Jan. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 221

And whereas Commissioners were appointed for the purpose aforesaid, and an inquiry was duly held :

And whereas the Commissioners did report to the Governor-General, after due inquiry, their opinion thereon :

And whereas the Governor-General is of opinion that it is equitable that the cost of maintaining the portion of the road mentioned in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportion 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 power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby direct that from and after the date of this Warrant the cost of maintaining the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto (less any contribution, if any, which may be made by the Government) shall be provided and paid by the local authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following proportions—viz., the Pahiatua County Council shall pay ten (10) per centum, the Dannevirke County Council shall pay three (3) per centum, the Kairanga County Council shall pay ten (10) per centum, the Oroua County Council shall pay eight (8) per centum, the Rangitikei County Council shall pay three (3) per centum, the Waipawa County Council shall pay three (3) per centum, the Woodville County Council shall pay ten (10) per centum, the Dannevirke Borough Council shall pay eight (8) per centum, the Feilding Borough Council shall pay five (5) per centum, the Palmerston North Borough Council shall pay twenty-four (24) per centum, the Woodville Borough Council shall pay eight (8) per centum, and the Pahiatua Borough Council shall pay eight (8) per centum of such cost respectively.

And I do hereby direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Dannevirke County Council, the Kairanga County Council, the Oroua County Council, the Rangitikei County Council, the Waipawa County Council, the Woodville County Council, the Dannevirke Borough Council, the Feilding Borough Council, the Palmerston North Borough Council, the Woodville Borough Council, and the Pahiatua Borough Council shall be paid from time to time out of the funds of the said County and Borough Councils within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Pahiatua County Council, and such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said Council for and on account of such County and Borough Councils.

And I do hereby cancel and annul the Warrant dated the tenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 49, pages 1608 and 1609, of the seventeenth day of the same month, apportioning the cost of maintaining the said portion of road.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the Manawatu Gorge Road, situated in the Wellington Land District, Pahiatua County, commencing at the western boundary of the Pahiatua County and terminating at the western boundary of the Woodville County. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41024, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

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Warrant vesting the Control of the Upper Gorge Bridge in the Pahiatua County Council, and apportioning Cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the same.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty of the Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), 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 a date 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 as aforesaid 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 the local authority or local authorities; and may by any such Warrant as aforesaid direct how, when, and to whom any such payment is to be made :

And whereas by the said section one hundred and twenty it is, inter alia, provided that the Governor-General may, with a view of determining what proportion (if any) of the cost of maintaining any work should be borne by any local authority or local authorities, direct any Magistrate or other person to be a Commissioner to inquire into and report to him upon any matter which he shall deem necessary to enable him to determine any such question aforesaid :

And whereas Commissioners were appointed for the purpose aforesaid, and an inquiry duly held :

And whereas such Commissioners did report to the Governor-General, after due inquiry, their opinion thereon :

And whereas the Governor-General is of opinion that it is equitable that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto should be provided and paid in the manner and in the proportions hereinafter respectively 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 and authorities vested in me by the said Act, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that the bridge described in the Schedule hereto, and known as the Upper Gorge Bridge (hereinafter called “the said bridge”), shall, from and after the date of this Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Pahiatua County Council; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge (less any contribution, if any, which may be made by the Government) shall be provided and paid by the local authorities hereinafter mentioned in the following proportions—viz., the Pahiatua County Council shall pay ten (10) per centum, the Dannevirke County Council shall pay three (3) per centum, the Kairanga County Council shall pay ten (10) per centum, the Oroua County Council shall pay eight (8) per centum, the Rangitikei County Council shall pay three (3) per centum, the Waipawa County Council shall pay three (3) per centum, the Woodville County Council shall pay ten (10) per centum, the Dannevirke Borough Council shall pay eight (8) per centum, the Feilding Borough Council shall pay five (5) per centum, the Palmerston North Borough Council shall pay twenty-four (24) per centum, the Woodville Borough Council shall pay eight (8) per centum, and the Pahiatua Borough Council shall pay eight (8) per centum of such cost respectively.

And I do hereby direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Dannevirke County Council, the Kairanga County Council, the Oroua County Council, the Rangitikei County Council, the Waipawa County Council, the Woodville County Council, the Dannevirke Borough Council, the Feilding Borough Council, the Palmerston North Borough Council, the Woodville Borough Council, and the Pahiatua Borough Council towards the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge 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 demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Clerk of the Pahiatua County Council, and the payments so required to be made shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Pahiatua County Council for and on behalf of the said County and Borough Councils.

And I do hereby cancel and annul the Warrant dated the tenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 49, pages 1607 and 1608, of the seventeenth day of the same month, vesting control of the said bridge and apportioning cost of maintenance.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Manawatu River, on the Manawatu Gorge Road, between the Pahiatua and Woodville Counties. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41024, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon marked A.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.