✨ Government Orders and Declarations
Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2399
Vesting the Management of the Wharf at Waikato Heads in
the Port Waikato Harbour Board.
GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of
November, 1938.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
Pursuant to the Harbours Act, 1923, His Excellency
the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby vest in
the Port Waikato Harbour Board (hereinafter called “the
Board,” which term shall include its successors and assigns
unless the context requires a different construction) the
management of the wharf at Waikato Heads for the purpose
of the use of the wharf for a term of fourteen years computed
from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-eight, such license to be held and enjoyed by the
Board upon and subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in the Schedule hereto.
SCHEDULE.
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In these conditions the term—
“Foreshore” means such parts of the bed, shore, or
banks of a tidal water as are covered and uncovered
by the flow and ebb of the tide at ordinary
spring tides :
“Low-water mark” means low-water mark at ordinary
spring tides :
“Minister” means the Minister of Marine as defined
by the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and
includes any officer, person, or authority acting
by or under the direction of such Minister. -
The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order
in Council shall extend and apply only to the part of the
foreshore and land below low-water mark adjacent thereto
necessary for the maintenance of the said wharf. -
In consideration of the concessions and privileges
granted by this Order in Council, the Board shall pay to the
Minister an annual rental of 1s., payable on demand, such
rent to date from the date of this Order in Council. -
All persons shall, at all reasonable times, upon payment
of proper dues, have free and full liberty to use the said
wharf, and all rights of ingress and egress thereon and
therefrom. -
His Majesty or the Governor-General, and all officers in
the Government service acting in the execution of their
duty, shall at all reasonable times have free ingress, passage,
and egress into, through, over, and out of the said wharf
without payment. -
The Board shall maintain the above-mentioned wharf in
good order and repair ; and shall at all times exhibit therefrom
and maintain at the Board’s own cost suitable and necessary
lights for the guidance of vessels : Provided that no light
shall be exhibited until after it has been approved of by the
Minister. -
All dues and rates received on account of the said wharf
by the Board shall be applied to keeping the said wharf and
all erections on or in connection therewith in good order and
repair and for the renewal or the extension of the said wharf
when such is found necessary. -
Any person authorized by the Minister may at all
reasonable times enter upon the said wharf and view the
state of repair thereof, and upon the Minister leaving at or
posting to the last-known address of the Board in New
Zealand a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in
such wharf, requiring the Board within a reasonable time, to
be therein prescribed, to make good or repair the same, the
Board, shall, with all convenient speed, cause such defect
to be removed or such repairs to be made. -
The master of all vessels discharging ballast at the said
wharf shall have all such ballast taken away and deposited
above high-water mark, or at such place as may be approved
of by the Minister, or by any person appointed by the Minister
for that purpose. -
The Board shall not erect, or suffer to be erected, on
the said wharf, any building or structure whatever, except
with the consent of the Minister. -
The Board shall keep a separate bank account for all
receipts and expenditure in respect of the said wharf, and
shall cause an account of such receipts and expenditure to be
balanced to the 30th day of September in every year, and
shall send a copy of such account when balanced to the
Minister, and shall supply any particulars in reference thereto
as may be required by the Minister. -
The Board shall appoint all officers necessary for the
working and management of the said wharf. -
Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Board
to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent
with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of
the Minister of Customs, or with any provisions of the
Harbours Act, 1923, or its amendments, or any regulations
thereunder and that are now or may hereafter be in force. -
The rights, powers, and privileges hereby conferred
shall continue to be in force for fourteen years from the
1st April, 1938, unless in the meantime such rights, powers,
and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by
competent authority, and the Board shall not assign, charge,
or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the
previous written consent of the Minister first obtained. -
The rights, powers, and privileges conferred under or
by virtue of this Order in Council may be at any time resumed
by the Governor-General, without payment of any com-
pensation whatever, on giving to the Board three calendar
months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall
be sufficient if given by the Minister and delivered at or
posted to the last-known address of the Board in New
Zealand. -
The Board shall be liable for any injury which the said
wharf may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any
default or neglect on the part of the Board. -
In case the Board shall—
(1) Commit or suffer breach of the conditions hereinbefore
set forth, or any of them ; or
(2) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period of
thirty consecutive days ;
then, and in either of the said cases, this Order in Council
and every license, right, power, or privilege may be revoked
and determined by the Governor-General in Council without
any notice to the Board or any other proceedings whatsoever ;
and publication in the Gazette of an Order in Council containing
such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the Board and to
all persons concerned or interested that this Order in Council
and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and
conferred have been revoked and determined. -
In the event of this Order in Council being revoked for
any reason whatsoever, or upon the expiry of the period
for which the license is granted, the Board shall, if required
by the Minister so to do, remove the said wharf entirely
from the site and restore the site to its original condition
within three months from the date of the revocation or
expiry, as the case may be, and if the Board fails so to do,
the Minister may cause the said wharf to be removed and the
site so restored, and may recover the costs incurred by the
said removal and restoration from the Board.
C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Declaring Clarke Reserve, Paekakariki, to be a Sanctuary
under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22,
Wellington Acclimatization District.
GALWAY, Governor-General.
IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by section
six of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22
(hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), I, George Vere
Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare the area
described in the Schedule hereto to be a sanctuary for the
purposes of the said Act.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, being Lot 1
on Plan 2184, deposited in the office of the District Land
Registrar at Wellington, and bounded on the north-east by
Lot 2 on said Plan 2184, on the east generally by the Wel-
lngton–Palmerston North (via Paekakariki Hill) Main
Highway, on the south-west by Lot 2 on said Plan 2184,
and on the north-west by the North Island Main Trunk
Railway.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 9th day of November, 1938.
F. JONES,
For the Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 52/53.)
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