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the Mining Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

FRANK O’BRIEN LOUGHNAN, Esq.,

to be a Warden, to hold and exercise the duties of such office under and subject to the provisions of the said Act during pleasure on and from the twenty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Opening Settlement Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District for Selection.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—HAWKE’S BAY COUNTY.—MATAPIRO SURVEY DISTRICT.—SHERENDEN SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

*Interest and sinking fund on hut valued at £25, payable in cash or in five years by half-yearly instalments of £2 17s. 3d. Total half-yearly payment, £90 19s. 3d.

†Interest and sinking fund on three-roomed cottage valued at £150, payable in cash or in ten years by half-yearly instalments of £9 14s. 3d. Total half-yearly payment, £90 18s. 9d.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Appointing the Cost of Maintenance of the Waiau-ua Combined Road and Railway Bridge over the Waiau-ua River, Cheviot County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of the Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), as amended by section thirteen of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may, by Warrant under his hand publicly notified and gazetted, 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, repair-
ing, improving, or reconstructing any combined road and railway bridge is to be provided and paid by any 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 such payment is to be made:

And whereas by an agreement dated the twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and made between His Majesty the King and the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Cheviot County, His Majesty agreed to construct the railway-bridge over the Waiau-ua River, on the route of the Blenheim–Waipara Railway, as a combined road and railway bridge, and the Council of that county agreed to pay the King the sum of two hundred and thirty pounds (£230) per annum, commencing from the date the said bridge was first used for road traffic, and also the sum of one hundred and ten pounds (£110) per annum for the services of each gatekeeper or signalman appointed to control the road traffic over the said bridge, and the King in consideration thereof undertook to maintain the said bridge, and to keep the same in good order and condition, and fit for wheeled traffic and for public use:

And whereas the local authorities hereinafter mentioned have agreed to pay certain proportions of the Cheviot County Council’s said contribution towards the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said Waiau-ua combined road and railway bridge described in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter referred to as “the said bridge”:

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, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, 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 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 after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, shall be borne by the Cheviot County Council, the Kaikoura County Council, and the Awatere County Council in the following proportions, viz.: The Cheviot County Council shall pay sixty-seven per centum, the Kaikoura County Council shall pay thirty per centum, and the Awatere County Council three 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 and the Awatere County Council (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.

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 sixteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Shorthand-writer and Typist appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALBERT CECIL DAY, Esq.,

to be Shorthand-writer and Typist in the Public Service under the Civil Service Acts.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

[NOTE.—This notice is in substitution for that published in Gazette No. 92, of 19th December, 1912.]