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claim 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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
ROAD CLOSED.

All in the Canterbury 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 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 fifteenth
day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and twelve.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Block II,
Mangawhero Survey District, Mangawhero Road District,
Wanganui County.

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by
section eleven of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Poynder
Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consents of
the lessee and mortgagees of the Crown land described in
the First Schedule hereto, and of the Mangawhero Road
Board, being the local authority in whose district the said
land is situated, proclaim as a road the land in Mangawhero
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.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
ROAD CLOSED.

All in the Wellington 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 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 fifteenth
day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and twelve.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land taken for a Mining-work in Blocks VI and XVI,
Pakawau Survey District.

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken, under the Coal-mines Act,
1908, and the Public Works Act, 1908, for a certain
mining-work, to wit, for the purpose of working the
Pakawau Coal-mine :

And whereas the Seaford Coal Company (Limited), the
owner of the Pakawau Coal-mine, has applied for the
issue of a Proclamation taking such land for the purposes
hereinafter mentioned :

And whereas all the 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 :

And whereas it is provided by the Coal-mines Act, 1908,
that the effect of such Proclamation taking the land shall
be to vest such land in the applicant instead of in His
Majesty, and all proceedings after the aforesaid Proclamation in respect of compensation and otherwise in respect
of complying with the Public Works Act, 1908, shall be
had against the applicant :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder,
Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New
Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers and
authorities vested in me by the Coal-mines 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 from and after the
third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and
twelve, the land described in the Schedule hereto is