21 MAY THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 647

Notice of Intention to Issue Proclamations Closing Roads and Vesting Land in the County of Westland in Her Majesty the Queen as Crown Land, Subject to the Land Act 1948

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COBHAM, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 15 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1958, I, Charles John, Viscount Cobham, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby give notice that it is my intention, after the expiration of three months from the date hereof, to issue Proclamations closing the roads described in the First Schedule hereto and declaring the lands described in the First and Second Schedules hereto to be vested in Her Majesty as Crown land, subject to the Land Act 1948.

Plans showing these lands are deposited in the offices of the Westland County Council at Hokitika, the Mining Registrar at Hokitika, the Commissioner of Crown Lands at Hokitika, and the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, where they may be inspected during office hours free of charge.

Any objections to the proposals either in general terms or by the registered proprietor or licensee or any other person having any estate or interest in the lands specified in the Schedule hereto, are to be made in writing addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Department of Lands and Survey, Sewell Street, Hokitika, on or before the 20th day of August 1959.

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FIRST SCHEDULE

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT—COUNTY OF WESTLAND

Roads to be Closed and Vested in Her Majesty

ALL those lands being either legal roads, or strips of land laid off as roads but not legalised, in the Town of Goldsborough and shown coloured green on the plan marked L. and S. 10/98/90A deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington.

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SECOND SCHEDULE

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT—COUNTY OF WESTLAND

Lands Vested in Her Majesty

RURAL Section 2012; situated in Block XV, Waimea Survey District: Area, 10 acres 2 roods, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 6, folio 194.

Rural Section 1457, situated in Block XV, Waimea Survey District: Area, 5 acres 1 rood 36 perches, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 3, folio 889.

Rural Section 1579, situated in Block XV, Waimea Survey District: Area, 11 acres and 6 perches, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 5, folio 1481.

Rural Section 1456, situated in Block XV, Waimea Survey District: Area, 5 acres 1 rood 30 perches, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 3, folio 892.

Reserve 243, situated in Block XV, Waimea Survey District: Area, 2 acres, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 29, folio 71 (limited).

Reserve 192, situated in Block XV, Waimea Survey District: Area, 1 acre, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 29, folio 68 (limited).

Reserve 419, Town of Goldsborough, situated in Block XV, Waimea Survey District: Area, 25 acres, more or less.

All as shown on the plan marked L. and S. 10/98/90 deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 11th day of May 1959.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 10/98/90; D.O. 15/17B-1)

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Exempting Land in South Auckland Land District From the Operation of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925

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COBHAM, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the Coal Mines Act 1925, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby gives the following notice.

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NOTICE

THE land described in the Schedule hereto is exempted from the operation of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925.

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SCHEDULE

ALL that parcel of land containing 38·3 perches, more or less, being Lot 1, D.P. 6633, being part of Section 14, Block X, Mapara Survey District, and being the whole of the land in certificate of title, Volume 162, folio 210 (Taranaki Land Registry), but reserving to Her Majesty the Queen, her successors, and assigns full and free right and liberty to maintain and lay down and to convey drainage or sewage in and through drainage pipes or sewers in, through, and under the said piece of land along a line 18 in. in width as the centre line of the same, as delineated on a plan on Mines Department file 15/27/26 and marked “Line of Sewer”, with the right and liberty for her agents, servants, workmen, or officers from time to time at all reasonable times to have free and uninterrupted access to the said drainage pipes or sewer and to enter upon the said land for the purpose of inspecting, repairing, or removing the same or laying down fresh drains or sewers thereon; provided that all works and things hereby authorised to be done upon or affecting the said land shall be done in a skilful and workmanlike manner and so as to cause no unnecessary damage or disturbance to the said land and the surface thereof shall be restored as nearly as possible to its former condition or state.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 14th day of May 1959.

W. A. FOX, for the Minister of Mines.

(File 15/27/26)

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Appointing a Commission Under the Auckland Harbour Bridge Act 1950

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COBHAM, Governor-General

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to:

Stanley Logan Paterson, Esquire, C.B.E., of Hamilton, Retired Stipendiary Magistrate; and

David Harvey Steen, Esquire, of Auckland, Public Accountant:

Greeting.

WHEREAS by the Auckland Harbour Bridge Act 1950 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”) provision was made for the constitution of the Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority (hereinafter referred to as “the Authority”) and for the construction, maintenance, management, and control by the Authority of a bridge across the Waitemata Harbour from Point Erin to Stokes Point:

And whereas section 66 of the said Act provided that where any claim for compensation is made to the Authority by the Devonport Steam Ferry Co. Ltd. or its employees or by the Auckland Harbour Board, the Authority shall forthwith submit the claim to a Commission appointed under the said section:

And whereas it is anticipated that the said bridge will shortly become open for public traffic and it is expedient that such a Commission be appointed to which any such claim may be submitted:

And whereas by subsection (2) of the said section 66 provision was made for the appointment of a public accountant to assist such a Commission.

Now, therefore, I, Charles John, Viscount Cobham, the Governor-General of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the said Act and by the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908 and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint you, the said Stanley Logan Paterson, to be a Commission to inquire into any claim for compensation made by the said Company or its employees or by the said Board to the Authority and to assess in accordance with the provisions of Part VII of the said Act the amount of compensation (if any) payable to the said Company or its employees or to the said Board:

And for the better enabling you the said Stanley Logan Paterson to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorised and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents at such times and places as you deem expedient with power to adjourn from time to time and place to place as you think fit and so that these presents shall continue in force and the inquiry may at any time and place be resumed although not regularly adjourned from time to time or from place to place:

And I further direct you to consider whether in the circumstances any of the costs of your inquiry should be borne by any individuals and to make provision for citation of parties and to make orders for payment of costs accordingly pursuant to the powers conferred by the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908:

And using all due diligence you are required to report to me in writing under your hand from time to time but not later than the 1st day of September 1959 your findings and opinions on the matters hereby referred to you:

And I do also hereby appoint you, the said David Harvey Steen, to assist you, the said Stanley Logan Paterson, as such Commission as aforesaid:

And each of you, the said Stanley Logan Paterson and David Harvey Steen, is hereby strictly charged and directed that neither of you shall at any time publish or otherwise disclose save to me in pursuance of these presents or by my direction the contents of any report so made or to be made by you, the said Stanley Logan Paterson, or any evidence or information obtained by either of you in the exercise of the powers hereby conferred upon you except such evidence or information as is received in the course of a sitting open to the public.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 19th day of May 1959.

H. WATT, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 34/2734/0)