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circulating in the district, of a Procla- mation, under the thirteenth section of the said Act, whether of the whole or a por- tion or portions of a line of railway, the Governor, on behalf of Her Majesty, may enter upon, take possession of, use and hold, or cause to be entered upon, taken possession of, used and held, so much of the lands defined in such Proclamation as proposed to be taken as shall be required to be taken, purchased, or permanently used for the purposes of such railway, not- withstanding that an agreement shall not have been come to or an award made for the purchase or compensation money to be paid in respect of such lands:

And whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it is also enacted that in any case in which a road or right of road has been or hereafter may be reserved in any Crown grant, and in any case in which, under "The Native Lands Act, 1865," or any law for the time being in force relating to the sale of waste lands of the Crown, or any law whatever, there is a right to take a public road through any lands, it shall be lawful, after such road shall have been surveyed, to consent under the said Acts any railway or any part of any rail- way, on the road so surveyed, notwith- standing that such road may not have been made:

And whereas the Governor has deter- mined to construct and maintain a railway from Waitara to New Plymouth, being a portion of the railway authorized to be constructed from Waitara to Wanganui by "The Railways Act, 1871."

And whereas Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, hath departed thence for the Colony of New South Wales, and Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Chief Justice of the said Colony, under or by virtue of a certain warrant under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, is now the person lawfully administering the Go- vernment of the said Colony:

Now therefore I, Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, Administrator of the Go- vernment of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the hereinbefore recited Acts, and in exercise of every other power enabling me in that behalf, do hereby pro- claim, declare, and define the limits, description, and line of the said railway, from Waitara to New Plymouth, to be those set forth in the First Schedule here- to; and that the lands specified and described in the Second Schedule hereto are proposed to be taken for the purposes of the said railway; and that the limits of deviation shall be those set forth in the said First Schedule hereto; and in pur-

suance and exercise of all powers and authorities conferred on me in that behalf, I do hereby fix the point of commencement of the said railway from Waitara to New Plymouth, being a portion of the said railway from Waitara to Wanganui, to be a point on the bank of the River Waitara, at the end of Whitaker Street, in the Town of Raleigh, and the point of termination thereof to be a point near the landing- place at New Plymouth, in front of Mount Eliot Reserve.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

WAITARA AND WANGANUI RAILWAY

Limits, Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation of a portion of the Railway from Waitara to Wanganui, being that portion lying between the River Waitara and the Town of New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki.

Commencing on the bank of the River Waitara, at the end of Whitaker Street, in the Town of Raleigh; thence through the Town of Raleigh, Waitara West Dis- trict, Bell District, Hua District, Fitzroy District, and the Town of New Plymouth, and terminating at a point near the landing-place in front of Mount Eliot Reserve, as the limits, description, and line thereof are set forth in the plan and described in the book of reference referred to on the face of the said plan, and which plan and book are authenticated, for the purposes of the Proclamation, by the signature of the Honorable William Hunter Reynolds, Minister acting for the Minister for Public Works, and are deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth; or within the limits of deviation set forth on the said plan by dotted red lines, being not more than 110 yards on either side of the said line, and passing through, or over the several sec- tions of lands, roads, reserves, rivers, places, and watercourses enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto.

SECOND SCHEDULE

OR BOOK OF REFERENCE.

Lands proposed to be taken for the purposes of the Railway between Waitara and New Plymouth.

TOWN OF RALEIGH.
River Waitara, sections numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Block XC.; 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Block LXXXI.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Block LXXXIX.; 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Block LXXX.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Block LXXXVII.; 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Block LXXIX.; 1, 2, 3, 4,