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aining the said bridge and approaches thereto shall be borne by the Taumarunui County Council and the Ohura County Council in the following proportions—viz., the Taumarunui County Council shall pay half and the Ohura County Council shall pay half of such cost respectively:

And I do further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Ohura County Council shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said County Council within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Taumarunui County Council; and also that such payments shall be made to the Clerk of the Taumarunui County Council for and on behalf of the Ohura County Council.

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SCHEDULE.

That bridge over the Ongarue River on the Te Kuiti-Taumarunui Road at the boundary of the Ohura and Taumarunui Counties and of the Auckland and Taranaki Land Districts opposite Section 1, Rangitoto-Tuhua 74B No. 3, Block I, Tuhua Survey District, known as the Ongarue Traffic-bridge, together with the approaches thereto. As the site of the said bridge and approaches is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 62157, 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 18th day of April, 1925.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

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Warrant vesting the Control of Portions of Main South Road, Johnston Street, and Springfield Road in the Milton Borough Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, and the Public Works Amendment Act, 1910, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the portions of roads lying along the boundary between the Borough of Milton and the Bruce County, and mentioned in the Schedule hereto, shall, on and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be under the control of the Milton Borough Council; and I do hereby further direct that the cost of constructing, or maintaining, or widening, or reconstructing the said portions of roads, exclusive of the cost of drainage, lighting, or constructing and repairing any footpaths on the said portions of roads, shall be borne by the Milton Borough Council and the Bruce County Council in the following proportions, viz.: the Milton Borough Council shall bear fifty per centum of such cost and the Bruce County Council shall bear fifty per centum of such cost respectively; and I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Bruce County Council shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said County Council, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Milton Borough Council, and that such payment shall be made from time to time to the Town Clerk, Milton, for and on behalf of the Bruce County Council.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL those portions of roads situated in the Otago Land District, and lying along the boundary between the Borough of Milton and the Bruce County as follows, viz.:

Main South Road from the south-western corner of Block III on plan of subdivision of Section 101, Block XI, Tokomairiro Survey District, D.P. 306, to the northernmost corner of the said Block III.

Johnston Street from the north-eastern corner of Block IV on the said subdivisional plan to its junction with Springfield Road.

Springfield Road from its junction with Johnston Street to the terminating point of the said boundary between the Milton Borough and Bruce County along the said Springfield Road.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 62049, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 16th day of April, 1925.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

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Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declaration.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

Alexander Leslie Murray Willis,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Waitangi, Chatham Islands, 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 17th day of April, 1925.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

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Arrangements for First Election, &c., Awatane Drainage Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th April, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Frederick Phillips Esquire, LL.B., of Otorohanga,

to be the person to prepare the electors' roll for the purpose of conducting the first election of five members of the Board of Trustees of the Awatane Drainage District as constituted under the Land Drainage Act, 1908; also to appoint Friday, the 8th day of May, 1925, to be the day, and the Town Hall, Otorohanga, to be the place, for holding such election; also to appoint Friday, the 15th day of May, 1925, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, to be the day and hour, and the office of Messrs. Phillips and Patterson, Barristers and Solicitors, Otorohanga, to be the place, at which the first meeting of the Board of Trustees so elected shall be held.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Officers for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th April, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

Stanley Wright, Oparau,
William N. Soybe, Oparau,
William Joseph Greer, Hauturu,
Arney Brown, Kinohaku,

to be Officers for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Appointment as Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Frederick Kasper

to be a Ranger under the said Act for the Auckland Acclimatization District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 16th April, 1925.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Returning Officer for the Oparure Rabbit District appointed. Notice No. Ag. 2490.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 71 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908,

Richard Ormsby

to be Returning Officer to hold the first election of Trustees for the Oparure Rabbit District, constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.