APRIL 1.]

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 should 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 shall 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 anyway enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that
the bridge described in the Schedule hereto, and known as
the Turanganui Bridge (hereinafter called “the said bridge”),
shall, from and after the first day of April, one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen, be under the exclusive care, control,
and management of the Gisborne 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 Cook County Council to pay fifteen per centum, the Waikohu County Council to pay five per centum, the Gisborne Harbour Board to pay ten per centum, and the Gisborne Borough Council to pay seventy per centum of such cost respectively: And I do hereby direct that the contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Cook and Waikohu County Councils and the Gisborne Harbour 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 Councils and Board, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Council of the Borough of Gisborne, and the payments so required to be made shall be made from time to time to the Town Clerk, Gisborne, for and on behalf of the said Councils and Board : And I do hereby cancel and revoke the Proclamation vesting the control and apportioning the cost of maintaining the said bridge, published in the New Zealand Gazette, page 587, of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

SCHEDULE.
THAT bridge in the Borough of Gisborne over the Turanganui River, known as the Turanganui Bridge, connecting Gladstone and Wainui Roads in the said borough ; as the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37385, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon marked “Turanganui Road Bridge.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
W. FRASER.
Minister of Public Works.

Warrant vesting Control of the Taruheru Bridge in the Gisborne Borough 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 should 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 shall 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 anyway enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge described in the Schedule hereto, and known as the Taruheru Bridge (hereinafter called “the said bridge”), shall, from and after the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Gisborne 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 Cook County Council to pay ten per cent., the Mangapapa Town Board five per cent., and the Gisborne Borough Council eighty-five per cent. 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 Mangapapa 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 County Council and Town Board, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Town Clerk, Gisborne, and the payments so required to be made shall be made from time to time to the Town Clerk, Gisborne, for and on behalf of the said County Council and Town Board : And I do hereby cancel and revoke the Proclamation vesting the control and apportioning the cost of maintaining the said bridge, published in the New Zealand Gazette, page 588, of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand nine hundred.

SCHEDULE.
THAT bridge, in the Borough of Gisborne, over the Taruheru River, known as the Taruheru Bridge, connecting Peel and Fitzherbert Streets; as the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37385, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon marked “Taruheru Bridge.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Warrant vesting Control of the Roebuck Road Bridge in the Gisborne Borough 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: