PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 69, December 31, 1874.]

Description, Line, and Limits of Deviation

of a portion of the Waterworks for supplying Water to part of the Westland Gold-Field.

(L.S.)

NORMANBY,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," it is enacted that the Governor may, on the request of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of any province in which any proclaimed gold-field is, cause to be constructed, completed, extended, repaired, or maintained, such works for supplying water to such gold-field as he may from time to time think fit; and may enter into contracts for the construction, completion, or extension of such works, or for purchasing or otherwise acquiring any drains, dams, water-races, reservoirs or other works already constructed which may appear to the Governor suitable for any such purpose aforesaid:

And it is also thereby enacted that, whenever the Governor shall determine to construct any waterworks under the powers conferred by Part III. of the said Act, he shall from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, declare and specify the waterworks which he proposes to construct, and the lands and streams of water proposed to be taken for the purposes of such waterworks, and any such Proclamation may refer to maps, plans, or drawings to be deposited in the office of the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court in the province in which such waterworks are proposed to be constructed, and any maps, plans, or drawings so referred to shall be deemed to form part of such Proclamation; and upon the publication of such Proclamation the provisions and regulations contained in the Eighth Part of the said Act shall be applicable to the lands and streams and the waterworks to which the Proclamation relates:

And it is also thereby enacted that, for the purposes of the Third Part of the said Act, the Governor or any person authorised by him subject to the restrictions and provisions therein contained, may exercise any of the following powers, that is to say,—He may enter upon any lands and take the levels of the same, and set out such parts thereof as he thinks necessary, and dig and break up the soil of such lands, and remove or use all earth, stones, trees, or other things dug or gotten out of the same: He may enter upon, take, and hold such land as shall from time to time be specified in any Proclamation made under the Third Part of the said Act for construction or improvement of any works authorised in and by the Third Part of the said Act: He may from time to time make, maintain, or alter such reservoirs, dams, races, aqueducts, waterworks, drains, pipes, culverts, engines, and other works and erect such buildings in or upon the lands and streams authorised to be taken as he thinks fit: He may from time to time divert and impound the water from any such streams as shall be specified in any such Proclamation, or alter the course of any such streams:

And whereas by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1873" it is enacted that it shall be sufficient in any Proclamation under and for the purposes of Part III. of the said Act, to describe in general language the waterworks to be constructed and the lands and streams of water proposed to be taken; and it shall not be necessary that such waterworks, lands, and streams shall have been surveyed, or be specified by name or boundaries or area:

And whereas by a resolution passed by the County Council of the County of Westland, on the tenth day of August, 1872, and assented to and concurred in by the Chairman of the County Council of the said County, the Governor was requested to construct works for the supply of water to the Westland Gold Field (the same being a duly proclaimed gold field): And whereas in accordance with the terms of the said resolution, the Governor has determined to construct and maintain certain works for supplying water to the said gold field: And whereas an extension of the said waterworks has been deemed necessary:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Administrator of the Government of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the herein-before in part recited Acts, and in exercise of every other power enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim, declare, and specify that the waterworks proposed to be