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license should be granted and issued to the company under the said Act for the purpose aforesaid, on the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby approve of the object for which the said license is required by the company as aforesaid; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby license and permit the company to use and occupy that part of the foreshore on which the wharf is to be constructed, as shown on the plans so deposited as aforesaid, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining the said wharf thereon, such license to be held and enjoyed by the company upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

1. In these conditions the term “Minister” means the Minister having charge of the Marine Department, as defined by “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” and includes any officer, person, or authority acting by or under the direction of such Minister.

2. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall extend and apply only to the part of the foreshore necessary for the construction of the wharf, as shown on plans marked M.D. 2487.

3. In consideration of the concessions and privileges granted by this Order in Council, the company shall, on being supplied with a copy thereof, pay to the Minister the sum of five pounds, and thereafter an annual sum of one pound, payable on the 1st day of December, dating from the 1st day of December, 1901, the first of such annual payments to be made on the company being supplied with a copy of this Order in Council.

4. All persons shall, at all reasonable times, upon payment of the proper dues, have free and full liberty to use the said wharf, and all rights of ingress and egress thereon and therefrom.

5. His Majesty, or the Governor, and all officers in the Government service acting in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress into, through, and out of the said wharf without payment.

6. The company shall maintain the above-mentioned wharf in good order and repair, and shall at all times exhibit therefrom and maintain at its own cost suitable and necessary lights for the guidance of vessels: Provided that no light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved of by the Minister.

7. Any person authorised by the Minister may at all reasonable times enter upon the said wharf and view the state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at or posting to the last known registered office of the company in New Zealand a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such wharf, requiring it, within a reasonable time, to be therein prescribed, to repair the same, it shall with all convenient speed cause such defect to be removed or such repairs to be made.

8. Nothing herein contained shall authorise the company to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, or with any provisions of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” or its amendments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that are now or may hereafter be in force.

9. The ballast of all vessels loading at the said wharf shall be taken away by the company, and deposited above high-water mark, or at such place as may be approved of by the Minister, or by any person appointed by the Minister for that purpose.

10. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or under this Order in Council shall continue to be in force for fourteen years from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the company shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the previous written consent of the Minister first obtained.

11. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the company three calendar months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the company in New Zealand.

12. The company shall be liable for any injury which the said wharf may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any default or neglect on its part.

13. In case the company shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them;
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period of thirty days;
    (3.) Be in any manner wound up or dissolved; or
    (4.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause three of these conditions—
    then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the company or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the company, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

14. The construction of the wharf shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the company of the terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Licensee of Foreshore for Public Hall, Kohukohu.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of November, 1901.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 15, of the fourteenth day of the same month, Alfred Cooke Yarborough and William Anderson Gilfillan were, as trustees for persons who had subscribed money to build a public hall at Kohukohu, licensed to use and occupy a part of the foreshore at that place as a site for such hall:

And whereas the said William Anderson Gilfillan has resigned his trusteeship, and David Brown Wallace, of Kohukohu, is willing to act as trustee in his stead:

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the said Order in Council as to the said William Anderson Gilfillan, and to substitute as licensee in his place the said David Brown Wallace:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the said Order in Council in so far as the same relates to the said William Anderson Gilfillan, and in his stead doth hereby appoint the said David Brown Wallace to be a licensee under the said Order in Council jointly with the said Alfred Cooke Yarborough, as such trustees as aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Kaikoura Wharf Amended Regulations.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of November, 1901.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 9, of the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, certain regulations, dues, and rates were prescribed for the use of the said wharf:

And whereas it is thought advisable to amend the said regulations, dues, and rates:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the fourteenth and seventeenth sections of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby declare that the following alterations, additions, and amendments to the aforesaid regulations, dues, and rates shall come into force on and after the date hereof:—