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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

Defining the Middle Line of a Further Portion of the Coal Creek Railway.

(L.S.)
PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the extension of the railway from the State Collieries Station, on the Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Railway, up the valley of the Seven-mile Creek (hereinafter termed “the said railway”) is a railway the construction of which is authorised by the Railways Authorisation Act, 1907: And whereas it has been determined to construct and maintain a portion of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” 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 III, Cobden Survey District, marked 5 miles, which point is also a point near the termination of the existing line of railway called the Coal Creek Railway; proceeding thence generally in a north-easterly direction for a distance of about 3 miles 7 chains along the left bank of the Waematuku or Seven-mile Creek, and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands—viz., Section 11, Block III, Cobden Survey District; Blocks V and I, Mawheranui Survey District—and terminating in said Block I, Mawheranui Survey District, at a point marked 8 miles 7 chains: including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, tracks, rivers, streams, and watercourses: in the manner delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 23671, 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 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 fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Taking the Carrington Estate under “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its Amendments.

(L.S.)
PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by a notice published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twentieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven, it was therein stated that it was the intention of the Governor to take compulsorily, under the powers in that behalf conferred by “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its amendments, the lands mentioned in such notice:

And whereas, in pursuance of such notice, claims for compensation were made by William Howard Booth, Euphemia Booth, Kate Elizabeth Rathbone, Alice Gibson Wickham, and the Public Trustee, and the claims have been determined by the Compensation Court sitting at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in manner provided by such Acts:

And whereas, in pursuance of the said Acts, an order was made by the said Court on the eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eight, declaring the land which the Minister is entitled to take (being identical with the land specified in the Schedule hereto), and also declaring the amount of compensation and costs to be paid in respect to the taking of such land, which order is now duly filed in the office of the Supreme Court, Wellington:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Acts, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto (being identical with the land specified in the aforesaid order) is compulsorily taken under the said Acts, as from the fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those several divisions of the Carrington Estate, containing 5,178 acres 2 roods 25 perches, more or less, known as—(1.) Belvedere Division, consisting of the following paddocks: Clear of Bush, 90 acres; Bush, 532 acres; Far Parker’s, 180 acres; Near Parker’s, 179 acres; No. 2, 218 acres; Swamp, 109 acres; Sayers’, 346 acres 2 roods; House, 45 acres; No. 1, 247 acres 1 rood 3 perches: total, 1,964 acres 3 roods 3 perches. (2.) Pigeon Hill Division, consisting of the following paddocks: Fred Parker’s, 176 acres; Gully, 627 acres; Limestone, 142 acres; Pigeon Hill, 313 acres 2 roods; Bond’s Corner, 24 acres; Hooker’s Corner, 18 acres: total, 1,300 acres 2 roods. (3.) Scandy’s Division, consisting of the following paddocks: Thousand-acre, 701 acres; Harris, 33 acres; Scandy’s Clearing, 133 acres: total, 867 acres. (4.) Top Flat Division, consisting of the following paddocks: Hooker’s, 37 acres; Reserved Totara, 159 acres 2 roods; Beere’s, 17 acres 1 rood; Top Hill, 121 acres; Middle Hill, 194 acres 3 roods; Bottom Hill, 115 acres 2 roods; Little Totara, 73 acres 3 roods; Leydon’s, 54 acres 2 roods; Paterson’s, 134 acres 1 rood; Parker’s, 44 acres 1 rood; Nimodt, 17 acres 1 rood; Sloper’s, 60 acres 2 roods; part Bullock, 16 acres 3 roods 22 perches—these several divisions being the whole of Sections 394, 393, 392, 397, 395, 398, 366, 365, 360, 358, 119, 121, 122, 123, 332, 330, and part of 274, in the Survey District of Tiffen; as the same is delineated upon a plan marked 19378, deposited in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, at Wellington aforesaid, and therein edged with red.

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 thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Block XIII, Komakorau Survey District, Kirikiriroa Road District.

(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 Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consent of the owner of the land mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Kirikiriroa Road Board, being the local authority in whose district the said land is situated, proclaim as a road the land in Komakorau 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.