3606.                                                                                       THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE                                                                                           [No. 103

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 described in the
Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes above
mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land: 15·14 perches.
Portion of Section 2 of 37 (S.O..7566).
Situated in Block II, North Harbour and Blueskin District, Waikouaiti County.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 21810,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at
Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon coloured green.

(Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member 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 September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Additional Land at Waipawa taken for the Purposes of the Wellington-Napier Railway.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Wellington-Napier Railway to take further land at Waipawa, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, 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 described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land: 32·7 perches, portion of Block 46; and 3 roods 23·5 perches, portion of Block 45 (S.O. 430, green).
Situated in Patangata Crown-grant District, Borough of Waipawa.

All in the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 21796, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured pink.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member 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 September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Altering the Middle-line of a Portion of the Waimate Branch of the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS under the provisions in that behalf of section one hundred and eighty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1908, the middle-line of a portion of the Waimate Branch of the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway was defined by a Proclamation dated the twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 63, of the second day of the following month:

And whereas it has been found necessary in the construction of such railway to alter a portion of such line in manner hereinafter appearing:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the aforesaid section one hundred and eighty-eight, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby revoke the Schedule to the said Proclamation; and in lieu thereof do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle-line of the said portion of railway shall be as defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at the present terminus of the Waimate Branch of the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway, in Rural Section 20508, Block IV, Elephant Hill Survey District, and proceeding thence in a north-westerly direction generally for a distance of 1 mile 30 chains, more or less, and passing in, into, through, or over the following lands, &c.—viz., Rural Sections 20508, 20510, 16796, and part of Rural Section 19401, all in the said Block IV, and terminating at a point in the said Rural Section 19401 about 17 chains from the south-eastern corner of the said rural section, including all adjoining and intervening places, lands, reserves, roads, tracks, lakes, rivers, streams, and watercourses; all in the Land District of Canterbury; as the same is delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 36332, 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 Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member 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 twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Defining the Middle-line of a Further Portion of the Waimate Branch of the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway.

[l.s.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Waimate Branch of the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway (hereinafter termed “the said railway”) is a railway the construction of which is authorized by the Railways Authorization Act, 1911: And whereas the said railway has been partly constructed, and it has been determined to construct and maintain a further portion of the same:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by section one hundred and eighty-eight of 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 further portion of the said railway shall be that defined and set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in Rural Section 19401, marked 1 mile 30 chains, which point is also the termination of the railway shown on plan P.W.D. 35838; proceeding thence in