Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.

The Short Title of this Act is "The North Island Main Trunk Railway Loan Application Act Amendment Act, 1889."

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All the land included in the description contained in the Second Schedule of this Act shall, for two years commencing from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, be deemed and held to be Native land as defined in the second clause of "The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1888," and the said Act, so far as the same relates to Native land, shall be held and deemed to apply to and affect all the land in the said Schedule, notwithstanding that the same may be held under Crown grant or certificate of title: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect or apply to the Crown, or to any person acting for or on behalf of the Crown, under the authority or by the direction of a Minister of the Crown.

Second Schedule.

Portions of the North Island Trunk Railway Area within which the Land Purchases at present incomplete are to be completed, and further Purchases effected out of the additional £100,000 herein allocated for Land Purchases.

All that area in the Provincial District of Auckland bounded towards the north-east by the Parish of Pirongia to the Puniu River; thence by that river and the Owairaka Stream to the source of the latter; thence by a right line to the confluence of the Mangere Stream with the Waikato River; thence by the said Waikato River to the Mangarewa Stream; thence towards the south-east generally by a right line to Trigonometrical Station Wharepuhanga; thence by a right line to Te Ranga Mountain; thence by a right line to Trigonometrical Station Ranginui; thence by a right line to the source of the Mokau River; thence by the Mokau River to the Mangaotaki River; thence towards the west by a right line to Trigonometrical Station Hauturu; thence by the summit of the range to the Pirongia Block; thence by the said Pirongia Block to its north-eastern corner; and thence by Native land to the Parish of Pirongia aforesaid.

Also all that area in the Provincial Districts of Auckland and Wellington bounded towards the north-east by the Wanganui River, the Mangatepopo River, the Huimako River, and the Wairehu River, from Whakapapa River to Roto Aira; thence by Roto Aixa and the Poutu River to the Waikato River; thence towards the east and north by page 28the said Waikato River, the south-east boundary of the Rangipo North Block No. 7, the northern boundary-line of Rangipo-Waiau Block No. 1, and the northern and eastern boundaries of the Rangipo-Waiau Block No. 2, the eastern boundary of the Rangipo-Waiau Block, and the northern boundary of the Awarua Block to the Ruahine Range; again towards the east by the summit of the Ruahine Range; towards the south by the southern boundary-line of the said Awarua Block, by the southern boundaries of Te Kapua and Pohonuitane Blocks to the Maungakaretu Block; thence towards the west and again towards the south and east by the Maungakaretu Blocks Nos. 4a, 6, 5a, 3a, and 2; again towards the south by the Heao, Paratieke, Ohineiti, Karewarewa, and Te Kahakaha Blocks respectively to the Wanganui River; thence to the south-west generally by that river to the Oao Stream; thence towards the north-west generally by the northern boundary of the Ohoutahi Block, the southern boundary of the Otarangoho Block, and the north-western boundary of the Mangoihe Block to the Atuahae Block; thence by the last-mentioned block, the Waimarino Block, the Raetihi Block No. 1, the Tawhito-Ariki Block, the Rangataua Blocks North No. 1 and South, and the Raetihi Blocks to the said Waimarino Block; thence by that block and the Ruapehu Blocks Nos. 2a and 1A; and again towards the south-west generally by the said Waimarino Block to the Taurewa Block; thence by that block and the Waimarino Block aforesaid to the place of commencement: excepting, nevertheless, all lands already purchased by the Crown.

As indicated on map marked P.W.D. 16353, in the office of the Minister for Public Works, and thereon coloured green with red lines, and yellow.