TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

"CATTLE IMPOUNDING ORDINANCE, 1870."

Superintendent’s Office,
New Plymouth, December 16, 1870.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki, intituled “An Ordinance to restrict the trespass of Cattle,” and passed in the eighteenth Session of the said Council, power is given to the Superintendent with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council, by notification in the Government Gazette of the Province, to increase, reduce, or otherwise vary the charges for driving Cattle, specified in Schedule D to the above recited Ordinance.

Now therefore I, Frederic Alonzo Carrington, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki, do hereby in accordance with a Resolution of the Provincial Council of the 20th December, 1870, establish the Ferry over the Patea River, at the Town of Carlyle, as a Ferry under the provisions of the above recited Ordinance, and I hereby further notify that on and after the 1st January, 1871, the dues taken at the said Ferry shall be at the rates hereunder specified, viz.:

• Each Passenger ... 3d.
• Horses or neat Cattle (towed) each ... 3d.
• Calves (carried) each ... 3d.
• Sheep, not exceeding 4, for the whole ... 2d.
• Sheep, over 4 and not exceeding 100, each ... ½d.
• Sheep, over 100, each ... ¼d.

Fred. A. Carrington,
Superintendent.

Now therefore I, Frederic Alonzo Carrington, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki, do hereby in accordance with a Resolution of the Provincial Council of the 8th November, 1870, notify that the charge for driving cattle to pound shall be on and after the 19th day of December, 1870, at the rates hereunder specified, viz.:

• For every head of cattle, 3d. per head per mile, provided that the driving charges shall in no case exceed
• For 1 mile and under, 5s.
• For 2 miles and under 3 miles, 7s. 6d.
• For 3 miles and over, 10s.

Fred. A. Carrington,
Superintendent.

"FERRIES ORDINANCE, 1855."

NOTICE

Establishing Patea Ferry and fixing Ferry Dues.

Superintendent’s Office,
New Plymouth, December 23, 1870.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki, intituled “An Ordinance to establish and regulate Ferries,” and passed in the second Session of the said Council, power is given to the Superintendent with the approval of the said Council, from time to time by notice published in the Government Gazette of the Province, to establish Ferries at such places within the Province as he may deem expedient, and to fix the dues to be taken at any such Ferry.

Now therefore I, Frederic Alonzo Carrington, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki, do hereby in accordance with a Resolution of the Provincial Council of the 8th November, 1870, establish the Ferry over the Patea River at the Town of Carlyle, as a Ferry under the provisions of the above recited Ordinance.

THE WAITARA BRIDGE.

Prospectus of a Bridge to be built over the Waitara River, in the Province of Taranaki; and the conditions upon which the premium offered for designs will be awarded.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
November 7, 1870.

THE superstructure must be constructed chiefly of timber, the Government having provided a quantity of red pine (rimu) and ironwood (puriri), for the purpose. The supports may be iron piles, iron cylinders, or timber piles, as the designer may think fit.

The timber being chiefly in planks or joists, is easily convertible—a schedule of the timber is attached hereto.

Other materials available in the locality are bricks, which can be delivered at from four to five pounds per thousand; and the large boulders on the beach, with which rough walling in random courses, can be done at from 20s. to 25s. per perch of eighteen inches thick.

The River Waitara is accessible by vessels drawing ten feet; and piles, whether of timber or iron, could be delivered nearly at the site of the bridge.

The bed of the river is mud and small boulders, and does not present serious difficulty in driving piles; the river is subject to rapid freshets—the velocity being sometimes five and a-half miles per hour. Large logs of timber from sixty to ninety feet long and averaging thirty in diameter, are brought down by the freshets;