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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 8

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

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 be hereafter 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 any 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 as 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 Lower 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 Oroua 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 Oroua County Council shall pay fifty (50) per centum, the Kairanga County Council shall pay five (5) per centum, the Pahiatua County Council shall pay three (3) per centum, the Dannevirke Borough Council shall pay five (5) per centum, the Feilding Borough Council shall pay ten (10) per centum, the Palmerston North Borough Council shall pay eighteen (18) per centum, the Woodville Borough Council shall pay four (4) per centum, and the Pahiatua Borough Council shall pay five (5) per centum of such cost respectively.

And I do hereby direct that the contributions hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Kairanga County Council, the Pahiatua 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 Oroua County Council, and the payments so required to be made shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Oroua County Council for and on behalf of the said County and Borough Councils.

And I do hereby cancel and annul the Proclamation dated the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 92, page 1986, of the first day of the following month, vesting control of the said bridge and apportioning the cost of maintenance.

SCHEDULE.

That bridge over the Manawatu River, on the Manawatu Gorge Road, situated in the Oroua County. 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 B.

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

Appointing a Member of the Westport Harbour Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by section seventeen of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, that the office of any member of a Harbour Board shall become vacant if, inter alia, he is absent without leave from four consecutive meetings of the Board:

And whereas it is provided by subsection two (a) of section two of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1913, that when a non-elective member vacates his office on the Board through the operation of the said section seventeen, the Governor-General shall, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place:

And whereas Hugh Gillen, a non-elective member of the Westport Harbour Board, has been absent without leave from four consecutive meetings of the Board, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint John Heyes Enright, of Westport, to be a member of the Westport Harbour Board, in place of Hugh Gillen.

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

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.

Notification of Vacancy of Seat in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Southern Maori.

IN compliance with the provisions of section 99 of the Legislature Act, 1908, I, Frederic William Lang, Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, hereby notify that TAARE PARATA, a member of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Southern Maori, died on the 8th day of January, 1918, during a recess of the House, and that the said seat in the House of Representatives for the said electoral district is vacant by reason of such death.

Dated at Onehunga the 9th day of January, 1918.

F. W. LANG,
Speaker.

Notice of Revocation of a License issued to a Customs Agent.

Head Office, Customs Department,
Wellington, 18th January, 1918.

IT is hereby notified that the Customs Agent’s license issued to Arthur Herbert Miles, a partner in the firm of Blake, Carlisle, and Company, Shipping and Forwarding Agents and General Carriers, of Wellington, has been revoked under the authority of section 194 of the Customs Act, 1913, and of the regulations made thereunder.

W. B. MONTGOMERY,
Comptroller of Customs.

Consul of the Republic of China at Wellington appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th January, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that, in accordance with instructions from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has recognized provisionally, pending the receipt of the King’s Exequatur, the appointment of

LIN SHIH YUAN, Esq.,

as Consul of the Republic of China for New Zealand at Wellington.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.