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of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Manawatu County Council; and I do hereby fix and determine that the Manawatu County Council shall itself provide out of its own funds one-half of the actual cost of managing and maintaining the said ferry; and that the Rangitikei County Council shall, on demand in writing from the said Manawatu County Council, pay to the said Council from time to time one-half of the actual cost of managing and maintaining the said ferry: Provided, however, that the “actual cost” hereinbefore mentioned shall mean the cost of managing and maintaining the said ferry less any profits made in working the ferry, and less any rents collected by or paid to the Manawatu County Council in respect of the whole or any portion of the Ferry Reserves at the mouth of the Rangitikei River.

SCHEDULE.

THE ferry known as Scott’s Ferry across the Rangitikei River, near the mouth of that river, and partly in the County of Manawatu and partly in the County of Rangitikei, as shown on plan marked S.G. 12125, deposited in the General Survey Office, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon marked in red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley, of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Vesting the Control of a Road in Turanga Road Board.

(L.S.) ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section twenty of “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1887,” it is enacted, inter alia, that the Council of any county may, by special order, declare that all or any part of any district road shall, from and after a date to be fixed therein, be under the exclusive control of such local authority within the county as shall be mentioned in such special order, and may, by the same special order, direct that the cost of constructing and maintaining any such road or part of a road shall be borne either by the local authority to which the exclusive control thereof is given, or that a proportion of such cost, to be fixed in and by such special order, shall be borne by any other local authority or local authorities; and that wherever the operation of “The Counties Act, 1876,” or of any Act repealing or amending the same, is suspended, the Governor shall have and may exercise all the functions vested in a County Council under this section:

And whereas the road described in the Schedule hereto is a district road, and is situated in the County of Manukau, in which county the operation of “The Counties Act, 1886” (an Act repealing “The Counties Act, 1876”), is suspended; and it is desirable that the said road should be placed under the exclusive control of the Turanga Road Board:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby order and declare that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, from and after the twenty-third day of May next ensuing, be under the exclusive control of the Turanga Road Board; and I do hereby further direct that one-half the actual cost of constructing and maintaining such road shall be borne by the said Turanga Road Board, and that one-half the actual cost of constructing and maintaining such road shall be borne by the East Tamaki Road Board: Provided, however, that the actual cost as aforesaid shall not, in any one year, exceed the sum of eight pounds, and any excess beyond the sum of eight pounds per annum shall be borne by the Turanga Road Board.

SCHEDULE.

THAT part of the road known as Ridge Road, situated in the Parish of Pakuranga, in the County of Manukau, the western side of which commences at a point on the south-eastern boundary-line of Section No. 80 of the said parish, due west of the north-western corner of Section No. 235 of the said parish, and proceeds southerly to a point in line with the northern boundary-line of Section No. 174 of the Parish of Pakuranga aforesaid: as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. 12352, deposited in the General Survey Office, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley, of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON.
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Road in Akaroa County.

(L.S.) ONSLOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, under “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and its amendments, for a certain work, to wit, the construction of a road in Akaroa County:

And whereas the Akaroa County Council has laid before the Governor the memorial, accompanied by a map, and also the statutory declaration required by the said Act and the amendments thereof:

Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of the construction of the said road.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Provincial District of Canterbury; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. 12281, deposited in the Survey Office, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop; Viscount Cranley, of Cranley in the County of Surrey; Baron Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Salop, and of West Clandon in the County of Surrey; Baron Cranley, of Imbercourt; Baronet; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN