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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

maintaining the road described in the Schedule hereto (and
hereinafter referred to as “the said road”) between the said
Council and the Council of the County of Geraldine :

And whereas by section one hundred and fourteen of
“The Public Works Act, 1894,” it is, inter alia, provided
that the Governor may, with the view of determining
what proportion, if any, of the cost of maintaining any road
should be borne by any local authority, direct any person
to be a Commissioner to inquire 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 in-
quiry duly held: And whereas such Commissioner did
report to the Governor, after due inquiry, his opinion
thereon :

And whereas the Governor is of opinion that the cost of
maintaining the said road should be apportioned :

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the
said Acts, do hereby apportion the cost of maintaining the
said road between the Council of the County of Levels and
the Council of the County of Geraldine in the following
proportions : viz., the Council of the County of Levels
shall contribute two-thirds and the Council of the County
of Geraldine one-third of the cost of maintaining the said
road.

And I do hereby direct that any contribution hereby re-
quired to be made as aforesaid by the Council of the County
of Geraldine shall be paid from time to time, in the propor-
tion 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 Opihi Road from Beddell’s Crossing over the Opihi
River to the junction of the said road with the Cave-Wash-
dyke Road, a distance of five miles or thereabouts.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

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Warrant apportioning the Cost of maintaining Part of the
Road from Cave to Pleasant Point between the Councils of
the Counties of Levels and Mackenzie.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by section eight of “The Public Works
Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” it is enacted that in
any case where a road in one district is largely used by or
for the purpose of traffic to or from any other district or
districts, and affords access to or from such district or
districts, and the Governor is of opinion that it is equitable
that the latter district should contribute towards the cost of
constructing or maintaining the whole or any portion of
such road in the former district, the Governor may from
time to time apportion the cost of constructing or maintain-
ing the whole or any part of such road among the local
authorities of the respective districts as he thinks fit ; and
for that purpose, and to enable effect to be given thereto,
the provisions of sections one hundred and thirteen and one
hundred and fourteen of the principal Act shall, mutatis
mutandis, apply :

And whereas the Council of the County of Levels has
made application to the Governor to apportion the cost of
maintaining the road described in the Schedule hereto (and
hereinafter referred to as “the said road”) between the
said Council and the Council of the County of Mackenzie :

And whereas by section one hundred and fourteen of
“The Public Works Act, 1894,” it is, inter alia, provided
that the Governor may, with the view of determining what pro-
portion, if any, of the cost of maintaining any work should
be borne by any local authority, direct any person to be a
Commissioner to inquire 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 in-
quiry duly held: And whereas such Commissioner did
report to the Governor, after due inquiry, his opinion
thereon :

And whereas the Governor is of opinion that the said
road should be maintained :

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the
said Acts, do hereby apportion the cost of maintaining the
said road between the Council of the County of Levels and
the Council of the County of Mackenzie in the following
proportions: viz., the Council of the County of Levels
shall contribute seven-eighths and the Council of the County
of Mackenzie one-eighth of the cost of maintaining the said
road.

And I do hereby direct that any contribution hereby re-
quired to be made as aforesaid by the Council of the County
of Mackenzie shall be paid from time to time, in the propor-
tion 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.

THAT portion of the road from Cave to Pleasant Point lying
between Cave Railway-station and the junction of Totara
Valley Road with the said road, a distance of eleven miles
or thereabouts.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

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Native Land in Tangitu Survey District taken for a Police-
station and other Public Buildings.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of June, 1902.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken for public works, to wit,
the construction of a police-station and other public build-
ings :

And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native
owners, and the title thereto is not derived from the Crown :
And whereas a map of the said land has been prepared in
duplicate, 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 said Act, and of all other powers in
anywise enabling him in this 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 purposes of the public works hereinbefore
mentioned ; and the said land shall vest in His Majesty
the King as from the first day of August, one thousand
nine hundred and two.

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SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned in list hereunder :—

In the Land District of Taranaki ; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 19674,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Wellington, 28th June, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

THOMAS COUPER

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Births and Deaths
for the District of Upper Hutt.

J. G. WARD.