Aug. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2159

Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of a post-office as aforesaid; and it is hereby declared that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:

In the Land District of Auckland; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 23886, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured 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 eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

WM. HALL-JONES,

Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land in Block I, Arapawa Survey District, taken for Scenery-preservation Purposes.

(L.S.)

PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under "The Public Works Act, 1905," "The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903," and "The Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1906," for scenery-preservation purposes:

And whereas all conditions precedent required by law to be observed and performed prior to the taking of such land for the purposes hereinbefore specified have been observed and performed:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by "The Public Works Act, 1905," "The Scenery Preservation Act, 1903," and "The Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1906," 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 hereby taken for scenery-preservation purposes as aforesaid; and it is hereby declared that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the twenty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land taken:

All in the Land District of Marlborough; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.

23641, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.

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 fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

WM. HALL-JONES,

Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Additional Land at New Plymouth taken for the Purposes of the Sentry Hill-New Plymouth Deviation of the Foxton-New Plymouth Railway.

(L.S.)

PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Sentry Hill-New Plymouth deviation of the Foxton-New Plymouth Railway to take further land at New Plymouth, 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 land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 16422, deposited in the office of the Minister for Railways, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

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 fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight.

WM. HALL-JONES,

Minister for Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Additional Land at Omakau taken for the Purposes of the Otago Central Railway.

(L.S.)

PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

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