neighbourhood of the Township of Mackenzie—namely, the Waipara-Hurunui River Section:

And whereas all conditions precedent required by law to be observed and performed prior to the taking of such land in the manner hereby provided have been observed and performed:

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 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 portion of the said line of railway hereinbefore specified,