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the provisions of sections one hundred and thirteen and one hundred and fourteen of the principal Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply:

And whereas the Mataongaonga Road Board has made application to the Governor to authorise the construction of the Shakespeare Cliff Road described in the Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as “the said road”), and to apportion the cost of constructing the said road between the said Road Board and the adjoining districts largely using the said road:

And whereas by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” it is further provided that the Governor may, with the view of determining whether or not the work should be done, or what proportion (if any) of the cost of the same should be borne by any local authority, and what local authority should do the work, 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 constructed, and that the cost of such construction should be borne by the local authorities and in the several proportions hereinafter stated:

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 Mataongaonga Road Board to construct the said road. And I do hereby declare that the cost of constructing such road (estimated at £2,545) shall respectively be borne by the Council of the Borough of Wanganui, the Kaukatea Road Board, the Mangawhero Road Board, and the Mataongaonga Road Board in the following proportions, viz.: the Borough Council of Wanganui to contribute 800/2545 of such cost, the Kaukatea Road Board to contribute 250/2545 of such cost, the Mangawhero Road Board to contribute 200/2545 of such cost, and the Mataongaonga Road Board to contribute 1295/2545 of such cost: Provided, however, that the Borough Council of Wanganui, the Kaukatea Road Board, and the Mangawhero Road Board shall not be called upon severally to contribute hereunder more than the sum of three hundred pounds, two hundred and fifty pounds, and two hundred pounds respectively.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that road in the Wellington Land District, in the Mataongaonga Road District, from the junction of No. 3 line of road with the River-bank Road, past Shakespeare Cliff to the Purua Stream, a distance of 12 chains or thereabouts, and known as Shakespeare Cliff Road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Acting Minister for Public Works.

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Trustees for the Waipahi Public Cemetery appointed.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

PHILIP HENRY JONES,
JAMES CAMPBELL,
JOHN BARNETT, and
EDWARD WALDERS

to be Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the Waipahi Public Cemetery, in conjunction with William Taylor, Joseph Turnbull, and Robert Collins, previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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Trustees for the Waihohui Public Cemetery appointed.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the forty-fifth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby

appoint the local authority specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to have the control and management of the public cemetery specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES SHINER BOND

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Hamilton, vice William Shanaghan, on and from the 1st July, 1904.

J. G. WARD.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th June, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

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Deputy for the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th June, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HUGH GARDEN SETH SMITH, Esq.,

to act as Deputy for the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, as from the 1st day of June, 1904.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

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Judge of the Native Land Court appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th June, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JACKSON PALMER, Esq.,

to be a Judge of the Native Land Court, as from the 8th June instant.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.