66 PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

the names of the owners and occupiers thereof, so far as known, are respectively shown and delineated on certain plans marked A No. 1 and A No. 2, and which said roads are also described in a certain Proclamation made under the said Act, and published in the same Gazette as that in which this notice appears.

The said plans are deposited, and may be seen and inspected, at the office of the Public Works Department at Greymouth, in the Province of Westland aforesaid.

And notice is hereby further given, that all or any person or persons affected by the making of the said road from Stillwater Creek Bridge to Maori Gully, and a road from Hokitika to the old Blue Spur Township, in the Province of Westland, are required to set forth in writing, addressed to the Governor, and left at the office of the said Public Works Department at Greymouth aforesaid, within forty days from the first publication hereof, any well-grounded objection he or they may have to the said line of road.

Dated this 13th day of May, 1874.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 30, June 4, 1874.]

Defining part of Road from Bowen to Okarito,
in the Province of Westland

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," it is amongst other things, enacted that the Governor, from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, may, as to parts within the North Island of New Zealand, define the roads and the boundaries thereof, and the bridges and ferries which shall be and be deemed to be roads, bridges or ferries, as the case may be, under the provisions of the said Act, and any such Proclamation may include existing roads, but no such roads or parts of roads shall be included if they are, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, roads which should be constructed by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province wherein such roads are situated, as well as new road lines; and the Governor from time to time may revoke or alter any such Proclamation: And whereas by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1872," it is, among other things, enacted that all the provisions contained in Part I. and Part VI. of "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," shall be applicable to the Province of Westland and the Nelson South-West Gold-fields, and may be adapted and used with reference to those portions of the Colony, as if such portions had formed part of the North Island: And whereas it is expedient that the road mentioned and defined in the Schedule hereto should be constructed under the said Acts: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand and the Executive Council of New Zealand, the said road is not a road which should be constructed by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province of Westland:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Acts, and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the road within the Province of Westland described, and the boundaries whereof are set forth in the Schedule hereto, shall be and be deemed to be a road under the provisions of the said Acts; and in further pursuance of "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," I do hereby proclaim and declare that I have caused a map and survey plan of the road marked A. No. 1, defined in the Schedule hereto, describing the course and bearings and the admeasurements required for the same, and through what lands the same is proposed to pass, and the names of the owners or occupiers thereof, so far as known, to be deposited in the office of the Public Works Department at Greymouth, in the Province of Westland; which said map and surveyed plan is authenticated for the purposes of this Proclamation, by the signature of the Honorable Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works.

SCHEDULE.

Of Road from Bowen to Okarito.

COMMENCING at a point on the road from Bowen to Donoghue’s, about twenty chains;