Numb. 8. 149

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1893.

Vesting Control of Wairau Cart-bridge in Spring Creek
Road Board.

(L.S.)
GLASGOW, Governor.

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 con-
structed, over or across any river or arm of the sea re-
spectively, 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 Act for the purposes
hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of
the powers and authorities in me vested by the said Act, and
of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me
in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge mentioned in
the Schedule hereto, and known as the Wairau Cart-bridge,
shall, from and after the first day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, be under the ex-
clusive care, control, and management of the Spring Creek
Road Board; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the
powers aforesaid, I do hereby fix and determine that the
cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing
the said bridge, less any revenue derived by the Spring
Creek Road Board from the Ferry Reserve adjacent to the
said bridge, and being portion of Section fifty, Block eleven,
Cloudy Bay Survey District, is to be provided and paid by
the local authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following
proportions, namely: Spring Creek Road Board, fifty per
centum; Picton Road Board, fifty per centum. And I do
also hereby direct that the contribution hereby required to
be made as aforesaid by the Picton Road Board towards the
cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing
the said bridge shall be paid from time to time, in the pro-
portion hereinbefore prescribed, by the Picton Road Board
out of the Road Board Fund of the Picton Road District,
within a period of ten days after a demand in writing, made
by or on behalf of the Spring Creek Road 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 Picton
Road Board, and the payments so to be made shall be made

from time to time to the Clerk of the Spring Creek Road
Board for and on behalf of the Spring Creek Road Board.

SCHEDULE.

That bridge over the Wairau River known as the Wairau
Cart-bridge, situated on the line of road leading from Blen-
heim to Picton, and adjacent to Section No. 86, Block XII.,
and Section No. 50, Block XI., Cloudy Bay Survey District,
Marlborough County, Land District of Marlborough; as the
same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 12779, depo-
sited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey,
at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and
thereon marked red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; 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 Dunedin, this
twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
three.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land available for Selection by the Midland Railway
Company set apart for Mining Purposes.

(L.S.)
GLASGOW, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS in the contract bearing date the third day
of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
eight, made between Her Majesty the Queen and the New
Zealand Midland Railway Company (Limited), it is, among
other things, provided that, subject to the conditions therein
contained, all lands within the limits of the authorised area
defined in the said contract shall be available for selection
by the company, with certain exceptions: And whereas
among such exceptions are included all lands which from
time to time, in the opinion of the Governor, are or may be
required for bona fide mining purposes and the several pur-
poses connected therewith or incidental or conducive thereto,
and which lands shall from time to time be set apart and
defined by Proclamation to be issued in that behalf; but
no more than ten thousand acres shall be so set apart or
proclaimed in one block at any one time, and the lands so
set apart and proclaimed from time to time shall not, in the
aggregate, exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand acres:
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, the lands
described in the Schedule hereto, are required for bona fide
mining purposes and the several purposes connected there-