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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

being the amount of the outstanding and uncon-
verted portion of the said loan of three hundred
thousand pounds, on or before the dates fixed by
law for the repayment thereof, being not earlier
than the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-three, or later than the thirty-first
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven:

And whereas it has further been made to appear
to the said Commissioners that debentures to the
amount of two hundred and ten thousand six
hundred pounds, being a part of the debentures to
the amount of two hundred and thirty-three thousand
four hundred pounds issued under "The Canterbury
Loan Ordinance, 1862," being one of the Ordinances
named in the Second Schedule to the said "Public
Debts Sinking Funds Act, 1868," have been con-
verted or exchanged for debentures issued under
"The Consolidated Loan Act, 1867," and that the
amount of the debentures still outstanding and un-
converted of the said loan of two hundred and
thirty-three thousand four hundred pounds is thereby
reduced to twenty-two thousand eight hundred
pounds: And whereas the sum of sixteen thousand
four hundred and ninety pounds twelve shillings is
held by the said Commissioners as accumulated sink-
ing fund for the repayment of the said sum of two
hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred
pounds, and the sum of one thousand pounds of the
said accumulated sinking fund, with interest thereon,
together with the sinking fund hereafter accruing,
and interest thereon, will be sufficient to reproduce
the said sum of twenty-two thousand eight hundred
pounds, being the amount of the outstanding and un-
converted portion of the said loan of two hundred
and thirty-three thousand four hundred pounds, on or
before the dates fixed by law for the repayment
thereof, being not earlier than the thirtieth day of
June, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, or
later than the thirtieth day of June, one thousand
nine hundred and seventeen:

And whereas it has further been made to appear
to the said Commissioners that debentures to the
amount of twenty-eight thousand eight hundred
pounds, being a part of the debentures to the
amount of thirty thousand pounds issued under
the Canterbury "Loan Ordinance, Session VII., No.
3," being one of the Ordinances named in the Second
Schedule to the said "Public Debts Sinking Funds
Act, 1868," have been converted or exchanged for
debentures issued under "The Consolidated Loan
Act, 1867," and that the amount of the debentures
still outstanding and unconverted of the said loan of
thirty thousand pounds is thereby reduced to one
thousand two hundred pounds: And whereas the sum
of one thousand seven hundred and twenty-three
pounds ten shillings and ninepence is held by the
said Commissioners as accumulated sinking fund for
the repayment of the said sum of thirty thousand
pounds: And whereas the said outstanding deben-
tures, amounting to one thousand two hundred
pounds, have matured for payment, and a like amount
of the said accumulated sinking fund is required to
meet the payment thereof:

And whereas by the sixth section of "The Public
Debts Sinking Funds Act Amendment Act, 1869,"
it is provided that when by law the liabilities in
respect of any Provincial Loan or any part thereof,
or the liabilities in respect of any portion of the Con-
solidated Loan into which such Provincial Loan or
any part of such Provincial Loan shall have been
converted, shall on or after the constitution of a new
province, or on or after the constitution of the
County of Westland, have been or shall be appor-
tioned between the province by which such loan was
raised on the one part, and the new province or
county, as the case may be, on the other part, then
such moneys, being the proceeds of the sinking fund
of such apportioned loan, shall be apportioned by the
Commissioners under the said Act between the pro-
vince raising such loan on the one part, and such new
province or county, as the case may be, on the other
part, in the like proportions as such liabilities have
been by law apportioned:

And whereas under the provisions of "The Can-
terbury and Westland Debt Apportionment Act,
1868," the debts of the then Province of Canterbury
were duly apportioned between the then Province
of Canterbury and the then County of Westland in
the proportion of nine to four:

Now, know ye that the Commissioners of the
Public Debts Sinking Funds, by this their award in
writing, do determine that the sum of nineteen
thousand one hundred and eighty-five pounds nine-
teen shillings and sixpence, being part of the said
accumulated sinking fund held by them for the pay-
ment of the debentures issued under "The Lyttelton
and Christchurch Railway Loan Ordinance, 1860,"
and that the sum of fifteen thousand four hundred
and ninety pounds twelve shillings, being part of the
said accumulated sinking fund held by them for
the payment of the debentures issued under "The
Canterbury Loan Ordinance, 1862," and that the
sum of five hundred and twenty-three pounds ten
shillings and ninepence, being part of the said ac-
cumulated sinking fund held by them for the payment
of the debentures issued under the Canterbury
"Loan Ordinance, Session VII., No. 3," shall be
released; and that the sum of twenty-four thousand
three hundred and sixty-nine pounds six shillings
and twopence, being the proportion of the sinking
funds so released appertaining to the Province of
Canterbury, shall be paid over to the Provincial
Account of the Province of Canterbury; and that
the sum of ten thousand eight hundred and thirty
pounds sixteen shillings and one penny, being the
proportion of such released sinking funds appertain-
ing to the Province of Westland, shall be paid over
to the Provincial Account of the Province of West-
land, as provided by the sixth section of "The Public
Debts Sinking Funds Act Amendment Act, 1869."

As witness our hands this twentieth day of Feb-
ruary in the year one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.

JAMES EDWARD FITZGERALD, Controller.
H. A. ATKINSON, Colonial Treasurer.
CHARLES KNIGHT, Auditor-General.

Appointing Member of Te Puna Highway Board.

NORMANBY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in this behalf enabling me, I, George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby,
in accordance with the provisions of the twenty-sixth
section of "The Highways Act, 1874," of the late
Province of Auckland, appoint

JAMES ESDAILE
to be a Member of the Te Puna Highway Board.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-eighth day of Feb-
ruary, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.
D. REID.

Extending certain Parts of "The Municipal Corpora-
tions Act, 1876," to the Corporation of Oamaru.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three hundred and fifty-ninth
section of "The Municipal Corporations Act,