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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

Opening Settlement Lands in Canterbury 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 ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, 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.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMATE COUNTY.—WAIHAO SURVEY DISTRICT.—TARA SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on cottage valued at £120, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by forty-two half-yearly instalments of £4 13s. 8d.; total half-yearly payment, £96 14s. 2d. The cottage is at present on Section 5, and must be removed to Section 4 by the lessee of the latter section at his own expense.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings and improvements valued at £702, payable in cash or in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £27 7s. 6d.; total half-yearly payment, £174 10s. 6d.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements which go with the sections are as follows: Section 1—320 chains of fencing, valued at £120. Section 2—375 chains of fencing, valued at £110. Section 3—434 chains of fencing, valued at £150. Section 4—344 chains of fencing, valued at £145. Section 5—652 chains of fencing, valued at £249. Section 6—374 chains of fencing, valued at £137. Section 7—343 chains of fencing, valued at £119. Section 8—365 chains of fencing, valued at £126.

The improvements which do not go with the sections, but which must be paid for separately, consist of: Section 4—Cottage (at present on Section 5), valued at £120. Section 5—Dwellinghouse of five rooms, wool-shed, men's quarters, stable, dips and windmill, iron shed, and cow-bail, the whole valued at £702.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Warrant vesting Control of the Ongarue Bridge at Taumarunui in the Taumarunui Borough Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance of the same.

LIVERPOOL, 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, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, 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 Ongarue Bridge at Taumarunui (hereinafter called “the said bridge”), shall, from and after the date of this warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Taumarunui Borough 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 Taumarunui Borough Council to pay half of such cost, and the Ohura County Council to pay half of such cost respectively.

And I also hereby direct that the contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Ohura County 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 Taumarunui Borough Council, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Taumarunui Borough Council for and on behalf of the Ohura County Council.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Ongarue River on Kururau Road, situated on the boundary between the Ohura County and the Borough of Taumarunui, and known as the Ongarue Bridge at Taumarunui: as the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 34882 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 seventeenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Pyliomyelitis declared to be an Infectious Disease.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance of section twelve of the Public Health Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the diseases called or known as Pyliomyelitis and Infantile Paralysis are infectious diseases within the meaning of the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Public Health.

Post-office where Miners' Rights may be issued.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the Mining Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the post-office at the undermentioned place to be a post-office at which miners' rights may be issued by the Postmaster in charge of such post-office, viz.:

PUYSEGUR POINT, INVERCARGILL.

As witness my hand, this nineteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.