Harbours Act Orders in Council




Feb. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 281

  1. Nothing herein contained shall authorise the company to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, or with any provisions of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” or its amendments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that are now or may hereafter be in force.

  2. The ballast of all vessels loading at the said wharf shall be taken away by the company, and deposited above high-water mark, or at such place as may be approved of by the Minister, or by any person appointed by the Minister for that purpose.

  3. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or under this Order in Council shall continue in force for fourteen years from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the company shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the written consent of the Minister first obtained.

  4. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the company three calendar months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the company in New Zealand.

  5. The company shall be liable for any injury which the said wharf may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any default or neglect on its part.

  6. In case the company shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them; or
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period of thirty days; or
    (3.) Be in any manner wound up or dissolved; or
    (4.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 3 of these conditions,
    then and in any of the said cases this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the company or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the company, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

  7. The construction of the wharf shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the company of the terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Order in Council licensing Mr. John Wigmore to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore of Manukau Harbour.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of January, 1906.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 94, of the thirty-first day of October in the same year, His Excellency the Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the provisions of “The Harbours Act Amendment Act, 1883,” license John Wigmore to use and occupy a part of the foreshore in Manukau Harbour for the purpose of constructing and maintaining thereon timber-booms in the position shown on and in accordance with plan marked M.D. 2478, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, and upon and subject to the terms and conditions therein set forth:

And whereas the executors of the late John Wigmore desire that the said license should be revoked:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of all the powers enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby revoke and determine the said recited Order in Council of the twentieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and one, and the rights and privileges granted thereby.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting Management of Upper Omaha Wharf in Rodney County Council, and fixing Dues.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of January, 1906.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may vest the management of any wharf the property of His Majesty in any local governing body or person, upon such terms and conditions as the Governor in Council thinks fit:

And whereas it is provided by the seventeenth section of the said Act that in and by such Order in Council it may be prescribed what dues and rates shall be taken by the body or person in whom any such wharf shall be vested as aforesaid:

And whereas it is thought desirable to vest the management of the Upper Omaha Wharf, situate in Whangateau Harbour, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Rodney County Council (hereinafter called “the said Council”), on the terms and conditions herein set forth, and to prescribe that the dues and rates specified in the Schedule hereto shall be charged and taken, on and after the date of this Order in Council, for the use of the said wharf:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said fourteenth and seventeenth sections of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby vest, as from the date hereof, the management of the Upper Omaha Wharf, Whangateau Harbour, which is shown as “Parapara” on plan marked M.D. 2015, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department, in the said Council, subject to the following conditions; and doth hereby prescribe that the dues and rates specified in the Schedule hereto shall be charged and taken, from the date hereof, for the use of the said wharf:—

CONDITIONS.

  1. That all His Majesty’s subjects shall, at all reasonable times, and upon payment of the proper dues, have free and full liberty to use the above-mentioned wharf, and of ingress and egress thereon and therefrom.

  2. That His Majesty, or the Governor, and all officers in the Government service acting in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress into, through, and out of the wharf without payment.

  3. That the said Council shall maintain and keep the above-mentioned wharf, and all erections thereon, in good order and repair; and shall at all times permit to be erected and exhibited therefrom any lights for the guidance of vessels, and shall maintain at its own cost any such lights: Provided that no new light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved of by the Marine Department.

  4. That any person authorised by the Minister of Marine, or any officer acting with his approval, may at all reasonable times enter upon the said wharf, and any buildings erected thereon, and view the state of repair thereof; and that, upon his leaving at the last known address of the said Council a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such wharf or buildings, or any of them, requiring the said Council, within a reasonable time, to be therein prescribed, to repair the same, the said Council shall, with all convenient speed, cause such defect to be removed or such repairs to be made.

  5. That the said Council shall appoint all officers and servants required for the management and working of the said wharf.

  6. That the said Council shall not erect or suffer to be erected on the said wharf any building or structure whatever except with the consent of the Marine Department.

  7. That the said Council shall keep a separate account of the receipts and expenditure on account of such wharf, and shall cause such account to be balanced to the 31st March in each year, and shall send a copy of such account, when balanced, to the Marine Department, and shall supply any particulars in reference thereto as may be required by the Marine Department.

  8. That nothing herein contained shall authorise the said Council to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, or with any provisions of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” or its amendments, or any regulations thereunder.



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