1608
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

And whereas by the said Act it is further provided that the Governor may from time to time, with the view of determining whether it is expedient to vest the exclusive care, control, management, and maintenance of any such bridge in any local authority, direct any person to be a Commissioner to inquire into and report to him upon any matter which he shall deem necessary to enable him to determine any such question as aforesaid; and may by any subsequent Warrant, publicly notified from time to time, vary or alter such care, control, and management:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed under the provisions of section one hundred and nineteen of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and an inquiry was duly held, with a view to determine what local authority could most conveniently and efficiently control the bridge known as the Upper Gorge Bridge, mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter referred to as “the said bridge,” and what proportion of the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge to be paid by any, and if so which, local authority or authorities:

And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor, after due inquiry, his opinion as to the matters respecting which he was appointed to report:

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 Dominion 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 said bridge shall, from and after the date of this Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Council of the Pahiatua County; 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 shall be borne by the Pahiatua County Council, the Woodville Borough Council, the Woodville County Council, the Kairanga County Council, the Palmerston Borough Council, the Feilding Borough Council, and the Oroua County Council in the following proportions, viz.: The Pahiatua County Council shall pay thirty per centum; the Woodville Borough Council, thirteen per centum; the Woodville County Council, seventeen and a half per centum; the Kairanga County Council, nine per centum; the Palmerston Borough Council, nine per centum; the Feilding Borough Council, four per centum; and the Oroua County Council, seventeen and a half per centum of such cost respectively.

And I do also hereby further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the said Councils shall be paid from time to time in the proportions hereinbefore prescribed out of the funds of the said Councils, 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 the said Council for and on account of such Council.

And I do hereby cancel and annul the Proclamation dated the nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, vesting the control of the said bridge in the Pahiatua County Council, and apportioning the cost of maintenance.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Manawatu River on the Manawatu Gorge Road between the Pahiatua and Woodville Counties; as the site of the said bridge is delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 24741, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

A. W. HOGG,
Minister in Charge of Roads.

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Warrant apportioning the Cost of maintaining Part of the Manawatu Gorge Road in the Kairanga County.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and nine of “The Public Works Act, 1905” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that in any case where a road in one district is largely used by or for the purpose of traffic to or from any other district or districts, and affords access to or from such district or districts, and the Governor is of opinion that it is equitable that the latter district or districts should contribute towards the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any portion of such road in the former district, the Governor may from time to time apportion the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any part of such road among the local authorities of the respective districts as he thinks fit; and for that purpose, and to enable effect to be given thereto, it is also provided by the said Act that the provisions of section one hundred and nineteen of the said Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of the maintenance of the road:

And whereas a dispute has arisen between the local authorities hereinafter mentioned as to the apportionment of the cost of maintaining the road hereinafter described, and a Commission of inquiry was held pursuant to the powers granted by the said Act:

And whereas such Commission did report to me, after due inquiry:

And whereas I am of opinion that it is equitable that the cost of maintaining the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportions hereinafter respectively set forth:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby apportion the cost of maintaining the road described in the Schedule hereto between the Kairanga County Council, the Pahiatua County Council, the Woodville Borough Council, the Woodville County Council, the Palmerston Borough Council, the Feilding Borough Council, and the Oroua County Council in the following proportions, viz.: The Kairanga County Council shall pay thirty per centum; the Pahiatua County Council, nine per centum; the Woodville Borough Council, thirteen per centum; the Woodville County Council, seventeen and a half per centum; the Palmerston Borough Council, nine per centum; the Feilding Borough Council, four per centum; and the Oroua County Council, seventeen and a half per centum of such cost respectively.

And I do hereby direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the above-mentioned Councils shall be paid from time to time out of the funds of the said Councils respectively, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Kairanga County Council, and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said Council for and on account of such Council.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT portion of the Manawatu Gorge Road commencing at the south-eastern boundary of the Oroua County, and running in an easterly direction through the Kairanga County to its junction with the western boundary of the Pahiatua County; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 24741, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured yellow, and lettered A.

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

A. W. HOGG,
Minister in Charge of Roads.

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Warrant apportioning the Cost of maintaining Part of the Manawatu Gorge Road in the Pahiatua County.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and nine of “The Public Works Act, 1905” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that in any case where a road in one district is largely used by or for the purpose of traffic to or from any other district or districts, and affords access to or from such district or districts, and the Governor is of opinion that it is equitable that the latter district or districts should contribute towards the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any portion of such road in the former district, the Governor may from time to time apportion the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any part of such road among the local authorities of the respective districts as he thinks fit; and for that purpose, and to enable effect to be given thereto, it is also provided by the said Act that the provisions of section one hundred and nineteen of the said Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of the maintenance of the road:

And whereas a dispute has arisen between the local authorities hereinafter mentioned as to the apportionment of the cost of maintaining the road hereinafter described, and a Commission of inquiry was held pursuant to the powers granted by the said Act:

And whereas such Commission did report to me, after due inquiry:

And whereas I am of opinion that it is equitable that the cost of maintaining the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportions hereinafter respectively set forth: