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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

(1.) To grade, form, and improve the Toetoe Road. (2.) To borrow for such purpose the sum of £260 under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886.” (3.) To lay aside all deferred-payment and perpetual-lease revenue towards a fund to provide the annual charges on the loan. (4.) To strike as security a special rate of 2d. in the pound on all rateable value within the district hereinafter described. (5.) To constitute the Toetoe Special Rating District, to comprise the following lands: Section 1, Block XV., Waitara Survey District, and Sections 8, 9, 10, Block III., Huiroa Survey District.

Number of ratepayers on special roll 3, representing 1 vote each; number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal, 3.

I hereby declare the proposal duly carried.

T. W. CORBETT,
Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Clyde Water-race District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1892.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Vincent County Council, is published in accordance with “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

CLYDE WATER-RACE DISTRICT.

I HEREBY give notice of the result of a poll of the ratepayers of the Clyde Water-race District, taken on Saturday, the 6th August, 1892, upon a proposal to borrow £800, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of purchasing the race known as Holt’s Water-race and for supplying said district with water.

Number of ratepayers on roll, 37; number of votes capable of being recorded, 38; number of ratepayers who recorded votes in favour of proposal, 31; number of votes recorded for proposal, 32; number of ratepayers who recorded votes against proposal, nil.

I hereby declare the above proposal to be carried.

W. FRASER,
Chairman.

Clyde, 10th August, 1892.

Special Order made by the Ekatahuna Road Board, County of Wairarapa North.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1892.

THE following special order, made by the Ekatahuna Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT, for the purpose of securing payment of the sum of £50, borrowed by the Board under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of formation on the Makakahi Road North, a special rate of nine-sixteenths of a penny in the pound be made and levied on the following Sections: 7, 8A, 9, 14A, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, and 31, Block II., Mangaone Survey District. Such rate shall be an annually-recurring rate, and shall be paid, in two half-yearly instalments for twenty-six years, on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each year until the debt shall be liquidated.

I hereby certify that the above special order was made by the Ekatahuna Road Board on the 13th day of August, 1892, as required by the Road Boards Act.

W. BAYLISS,
Clerk to the Ekatahuna Road Board.

Ekatahuna, 15th August, 1892.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th August, 1892.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Notice to Mariners.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 16th August, 1892.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Assistant Colonial Secretary, Fiji, is published for general information.

JOHN BALLANCE,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

BILL OF HEALTH.

IT is hereby notified that all vessels clearing from Australasian ports for the Colony of Fiji should be provided with a bill of health.

This necessity has recently been overlooked by sailing-vessels; and it is now notified that bills of health are invariably demanded, and that their non-production may involve the detention of vessels in quarantine isolation.

By command.

JAMES STEWART,
Assistant Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Suva, 3rd June, 1892.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Pig-iron from Ironsand or Iron-ore.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of pig-iron of marketable quality manufactured in the colony after this date from magnetic or titaniferous ironsand or iron-ore, all material, fuel, and fluxes being the produce of New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March, 1893.

2. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as each lot of 50 tons of iron is manufactured, on the certificate of an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the iron is of good marketable quality.

3. In the event of more than one person manufacturing the required quality of pig-iron before the date named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided; but in no case shall the total amount of money paid by way of bonus exceed £500.

4. The iron in respect of which any bonus is claimed and the ironsand or ore from which it is manufactured will be examined by the officer aforesaid, who may require proof that not only the ore, but that the lime, coal, and any other material used in the manufacture, is of genuine New Zealand production, and that sales of pig-iron have been made at fair market prices.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Salt.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of salt, exclusively either by evaporation of salt-water or from rock mined in the colony, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March, 1893.

2. Not more than £250 will be paid for salt manufactured in the North Island, and not more than £250 for salt manufactured in the South Island.

3. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as each lot of 50 tons of salt is manufactured, on the certificate of an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the salt is of good marketable quality.

4. In the event of more than one person manufacturing the stated quantity of salt in the North or South Islands respectively before the 31st March, 1893, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus in either the North Island or the South Island, the amount will be divided, but in no case shall more than £250 be paid for salt manufactured in the North Island and £250 for salt manufactured in the South Island.

5. The salt in respect of which any bonus is claimed and the material used in its manufacture will be examined by the officer aforesaid, who may require proof that the salt is of genuine New Zealand production, and that sales have been made at fair market prices.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.