FEB. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 495

Portion of a Primary-education Endowment in Puketapu Survey District, Hawke's Bay Land District, set apart as a Site for a Public School.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by section five of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1911, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the district in which are situated any reserves or endowments vested in the Crown by or in pursuance of section two of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, set apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical schools any part of such reserves or endowments:

And whereas the Land Board of the Hawke's Bay Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto should be set apart as a site for a public school, 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 powers conferred by the Acts aforesaid, do hereby set apart the portion of the primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto as a site for a public school.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less, being Lot 1, Block 70, in rural sections western side of harbour, Block XII, Puketapu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by closed road, 1425·4 links; towards the south-east by part Block 70 (E.R.), western side of harbour, 330·6 links; towards the south-west by public road, 1072·4 links; and towards the west by public road, 875·1 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/158, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

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

Warrant Vesting Control of the New Mangere Bridge and Approaches.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor-General 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 the date to be 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 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 any local authority or local authorities, and, if so, by what local authority or local authorities, and may by any such Warrant direct how, when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas by section thirty-four of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1917, after reciting, inter alia, that under the authority of a Warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General bearing date the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, the body corporate called the Inhabitants of the Mangere Road District was authorized to construct a bridge across the Manukau Harbour, together with the approaches thereto, between the Onehunga Borough and the Mangere Road District, which bridge is called the New Mangere Bridge; and that the said bridge has been duly constructed, and that it is desirable that a Warrant should be issued vesting the control of the approaches to the said bridge at the Onehunga end thereof in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Onehunga, whilst vesting the control of the said bridge and the approaches at the Mangere end thereof in the Inhabitants of the Mangere Road District; and that doubt has arisen as to whether there is legal authority to vest the bridge and the approaches thereto at one end in one local authority whilst vesting the approaches at the other end thereof in another local authority, and that it was desirable that such doubt should be removed, and authority was thereby given for the issue of this Warrant as hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and by section number thirty-four of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1917,

and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge and approaches known as the New Mangere Bridge, as described in the First Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Mangere Road Board; and that the approaches at the Onehunga end thereof, as described in the Second Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Onehunga Borough Council.

And, in further pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost heretofore incurred by the Mangere Road Board of constructing, maintaining, repairing, and improving the said approaches (as described in the Second Schedule hereto), and fixed and agreed by the said respective local authorities at the sum of three hundred and sixty pounds, be paid forthwith by the said Onehunga Borough Council, to the said Mangere Road Board.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
THE bridge over the Manukau Harbour, together with the approaches thereto, between the Onehunga Borough and the Mangere Road District (but excluding the approaches thereto described in the Second Schedule hereto), known as the New Mangere Bridge. As the said bridge and approaches are more particularly described on the plan marked P.W.D. 33416, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Land District of Auckland, containing 34·9 perches, more or less, being part of Allotments 16 and 17 of Section 30 of the Town of Onehunga. Bounded towards the north-west by a road, 49·51 links, 70·7 links, and 125·58 links; towards the east by said Lot 16, 43·09 links, 31·52 links, 38·69 links, and 238·72 links; towards the south by the railway, 5 links and 74·6 links; and towards the west by said Lot 17, 170·14 links, 69·76 links, and 18·37 links; and more particularly described on the said plan marked P.W.D. 41274, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.
PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that LEONARD VICOROUS SAMUELS, being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Kahukura, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand this seventh day of February one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

Attorney-General appointed.
Private Secretary's Office,
Government House,
Wellington, 4th February, 1918.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint The Honourable Sir FRANCIS HENRY DILLON BELL, K.C.M.G., K.C., to be Attorney-General for the Dominion of New Zealand.
GAVIN M. HAMILTON, Private Secretary.

Appointment of Consul-General of Sweden at Sydney.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1918.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that he has recognized provisionally the appointment by the Consul-General of Sweden at Sydney of J. H. ANDERSSON, Esq., as Acting Consul-General of Sweden at Sydney during the absence of the Consul-General.
G. W. RUSSELL, Minister of Internal Affairs.