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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

personal expenses of 17s. 6d. per diem when absent
at night. When a horse is kept by permission, a
sum not exceeding £50 per annum to be allowed,
with or without livery, when absent from head-
quarters, as may be approved.
3. Resident Engineers and Assistant Engineers to
have a travelling allowance of 15s. per diem, when
absent at night, and all travelling fares. Horse
allowance as above.
4. Cadets and junior assistants in camp to have
field allowance of 5s. per diem, and 10s. 6d. per diem
when travelling and absent at night.
5. All officers absent on duty during the day, but
returning to their homes at night, to be allowed
expenses actually incurred.
6. Allowance at sea, 2s. 6d. per diem.

As witness the hand of his Excellency the
Governor, this ninth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.
R. OLIVER.

Awards, Karori-Makara and Kilbirnie Highway
Boards.

To all to whom these presents shall come, the
Honorable Sir ARTHUR HAMILTON GORDON,
G.C.M.G., the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, sends greeting:

W
HEREAS in pursuance of the powers conferred
upon him by the seventh section of an Act of
the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the
Province of Wellington intituled "The Highways
Act, 1874," and "The Abolition of Provinces Act,
1875," the then Administrator of the Government
did, by Proclamation dated the fourteenth day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty,
proclaim and declare that, from and after the date
thereof, the portion of the Karori-Makara Highway
District, defined in the First Schedule thereto, should
be and the same was thereby separated from the said
district and constituted into a new highway district
by the name of the Kilbirnie Highway District,
and such district was thereby declared to have the
boundaries set forth in the First Schedule thereto:

And whereas I, the said Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
as such Governor as aforesaid, am desirous of making
the orders and awards respecting the liabilities, pro-
perty, and moneys of the said Boards which I am em-
powered to do by virtue of the fourteenth, fifteenth,
and sixteenth sections of the said "Highways Act,
1874," coupled with "The Abolition of Provinces
Act, 1875," as hereinafter more particularly appears:

Now, therefore, these presents witness that I, the
aforesaid Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, by virtue and
in pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in
me by the said Acts, and of all other powers and
authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf,
order and award as follows, that is to say,-

There shall be paid to or levied and recovered by
the Board of Wardens for the Karori-Makara High-
way District all rates remaining uncollected on the
fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty, in respect of property situated
in that district as now constituted, and also a sum of
£36 14s., rates for the current year then in the hands
of the collector; and further that, out of the subsidy
payable to such Board by the Government of New
Zealand, amounting in the whole to £279 8s. 9d., the
said Board shall be entitled to receive or to retain the
sum of £162 2s. 3d., and also a further sum of £4 13s.
3d. due from a special grant: And I further award
and order that there shall be paid to, or levied and re-
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covered by, the Board of Wardens for the Kilbirnie
Highway District all rates struck by the Board of
Wardens for the Karori-Makara Highway District,
but payable in respect of property in the Kilbirnie
Highway District, and remaining uncollected on the
fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty; and further that such last-mentioned
Board shall be entitled to receive and to retain
the balance of the before-mentioned subsidy, to wit,
£117 6s. 6d.

And I further award and direct that the Board of
Wardens for the Karori-Makara Highway District
shall, immediately upon the publication hereof, pay to
the Board of Wardens for the Kilbirnie Highway Dis-
trict the sum of £107 2s. 6d., payable to such last-
mentioned Board in adjustment of the expenditure of
the past year, and the further sum of £2 3s. 9d.,
being the share to which I deem such last-mentioned
Board is entitled out of the above-mentioned sum of
£4 13s. 3d. And I further award and order that the
Board of Wardens for the Karori-Makara Highway
District shall pay all the liabilities of the said Board
outstanding on the fourteenth day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty; and further that
if any of the rates herein referred to as not collected
on the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty, have been subsequently, but
before the publication hereof, collected by the Board
of Wardens other than the Board to whom the same
have been hereby awarded, then such Board shall, im-
mediately upon the publication hereof, pay and hand
over to the Board hereby declared to be entitled to
receive the same such rates so received by it, and
which have been hereby awarded to such other Board.

As witness my hand and seal, this second day
of March, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one.

ARTHUR GORDON. (L.S.)

Signed, sealed, and delivered by
His Excellency the Honorable
Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
G.C.M.G., in the presence of-
F. P. MURRAY,
Private Secretary, Wellington.

Member of Executive Council appointed.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 9th March, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
administer the oaths of office to
The Honorable WALTER WOODS JOHNSTON.
He is sworn a Member of the Executive Council of
New Zealand.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Postmaster-General and Commissioner of Telegraphs
appointed.

Private Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
The Honorable WALTER WOODS JOHNSTON
to be Postmaster-General and Commissioner of Tele-
graphs, vice the Honorable John Hall, who has
resigned those offices.

F. P. MURRAY,
Private Secretary.