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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

Warrant apportioning the Cost of maintaining North Park Road in the Waimairi County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and nine of the Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that in any case where a road in one district is largely used by or for the purpose of traffic to or from any other district or districts, and affords access to or from such districts, and the Governor is of opinion that it is equitable that the latter district or districts should contribute towards the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any portion of such road in the former district, the Governor may from time to time apportion the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any portion of such road among the local authorities of the respective districts as he thinks fit; and for that purpose, and to enable effect to be given hereto, the provisions of section one hundred and nineteen hereof shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of the construction or reconstruction of the road, and the provisions of section one hundred and twenty in the case of the maintenance of the road:

And whereas a dispute has arisen between the local authorities hereinafter mentioned on the question of the maintenance of the road hereinafter mentioned: 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, 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 as aforesaid:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed for the purpose aforesaid, and an inquiry was duly held: And whereas the 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 road described in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportion 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, do hereby apportion the cost of maintaining the road described in the Schedule hereto between the Christchurch City Council, the Riccarton Borough Council, the Waimairi County Council, and the Paparua County Council in the following proportions — viz., the Christchurch City Council shall pay fifty-two per centum, the Riccarton Borough Council sixteen per centum, the Waimairi County Council twenty-five per centum, and the Paparua County Council seven per centum of such cost.

And I do hereby direct that any contributions hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Christchurch City Council, the Riccarton Borough Council, and the Paparua County Council shall be paid from time to time out of the funds of the said Councils within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Waimairi County Council, and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Waimairi County Council for and on account of the said Councils.

SCHEDULE.

All that road in the Waimairi County, known as the North Park Road, commencing at its junction with the West Town Belt Road and running in a north-easterly direction generally through Hagley Park North to its junction with Park Terrace, including the small pieces of roads leading from the said North Town Belt Road to the Helmore, Fendalton, and Carleton Bridges; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 38059, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured blue and lettered A D.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Warrant apportioning the Cost of maintaining Middle Park Road in the Waimairi County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and nine of the Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that in any case where a road in one district is largely used by or for the purpose of traffic to or from any other district or districts, and affords access to or from such districts, and the Governor is of opinion that it is equitable that the latter district or districts should contribute towards the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any portion of such road in the former district, the Governor may from time to time apportion the cost of constructing or maintaining the whole or any portion of such road among the local authorities of the respective districts as he thinks fit; and for that purpose, and to enable effect to be given hereto, the provisions of section one hundred and nineteen hereof shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of the construction or reconstruction of the road, and the provisions of section one hundred and twenty in the case of the maintenance of the road:

And whereas a dispute has arisen between the local authorities hereinafter mentioned on the question of the maintenance of the road hereinafter mentioned: 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, 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 as aforesaid:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed for the purpose aforesaid, and an inquiry was duly held: And whereas the 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 road described in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportion herein-after 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, do hereby apportion the cost of maintaining the road described in the Schedule hereto between the Christchurch City Council, the Riccarton Borough Council, the Waimairi County Council, and the Paparua County Council in the following proportions — viz., the Christchurch City Council shall pay fifty-four per centum, the Riccarton Borough Council twenty per centum, the Waimairi County Council eight per centum, and the Paparua County Council eighteen per centum of such cost.

And I do hereby direct that any contributions hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Christchurch City Council, the Riccarton Borough Council, and the Paparua County Council shall be paid from time to time out of the funds of the said Councils within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Waimairi County Council, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Waimairi County Council for and on account of the said Councils.

SCHEDULE.

All that road in the Waimairi County known as Middle Park Road, commencing at its junction with the West Town Belt Road opposite Riccarton Road, and running in a south-easterly direction generally across Hagley Park between Hagley Park North and Hagley Park South to its junction with Lincoln Road, being a distance of 36 chains, more or less; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 38059, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and therein coloured blue and lettered E F.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Warrant apportioning the Annual Payments of Interest and other Charges in respect of certain Loans between the Councils of the County of Taranaki and the Borough of New Plymouth on account of Merger of Rating-areas.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section seventy-three of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, it is, inter alia, provided that where part only of any area over which a special rate is made as security for a loan is merged or included within the district of a local authority other than the local authority that made the rate, then the whole of the liability in respect of the loan, shall continue to be a liability of the local authority that raised the loan, but the Governor may, upon the written application of that local authority, by Warrant under his hand, direct that any local authority in whose district part of such area has been merged or included shall pay annually to the first-mentioned local authority during the currency of the loan, on such date as is specified, such amount as he considers a duly proportionate part of the interest and other charges payable in respect of the loan: And whereas parts of the