Notice is hereby given that the Minister for Land Information proposes to take, under the Public Works Act 1981, the land described in the Schedules hereto (“the land”).

The land is required for the Huntly Section of the Waikato Expressway. The land described in the First Schedule is required for road. The land described in the Second Schedule is required for the functioning indirectly of a road (segregation strip) to prevent legal access to the Waikato Expressway once constructed.

The Waikato Expressway will provide a continuous four-laned carriageway between the Bombay Hills and south of Cambridge.

The owners of the land and those persons with a registered interest in it have been served with notice of the Minister for Land Information’s intention to take the land and advised of their right to object.

Any other person having the right to object may send a written objection to the Registrar, Environment Court, Level 2, 41 Federal Street, Auckland 1010, or by post to PO Box 7147 or DX CX10086, Auckland, within 20 working days after the date of publication of this notice.

If any objection is made in accordance with this notice, a public hearing will be held with the right of the objector to appear and be heard personally unless the objector otherwise requires, and each objector will be informed of the time and place of the hearing.

Any person requiring further information in respect of this advice should contact Graeme Bates, The Property Group Limited, Suite 3, 143 Durham Street (PO Box 13591), Tauranga Central, Tauranga 3141. Telephone: (07) 579 5194.

South Auckland Land District—Waikato District

First Schedule

Second Schedule

The land is located at 394–419 Kimihia Road, Huntly.

Dated at Cambridge this 2nd day of February 2015.

Hon LOUISE UPSTON, Minister for Land Information.