Numb. 105.

1407

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1879.

Allocating Liabilities of Invercargill Road District and
Boroughs of Gladstone and North Invercargill.

(L.S.) HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Invercargill Road District was
by the Otago Roads Ordi-
nance, 1871," and the boundaries of the said district
are set forth in the fortieth section of the First Sche-
dule to the said Ordinance: And whereas by virtue
of the powers contained in the third section of "The
Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1875," the
following municipalities were created, that is to say:
The Municipality of East Invercargill by a Proclama-
tion of the Deputy Superintendent of the Province
of Otago, bearing date the twenty-fifth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six;
the Municipality of North Invercargill by a like
Proclamation of even date; the Municipality of
Avenal by a like Proclamation, bearing date the first
day of September, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six; the Municipality of Gladstone by a
like Proclamation, bearing date the twenty-sixth day
of September, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six; and the Municipality of South Inver-
cargill by a like Proclamation, bearing date the twenty-
fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six: And whereas at the time of the
creation of the aforesaid several municipalities or
boroughs the amount of all moneys borrowed on the
security of the rates of the said Invercargill Road
District, authorized to be levied by "The Otago
Roads Ordinance, 1871," and then owing by the
Board of the said district, was one thousand five
hundred and fifty pounds: And whereas the follow-
ing boroughs were brought under the provisions of
"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," that is to
say: The Borough of Avenal by a Proclamation
dated the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight; the Borough of East
Invercargill by a Proclamation dated the twelfth day
of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight; and the Borough of South Invercargill by a
Proclamation dated the twenty-ninth day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven:
And whereas the several municipalities or boroughs
so incorporated and constituted as aforesaid, and the
Board of the said Invercargill Road District, have not
been able to agree, within the time mentioned in the
thirty-third section of "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1876," as to the proportion of the said sum of
one thousand five hundred and fifty pounds so
borrowed as aforesaid to be respectively borne by
the said several municipalities or boroughs and the
said Invercargill Road District: And whereas His
Excellency the Governor, on the eighth day of Oc-
tober, one thousand eight hundred and seventh-eight,
appointed under the authority of the eleventh section
of "The Municipal Corporations Act Amendment
Act, 1878," Messrs. Walter Henry Pearson and Henry
McCulloch to be fit persons to make the award men-
tioned in the thirty-third section of "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1876:" And whereas the said
persons did, by their report, bearing date the four-
teenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-nine, award that each municipality
should bear such a proportion of the debt as the rate-
able value of the property in the municipality was to
the rateable value of the property in the whole dis-
trict as originally constituted:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in him
by the fourth section of "The Otago Municipal Cor-
porations Ordinance, 1875," and "The Abolition of
Provinces Act, 1875," and all other powers and
authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby
allocate the proportions of the said sum of one
thousand five hundred and fifty pounds so bor-
rowed and owing as aforesaid to be borne by the
said Invercargill Road District and the municipal
corporations or boroughs named in the Schedule
hereto, and doth proclaim and declare that such pro-
portions shall be those set opposite the names of the
corporations or boroughs and the name of the
said district in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.
Invercargill Road District
Borough of Gladstone
Borough of North Invercargill
£ s. d.
... 690 4 2
... 135 2 3
... 82 7 9

Given under the hand of His Excellency
Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distin-
guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony