JUNE 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1119

Section 41 is weighted with £32, valuation for improvements, there being a small four-roomed house on it.

The Huiakama Village is situate on the Ohura Road, a short distance from the Township of Strathmore, and about twenty-one miles and a half from Stratford Railway-station. The general character of the soil is good.

VILLAGE OF MAKAKA.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Warrant authorising the Rangitikei County Council to construct a Bridge over the Rangitikei River at Vinegar Hill, and apportioning the Cost of the Bridge.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Public Works Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that, in any case where the local authority of any district desires to construct a bridge in any position that will, in its opinion, be of advantage and benefit to the whole or any considerable portion of the inhabitants of an adjacent district, as well as to the inhabitants of its own district, and where it is, in the opinion of such local authority, reasonable that the local authority of such adjacent district should contribute to the cost of constructing or establishing the said bridge, the provisions in the said section mentioned shall have effect:

And whereas the Rangitikei County Council has taken the steps required by the said section, and has made application to the Governor to authorise the construction of the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as “the said bridge”), and to apportion the cost of constructing the said bridge between the said Council and the Kiwitea County Council; and no objection to such application has been made by the Kiwitea County Council:

And whereas the Governor is of opinion that the work should be done:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby authorise the Rangitikei County Council to construct the said bridge; and I do hereby declare that the cost of constructing the said bridge—less such amount, by way of contribution, as may be provided by Government—shall be borne by the said County Councils in equal proportions—namely, one-half shall be borne by the Rangitikei County Council, and one-half by the Kiwitea County Council—and such proportions shall be paid by the said local authorities accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

The bridge over the Rangitikei River known as the Vinegar Hill Bridge, situated on the Vinegar Hill Road, partly in Rangitikei County and partly in Kiwitea County; as the site of the said bridge is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 15419, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon marked in black.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in the Marlborough Land District open for Sale or Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Clay soil, with small patches of fair soil in gullies; pastoral country, covered with manuka scrub, birch, and fern. About thirteen miles from Picton.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.