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2. The drawbridge shall not be opened within thirty minutes of the due time of arrival or departure of any train from Te Aroha Railway Station.

3. No person, or vehicle, or any animal shall enter upon or travel over the bridge within ten minutes of the time that any train is due to cross the bridge.

4. Any person offending against any of these by-laws will be subject to a penalty not exceeding £10 for each offence.

Dated this 28th day of April, 1886.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Tenders.

Public Works Office
Wellington, 11th May, 1886.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

WANGANUI PRISON CONTRACT.

Accepted.

Burgess, M., Bull’s .. .. .. £ 1,863 2 3

Declined.

Keys, A. A., Auckland .. .. .. 1,984 8 0
Gifford, W., Wellington .. .. .. 2,120 4 0
Cliff, S., New Plymouth .. .. .. 2,181 0 0
Spurdle, M., Wanganui .. .. .. 2,190 0 0
Kay, R., Auckland .. .. .. 2,291 0 0
Handcock, G. M., Auckland .. .. .. 2,324 0 0
Smith and Nelson, Auckland .. .. .. 2,425 15 0

Native School Site at Raukokore.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th May, 1886.

THE following report of the person appointed by the Governor, under the provisions of “The Native Schools Sites Act, 1880,” to ascertain the title of certain Natives to land at Raukokore, in the County of Whakatane, appropriated by them for the site of a school, having been adopted by the Governor, is published in accordance with the said Act.

ROBERT STOUT.

REPORT UNDER “THE NATIVE SCHOOLS SITES ACT, 1880.”

Resident Magistrate’s Office,
Opotiki, 12th April, 1886.

SIR,—His Excellency the Governor having been pleased, in pursuance of the above-named Act, to appoint me to ascertain the title of certain Natives to a certain piece of land near Raukokore, known as Te Puia, situated in the County of Whakatane, in the Provincial District of Auckland, appropriated by them as a school site, I have now the honour respectfully to report that I gave notice in the Opotiki Herald, dated the 18th February, 1886, that I would hold an inquiry respecting the above-named land, at Te Hata’s whare, Raukokore, on Thursday, the 1st day of April. I also had fifty slips printed in Maori, which were distributed throughout the district.

I proceeded to Raukokore, and on Thursday, the 1st April, I opened the inquiry, at the place already mentioned, in the presence of all the Natives resident in the vicinity, when it was ascertained that this particular piece of land was owned by Hohepa Karapaina, Herewini te Momo, and Hirini te Aopururangi, all of whom subsequently signed the document attached, transferring the land to the Crown for school purposes as required.

Accompanied by the three Natives aboved named and many others, I visited the site, which, with the assistance of the donors and others, I marked off with pegs and other marks. Having no chain I was unable to chain off the linkage of the various boundaries. You will notice that the area of the land is not mentioned, there being no means of ascertaining the exact acreage, but I should say it must be quite four acres. The boundaries are well defined, and there cannot be a shadow of doubt as to the title of the donors, which was admitted by all those present, as also by Te Hata, the principal chief of the tribe. The boundaries fixed by the donors and myself are perhaps not quite the same as those given on Mr. Kirk’s sketch, but they are as near as possible the same. I could not find the pegs mentioned by Mr. Kirk.

I attach herewith the papers signed by the Native owners in Maori, also a translation of the same, also a rough sketch of the site.

I have, &c.,

R. S. Bush, R.M.

The Under-Secretary,
Education Department, Wellington.

ENCLOSURE No. 1.

Ko matou ko nga tangata nana te wahi whenua i mohiotia ai ko Te Puia e tutata ana ki Raukokore, e whakaae ana ki te tuku i taua wahi whenua ki te Kuini hei whenua turanga kura mo a matou tamariki. Ko nga rohe o taua whenua ka timata ki te taha hau waho kei te peke rakau ki te taha o te rohe kowhatu ka tae ki te taumata i te wahi tutata ki te rakau pohutukawa i te teihana tiaki tohora; ka ahu ki te marangai i runga tonu i te taumata tae noa ki tetei rakau ngaio, ka whati ki te tonga tae noa ki te peke rakau, ka ahu ki te hauauru tae noa ki tetei peke rakau i te pi konga o te rori, ka whati ki te peke o te timatanga.

HOHEPA KARAPAINA.
HEREWINI TE MOMO.
HIRINI TE AOPURURANGI.

Signed by the said Hohepa Karapaina, Herewini te Momo, and Hirini te Aopururangi, at Raukokore, on the 1st day of April, 1886, in the presence of—Robert Bush, Resident Magistrate, Opotiki, and Wiremu Kingi, Native Assessor, Torere.

ENCLOSURE No. 2.

[Translation.]

We, the persons who are the owners of a piece of land known as Te Puia, near Raukokore, agree to convey that piece of land to Her Majesty the Queen as a site for a school for our children: The boundaries of this land commence on the northern side, at the wooden peg near the heap of stones (an old boundary-mark); thence to the top of the hill, to a point near to the pohutukawa tree, upon which stands a lookout station for whales; thence towards the East following the edge of the table-land behind the clump of pohutukawa trees to a ngaio tree; thence to the South to a wooden peg; thence to the West to a wooden peg where the road turns; and thence to the North-west passing through a clump of ngaio trees to the point of commencement.

HOHEPA KARAPAINA.
HEREWINI TE MOMO.
HIRINI TE AOPURURANGI.

Notice of Intention to take Land for Defence Works at Watts Peninsula, Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and “The Public Works Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1885,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of works for the purpose of defence at Watts Peninsula, near Wellington, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plans of the said works and of the lands so required to be taken are deposited in the Public Works Office at Wellington, and are there open for inspection: And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Provincial District of Wellington; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 13746, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon edged pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of March, 1886.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.