Numb. 37.
671

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1892.

Vesting Control of Awahuri Bridge in Manawatu Road
Board.

(L.S.)
JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section four of “The Public Works Acts
Amendment Act, 1887” (hereinafter termed “the
said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may,
upon the terms and conditions in the said section men-
tioned, by Proclamation publicly notified, direct that any
bridge already constructed, or which may hereafter be
constructed, over or across any river or arm of the sea
respectively, shall, from and after a date to be fixed in such
Proclamation, be under the exclusive care, control, and
management of such local authority as shall be mentioned
in that behalf in such Proclamation; and may by any such
Proclamation as aforesaid fix and determine whether all or
any, and, if so, what, part of the cost of maintaining, repair-
ing, improving, or reconstructing any such bridge is to be
paid by the local authority or local authorities, and, if so,
by what local authority or authorities; and may, by any
such Proclamation as aforesaid, direct how, when, and to
whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made
under the hereinbefore in part recited Acts for the purposes
hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, the Administrator
of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by
the said Acts, and of every other power and authority in any-
wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the
bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and known as
the Awahuri Bridge, shall, from and after the seventh day
of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, be
under the exclusive care, control, and management of the
Manawatu Road Board (hereinafter referred to as “the said
Board”); and, in further pursuance and exercise of the
powers aforesaid, I do hereby fix and determine that the
Fitzherbert Road Board shall, on demand in writing from
the said Board, pay to the said Board the sum of thirty-six
pounds eight shillings and tenpence sterling towards the
cost of maintaining the said bridge; and that after the said
Board shall have executed works for the maintenance of the
said bridge to the extent of the thirty-six pounds eight
shillings and tenpence, to be paid for as aforesaid, then the
cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing
the said bridge is to be provided and paid by the local
authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following propor-
tions, namely: Manawatu Road Board, thirty-seven and one-
half per centum; Manawatu County Council, thirty-seven
and one-half per centum; Palmerston Borough Council,
twenty-five per centum. And I do also hereby direct that
the contributions hereby required to be made as aforesaid
by the Manawatu County Council and the Palmerston
Borough Council towards the cost of maintaining, repairing,
improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be paid
from time to time, in the proportions hereinbefore prescribed,
by the Manawatu County Council out of the County Fund
of the Manawatu County, and by the Palmerston Borough
Council out of the Borough Fund of the Palmerston Borough,
within a period of ten days after a demand in writing, made
by or on behalf of the said Board, stating the amount so
required to be paid and the purpose for which it is so
required, shall have been left at the office of the local body
liable hereunder to make such payment; and the payments
so to be made shall be made from time to time to the Clerk
of the said Board for and on behalf of the said Board.

SCHEDULE.

That bridge over the Oroua River known as the Awahuri
traffic-bridge, situated on the line of road leading from Pal-
merston to Feilding, via Awahuri, in the Land District of
Wellington; as the same is delineated on the plan marked
S.G. 13318, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, Wellington, and thereon marked in red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James
Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, the Adminis-
trator of the Government of Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this thirtieth day of April, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-two.

W. P. REEVES,
For the Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Alexandra Recreation-ground brought under “The
Public Domains Act, 1881.”

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this third
day of May, 1892.

Present:

His Excellency the Administrator of the Government
in Council.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves
Act, 1881,” I, James Prendergast, the Administrator of the
Government of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made
for public recreation in the Land District of Auckland which
is known as the Alexandra Recreation-ground, and described
in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby
brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to
the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881;” and
such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and
dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.