Public Works.

A. 60.

First Schedule— continued. Railways authorised to be constructed —continued.

" The Public Works Act, 1879," No. 44, s. 13. This Act shall be deemed to be a special Act authorising the construction of each of the water-races specified in the Third Schedule, and such of them as have been finished shall be deemed to have been made, and such as are unfinished may be completed, under the provisions of " The Public Works Act, 1876," " The Public Works Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1878," and this Act. Third Schedule. Water-races authorised to be constructed by the Government. 1. Thames. 4. Mount Ida. 2. Waimea, including extension to 5. Waipori Sludge-channel. Kumara. 6. Four-mile. 3. Nelson Creek. 7. Mikonui. " The Public Works Act, 1879," No. 44, s. 32. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time, on being satisfied that the expenditure on any of the district railways specified in the Fourth Schedule hereto, by the company constituted for the purpose of constructing the same, has been economically expended, to guarantee upon such terms, conditions, and subject to receiving such security as the Governor in Council may approve, the debentures or mortgages to be given by any such company, for a sum in the aggregate not exceeding seventyfive per centum of the expenditure of the company upon the construction and laying of any railway-line constructed by them, and the erecting and building of any buildings and erections, and the purchase of rails or rolling-stock in connection therewith, being the property of the company ; and the Governor may execute any instrument for completing or perfecting such guarantee on behalf of the colony : Provided always that the total amount of debentures or mortgages so guaranteed shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of sixty thousand pounds. Fourth Schedule. Waimea Plains Railway Company (Limited). Duntroon and Hakateramea Railway Company (Limited). Waimate Railway Company (Limited). Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Railway Company (Limited). " The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1889," No. 19, s. 10. In any case where land has been entered upon by the Queen or the Governor, or by any person on behalf of the Queen or the Governor, prior to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, for the purpose of constructing a railway thereon, and' no Proclamation taking such land for railway purposes has been

Water-races deemed to be made under Act.

Governor may guarantee debentures or mortgages, to be given by any railway company mentioned in Fourth Schedule, for a sum not exceeding 75 per cent, upon construction, &c, of railway.

Denning land taken for railway purposes where not taken by

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Short Title. Description. Otago Central Waimea-Switzers Invercargill-Kingston From Sawyer's Bay to Port Chalmers. From Main Line to the Brighton Road. From Mosgiel to Outram. From Clarksville (Tokomairiro) to Lawrence. From Main Line to Catlin's River. From Waipahi to Heriot Burn. From Edendale to Toitois. From Dunedin to Albert Town, Lake Wanaka. From Waimea Plain to Switzers. From Invercargill to Kingston (Lake Wakatipu), passing by Winton, Lumsden, and Athol, with a branch from Lumsden to the Mararoa River. From the Invercargill-Kingston Line, at the Makarewa River, to Riverton and Orepuki, with a branch to Otautau and the Nightcaps Coalfield. Western Railways