The Kiwitea Bridge.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 234, 3 April 1895, Page 2

The Kiwitea Bridge.

Warrant authorising the Borough Council of Feilding to construct a Bridge over the Kiwitea Stream, on a Deviation of the Kimbolton Road, and apportioning the Cost of the Bridge between tho Borough of Feilding, the Manchester Road Board, the Kiwitea County Council, and the Pohangina County Council GLASGOW, Governor. Whereas by section one hundred and thirteen of "The Public Works Act, 1894" (hereinafter termed " the said Act "), it is, inter alia, enacted that, i«i any case where the local authority of any district desires to construct a bridge in any position that will, in its opinion, be of advantage to the whole or any considerable portion of the Inhabitants of an adjacent district or districts as well as to the inhabitants of its own district, and where it i-, in the opinion of such local aiathority, reasonable that the local authority or local authorities of such district or districts whose inhabitants are to be so benefited should contribute to the cost of constructing or establishing ihe said bridge, the provisions in the said section mentioned shall hive effect : And whereas the Borough Council of Feilding has made application to the Governor to authorise the construction of the work mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and to apportion the coat of constructing the said work between the said Council and the Manchester Road Board, Kiwitea County Council, and Pohangina County Council : And whereas the Borough Council of Feilding prepared plans, specifications, and estimates of the work and sent a copy of same to the offices of the Manchester Road Board, Kiwitea County Council, and Pohangma Road Board (the district of which last-named Board has now become the Pohangina County), and to the Minister for Public Works, together with a notice as required by the hereinbefore in part recited Act : And whereas, the Pohangina County Council and the Kiwitea County Council having lodged objections to the said bridge being constructed, a Commissioner was appointed to inquire into and report ou the matter, in terms of the hereinbefore in part recited Act : And whereas the said Commissioner has reported that he is of opinion that the said work should be constructed by the Borough Council of Feilding, and tbat the cost of constructing the said work should be borne in the proportions hereinafter set forth to be borne by the said Conncil, and ths Baid Manchester Road Board, Kiwitea County Council, and Pohangtna County Council : And whereas the Governor is of opinion that the work should be clone : Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Baid Act, do hereby authorise the Borough Council of Feilding to construct the said work ; and I do hereby declare that a proportion of eight-sixteenths of the cost of constructing the said work shall be borne by the Borough Council of Feilding, a proportion of four-sixteenths shall be borne by the Manchester Road Board, a proportion of three sixteenths shall be borne by the Kiwitea County Council, and a proportion of one-sixteenth shall be borne by the Pohangina County Council. SCHEDULE. The bridge over the Kiwitea River known as the Kiwitea Bridge, situated on the deviation of the Kimbolton Road, in the Borough of Feilding, and the approaches on each side thereof extending through Suburban Sections Nos. 121, 122, 123, 124, Feilding, and 1b Block, Subdivision D, of the Manchester Block, as the site of the said bridge, with approaches, is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 23772, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon marked in red. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eigh- ! teenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. JOHN McKENZIE, Minister of Lands.