Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3035

recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908 :

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the Hohoura Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2 described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the portion of the Hohoura Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2 described in the Schedule hereto shall, from the twenty-second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 28 acres 0 roods 20 perches, more or less, being Section 35, Block VI, and Section 30, Block X, Hohoura East Survey District, and being part of the Hohoura Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2 set apart by Order in Council dated the 10th day of July, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 13th July, 1899, page 1303. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road 1553·9 links, the crossing of a public road 116·6 links, by the last-mentioned road 295·8 links, and by part of the Hohoura Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2 aforesaid 1211·7 links ; towards the south-east by part of the aforesaid reserve, 1000 links ; towards the south-west by part of the said reserve 2061 links, the crossing of a public road 140·6 links, and by the said road 29·5 links ; and towards the north-west by part of the aforesaid Hohoura Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2, 1292·1 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less, save and except a public road which intersects the herein-before-described area. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 26/2759, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plans 18536 and 19244.)

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

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Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in Southland Land District.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth section of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

HENRY DOUGLAS MORPETH HAZARD,
THOMAS WILLIAM FOSTER, and
WILLIAM JAMES ANNAN McGREGOR

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural land in the Southland Land District known as Runs 413 and 463, Monowai and Titiroa Districts ; Runs 190a, 190b, 190e, 302b, Eyre District ; Run 190c, Eyre District ; Runs 389, 389a, and 415, Black Hill, Lincoln, Snowden, Mavora, Von, and Swinton Districts ; Run 300b, Burwood and Mararoa Districts ; and Run 304 Mararoa, Burwood, Te Anau, and Snowden Districts ; as provided by the said section two hundred and twenty-five.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this seventeenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

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Warrant authorizing the Masterton County Council to construct a Bridge over the Waingawa River on the Masterton-Carterton Road, and apportioning the Cost.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and nineteen of the Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is inter alia, enacted that in any case where the local authority of any district desires to construct a bridge, or to establish a ferry or ford, in any position that will, in its opinion, be of advantage and benefit to the whole or any considerable portion of the inhabitants of an adjacent district as well as to the inhabitants of its own district, and where it is, in the opinion of such local authority, reasonable that the local authority of such adjacent district should contribute to the cost of constructing or establishing the said bridge, ferry, or ford, the provisions of the said section shall have effect :

And whereas the Masterton County Council has given notice and taken the steps required by the said Act, and has made application to the Governor-General to authorize the construction by the said Council of a bridge over the Waingawa River on the Masterton-Carterton Road, together with the approaches, river-protection, stopbanks, fencing, and all other work described in the Schedule hereto, as more particularly described in plan and specification marked P.W.D. 43575, and hereinafter referred to as “the said work,” and to apportion the cost of constructing the said work between the Wairarapa South County Council, the Masterton Borough Council, the Carterton Borough Council, the Featherston County Council, the Greytown Borough Council, the Featherston Town Board, the Castlepoint County Council, the Mauriceville County Council, the Martinborough Town Board, and the Masterton County Council :

And whereas objections were made to the Governor-General within the period of two months prescribed by paragraph (a) (iii), subsection two, of the said section one hundred and nineteen :

And whereas it is also provided in the said section one hundred and nineteen that the Governor-General (with the view of determining whether or not the work should be done, or what proportion, if any, of the cost of the same should fairly be borne by any local authority, or what local authority should do the work) may direct any Magistrate or other person to be a Commissioner to inquire into and report to him on the matter :

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed, and an inquiry was duly held in the manner provided by the said Act and the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, in respect of the said work, and in respect also to the apportionment of the cost of constructing the said work :

And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor-General, after due inquiry, his opinion as to the matters respecting which he was appointed to report :

And whereas I am of opinion that the work should be done, and it is expedient to make provision under the said Act for the purpose and in the manner hereinafter set forth :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby authorize the Masterton County Council to execute the said work : and I do hereby declare that the cost thereof shall be borne by the Masterton County Council, the Wairarapa South County Council, the Masterton Borough Council, the Carterton Borough Council, the Featherston County Council, the Greytown Borough Council, the Castlepoint County Council, and the Mauriceville County Council in the following proportions—viz., the Masterton County Council to bear thirty-three per centum, the Wairarapa South County Council thirty-three per centum, the Masterton Borough Council eighteen per centum, the Carterton Borough Council seven per centum, the Featherston County Council three per centum, the Greytown Borough Council two per centum, the Castlepoint County Council two per centum, and the Mauriceville County Council two per centum of such cost respectively.

And I do hereby direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Wairarapa South County Council, the Masterton Borough Council, the Carterton Borough Council, the Featherston County Council, the Greytown Borough Council, the Castlepoint County Council, and the Mauriceville County Council shall be paid from time to time in the proportions hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said County and Borough Councils, within a period of one month after a demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Masterton County Council, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Masterton County Council for and on account of the said County and Borough Councils.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that bridge, in the Wellington Land District, on the boundary between the Masterton and Wairarapa South Counties, over the Waingawa River, on the Masterton-Carterton Road, in Tiffin Survey District (as the site of the said bridge is more particularly shown by means of a red cross on plan marked P.W.D. 43948), together with the approaches,