1082
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 26

Warrant vesting Control of Portions of Stony Road, School Road, Selwyn Place, and the Drive in the Mount Roskill Road Board, and apportioning Cost of Maintenance of the Same.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section twelve of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that where a road or street lies along the boundary of two or more districts, whether that road or street is wholly within one or is partly within one and is partly within another of those districts, or is within none of those districts, the Governor may from time to time, by Warrant under his hand gazetted, direct which of the local authorities of those districts shall have control of the road or street, or any part thereof, and may also in like manner determine from time to time whether any of those local authorities shall contribute to the cost of the construction and maintenance of that road or street, and, if so, in what proportions :

And whereas the portions of roads described in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter termed “the said portions of roads,” form the boundary between the Mount Roskill Road District and the Epsom Road District :

And whereas a dispute has arisen as to which local authority should have control of the said portions of roads, and what proportion of the cost of maintaining the said portions of roads should be borne by the local authorities affected :

And whereas an inquiry was duly held and a report was made in respect to the matter :

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be given to the recommendations contained in the said report, and that provision should be made 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 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, from and after the date of this Warrant, the portions of roads described in the Schedule hereto shall be under the control of the Mount Roskill Road Board; and in further pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining the said portions of roads shall be borne in the following proportions—viz., the Mount Roskill Road Board to bear half of such cost and the Epsom Road Board to bear half of such cost respectively; provided that the maintenance of the portion of Drive Road shall include the maintenance of footpaths and channels.

And I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Epsom Road Board shall be paid from time to time to the Mount Roskill Road Board, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the Epsom Road Board, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Mount Roskill Road Board, and that such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Mount Roskill Road Board for and on account of the Epsom Road Board.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL those portions of roads in the Auckland Land District, situated on the boundary between the Epsom and Mount Roskill Road Districts, known as Stony Road, School Road, Selwyn Place, and the Drive; as the said portions of roads are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 30824, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red and marked C D, E F, G H, K L.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

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Warrant vesting control of the Oakley Creek Bridge in the Avondale Road Board, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance of the Same.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of the Public Works Act, 1908 (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 such Warrant as aforesaid fix or 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 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 that provision should be made under the hereinbefore-in-part-recited Act for the purposes hereinafter mentioned :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge described in the Schedule hereto, and known as the Oakley Creek Bridge (hereinafter called “the said bridge”), shall, from and after the date of this Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Avondale Road Board; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, or improving the said bridge is to be provided and paid by the local authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following proportions—viz., the Avondale Road Board to pay half of such cost and the Mount Albert Borough Council to pay half of such cost respectively.

And I do also hereby direct that the contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Mount Albert Borough Council towards the cost of maintaining, repairing, or improving the said bridge shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said Council, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Avondale Road Board, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Avondale Road Board for and on behalf of the Mount Albert Borough Council.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over Oakley Creek, in the Auckland Land District, Mount Albert Borough, known as the Oakley Creek Bridge, situated at the crossing of the New North Road; as the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 31368, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon shown by a red cross.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

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Warrant vesting Portion of Kyber Pass Road in the Newmarket Borough Council, and apportioning the Cost of the Maintenance of the Same.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section twelve of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that where a road or street lies along the boundary of two or more districts, whether that road or street is wholly within one or is partly within one and partly within another of those districts, or is within none of those districts, the Governor may from time to time, by Warrant under his hand and gazetted, direct which of the local authorities of those districts shall have control of the road or street or any part thereof; and may in like manner determine from time to time whether any of those local authorities shall contribute to the cost of the construction and maintenance of that road or street, and, if so, in what proportions :

And whereas the portion of road known as the Kyber Pass Road, described in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter termed “the said road,” forms part of the boundary between the Borough of Newmarket and the Epsom Road District :

And whereas a dispute has arisen as to which local authority should have control of the said road, and what proportion of the cost of maintaining the said road should be borne by the local authorities affected :