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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

Act, 1894," and dated the eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and five, the control of the bridge known as “the Clarence Bridge,” mentioned in the Schedule hereto, was vested in the Kaikoura County Council, and the cost of maintenance of the said bridge was apportioned in the manner set forth in the said Proclamation:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said Proclamation, and to make provision in lieu thereof 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 power 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 revoke the said Proclamation, and in lieu thereof do hereby direct that the said bridge, including the river-protection works in connection therewith, as defined in the Schedule hereto shall, from and after the date of this Warrant, be under the exclusive care and control and management of the Kaikoura County Council; 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 protection-works shall be borne by the Kaikoura County Council in the proportion of fifty per cent., the Awatere Road Board in the proportion of thirty per cent., the Wairau Road Board in the proportion of eleven per cent., the Omaka Road Board in the proportion of five per cent., and the Pelorus Road Board in the proportion of four per cent. of the cost respectively.

And I do hereby also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Awatere Road Board, Wairau Road Board, Omaka Road Board, and Pelorus Road Board shall be paid from time to time respectively in the proportions hereinbefore prescribed out of the funds of the said local authorities, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Kaikoura County Council, and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said County Council for and on account of such County Council.

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SCHEDULE.

The bridge over the Clarence River on the boundary of the Counties of Kaikoura and Marlborough, and known as “the Clarence Bridge,” including protection-works, which consist of the retaining-walls and groins on both sides of the river in the vicinity of the bridge; as the site of the said bridge and protection-works are delineated upon the plan marked R. 1340, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

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Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th June, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL URE MACAULAY

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Whangarei.

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

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Cadet appointed.—Notice No. 1037.

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Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 11th June, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FRANK SCOTT DAYMAN

to be a cadet in the Civil Service of the Government of New Zealand (Department of Agriculture) in terms of “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886”; the appointment to date from 11th May, 1906.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Inspector under “The Dairy Industry Act, 1898,” and “The Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1900,” appointed.
—Notice No. 1038.

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Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 13th June, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DAVID ELLIOT

to be an Inspector for the purposes of “The Dairy Industry Act, 1898,” and “The Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1900”; the appointments to date from 1st June, 1906.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

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School Commissioner appointed.

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Education Department,
Wellington, 7th June, 1906.

PURSUANT to section 2 of “The Education Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1882,” the Education Board of the District of Auckland has appointed

ALFRED RICHARD HARRIS, Esq.,

to be a School Commissioner for the Provincial District of Auckland, vice Mr. Samuel Luke, deceased.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Education.

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Trustees of the Costley Training Institution.

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Education Department,
Wellington, 8th June, 1906.

IT is hereby notified for public information that

CHARLES JAMES TUNKS,
GEORGE FOWLDS, and
ROBERT BOLE MORROW

are the present Trustees of the Costley Training Institution, having been duly appointed to that position by His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of “The Costley Training Institution Act, 1885.”

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Education.

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Regulations for Commissions in the British Army.

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Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th June, 1906.

REFERRING to the despatch of the 18th October, 1905, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 13, of the 15th February, 1906, the following further despatch, dated 24th March, 1906 (and enclosure), is published for general information.

ALBERT PITT,
Acting Minister of Defence.

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THE Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments to the Officer Administering the Government, and transmits herewith, with reference to his predecessor’s “General” despatches of the 7th September, 1904, and 6th July last, copies of a paper containing a revised syllabus and distribution of marks for the examination in military subjects of candidates for Commissions in the Imperial Army.

Colonial Office,
24th March, 1906.

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MILITIA, IMPERIAL YEOMANRY, UNIVERSITY, AND COLONIAL CANDIDATES FOR COMMISSIONS IN THE REGULAR FORCES.

Syllabus of the Examination in Military Subjects to be held in October, 1906.

1. Military history and strategy—
   Marks.
   (a.) One general paper on military history and the principles of strategy .. .. 500
   *(b.) One paper on “The Peninsular campaign, from March, 1811, to the end of October, 1813” .. .. .. .. 500

For University and Colonial candidates only, an alternative paper on “The Franco-German War of 1870, up to and including the Battle of Sedan, omitting tactical details of actions,” will be set.

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No detailed question will be set with reference to the action of the Spanish and Portuguese armies, and no question of any kind will be set with reference to these armies when their action had no bearing on that of the British troops.