New Zealand Gazette – 1908 – No. 24

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✨ Land Taking Notice

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1908.

Additional Land taken at Picton for the Purposes of the Picton-Hurunui Railway.

(L.S.)

PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Picton-Hurunui Railway to take further land at Picton in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway :

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by sections twenty-nine and one hundred and eighty-eight of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto are taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

The parcels of land mentioned hereunder :—

Approximate Area of each of the Parcels of Land taken.	Being Portion of	Situated in Block No.	Situated in the Survey District of	Situated in the
A. R. P.
7 1 6	Sections 2 and 3 ..	XII	Linkwater	Marlborough County — Borough of Picton.
5 3 27	Section 2..	XII	Linkwater	Marlborough County.
53 0 0	Picton Harbour ..	XII	Linkwater	Sounds County — Borough of Picton.
18 0 32	Reserve D	XII	Linkwater	Borough of Picton.
0 0 2	Section 235	XII	Linkwater	Borough of Picton.
0 0 31	Section 237	XII	Linkwater	Borough of Picton.
0 0 38	Section 238	XII	Linkwater	Borough of Picton.
0 1 5	Section 239	XII	Linkwater	Borough of Picton.
0 0 39	Section 240	XII	Linkwater	Borough of Picton.
0 1 1	Section 241	XII	Linkwater	Borough of Picton.
1 1 22	Market Quay	XII	Linkwater	Borough of Picton.

All in the Marlborough Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 16264, deposited in the office of the Minister for Railways, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured green, red, yellow, purple, and blue.

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 Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Railways,

GOD SAVE THE KING!

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1908, No 24

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🗺️ Additional Land Taken for Picton-Hurunui Railway

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated26 March 1908
KeywordsLand acquisition, Railway purposes, Picton, Marlborough County, Public Works Act
👩‍💼 Officials

Plunket, Governor
William Hall-Jones, Minister for Railways

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