JULY 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2297

Land taken for a Further Portion of the Kaihu Valley Railway and for a Road-diversion in connection therewith.

[L.S.]

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a further portion of the Kaihu Valley Railway and for a road-diversion in connection therewith :

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 :

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 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 a further portion of the said line of railway hereinbefore specified, and for the road-diversion in connection therewith as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

FOR ROAD-DIVERSION.

0 2 21·4 Section 1 (N.R.) [S.O. 18782 (1 to 5)] XI Waipoua 4 Orange.

In the Auckland Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39031, 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 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 thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Declaring Land taken for a Public Work, and not required for such Public Work, to be Crown Land.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty of the Public Works Act, 1908, that if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for any public work is not required for such public work the Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions therein mentioned :

And whereas it is further provided by section five of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case of any land so taken, purchased, or acquired for a Government work and not required for that purpose the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Minister, and without complying with any other requirements of the aforesaid section thirty, by Proclamation declare such land to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and thereupon the land may be administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly :

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was taken for the purposes of roads : And whereas such roads have been stopped, and it is desirable to declare the land contained therein to be Crown land : And whereas a plan