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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 address 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 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 six 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.) Fail to erect and complete the wharf within twelve months from the date of this Order in Council;
    (3.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period of thirty days;
    (4.) Be in any manner wound up or dissolved; or
    (5.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 3 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 erection of the wharf shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the company of the terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

SHIPPING WHARFAGE.

Every person who shall use the wharf with any vessel shall pay for the use thereof as follows, that is to say: For every vessel, a sum of 1d. per ton on the gross tonnage of such vessel per day for each day or part of a day a vessel shall occupy a berth alongside any vessel lying at the wharf undergoing repairs, or fitting out only, or shall lie off the said wharf with a line attached thereto.

GOODS WHARFAGE.

Every person who shall use the wharf for landing or shipping any goods shall, before using the same, pay dues as follows, that is to say:—
(1.) All goods per ton weight or measurement, at s. d. option of company .. .. .. 2 0
(2.) Every head of cattle or horses .. .. .. 2 0
(3.) Every yearling or calf .. .. .. 1 0
(4.) Every head of sheep or small cattle .. .. 0 3

If any ship shall use the wharf for the discharge of any goods or cargo after the usual working-hours or on wharf holidays, the master, owner, or agent of such ship shall pay to the company for the use of the wharf a charge at the rate of 1s. per ton on all goods or cargo so discharged from such ship. This charge shall only be made when in the opinion of the wharfinger it is necessary to employ labour to stack or remove cargo into sheds in consequence of the discharge of such goods or cargo as aforesaid.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Native Land proposed to be taken for Bridge-protection from the Oroua River at Awahuri, Kairanga Survey District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of May, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the protection of a bridge from the Oroua River at Awahuri, Kairanga Survey District:

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the said land by the Manawatu Road Board, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, 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, doth hereby declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the said bridge-protection, and the said land shall vest in the King, as from the twentieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and one.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Wellington Land District; as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above stated, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Limits of Mokau Harbour defined.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

ROBERT STOUT.

IN pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the ninth section of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby define the limits of the Harbour of Mokau, in the said colony, to be,—

All that area covered by the sea, and by the tidal waters of the same, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on high-water mark on the shore-line south of the mouth of the Mokau River where intersected by the arc of a circle having its centre in the Township of Mokau at the intersection of the northern side of Rerenga Street with the eastern side of Aria Terrace, the radius of the said circle being two statute miles in length; proceeding thence along the seaward boundary of the said arc to its intersection with the high-water mark of ordinary spring tides on the shore-line on the north side of the Mokau River; thence in a southerly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, of the said shore-line to the mouth of the Mokau River; thence generally in an easterly direction along the high-water mark, ordinary spring tides, on the right bank of the Mokau River to opposite the mouth of the Ma-