Mar. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1037

apportion the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any portion 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 hereto, the provision of section one hundred and nineteen hereof shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of the construction or reconstruction of the road, and the provisions of section one hundred and twenty in the case of the maintenance of the road: And whereas it is provided in the said section one hundred and nine that the word “road” in that section includes, in the case of a borough, a street or other thoroughfare:

And whereas a dispute has arisen between the local authorities hereinafter mentioned on the question of the maintenance of the street hereinafter mentioned: And whereas by the said section one hundred and twenty it is, inter alia, provided that the Governor may, with a view of determining what proportion (if any) of the cost of maintaining any work should be borne by any local authority, direct any Magistrate or other 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 whereas a Commissioner was appointed for the purpose aforesaid, and an inquiry was duly held:

And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor, after due inquiry, his opinion thereon:

And whereas the Governor is of opinion that it is equitable that the cost of maintaining the street mentioned in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportion hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby direct that, from and after the date of this Warrant, the cost of maintaining the street described in the Schedule hereto between the Palmerston Borough Council and the Waikouaiti County Council in the following proportions—viz., the Waikouaiti County Council shall pay five pounds sterling per annum towards such cost, and the Palmerston Borough Council shall pay the remainder of such cost.

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

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that street in the Borough of Palmerston, Otago Land District, known as Ronaldsay Street; as the said street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 31347, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twelfth day of March, 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

WILLIAM CANNING,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Ohakune, 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 seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

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

CHARLES KIDSON

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Otorohanga, 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 ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

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Assistant Law Draftsman appointed.

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Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 13th March, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES CHRISTIE, Bachelor of Laws, a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

to be an Assistant Law Draftsman to the Government of New Zealand, as from the 1st March, 1912.

J. G. WARD,
Prime Minister.

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Cadet appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th March, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD LESLIE HALE

to be a Cadet in the Office of the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Auckland; appointment to date from 26th February, 1912.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th March, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FRANCIS JOSEPH RUDOLPH GIBENS

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Denniston.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th March, 1912.

HIS 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.
JAMES WILLIAM HODGSON .. .. Foxton.
HENRY GORDON HIRST .. .. Te Aroha.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.