Num. 37.

1051

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1902.

Vesting Control of the Co-operative Drain and Seventeen Valley Bridges in the Omaka Road Board, 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 by 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 or authorities, and, if so, by what local authority or authorities; and may by any such Proclamation as aforesaid direct how, and when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas by the said Act it is further provided that the Governor may from time to time, with the view of determining whether it is expedient to vest the exclusive care, control, management, and maintenance of any such work in any local authority, direct any person to be a Commissioner to inquire into and report to him upon any matter which he shall deem necessary to enable him to determine any such question as aforesaid:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed and an inquiry was duly held with a view to determining what local authority could most conveniently and efficiently control the works mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter referred to as “the said bridges,” and what proportion of the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridges should be paid by any, and, if so, which, local authority or authorities: And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor after due inquiry his opinion as to the matters respecting which he was appointed to report:

And whereas it is expedient to make provision under the said Act for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth:

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 works described in the Schedule hereto—namely, the bridges on the Redwood Pass Road known as “the Co-operative Drain and Seventeen Valley Bridges”—shall, from and after the date of this Proclamation, be under the exclusive care, and control, and management of the Omaka Road Board; 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 bridges shall be provided and paid by the Omaka and Awatere Road Boards in the following proportions: namely, by the Omaka Road Board in the proportion of two-thirds of such cost, and by the Awatere Road Board in the proportion of one-third of such cost. And I do hereby also further direct that the contribution hereby required to be made by the Awatere Road Board shall be paid from time to time in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed out of the funds of the said Road Board within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Omaka Road Board; and such payment shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said Road Board for and on account of such Road Board.

SCHEDULE.

Those bridges known as the Co-operative Drain and Seventeen Valley Bridges, on the Redwood Pass Road, the site of which is shown in red upon the plan marked R. 1314, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His 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 fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!