1866
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

Authorising the Exchange of a Portion of a Reserve in the Southland Land District for other Land.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of June, 1907.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto forms part of a reserve heretofore duly set apart for an endowment for educational institutions: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the said land for that described in the second column of the Schedule hereto:

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 the powers and authorities vested in him by the third section of “The Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1889,” doth hereby declare that the said reserve described in the first column of the Schedule hereto may be exchanged for the land described in the second column of the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Warrant vesting Control of the Mangahao-Marima Bridge at Marima in the Pahiatua County Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance of the same between the Ekatahuna and Pahiatua County Councils.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and nineteen of “The Public Works Act, 1905” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, by Warrant under his hand publicly notified and gazetted, direct that any bridge already constructed or which may hereafter be constructed over or across any river or arm of the sea respectively shall, from and after a date to be fixed in such Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of such local authority as shall be mentioned in that behalf in such Warrant; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid fix and determine whether all or any, and if so what part, of the cost, whether theretofore incurred or thereafter to be incurred, of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing any such bridge is to be provided and paid by the local authority or local authorities, and, if so, by what local authority or authorities; 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 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 direct that the bridge known as the Mangahao-Marima Bridge, together with the approaches and protective works thereto, as described in the Schedule hereto (and hereinafter referred to as “the said bridge”), shall, from and after the date of this Warrant, be under the exclusive care and control and management of the Pahiatua County Council; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge, with the approaches thereto and protective works, shall be borne by the Council of the County of Pahiatua in the proportion of eight-ninths of the said cost, and by the Ekatahuna County Council in the proportion of one-ninth of the said cost respectively.

And I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Council of the County of Ekatahuna 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 Pahiatua, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of that Council for and on account of such Council.

SCHEDULE.

That bridge over the Mangahao River, in the Land District of Wellington, together with the approaches thereto and protective works thereof, in Block X, Mangahao Survey District; as the site of the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked R. 966, 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 thirtieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Minister for Public Works.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Wellington Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Wellington Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 27, Mataroa Township (Suburban). Bounded towards the north-west by Kakariki Road; towards the north-east by Suburban Section No. 28; towards the south-east by Suburban Sections Nos. 29, 31, and 32; and towards the south-west by Suburban Section No. 26: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 56700/5, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For a site for a public cemetery.