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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 13

said Waiau-ua Combined Road and Railway Bridge described in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter referred to as “the said bridge,” ought to be paid by any, and, if so, which, local authority or local 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 purpose 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 its amendments, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby fix and determine that the Cheviot County Council’s said contribution towards the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge from the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, to the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, shall be borne by the Cheviot County Council, the Kaikoura County Council, the Awatere Road Board, and the Mackenzie Town Board, in the following proportions—viz., the Cheviot County Council shall pay sixty-five per centum, the Kaikoura County Council thirty per centum, the Awatere Road Board three per centum, and the Mackenzie Town Board two per centum of such contribution respectively:

And I do also hereby further direct that any contributions hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Kaikoura County Council, the Awatere Road Board, and the Mackenzie Town Board (hereinafter referred to as “the said local authorities”) shall be paid from time to time in the proportion 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 Council of the County of Cheviot, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Cheviot County Council for and on account of the said local authorities:

And I do hereby direct that this Warrant shall cease to have effect after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

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SCHEDULE.

That bridge situated in the Cheviot County, Canterbury Land District, and known as the Waiau-ua Bridge, over the Waiau-ua River, on the Parnassus Road; as the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 24371, 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 tenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

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Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

MARGARET MORRISON PATERSON,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Awatuna East, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand, this tenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

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Appointment of Registrar and Returning Officer, Wellington North Electoral District; and Returning Officer, Wellington Licensing District.

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Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOSEPH DEVONPORT AVERY

to be Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer, under the Legislature Act, 1908, for the Electoral District of Wellington North, and Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Wellington, vice A. H. Holmes, resigned.

J. G. WARD,
Prime Minister.

Under-Secretary, Department of Internal Affairs, appointed.

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Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 10th February, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES HISLOP, Esq.,

to be Under-Secretary, Department of Internal Affairs, as from the 5th February, 1912, vice Hugh Pollen, Esq., deceased.

J. G. WARD,
Prime Minister.

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Chief Clerk, Department of Internal Affairs, appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th February, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE PERCIVAL NEWTON, Esq.,

to be Chief Clerk of the Department of Internal Affairs, as from the 5th February, 1912, vice Robert Francis Lynch, Esq., retired.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Clerk of the Writs and Deputy appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th February, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES HISLOP, Esq.,

to be Clerk of the Writs; and

GEORGE PERCIVAL NEWTON, Esq.,

to be Deputy of the said Clerk, under and for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Accountant in Department of Internal Affairs appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th February, 1912.

IT is hereby notified that

ALEXANDER ROBERT KENNEDY, Esq.,

has been appointed Accountant in the Department of Internal Affairs, as from the 5th February, 1912.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Members of Assessment Court for Borough of Oamaru appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALLAN HEDLEY, Esq.,

of Oamaru, to be a member of the Assessment Court for the Borough of Oamaru, as provided by section 24 of the Rating Amendment Act, 1910; and also to appoint

JOHN GEORGE HOWARD SUMPTER, Esq.,

of Oamaru, on the recommendation of the Oamaru Borough Council, to be a member of the said Assessment Court, as provided by the said Act.

D. BUDDO.
Minister of Internal Affairs.