New Zealand Gazette – 1909 – No. 37

Page 1215

✨ Land Acquisition Proclamation

Hund. 37. 1215

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1909.

Additional Land in Ohinewairua, Maungakaretu, and Moawhango Survey Districts taken for the North Island Main Trunk Railway.

(L.S.)

PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the North Island Main Trunk Railway to take further land in Ohinewairua, Maungakaretu, and Moawhango Survey Districts, in addition to land previously acquired for 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, 1908,” 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 hereinbefore specified.

SCHEDULE.

The parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

Approximate Area of each of the Parcels of Land taken.	Being Portion of	Shown on Plan P.W.D.	Situated in Block No.	Situated in the Survey District of	Coloured on Plan
A. R. P.
0 0 23·23	Section 17 .. .. ..	24048	IX	Ohinewairua .. ..	Red.
0 0 13·56	Road .. .. ..	24048	IX	Ohinewairua .. ..	Green.
0 2 12·43	Crown land .. ..	24048	IX	Ohinewairua .. ..	Red.
0 1 29·7	Raketapauma 2b No. 3 ..	24049	VIII	Maungakaretu .. ..	Red.
3 1 27·7	Motukawa Block No. 1 ..	24050	IV	Maungakaretu .. ..	Red.
0 0 3·63	Motukawa Block No. 1 ..	24050	IV	Maungakaretu .. ..	Red.
0 0 32	Road .. .. ..	24051	XIII	Moawhango .. ..	Green.

All in the Land District of Wellington; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked P.W.D. 24048, 24049, 24050, and 24051, deposited in the office of the Minister of 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 first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works,

GOD SAVE THE KING!

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1909, No 37

After a massive fire destoyed the wooden Parliament complex in 1907, Old Government House (depicted) became the seat of Parliament until 1918. Demolished in 1969 to make way for the Beehive.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏗️ Additional Land Taken for North Island Main Trunk Railway

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Dated1 May 1909
KeywordsLand acquisition, Railway, Ohinewairua, Maungakaretu, Moawhango, Public Works Act 1908
👩‍💼 Officials

William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor
R. McKenzie, Minister of Public Works

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