Oct. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2949

Maori Lakes near Mount Somers to be a Sanctuary for Imported and Native Game.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Animals Protection Act, and that no imported game or native game shall be taken or killed within the said area.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, being the two small lakes known as Maori Lakes, situated in the Heron and Tripp Survey Districts, and the area included in a line running parallel to and 20 chains distant from the shores of those lakes.

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

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Warrant vesting Control of the Helensville Swing Bridge in the Waitemata County Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance of the Same.

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 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 Helensville Swing 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 Waitemata County Council. 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 Waitemata County Council to pay half of such cost, and the Helensville Town Board to pay half of such cost respectively.

And I also hereby direct that the contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Helensville Town Board 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 Board, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Waitemata County Council, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Waitemata County Council for and on behalf of the Helensville Town Board.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Kaipara River, on Parkhurst Road, situated on the boundary between the Waitemata County and the Helensville Town District, and known as the Helensville Swing Bridge; as the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 32481,

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 fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Exempting Crown Land from the Mining Act, 1908.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Mining Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby exempt from the aforesaid Act and its amendments the Crown land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 51 acres, more or less, situated in Block IX, Aroha Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a public road forming the south-eastern boundary of Te Ruakaka Block; towards the east generally by a line parallel to and 250 links distant west from the Te Aroha – Paeroa Road to the north-western boundary of Edwards Homestead site; thence by the north-western boundary of the said homestead site and the Te Aroha – Paeroa Road; towards the south-east generally by the Township of Te Aroha and part of Section No. 17c; and towards the west generally by the road along the right bank of the Waihou River.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 43 acres, more or less, situated in Block IX, Aroha Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a public road forming the south-eastern boundary of Te Ruakaka Block; towards the east generally by parts of Sections Nos. 17B, 17D, and 17A; towards the south generally by the Township of Te Aroha; and towards the west by the Te Aroha – Paeroa Road.

As the said areas are coloured blue on the plan marked Mines 1912/42, deposited in the Head Office, Mines Department, at Wellington.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Mines.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th October, 1912.

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

Name. District.
GEORGE WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BRETT .. Gore.
JOSEPH SARJEANT .. .. Rangiora.
THOMAS HENRY TUOHY .. .. Mauriceville.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th October, 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 CLARENCE AMOS .. .. Pelorus.
JAMES KING .. .. Napier.
AUGUSTUS EDWARD BRAITHWAITE .. .. Woodville.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.