APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 913

SCHEDULE.

WAITAHANUI NATIVE-SCHOOL SITE.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 9 acres, more or less, being portion of Tauhara Middle No. 4a Block (as comprised in Crown grant, Vol. ix., folio 71, of the Land Transfer Register of the Auckland District), and known as Section 1, Block X., Tauhara Survey District. Bounded towards the west by the main Taupo-Tokaanu Road, 880 links; towards the north by the Tauhara Middle No. 4a Block, 530 links; towards the east by a road reserve along the Waitahanui Stream, 300 links, 600 links, 350 links, and 300 links; towards the south by the aforementioned Tauhara Middle No. 4a Block, 1130 links, to the point of commencement: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked 1900/488-401, deposited in the office of the Minister of Education, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon outlined in purple.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Reserves in the Canterbury Land District.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II. of the Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, declare his intention to make such change, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purposes of the reserves described in the Schedule hereto from tramway, water-race, and plantation purposes to water-race, plantation, and internal-communication purposes.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District known as part of the Mount Somers Tramway Reserve, and being reserve numbered 3084 (in red), situated in Blocks XI. and XV., Alford Survey District, containing by admeasurement 24 acres and 32 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by the road forming the south-west boundary of Sections Nos. 14431, 8478, 15492, 17801, 18245, and 22004; towards the north-west by a road-line dividing Sections Nos. 32042 and 33450, 200·9 links; towards the south-west by Sections Nos. 27148, 18513, and a road-line; and towards the south-east by a road-line dividing Sections Nos. 15202 and 18512, 259·2 links: save and excepting one gravel reserve, containing 1 acre, and two road-lines, which are within the above-described boundaries; and subject to the right of taking and continuing any necessary line of road through the above reserve that may be required to give access to the abutting properties: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

Also all that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District known as part of the Mount Somers Tramway Reserve, and being reserve numbered 3085 (in red), situated in Blocks X. and XI., Alford Survey District, containing by admeasurement 35 acres 1 rood 39 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north-east by a road forming the south-western boundary of Sections Nos. 33999, 18280, 18993, 33998, Reserve 1822 (in red), Rural Sections Nos. 36190, 36189, 32645, 32227, 15519, 23010, 23007, 18400, 31782, 18399, and 29611; towards the north-west by a line at right angles to the last-described boundary and 100 links distant therefrom; thence south-easterly at a right angle following a line parallel to and 1 chain distant from the first-described boundary, along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 32644, 23063, 32884, a road-line, Sections Nos. 32883, 36423, a road-line, Sections Nos. 32226, 33449, and 32042; and towards the south-east by a road-line dividing Sections Nos. 32042 and 33450, 101·5 links: save and excepting five reserves, each containing 2 roods, and two road-lines, which are within the above-described boundaries; and subject to the right of taking and continuing any necessary line of road through the above reserve that may be required to give access to the abutting properties: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

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Warrant authorising the Council of the County of Selwyn to rebuild a Bridge over the Waimakariri River, and apportioning the Cost of the Same.

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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 by the said section it is also provided that the construction of a bridge includes an addition to the length of a bridge, or the rebuilding of any portion of a bridge destroyed by fire, flood, tempest, or accident, or the entire rebuilding of a bridge which, in the opinion of the Minister, requires to be entirely rebuilt:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Minister, the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto requires to be entirely rebuilt:

And whereas the Council of the County of Selwyn has made application to the Governor to authorise the rebuilding of the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and to apportion the cost of constructing the same between the said Council, the Eyreton Road Board, the Mandeville and Rangiora Road Board, the Ashley Road Board, the Kowai Road Board, the Oxford Road Board, the Waipara Road Board, the West Eyreton Road Board, the Cust Road Board, and the Amberley Town Board:

And whereas the Council of the County of Selwyn has taken the steps and has issued the notices to the said local bodies as required by subsection two, (a), of section one hundred and thirteen of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and the said local bodies have agreed to contribute towards the cost of constructing the said bridge in the proportions hereinafter mentioned:

And whereas the Government of the Colony has agreed to contribute the sum of two thousand six hundred pounds towards the cost of reconstructing the said bridge:

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

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, do hereby authorise the Council of the County of Selwyn to construct the said work; and I do hereby declare that the cost of constructing the said work, less the contribution by Government of two thousand six hundred pounds, as aforesaid, shall be borne in the following proportions respectively: namely, thirty-three per centum shall be borne by the Council of the County of Selwyn, twenty-one per centum shall be borne by the Eyreton Road Board, thirteen per centum shall be borne by the Mandeville and Rangiora Road Board, seven per centum shall be borne by the Ashley Road Board, seven per centum shall be borne by the Kowai Road Board, six per centum shall be borne by the Oxford Road Board, four per centum shall be borne by the West Eyreton Road Board, five per centum shall be borne by the Waipara Road Board, three per centum shall be borne by the Cust Road Board, and one per centum shall be borne by the Amberley Town Board: and such proportions shall be paid by the said local authorities accordingly.

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SCHEDULE.

That bridge known as White’s Bridge over the Waimakariri River, on the continuation easterly of Bridge Road, passing between Sections Nos. 412 and 467 in Block III., Christchurch Survey District; as the same is marked in red A to B on plan R. 2305, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.