Num. 31.

1019

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1903.

Apportioning the Cost of maintaining the Masterton-Waimata Road between the Counties of Masterton and Castlepoint.

(L.S.)
RANFURLY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

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 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 maintaining 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 Masterton made application to the Governor to apportion the cost of maintaining the road described in the Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as “the said road”) between the said Council and the adjoining districts largely using the said road :

And whereas by section one hundred and fourteen of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” it is further provided that the Governor may, with the view of determining what proportion, if any, of the cost, whether theretofore incurred or thereafter to be incurred, of maintaining the 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 inquiry 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, and that the cost of maintaining the said road incurred as from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the date of this Proclamation, and that the cost of maintaining the said road to be thereafter incurred, should be duly apportioned between the Councils of the Counties of Masterton and Castlepoint:

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 authorise the Council of the County of Masterton to maintain the said road; and I do hereby declare that the cost of maintaining the said road, as incurred from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the date of this Proclamation, and also the cost to be incurred of maintaining the said road thereafter—viz., as from the date of this Proclamation—shall be borne by the Council of the County of Masterton and the Council of the County of Castlepoint in the following proportions — viz., the Council of the County of Masterton shall contribute seven-eighths and the Council of the County of Castlepoint one-eighth of the cost of maintaining such road as aforesaid; and I do hereby direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the County of Castlepoint shall be paid from time to time, 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 Masterton; and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Council of the County of Masterton for and on account of such Council.

SCHEDULE.

That portion of the Masterton-Waimata Road from what is known as the Briar Bush, near Castlepoint County, to the junction of the road with the Te Ore Ore—Bideford Road, known as the Wangaehu Junction, a distance of sixteen miles or thereabouts; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 2815, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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 eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

God save the King!