JULY 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2199

areas over which the special loans of which particulars are given in the Schedule hereto were raised by the Taranaki County Council have been merged or included in the Borough of New Plymouth: And whereas it has been mutually agreed between the Taranaki County Council and the New Plymouth Borough Council that the amounts hereinafter mentioned shall be paid annually by the said Borough Council to the said County Council as its duly proportionate parts of the interest and other charges in respect of the said loans: And whereas written application has been made by the Taranaki County Council to the Governor to direct accordingly:

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 conferred on me by section seventy-three of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, do hereby direct that the New Plymouth Borough Council shall, in respect of each of the loans specified in the Schedule hereto, pay annually to the Taranaki County Council, on the day appearing against each such loan and set out in the column “I” of the said Schedule hereto, in each and every year during the currency of the said loans, the respective amounts set out in column “G” of the said Schedule as its duly proportionate parts of the interest and other charges payable in respect of the said loans.

SCHEDULE.

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

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Warrant vesting Control of the South Belt and West Town Belt Roads in the Riccarton Borough Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance of the same.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section twelve of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that where a road or street lies along the boundary of two or more districts, whether that road or street is wholly within one or is partly within one and is partly within another of those districts, or is within none of those districts, the Governor may from time to time, by Warrant under his hand gazetted, direct which of the local authorities of those districts shall have control of the road or street, or any part thereof, and also may in like manner determine from time to time whether any of those local authorities shall contribute to the cost of the construction or maintenance of that road or street, and, if so, in what proportions: And whereas the roads known as the South Belt and the West Town Belt Roads described in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter termed “the said roads,” form the boundary between the Waimairi County and the Borough of Riccarton:

And whereas a dispute has arisen as to which local authority should have control of the said roads, and what proportion of the cost of constructing and maintaining the said roads should be borne by the local authorities affected:

And whereas an inquiry was duly held and a report was made in respect to the matter:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be given to the recommendations contained in the said report, and that provision should be made for the purposes and in the manner 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, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that, from and after the date of this Warrant, the roads described in the Schedule hereto shall be under the control of the Riccarton Borough Council; and, in further pursuance of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining the said roads shall be borne in the following proportions—viz., the Riccarton Borough Council to bear two-thirds of such cost, and the Waimairi County Council to bear one-third of such cost:

And I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Waimairi County Council shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said County Council, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Riccarton Borough Council, and that such payment shall be made from time to time to the Town Clerk, Riccarton, for and on account of the Waimairi County Council.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that road in the Canterbury Land District, known as the West Town Belt Road, situated on portion of the boundary between the Waimairi County and the Riccarton Borough, commencing at its junction with the North Park Road and running in a southerly direction generally along the western side of Hagley Park to its junction with the South Belt Road, being a distance of 90 chains, more or less.

Also all that road in the said land district known as the South Belt Road, situated on portion of the said boundary, commencing at its junction with the said West Town Belt Road and running in an easterly direction along the southern boundary of Hagley Park to its junction with Lincoln Road, being a distance of 40 chains, more or less.

As the said roads are 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 red and lettered A B, B C.

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 authorizing the Wanganui Borough Council to construct a Road on the Left Bank of the Wanganui River, and apportioning the Cost.

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