452
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

do hereby proclaim that the parcel of land described
in the Schedule hereto annexed shall be sold to the
Bank of New Zealand, and that the price to be paid
for the said parcel of land shall be three hundred
and seventeen pounds ten shillings.

SCHEDULE.
Description of Reserve No. 708.
One rood and one perch, more or less, situated in
the town of Hokitika, having a frontage of one
hundred and thirteen links on Revell Street, and two
hundred and twenty-eight links on Camp Street;
the eastern boundary being a line at right angles
to Camp Street, and the northern boundary a line
parallel to the same street.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Public Seal of the said Colony, this
sixteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.
JOHN HALL.

Approved in Council:
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, the
ninth day of September, 1868.
Present:
His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR in COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The County of Westland Act,
1867," it is enacted that the Governor in
Council may, from time to time, authorize any Board
constituted under the authority of the said Act to
levy rates upon all lands, buildings, and tenements
within its district, and may make regulations for the
due and impartial levying and collection thereof, and
for limiting the amount to be levied in any one year:

And whereas in pursuance of an Order in Council
bearing date the first day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight, under the hand of His
Excellency the Governor, a Board has been con-
stituted under the authority of the said Act for the
management of the business of the Kanieri Road
District:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance and in exercise of the power vested in
him by the said Act, doth hereby, with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Colony, authorize and empower the Board so con-
stituted for the management of the business of
THE KANIERI ROAD DISTRICT,

to levy rates upon all lands, buildings, and tenements
within the district under the management of such
Board, as such district is defined in and by the said
Order in Council of the first day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

And His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance
and in further exercise of the powers vested in him
by the said Act, doth hereby, with such advice and
consent as aforesaid, make and ordain the Regulations
hereinafter contained for the levying and collection
of the said rates, and for limiting the amount thereof
to be levied in any one year; that is to say-
Regulations for Collection of Rates under Section 7
of "The County of Westland Act, 1867."

1. Rates shall be of two kinds-General and
   Special.

2. General rates may be levied for the purpose of
   providing means for executing general works; that
   is, works for the benefit of the road district generally.

3. Special rates may be levied for the purpose of
   providing means for executing special works; that is,
   works for the special benefit of any particular portion
   of the road district.

4. The Board shall decide what are general and
   what special works.

5. Fourteen days at least before making any rate
   the Board shall prepare and post up in writing at the
   office of the Board a notice showing---

(a.) An estimate of the probable cost of the
works intended to be executed by the Board,
and of the probable amount required to be
raised by rates.

(b.) A list of the properties liable to be rated,
and of the names of the occupiers or owners
of such properties, with the rateable value
of such properties.

(c.) The rate on each pound of the rateable
value of all such properties necessary to
produce the amount required to be raised,
and shall forward a copy of such notice to
the Chairman of the County Council, and
shall notify either by advertisement or in
such other manner as the Board may con-
sider best calculated to give publicity, its
intention of making a rate.

(d.) The place and the time (not being less than
ten nor more than fourteen days from the
date of such notice) at which a meeting of
the Board for the purpose of hearing and
determining appeals, as hereinafter men-
tioned, shall be held.

6. For the purpose of ascertaining the rateable
   value of any property, the Board shall appoint two
   assessors, who may be members of the Board.

7. No rate shall be made unless the Board shall first
   have received the written sanction of the Chairman
   of the County Council to such rate.

8. No special rate shall be made unless the Board
   shall first have received the written consent of at
   least one-half the persons liable to pay such special
   rate.

9. Every rate shall be entered in rate-book to be
   kept for that purpose in the form in Schedule A. to
   these Regulations, or as near thereto as the circum-
   stances of the case will permit.

10. Any ratepayer may at any time, not being
    less than three days before the day appointed for the
    meeting, to be held in accordance with the notice
    hereinbefore required for the hearing of appeals as
    aforesaid, give to the Clerk of the Board notice in
    writing of his intention to appeal, and may appeal as
    hereinafter provided against the assessment, on any
    of the following grounds:-That he is not the occu-
    pier or owner of the property of which he is stated
    to be the occupier or owner; that the property of
    which he is the occupier or owner is assessed beyond
    the fair annual value; that any rateable property
    is omitted from the assessment; that any rateable
    property is assessed below its fair annual value:
    Provided that in case of appeal being made on either
    of the two last-mentioned grounds of appeal, the
    appellant shall prove to the satisfaction of the Board,
    on the hearing of the appeal, that notice of the
    appeal, and of the grounds thereof, have been given
    not less than three days before the day appointed for