Oct. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2615

Wellington–Napier Railway, and it is considered desirable to allocate such land to the purposes of a road :

And whereas it has been certified by the Minister of Railways that such land is not required for railway purposes: And whereas such land is situated in the County of Woodville, 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 Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by section one hundred and ninety-seven 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 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 Woodville County Council, and shall be maintained by the said Council in like manner as other public highways are controlled and maintained by the said Council.

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SCHEDULE.

All those pieces of land in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing in the aggregate 2 acres and 39 perches, more or less, being portions of Sections Nos. 48, 49, 50, and 51, in Block VII, Woodville Survey District, and being portions of railway land at Papatawa Station, on the Wellington–Napier Railway, and being bounded generally on the south-east by the south-eastern boundary of the railway land; generally on the north-west by the Main Road and by other portions of the railway land: as the said pieces of land are more particularly shown coloured purple on plan marked W.R. 17268, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at 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 fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Land in Block XVI, Heretaunga Survey District, taken for a Drain.

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(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1908,” for the purposes of a drain :

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, 1908,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of a drain.

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SCHEDULE.

All in the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

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 sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Land proclaimed as a Road in Block II, Alton Survey District, Wallace County.

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(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section eleven of “The Land Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as a road the Crown land in Alton Survey District described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

In the Southland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

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 twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Block XI, Otamatea Survey District, Rodney County.

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(L.S.) PLUNKET, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section eleven of “The Land Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consent of the licensee and owner of the Crown land and freehold land respectively mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and of the Rodney County Council, being the local authority in whose district the said land is situated, proclaim as a road the land in Otamatea 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 described in the First Schedule hereto.