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river or arm of the sea respectively shall, from and after the 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 local 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 considered expedient to make provision under the said Act for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, 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 bridge, known as the Te Aroha Bridge (including the approaches thereto), over the Waihou River, 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, control, and management of the Te Aroha Borough Council; and, in further pursuance and in 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 shall be borne by the Te Aroha Borough Council and the Piako County Council in the following proportions—namely, the Te Aroha Borough Council shall bear 50 per cent. of such cost, and the Piako County Council shall bear 50 per cent. of such cost respectively.

And I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Piako County Council shall be paid from time to time in the proportion and subject to the conditions 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 Clerk of the Borough of Te Aroha, 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 Waihou River, known as the Te Aroha Bridge, together with the approaches thereto, situated at the foot of Kenrick Street, Te Aroha; as the site of the said bridge and approaches is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 29847, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

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Appointments to Staff of His Excellency the Governor.

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Government House,
Wellington, 13th July, 1911.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Captain IAIN MACDOUGALL,
Grenadier Guards, to be Aide-de-Camp; and also to appoint

ALBERT CECIL DAY, Esq.,
to be Assistant Private Secretary.

By His Excellency’s command.

ARTHUR GUISE,
Private Secretary.

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North Island Representation Commission.

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Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1911.

H IS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint

JAMES TROUNSON, Esq.,
to be an unofficial member of the North Island Representation Commission under the Legislature Act, 1908.

The members of the North Island Representation Commission now are :—

HERBERT SAMUEL WARDELL, Esq. ;
JAMES TROUNSON, Esq. ;
JOHN STRAUCHON, Esq., the Surveyor-General ;
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District ;
ERIC CHARLES GOLD SMITH, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Auckland Land District.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Prime Minister.

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South Island Representation Commission.

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Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1911.

H IS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint

HARRY QUANE, Esq.,
to be an unofficial member of the South Island Representation Commission under the Legislature Act, 1908.

The members of the South Island Representation Commission now are :—

CHARLES STEPHEN REEVES, Esq. ;
HARRY QUANE, Esq. ;
THOMAS NOEL BRODRICK, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Canterbury Land District ;
GORDON HURRELL MORELAND McCLURE, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Westland Land District ;
ERNEST HERBERT WILMOT, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Otago Land District.

J. CARROLL,
Acting Prime Minister.

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Returning Officer for Motueka Electoral District appointed.

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Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 12th July, 1911.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GORDON JAMES WATERS BOUNDY
to be the Returning Officer, under the Legislature Act, 1908, for the Electoral District of Motueka.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

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Deputy Chief Electoral Officer appointed.

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Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1911.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FRANK EVANS
to be the Deputy Chief Electoral Officer for the Dominion of New Zealand, under the Legislature Act, 1908; appointment to take effect from the 8th July, 1911.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th July, 1911.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

Name. District.
THOMAS PARRY JAMES .. Stratford.
EDGAR HENRY PAVITT .. Gisborne.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.