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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

Declaring Road-lines through Land in Pareora No. 2 Settlement, Canterbury Land District, to be closed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that the said roads intersect land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and are not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

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 section eighty of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the roads hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the said roads shall thereupon become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

PAREORA NO. 2 SETTLEMENT.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of roads required to be closed: 35 perches, 3 roods 9 perches, and 21 perches.

Adjoining or passing through Section 7104, Block XII, Otaio Survey District.

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 19215/205, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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

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

Warrant authorizing the Raglan County Council to construct a Bridge over the Waipa River at Ngaruawahia and apportioning the Cost.

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 or 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 Raglan 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 of the bridge and approaches mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter referred to as “the said work,” and to apportion the cost of constructing and establishing the said work between the said Council and the Ngaruawahia Town Board, the Waipa County Council, and the Waikato County Council:

And whereas it has been agreed by and between the said Councils and Board that the cost of constructing the said work shall be borne by the said Councils and Board in the hereinafter-mentioned proportions:

And whereas no objection has been made by the other local authorities which it is proposed should contribute to the cost of the said work:

And whereas I am of opinion that the said work should be done, and that 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, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the said Act, and all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby authorize the Raglan County Council to execute the said work, and I do hereby declare that the cost thereof less such contribution as may be made thereto (if any) by the Government of New Zealand shall be borne by the Raglan County Council, the Ngaruawahia Town Board, the Waipa County Council, and the Waikato County Council in the following proportions—viz., the Raglan County Council shall pay fifty per centum, the Ngaruawahia Town Board shall pay thirty per centum, the Waipa County Council shall pay fifteen per centum, and the Waikato County Council shall pay five per centum of such cost respectively. And I do hereby further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Ngaruawahia Town Board, the Waipa County Council, and the Waikato County Council shall be paid from time to time in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said Councils and Board, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Raglan County Council; and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Raglan County Council for and on behalf of the Ngaruawahia Town Board, the Waipa County Council, and the Waikato County Council.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Waipa River at Ngaruawahia, in the Auckland Land District, situated near the confluence of the Waipa and Waikato Rivers. As the site of the said bridge and approaches thereto is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 42339, 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 ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Censor of Telegraphic Messages appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the authority conferred upon me by an Order in Council made on the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, in pursuance of section two of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1910, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in the present time of war, do hereby authorize and appoint

JOHN LLEWELLYN DAVIES, Esquire,

to act during my pleasure as a Censor of Telegraphic Messages in respect of the telegraph station at Awanui.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

J. G. WARD,
For Minister of Defence.

Amended Regulations under the Mining Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Mining Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby make the following additions to regulation 94 (1) of the regulations made under the said Act on the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the Gazette of the fifth day of August then instant; and doth hereby declare that the said additions shall come into force from the date of the gazetting thereof.

REGULATIONS.

ADD to regulation 94 (1), paragraph (f), the following:—

In all cases where the ventilation of a mine is provided by mechanical means, the ventilating appliances shall be started at such time before the commencement of work as in the opinion of the Inspector of Mines is necessary for the purpose of thoroughly ventilating the mine.

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

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Mines.

Vice-Consul of the Netherlands at Auckland appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th January, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King’s Exequatur empowering

M. COPELAND, Esq.,

to act as Vice-Consul of the Netherlands at Auckland has received His Majesty’s signature.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.