1608
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

Additional Land at Gropers taken for the Purposes of the Western Railways (Branch to Otatau and Nightcaps Coalfield).

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Western Railways (Branch to Otatau and Nightcaps Coalfield) to take further land at Gropers, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder :—

All in the Southland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 19409, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

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 tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Allocating Land reserved and taken for a Railway to the Purposes of a Road near Ahikiwi, in the County of Hobson.

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms part of land taken for the purposes of the Kaihu Valley 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 Hobson, 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, 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 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 Hobson 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.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

In the Land District of Auckland; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 19308, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

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 eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Altering the Middle-line of a Portion of the Extension of the Midland Railway from Reefton to Inangahua Junction.

(l.s.) ISLINGTON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS under the provisions in that behalf of section one hundred and sixty-seven of the Public Works Act, 1894, the middle-line of a portion of the extension of the Midland Railway from Reefton to Inangahua Junction—namely, from fifty-four miles forty-three chains to fifty-nine miles twenty-five chains—was defined by a Proclamation dated the sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four: And whereas it has been found necessary in the construction of such railway to alter such line in manner hereinafter appearing :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section one hundred and eighty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby revoke so much of the Schedule to the said Proclamation as defines the middle-line of the said railway beyond the point marked fifty-seven miles seventy-six chains on the plan numbered P.W.D. 20229 referred to therein; and in lieu thereof do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle-line of the part of the said railway, commencing from the said point marked fifty-seven miles seventy-six chains aforesaid and terminating at fifty-nine miles forty-five chains, shall be as defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Section 22, Block V, Inangahua Survey District, which point is marked 57 miles 76 chains on the line of railway shown on the plan numbered P.W.D. 20229 quoted in the Proclamation hereinbefore referred to; proceeding thence generally in a north-easterly direction for a distance of about 1 mile 49 chains, and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands —viz., Sections 22, 26, 3, 2, 19 (ferry reserve), and 46, Block V, Inangahua Survey District—and terminating in the said Section 46, Block V, Inangahua Survey District, at a point marked 59 miles 45 chains: including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, streets, tracks, rivers, streams, and watercourses: all in the Land District of Nelson: in the manner delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 31664, deposited in the office