Railway (Upper Darling Range) Discontinuance Act 1950 (WA)

1950.] Railway (Upper Darling Range) [No. 66.

Discontinuance.

RAILWAY (UPPER DARLING RANGE)

DISCONTINUANCE.

14° and 15' Geo. VI., No. LXVI.

No. 66 of 1950.

AN ACT to authorise the Discontinuance of the

Upper Darling Range Railway.

[Assented to 29th December, 1950.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Railway (Upper Short title.

Darling Range) Discontinuance Act, 1950.

2.

(1) The railway described in the Schedule to cease to be operated until the Governor otherwise railway.	this Act shall, on the commencement of this Act, operation 01
declares, and the material thereof may be used in the construction or maintenance of any other auth- orised railway or may be sold, disposed of, or other- wise dealt with as the Minister for Railways may
determine.
(2) The cost of the said railway as charged to the Government Railways Capital Account may be omitted from the accounts prepared under Part IV of the Government Railways Act, 1904-1948.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Railway.

All that railway having a total length of 20 miles 6 chains,

commencing opposite the Southern boundary of Clayton

Street, Midland Junction, at a point 11 miles 9 chains from

No. 66.] Railway (Upper Darling Range) [1950.

Discontinuance.

Perth and proceeding generally in a South by South- Easterly direction for a distance of 15 miles 17 chains to Pickering Brook (being portion of a railway 15 miles 63 chains in length recorded by the Department of Railways as having been purchased in 1903 from the Canning Jarrah Timber Company under clause 37 of an Agreement made in 1891 with one E. V. H. Keane regarding the construction of that railway); thence generally in the same direction for a distance of 3 miles 46 chains to Canning Mills (being the railway recorded as aforesaid as having been purchased in 1910 from Millar's Karri & Jarrah Company (1902) Limited); thence generally in the same direction for a distance of 1 mile 23 chains to Karragullen (being the railway authorised by and constructed under the Upper Darling Range Railway Extension Act, 1911, Act No. 13 of 1912), and terminating at the North-Western boundary of Road No. 5134 Karragullen townsite and adjacent to the Northern boundary of Canning Location 162; all measure- ments being more or less.