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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 65

Warrant vesting Control of the Bridge over the Oroua River at Mangawhata, between Glen Oroua and Rangiotu, on the Hoihere Road, in the Kairanga County Council, and apportioning Cost of Maintenance.

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 to be fixed in such Warrant, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of such local authority as is 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 the view of determining what proportion (if any) of the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing any such bridge should be borne by any local authority or local authorities, direct any Magistrate or other person to be a Commissioner to inquire and report to him upon any matter which he shall deem necessary to enable him to determine any such question as aforesaid:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed for the purpose as aforesaid, and an inquiry duly held:

And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor-General, after due inquiry, his 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 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 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 hereinafter called “the said bridge”) shall, from and after the date of gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Kairanga 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 shall be borne by the Kairanga County Council.

SCHEDULE.

That bridge, situated in the Wellington Land District, over the Oroua River at Mangawhata, between Glen Oroua and Rangiotu, on the Hoihere Road. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 46598, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon marked with a red cross.

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

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Clerk of the Executive Council appointed.

Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 6th July, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

FRANK DAVID THOMSON, Esq., C.M.G.,

to be Clerk of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand, vice J. F. Andrews, Esq. Appointment to date from the 1st November, 1919.

W. F. MASSEY.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Act appointed for Auckland District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th June, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

ANDREW DOBSON

a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the Auckland Acclimatization District.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Members of Prebbleton Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th July, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint

JOHN WILLIAM KINGAN,
LEONARD ALEXANDER GALLAGHER, and
WILLIAM THOMAS CARPENTER

to be members of the Prebbleton Domain Board, in the place of Herbert Prebble, Edward Prebble Adam, and Henry Paterson, resigned.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Members of St. Bathan’s Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th July, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint

JOSEPH McDEVITT and
JAMES AYSON MARSHALL

to be members of the St. Bathan’s Domain Board, in the place of William Hangar and Francis Eagle, deceased.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Trustees for the Romahapa Public Cemetery appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 8th July, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, been pleased, on the 1st day of July, 1920, to appoint

PETER SHAW GRANT

to be a trustee, in the place of George Calder Begg, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Romahapa Public Cemetery.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Halcombe Public Cemetery appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 8th July, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, been pleased, on the 1st day of July, 1920, to appoint

BYRAN HARDING TURTON

to be a trustee, in the place of Charles Managh, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Halcombe Public Cemetery.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 30th June, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

TOBO FREDERICK IWIKAU, of Tokorangi,

to act as a licensed Native Interpreter of the First Grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

W. H. HERRIES, Native Minister.

Coroner appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th June, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

ARCHIBALD JAMES MASON GRAHAM, Esq., J.P.,

to be a Coroner within the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Official Assignee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th June, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

ARCHIBALD HENDERSON AITKEN

to be Deputy Official Assignee at Gore, on and from the 1st day of July, 1920, vice F. Young, resigned.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.