Numb. 58. 1893

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1906.

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

(l.s.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto forms part of land taken for the purposes 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), 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 the Waipara Road District, 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 pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by section one hundred and ninety-seven of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” 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 Waipara 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.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Land District of Canterbury, containing 32 perches, more or less, being portions of Sections 29815 and 11051 of Block V, Stonyhurst Survey District, and being bounded as follows: Commencing from a point at the junction of the north-western boundary of the railway reserve with the eastern boundary of said Section 29815; thence south-easterly by a line at a bearing of 140° 25' a distance of 40 links; thence south-westerly by lines bearing 230° 25' and 224° 44' respectively, distances of 252·1 links and 248 links respectively; thence north-westerly by a line at a bearing of 314° 44' a distance of 40 links; and thence north-easterly by lines bearing 44° 44' and 50° 25' respectively, distances of 250 links and 253·9 links respectively, to the commencing-point: as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 14317, 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 Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 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-seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six.

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Minister for Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Lands proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Block VI, Makotuku Survey District, Waimarino County.

(l.s.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consent of the owners of the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Waimarino County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said lands are situated, proclaim as a road the lands in Makotuku Survey District described in the First Schedule hereto; and also do hereby, with the like consents as aforesaid, proclaim as closed the road described in the Second Schedule hereto, which is not required by reason of the road first hereinbefore proclaimed.

ERRATUM.—In Proclamation of 6th June, 1906, taking and closing road in Block XV, Christchurch Survey District published in Gazette No. 45, pages 1515–16, for “R.S. 215” read “R.S. 2115.”

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