PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

tendent of the said Province has been elected as Superintendent thereof: And whereas it is expedient that the road mentioned and defined in the Schedule hereto should be constructed under the firstly in part recited 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 or portions of road are not a road or portion of 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 portions of road within the Province of Westland described, and the boundaries whereof are set forth in the Schedule hereto, shall respectively be and be deemed to be roads under the provisions of the said firstly in part recited 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 portions of road marked C.W. 159-160, defined in the Schedule hereto, describing the course and bearings and admeasurements required for the same, and through what lands the same are 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 Hokitika, in the Province of Westland; which said map and survey plan is authenticated for the purposes of this Proclamation, by the signature of the Honourable Edward Richardson, Minister for Public Works.

SCHEDULE.

Road from Bowen to Okarito.

North End, Sections 2 and 3.

Commencing at a point situated at or near the north side of the left branch of the Waitaha River, the said point being indicated by a peg driven into the ground and marked 815.10; proceeding thence in a generally westerly direction for a distance of about 6 chains, more or less; thence in a generally southerly direction for a distance of about 7 chains, more or less; thence in a generally westerly direction for a distance of about 9 chains, more or less;

thence in a generally south-westerly direction for a distance of about 63 chains, more or less; thence in a generally south-south-easterly direction for a distance of about 46 chains, more or less; thence in a generally south-westerly direction for a distance of about 166 chains, more or less; thence in a generally southerly direction for a distance of about 22 chains, more or less; thence in a generally westerly direction for a distance of about 36 chains, more or less; thence in a generally west-south-westerly direction for a distance of about 15 chains, more or less; thence in a generally southerly direction for a distance of about 110 chains, more or less, to a point about 10 chains 77 links south of Ida Creek, which said point is defined by a peg driven into the ground and marked 1055.10.

South End, Sections 3 and 4.

Commencing at or near the east side of the Okarito River, at a point indicated by a peg driven into the ground and marked 399; proceeding thence in a north-easterly direction for a distance of about 11 chains, more or less; thence following the course of the Wahapo River in a generally south-easterly direction for a distance of about 80 chains, more or less; thence along the southern bank of the Wahapo Lake in a generally east-north-easterly direction for a distance of about 68 chains, more or less;

thence in a generally easterly direction for a distance of about 132 chains, more or less; thence in a generally south-easterly direction for a distance of about 23 chains, more or less; thence in a generally east-south-easterly direction for a distance of about 52 chains, more or less; thence in a generally south-easterly direction for a distance of about 98 chains, more or less; thence in a generally east-south-easterly direction for a distance of about 7 chains, more or less;

thence in a generally north-easterly direction for a distance of about 26 chains, more or less, to a point on the east side of the Waitangi River, which said point is indicated by a peg driven into the ground and marked 846.

The above-described portions of road not to be less than 1 chain wide.