988
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

Rural Lands in Wellington Land District open for Sale or Selection.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and four; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

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SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

Weighted with £39 valuation for improvements.

Weighted with £952, valuation for improvements.

These sections are situated on the Saunders Road, which is a formed dray-road to within three-quarters of a mile from them. The access is from Alfredton via Saunders Road, which is about ten miles distant; five miles is metalled, four miles formed dray-road, the remainder is bridle-track. The sections comprise high broad hills with numerous gullies, steep in places. With the exception of the grassed portions the land is covered with dense forest, comprising tawhero, rata, tawa, hinau, rimu, rewarewa, and a few totara and matai, with dense undergrowth. The soil is clayey, of fair quality, resting on calcareous sandstone-and-papa formation. The sections are well watered by small creeks. The elevation ranges from about 1,000 ft. to 1,600 ft. above sea-level. The improvements on Section 21 comprise 15 acres felled and grassed, and whare (out of repair). The improvements on Section 23 comprise 310 acres felled and grassed, 194 chains fencing, garden and cultivations, four-roomed house, dairy, cowshed, and sheep-yards. Section 21 is offered subject to the right of the Crown to take a road through it if required.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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Warrant apportioning the Cost of maintaining the Opawa Road from Wilson’s Road to its Junction with Hill’s Road, and Hill’s Road from the North-west Corner of R.S. 2600 to Chapman’s Road, Heathcote Road District, between the City of Christchurch and Heathcote Road Board.

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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 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 Heathcote Road Board 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 Board and the Council of the City of Christchurch:

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 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:

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 City of Christchurch and the Heathcote Road Board in the following proportions, viz.: the Council of the City of Christchurch shall contribute twenty-five per centum of such cost; provided, however, that the sum to be paid by the Council of the City of Christchurch as its proportion of the said cost for any one year shall not amount to more than one hundred pounds.

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

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that road known as the Opawa Road, being that road from Wilson’s Road to its junction with Hill’s Road, and also that road known as Hill’s Road from the north-west corner of Rural Section 2600 to Chapman’s Road, being the road at the south-east boundary of Rural Section 248, in the Heathcote Road District, being a total length of 215 chains or thereabouts.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.