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be provided and paid by the local authority or local authorities, and, if so, by what local authority or authorities; and may by any such Proclamation as aforesaid direct how, when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

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 any-wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and direct that the said bridge shall, from and after the date of this Proclamation, be under the exclusive care, and control, and management of the Council of the County of Levels; 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 bridge shall be borne by the Council of the County of Levels in the proportion of two-thirds, and the Council of the County of Geraldine in the proportion of one-third, of the cost respectively.

And I do hereby also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Council of the County of Geraldine shall be paid from time to time respectively, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said county, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Council of the County of Levels; and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said Council for and on account of such Council.

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SCHEDULE.

THE bridge over the Tengawai River, on the Opihi Road, between the Opihi River and Pleasant Point, in the Opihi and Pareora Survey Districts, as the site of the said bridge is delineated upon the plan marked R. 2640, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at 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 twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Revoking Order in Council licensing J. A. Anderson to occupy a Part of Foreshore of Otago Harbour.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of June, 1902.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 24, of the seventh day of April following, His Excellency the Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883,” license John A. Anderson, of Port Chalmers, to use and occupy a part of the foreshore of Deborah Bay, Otago Harbour, in the Provincial District of Otago, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining thereon a boat-shed in the position shown on, and in accordance with, plan marked M.D. 2185, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington:

And whereas the said licensee has failed to pay the sums specified in clause three of the Order in Council aforesaid:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of all the powers enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby revoke and determine the said recited Order in Council, and every right, power, and privilege conferred thereby or intended so to be.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Post Office Regulations and Rates of Postage.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of June, 1902.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, rules and regulations were made and rates of postage fixed under the authority of “The Post Office Act, 1900” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), for the transmission of letters, books, packets, and newspapers through the post for places within New Zealand and beyond seas; and by an Order in Council made under the said Act, and dated the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and one, and by two Orders in Council dated respectively the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two, such regulations and rates of postage were amended in the manner in such Orders in Council set forth:

And whereas by section eleven of the said Act it is prescribed that the Governor in Council from time to time may make regulations for the managing of post-offices and the conduct of business therein, and for the receiving, despatching, conveying, and delivering of postal packets (including the imposition of fees for private boxes, bags, or deliveries), for the insurance of registered postal packets, for the registration of newspapers, for the making, custody, sale, and use of special postage-stamps for the payment of postal charges, for licensing persons to sell postage-stamps, and for the several other purposes in such section set forth:

And whereas by section seventeen of the said Act it is prescribed that the postage and other charges payable within New Zealand upon postal packets posted within New Zealand for delivery within or transmission beyond New Zealand shall be levied according to such respective scales and at such respective rates as are fixed from time to time by the Governor in Council:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke the aforesaid Orders in Council, and in lieu thereof to make the rules and regulations and fix the rates of postage hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the several Orders in Council set forth in the First Schedule hereto, and the rules, regulations, and rates of postage thereby prescribed respectively, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations specified in the Second Schedule hereto, and doth hereby order and declare that the rates of postage payable within the colony on letters, books, commercial papers, pattern and sample packets, and newspapers, for transmission to the several places within the colony and beyond seas respectively mentioned in the Schedule hereto, shall be those specified in such Second Schedule, and doth hereby further order and declare that such rates of postage shall in all cases be paid at or prior to the time such letters, books, commercial papers, pattern and sample packets, and newspapers are delivered into the post-office; and, further, that this Order in Council shall take effect on and after the date of its first publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.