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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 24

Schedules thereto should be and the same were
thereby separated from the said district, and con-
stituted into new highway districts, by the names of
the Sandon and Carnarvon Highway District and the
Foxton Highway District, and the remaining portion
of the said Manawatu Highway District was consti-
tuted into a new district, by the name of the Mana-
watu Highway District:

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 Boards of the said highway
  districts, which I am empowered 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,一

There shall be paid to or levied and recovered by the
Board of Wardens for the Foxton Highway District
all rates struck by the Board of Wardens for the
former Manawatu Highway District remaining uncol-
lected on the seventeenth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty, in respect of
property situated in that district as now constituted,
and also a sum of three hundred and eighty-one
pounds seventeen shillings and elevenpence (£381
17s. 11d.) of the rates for the current year then in
the hands of the Wardens of the Manawatu Highway
District.

And I further award and direct that there shall be
paid to, or levied and recovered by, the Board of War-
dens of the Sandon and Carnarvon Highway District
all rates struck by the Board of Wardens for the former
Manawatu Highway District remaining uncollected on
the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty, in respect of property situated
in that district as now constituted; and I further
award and order that the Board of Wardens for the
Sandon and Carnarvon Highway District shall pay
to the Board of Wardens of the Manawatu Highway
District as now constituted the sum of six hundred
and ten pounds fourteen shillings and one penny
(£610 14s. 1d.)

And I further award and direct that there shall be
paid to, or levied and recovered by, the Board of
Wardens for the Manawatu Highway District as
now constituted, all rates remaining uncollected
on the seventeenth day of November, one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty, in respect of pro-
perty situated in that district as now constituted;
and, further, that if any of the rates herein re-
ferred to as not collected on the seventeenth
day of November, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty, have been subsequently, but before the pub-
lication hereof, collected by a Board of Wardens
other than the Board to whom the same have been
hereby awarded, then the Board by whom such rates
shall have been collected shall, immediately 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 fifth day
of April, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one.

(L.S.) ARTHUR H. GORDON.

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.

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.