1990
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Whangarei County.—Purua Survey District.
Section 41, Block IX: Area, 211 acres; capital value, £420; half-yearly rent, £8 8s.
Level land, covered with fern, manuka, and rushes; about 20 acres of a swampy nature. Poor semi-volcanic soil, on clay subsoil; section has been dug over for gum; no surface water, but water may be obtained by sinking. Distant about fourteen miles from Whangarei by cart-road, of which about twelve miles is metalled.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the New Plymouth Scenic Reserves Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), in trust, for the purposes of scenery preservation, as from the date of this notice until the thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the New Plymouth Scenic Reserves Board, as constituted by notification dated the eleventh day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in Gazette of the eighteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

SCHEDULE.
“MEETING-OF-THE-WATERS” SCENIC RESERVE.
ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 39 acres 0 roods 20 perches, more or less, being portion of Native Reserve J, portion of Section 158, and portion of the Waiwakaiho River bed, all situated in the Hua and Waiwakaiho Registration District, Block X, Paritutu Survey District, bounded as follows: Towards the north and west generally by the Waiwakaiho River to its intersection with a right line across that river, thence along that line 246 links to the junction of the left bank of the aforesaid river and the right bank of the Mangorei Stream; towards the west by the Mangorei Stream to the Junction Road; towards the south-west by the aforesaid road, 2175 links; towards the south-east by the Waiwakaiho Road, 1180·9 links; towards the east generally by other parts of Section 158 aforesaid and of Native Reserve J aforesaid, 4518·2 links.

Also all that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being portion of Section 158, Hua and Waiwakaiho Registration District, Block X, Paritutu Survey District. Bounded towards the west and south generally by the Waiwakaiho River, towards the east by the Araheke Stream, and towards the north by the Waiwakaiho Road, 1435 links.

Also all that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods 20 perches, more or less, being portion of Section 158, Hua and Waiwakaiho Registration District, Block X, Paritutu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west and west generally by other part of Section 158 aforesaid, 3328·4 links; towards the south by the Waiwakaiho Road, 525 links; towards the south-east generally by the Araheke Stream; and towards the north-east by other part of Section 158 aforesaid, 115·1 links.

Also all that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 13 acres 3 roods, more or less, being portion of Native Reserve L, Hua and Waiwakaiho Registration District, Block X, Paritutu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west generally by the Araheke Stream, towards the south-east by the Waiwakaiho Road, 1827·4 links; towards the north-east by part of Native Reserve L aforesaid, 814 links.

Also all that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 0 roods 30 perches, more or less, being portion of Native Reserve L, Hua and Waiwakaiho Registration District, Block X, Paritutu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west generally by the Waiwakaiho Road, 1952·7 links; towards the west by the Araheke Stream; towards the south-west, south, and south-east by the Waiwakaiho River; towards the north-east by other part of Native Reserve L aforesaid, 37 links.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Notice of taking Land at Auckland under Sections 125, 126, 127, and 128 of the Harbours Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
BY virtue and in pursuance of the power and authorities vested in me by the one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth, one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth, one-hundred-and-twenty-seventh, and one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth sections of the Harbours Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, on behalf of His Majesty the King, give notice to the Auckland Harbour Board that one month from the day of the date hereof I shall enter upon and take possession of the land described in the Schedule hereto for railway purposes.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land:—
A. R. P.
0 0 20·9, being Lot 49 (plan 4563, green).
0 0 24·2 „ 52 „ „
Portions of Auckland Harbour Board’s endowments.
Situated in Block VIII, Rangitoto Survey District, City of Auckland (S.O. 19020, blue).
In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 23931, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured blue.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

Warrant vesting Control of Portion of Auroa Road in the Eltham County Council, and apportioning the Cost of Reconstruction and Maintenance of the same.

LIVERPOOL, Governor
WHEREAS by section twelve of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, as amended by section thirteen of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1910 (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 and 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 other of those local authorities shall contribute to the cost of the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of that road or street, and, if so, in what proportions: And whereas the portion of the road known as Auroa Road described in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter termed “the said road,” forms the boundary between the Eltham and Egmont Counties:
And whereas a dispute has arisen as to which local authority should have control of the said road, and what proportion of the cost of reconstructing and maintaining the said road 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 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 road described in the Schedule hereto shall be under the control of the Eltham County Council; and, in further pursuance of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of reconstructing and maintaining the said road shall be borne in the following proportions—viz., the Eltham County Council to bear one-half of such cost, and the Egmont County Council to bear one-half of such cost:
And I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Egmont 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