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rities; and may by any such Warrant 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, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authority vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge and protective works described in the Schedule hereto shall, from and after the date of this Warrant, be under the exclusive care and control and management of the Council of the County of Manawatu; 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 and protective works shall, as from the second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six, be borne by the Council of the County of Manawatu in the proportion of one-half, and the Council of the County of Kairanga in the proportion of one-half, of the said 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 Kairanga 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 Manawatu, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of that Council for and on account of such Council.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Oroua River, situated in the Land District of Wellington, on the line of road known as the Rongotea-Longburn Road, leading from Longburn to Rongotea, and adjacent to Sections Nos. 7 and 11, Block V, Kairanga Survey District; as the site of the said bridge and protective works are more particularly described on the plan marked R. 7317, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon shown in red colour.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

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Trustees for the Raetihi Public Cemetery appointed.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the forty-fifth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, 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.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 6 acres 3 roods, more or less, being Section No. 30, Block VI, Makotuku Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section No. 29; towards the north-east and south-east generally by a road reserve along the Makotuku Stream; towards the south by Section No. 22; and towards the south-west by the Makotuku Valley Road: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 23952, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red. |

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1888,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

PETER MURRAY,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under “The Post Office Act, 1900,” at Owhata, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-thirty-fourth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

As witness my hand, this twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and six.

PLUNKET, Governor.

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Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, Whangarei, appointed.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MARTIN JAMES NASH

to be a Ranger under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Whangarei.

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

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Inspector of Weights and Measures, Borough of Gisborne and Counties of Cook and Waiapu, appointed.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN THOMAS IRWIN

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1903,” for the Borough of Gisborne and the Counties of Cook and Waiapu, vice Constable Henry Thomas Dell, transferred.

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

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Inspector of Weights and Measures, Borough of Palmerston North, &c., appointed.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN MURDOCK McRAE

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1903,” for the Borough of Palmerston North and the Counties of Manawatu and Kairanga, vice Constable Patrick Minogue, resigned.

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1906.

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.:

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Colonial Secretary.