JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2001

When called out for duty, officers shall receive pay and allowance as laid down in “Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations.” Half rates only will be paid for half-day tours.
A half-day will consist of a tour of duty that does not exceed three hours.

ALLOWANCE FOR USE OF CARS.

688. Motor-car Section.—In cases where the tour of duty is over very rough and hilly country, and much stopping and restarting is necessary, District Senior Officers may authorize the payment of allowance at rate and a half.
     This allowance must cover all expenses, including wear and tear, cost of petrol and lubricating-oil, cost of repairs.
     Officers of the New Zealand Forces Motor Service Corps will take precedence as follows: (1) For the purpose of command, with their own unit only; (2) for purposes other than command, according to the date of their seniority in the Territorial Force.

FORMS.

689. All claims for payment, authorization of payment, and reports of duty performed must be forwarded on forms provided for the purpose, through the Section District Senior Officer to the Officer of Headquarters or District Headquarters, as the case may be, mentioned in paragraph 682, who will, if satisfied that they are correct, forward them to the Quartermaster-General for approval.

DISCIPLINE.

690. Officers of the New Zealand Forces Motor Service Corps will be subject to the regulations relating to discipline as prescribed for the Territorial Force.

EXAMINATIONS.

691. Officers are recommended to submit themselves for examination as time and opportunity offer. Officers seeking promotion as set out in paragraph 683 will require to qualify in the subjects prescribed in Appendix III.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, in the presence of—

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Defining Limits of Wairau Harbour.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested by the sixth section of the Harbours Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby define the limits of the harbour of Wairau, in the said Dominion, to be those set out and described in the Schedule hereto. All former Warrants or instruments defining the limits of the said harbour or port are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area bounded by a straight line from Robertson Point to a point situated 2½ miles due east of Trig-Station V, in Block XII, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and thence by a straight line to White Bluff, and along high-water mark of Cloudy Bay to a point in line with the southern boundary of Section 164, Block III, Clifford Bay Survey District; thence along high-water mark of Cloudy Bay to the mouth of the Wairau River; thence along high-water mark on the right bank of the Wairau River to the entrance to the lagoons, and including all the area below high-water mark in the Big Lagoon, Chandler’s Lagoon, and the Upper Lagoon, and all the several small lagoons adjacent or connected thereto, and also all that similar area in each and all of the approach-channels to the said lagoons; thence by high-water mark on the right bank of the Opawa River to its confluence with the Omaka River; thence along high-water mark on the right bank of the Omaka River to the point where it is crossed by the Alfred Street Bridge in the Town of Blenheim; thence along high-water mark on the left bank of the Omaka River to its confluence with the Opawa River; thence along high-water mark on the right bank of the Opawa River to the point where the railway bridge, forming part of the Picton to Blenheim Railway line crosses the Opawa River; thence along high-water mark on the left bank of the Opawa River to its confluence with the Wairau River; thence along the right bank of the Wairau River to the place where the traffic-bridge known as the “Ferry Bridge,” on the Blenheim-Picton Road, crosses the Wairau River; thence along high-water mark on the left bank of the Wairau River to the sea; thence along high-water mark of Cloudy Bay, White Bay, Robin Hood Bay, Port Underwood, and the intervening portions of coastline to Robertson Point aforesaid: as the same is delineated and thereon coloured red on plan marked M.D. 4426, deposited in the office of the Minister of Marine at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

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

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Marine.

Warrant vesting Control of the Bower Bridge in the Heathcote 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 any wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge described in the Schedule hereto, and known as Bower Bridge (hereinafter called “the said bridge”), shall be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Heathcote 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 in the future, and also the like cost in the past (amounting to forty-four pounds six shillings and sevenpence), shall be provided and paid by the local authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following proportions—viz., the Heathcote County Council to pay one-third of such cost, the Waimairi County Council to pay one-third, and the New Brighton Borough Council to pay one-third of such cost respectively. And I do hereby direct that the contributions hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Waimairi County Council and the New Brighton 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 Waimairi County Council and the New Brighton Borough Council respectively, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Council of the Heathcote County; and the payments so required to be made shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Heathcote County Council for and on behalf of the Councils of the County of Waimairi and Borough of New Brighton.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Avon River on the old New Brighton Road, known as the Bower Bridge; as the site of the said