Num. 63. 1619

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1905.

Importation of “Optanine” prohibited.

PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred by section sixty-seven of “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” and section six of “The Customs Duties Amendment Act, 1900,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and order that the importation into New Zealand of the article hereinafter mentioned is hereby prohibited, that is to say,—

Optanine, an article used in brewing in the place of hops.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 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-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Allocating Land reserved and taken for a Railway to the Purposes of a Road in Taranaki County.

(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto forms part of land taken for an extension of the Foxton–New Plymouth Railway (Sentry Hill to Waiongona), 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 land is not required for railway purposes: And whereas such land is situated in Taranaki County, the local authority of which has assented 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, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuant 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 land 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 Taranaki County Council, and shall be maintained by the said Council in like manner as other public highways are controlled and maintained by the said Council.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, in the Paritutu Survey District, containing 23 acres, more or less, being portions of Sections 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, and 204, Huirangi, and portion of railway reserve adjoining Section 186, Huirangi. Bounded on the west by Lepper Road; on the south-west by the south-western boundary of the railway reserve; on the south-east by a line drawn at right angles to the tangent of the curve of the centre line of the Longburn–Waitara Railway from a point thereon at 237 miles 54 chains on the mileage of the said Longburn–Waitara Railway; and on the north-east by a line parallel to, concentric with, north-west of, and 50 links distant from, the centre line of the said Longburn–Waitara Railway to a point opposite, about 240 miles 47 chains on the mileage of the said railway; and thence by a straight line to a point on the east side of Lepper Road opposite about 240 miles 52 chains on the mileage of the said railway: as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 13425, 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 William Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 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-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

J. G. WARD,
Minister for Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

ERRATUM.—In Schedule to Proclamation, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 58, page 1503, of 22nd June, 1905, taking lands for improvement of insanitary portions of the Borough of Blenheim, for “Wymen Street” read “Wynen Street.”

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