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poses of a public pound in Block I, Turanganui Survey District:

And whereas the Cook County Council has laid before the Governor a memorial, accompanied by a map, and also the statutory declaration, as required by the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Counties Act, 1908, and 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 is hereby taken for the purposes of the said public pound, and shall vest in the Cook County Council as from the date hereinafter mentioned; and I do also declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the thirteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

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SCHEDULE.

In the Hawke’s Bay 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 John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Land in Block IV, Invercargill Hundred, taken for Scenic Purposes.

(I.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under the Public Works Act, 1908, the Scenery Preservation Act, 1903, and the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910, for scenic purposes:

And whereas an agreement for the taking of the estate in fee-simple of the said land has been entered into, and it has been made to appear that such agreement is sufficient for the purposes intended to be effected thereby:

And whereas a plan has been prepared in duplicate showing accurately the position and extent of the said land, and the Minister of Public Works has recommended that this Proclamation should be issued:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910, 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 scenic purposes as aforesaid; and it is hereby declared that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

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SCHEDULE.

The parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Southland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 31372, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Defining the Middle-line of a Portion of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway—namely, from Waihi to Athenree.

(I.S.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the portion of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway from Waihi to Athenree (hereinafter termed “the said railway”) is a railway the construction of which is authorized by the Railways Authorization Act, 1911: And whereas it has been determined to construct and maintain the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Public Works Act, 1908, 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 railway shall be that defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in the Waihi Station yard, Block XV, Ohinemuri Survey District, which point is marked 0 miles 0 links on the plan hereinafter mentioned, and proceeding thence in a south-easterly direction generally for a distance of about nine miles, and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands, &c.—viz., Sections 134, 133, a quarry reserve, Sections 150, 149B, 268, 135, 136, 137, and 151A, Block XV, Ohinemuri Survey District; Section 152, Blocks XV and XVI, Ohinemuri Survey District; Sections 171, 472, 471, 468, 467, 466, 465, and 464, Block XVI, Ohinemuri Survey District; Crown land, Block XVI, Ohinemuri Survey District; Crown land, Block IV, Aroha Survey District; Section 7, Block IV, Aroha Survey District; Crown land, Block IV, Aroha Survey District; Crown land, Block I, Katikati North Survey District; Crown land, Block I, Katikati Survey District; Sections 2, 3, 4, 7, and 5, Block I, Katikati Survey District, and terminating at a point on the south-eastern boundary of the said Section 5, Block I, Katikati Survey District, which point is marked 9 miles on the plan hereinafter mentioned: including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, tracks, rivers, streams, and watercourses: all in the Auckland Land District: as the same is delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 31403, deposited in the office of the Minister of