Num. 26.

653

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1899.

Vesting Control of the Bridge across the Oroua River, on the Road between Birmingham and Apiti, at the Boundary between the Counties of Pohangina and Kiwitea, in the Pohangina County Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and fourteen of “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, 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 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, whether theretofore incurred or thereafter to be incurred, of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing any such bridge, is to be provided and paid by any local authority, and, if so, by what local authority; and may by any such Proclamation as aforesaid direct how, and when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas it is expedient to make provision under the hereinbefore in part recited Act for the purposes hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and direct that the said bridge described in the Schedule hereto, and known as the “bridge over the Oroua River, situated on the road between Birmingham and Apiti, at the boundary between the Counties of Pohangina and Kiwitea,” shall, from and after the date of this Proclamation, be under the exclusive care, and control, and management of the Pohangina County Council; and in further pursuance of the aforesaid powers and authorities I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be borne by the Pohangina County Council in the proportion of two-thirds, and by the Kiwitea County Council in the proportion of one-third, of the cost.

And I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge at any future time shall be borne by the said local bodies in the said proportions respectively.

And I do hereby also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Kiwitea County Council shall be paid from time to time in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed out of the county funds of the County Council within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the said Pohangina County Council, and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said County Council, for and on account of such county.

SCHEDULE.

That bridge over the Oroua River, at Section No. 108, Block XIV., Apiti Survey District, on the road leading from Birmingham to Apiti, as the site of the said bridge is shown on the plan marked S.G. 25357, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander 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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE.

God save the Queen!