Mar. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 757

Warrant vesting Control of the Kaitaratahi Bridge in the Waikohu County Council, and apportioning Cost of Maintenance.

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 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 any such Warrant as aforesaid 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, repairing, improving, or reconstructing any such bridge is to be provided and paid by the local authority or local authorities; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid direct how, when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

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 or local authorities, 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 aforesaid:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed for the purpose as aforesaid and an inquiry 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 bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportions hereinafter respectively 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 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 Kaitaratahi Bridge (hereinafter called “the said bridge”), shall, on and after the fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Waikohu 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 shall be provided and paid by the local authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following proportions—viz., the Waikohu County Council to pay fifty per centum of such cost, the Cook County Council to pay thirty-seven and a half per centum of such cost, and the Gisborne Borough Council to pay twelve and a half per centum of such cost respectively; and I do hereby direct that the contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Cook County Council and the Gisborne 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 Cook County Council and the Gisborne Borough Council within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Council of the County of Waikohu, and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Waikohu County Council for and on behalf of the Cook County Council and the Gisborne Borough Council.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Kaitaratahi River known as the Kaitaratahi Bridge, situated on the Te Karaka—Ormond Road on the boundary between the Cook and Waikohu Counties; as the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 35727, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon shown by a red circle.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works

Minister of Marine and Customs appointed.

Private Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint The Honourable WILLIAM HERBERT HERRIES to be Minister of Marine and Minister of Customs, in place of the Honourable Francis Marion Bates Fisher, who has resigned those offices.

By command.
GAVIN M. HAMILTON,
Private Secretary.

Members of Scotsburn Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint KENNETH MACKENZIE and JOHN ROBERT BLAND to be members of the Scotsburn Domain Board, in place of Charles Arthur Dunn and James George Dennistoun, who have left the Dominion.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands

Member of South Rakaia Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint THOMAS ALEXANDER BLACKLEY to be a member of the South Rakaia Domain Board, in place of James Newland Sharpe, who has resigned.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Sea Fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, has appointed GEORGE HAMILTON FRY, of Chatham Islands, Police Constable, to be an Inspector of Sea Fishing under the above-mentioned Act.

W. H. HERRIES.

Native Interpreters appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 26th February, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize HOANI TERA AREKATERA, of Masterton, RONGO NUKU, of Whakatane, HARRY SELWYN PARK, of Motueka, and GEORGE RATA, of Tauranga, to act as licensed Native Interpreters of the First Grade; and WILLIAM WALKER (WIREMU WAAKA), of Poroporo, Whakatane, to act as licensed Native Interpreter of the Second Grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

Gaoler H.M. Prison appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Constable GEORGE HAMILTON FRY to be Gaoler of His Majesty’s prison at Chatham Islands, vice Constable H. Scott, transferred.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.