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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1489, 13 May 1873, Page 3

Goyernment Notice* Limits and Description of Railway- from a point on tJie South Bank of the Grey River, opposite the Brunner Coal Mine, to Greymouth, in the County of Westland, Icing a portion of the Line from Brunner to Greymouth. ..'■'"• (L.s.) G. A; ARNEY, Officer Admuiiste:lng the Govevament. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by " The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," ifc is enacted that the railways to be constructed under the said Act shall be only such railways as shall from time to time be determined by the General Assembly : And it is also thereby enacted that, subject to the provisions contained therein, the Governer may construct, or cause to be constiuuted, any lines of railway which shall be prescribed by the General Assembly as railways to be constructed under the said Act, or any pait or parts thereof, and acquire the necessary engines, plant, and machinery for working and using the same, or any of them : And it is also thereby enacted that, whenever the Governor shall determine to construct any such railway, or any part thereof, it sha'l be lawful for Mm, by Proclamation published in the 2?ew Zealand Gazette, to declare and define the limits and description and line thereof, and the lands proposed to be taken for the purpose of such railway, subject to the provisions of any Act defining such limits and descriptions, 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 railway or part thereof is 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 Seventh Part of the said Act shall be applicable to the railway, and to the lands to which the Proclamation shall relate : And it is also thereby enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to make, construct, and maintain any such railway as aforesaid, with proper works, approaches, and conveniences connected therewith, commencing at the place delineated on, and extending along the lines set forth in, and terminating at a point described in the Act or Proclamation proclaiming and defining such railway, or shown in the maps, plans, or drawings referred to in such Act or Proclamation: And it ;s also thereby enacted that the Governor may direct that any part of such line of railway may be constructed on and along any part of any public highway, and that any part of any such line of railway, may bp pqngtructed on or through any public, reserves : Atd it is also thereby enacted that, subject to the provisions of that Part of the said Act and of the Acts incorporated therewith, the Governor may exercige all or any of the powers by that Part of the said A'et or the said incorporated Acts conferred upon him for the construction of any such railway, and may enter upon, and cause to be entered upon, all lands within the Colony for the purpose of making such surveys as may be necessary, and may | take and hold all the lauds required for the railway along the line set forth and described as aforesaid, or within *& c limits of deviation described in the. Proclamation relating thereto, and may temporarily occupy and use such lands as may be necessarj on either side of the railway, during the construction thereof : And whereas by the "Railways Act, 1871," and " The Railways Act, 1872," it is enacted that the Governor may, under the provisions of the hereinbefore firstly recited Act and of the nowreciting Acts, construct and maintain, or cause to be constructed and maintained, the several lines of railway specified therein : And it is also thereby enacted that the line of the railways thereby authorised tQ be pon, structed shall be fixed by the uoyernor, and shall commence and terminate at points to be fixed by the Governor : and whereas by the " Immigration and Public Works Act, 1872," it i» enacted that as to any'railway which the Governor has been authpriged to pbnatruot, and tofix-the oontmenpine ! and termination points and line thereof, it shall be competent for him, if he thinks fit, instead of fixing and proclaiming such points and the whole line at one time, to fix and proclaim portions of such line from time to time, and the commencing and termination points of any such portion or portions, and the limits and description of any such portion or portions, and the lands proposed to.be taken for the purpose of any such portion or portions, and to construct any portion or portions so fixed, attd to take the lands for the same; and any 'such portion so proclaimed shall be deemed to be a railway within the meaning the said Act arid the said amending Act and this Act : And whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it is also enacted that, at any time after the expiration of twenty-one days from the publication in the Neio Zealand Gazette, and in a newspaper ordinarily circulating in the district, of a Proclamation under the thirteenth section of the said Ace, whether of the whole or a portion or portions of a line of railway, the Governor, on behalf of her Majesty, may enter upon, take. pojfeession of, use and hold, or cause to be' entered upon, taken possession of, used, and held, so much of the lands defined, id. such Proclamation as proposed, to, be V taken as shall be required to b&tgkfen, purchased, or permanently used for the purposes of such railway, notwithstanding that an agreement shall not have been come-to or an award made for the purchase ' or. compensation money to bepaid ifaf respect ot such lands : ' . >■-..'■ .• ' . And whereas bVthe said la3t-mentioned rAbt it is -also enacted that in any case in .-whidh abroad or ri)|ht of road has been or hereafbgr may t{e^reserved in any Crown g r ant, 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 construct under the said Acts any railway or any part of any railway, on. the road so surreyed, riotwithstanding that Buch road may not have been made : ' ' And whereas the Governor has determined to construct and maintain a railway from a point on the south bank of the Grey River, Opposite' the Brunner Coal Mine; to Giey mouth, being a portion of the railway authorised to.be constructed from Brunner to Greymouth 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 Government of the said Colony. Now therefore, I, Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, in exercise and 1 pursuance of the powers and. authorities conferred on me by the hereinbefore in part recited Acts, and in exercise of every other power enabling me in this behalf, do Hereby proclaim, declare, and define the limits, description, and line of the said railway from a point on the south bank of the Grey River, opposite to the Brunner Coal Mine,. to Greymouth, to be those set forth in the First Schedule hereto; and that the lands specified ' and described in the Second Schedule hereto