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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 75

Number of ratepayers on special roll 61, representing 62 votes; number of votes recorded for the proposal, 22; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 1; number of votes not recorded, 39.
I hereby declare the proposal lost.
GEO. CAPPER, Chairman.
HENRY WATSON, Clerk.

MANGANUI ROAD BOARD.
RESULT of poll of ratepayers of the Ratapiko Special Rating District, taken on the 12th day of September, 1892, upon the following proposal:—
To form, bridge, and culvert the Ratapiko Road from the Mana Road (corner of Sections 55 and 56, Block VI., Huiroa) to Section 8, Block XI., Huiroa. To raise for such purpose a loan of £350 under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886.” To lay aside all deferred-payment and perpetual-lease revenue towards a fund to provide the annual charges on the loan. To strike, as security, a special rate of 5d. in the pound over the district hereinafter described. To constitute the Ratapiko Special Rating District, to comprise the following lands, namely, Sections 1, 2, 8, Block XI., and Sections 23, 24, 27, Block X., Huiroa Survey District.
Number of ratepayers on special roll 6, representing 1 vote each; number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal, 4.
I hereby declare the proposal duly carried.
GEO. CAPPER, Chairman.

Special Order made by the Manawatu Road Board, County of Oroua.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th September, 1892.
THE following special order, made by the Manawatu Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDER.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Manawatu Road Board did, on Tuesday, the 13th September, 1892, make the following special order for the purpose of providing interest and other annual charges on a loan of £130, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” to clear, form, and metal the No. 4 Line, Kairanga District, commencing at the Longburn–Aorangi Road, and continuing to the north-east corner of Section No. 1540: That a special rate of five-sixteenths of a penny in the pound is hereby made on the rateable values of the following properties, namely, Sections Nos. 1540, 1542, 1543, 1544, 1545, 1546, 1547, and 1551, Blocks V. and IV., Kairanga District; such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years, and shall be payable at the office of the Board in Palmerston North, in two equal instalments, on the 1st February and the 1st August in each year. The costs of raising the above loan to be paid out of the loan.
WALTER RUTHERFURD,
Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made by the Manawatu Road Board at a meeting held on the 13th September, 1892.
WALTER RUTHERFURD,
Clerk.

Palmerston North, 22nd September, 1892.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1892.
THE following notices of elections of Members of Road Boards, having been received at this office, are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Maunu Road District, County of Whangarei :
Gilbert Hawken.
Harry Hawken.
Moses McKinley.
Thomas H. Nobes.
Henry Taylor.

Whareora Road District, County of Whangarei :
John Donaldson.
Samuel Dent.
Finlayson Smith.
Robert McLeod.
Frederick Wyatt.

Omaha Road District, County of Rodney :
William Lane.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, County of Hawera.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1892.
THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Hawera County Council, is published in accordance with “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”
P. A. BUCKLEY.

HAWERA COUNTY COUNCIL.—Loan of £800 for felling, forming, and bridging Portions of the Morea and Mataima-roke Roads, in Eltham Riding.
NOTICE is hereby given that the poll of ratepayers taken on the 21st instant resulted as follows:—
Number of voters on roll, 7; number of votes exercisable, 11; number of voters for proposal, 6; number of votes exercised, 10.
I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.
S. FORSYTH,
Chairman.

Hawera, 22nd September, 1892.

Notice to Mariners, No. 28 of 1892.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 21st September, 1892.
THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, and the Marine Board, Hobart, Tasmania, are published for general information.
R. J. SEDDON.

MORETON BAY.—LEADING-LIGHTS, NORTH CHANNEL.
NOTICE is hereby given that, on and after the 13th September, 1892, the light at Tangaluma will be removed to a point N. ¼ E. 1,400ft. from its present position. Its elevation above high water will be 277ft. The southern edge of the white sector from the Yellow Patch Light has been altered to bear E. by S. instead of E. ¾ S., as hitherto.
Directions: Vessels entering will proceed as usual until Tangaluma and Cowan Cowan Lights are in line. Steer with them in line, bearing S. 17° E. until the southern limit of the white sector from the Yellow Patch Light is reached, when haul to the eastward of the line of lights a distance equal to the difference of their heights, and proceed in with the lights in that position. By so doing a depth of not less than 21ft. at low-water springs will be carried.
T. M. ALMOND,
Portmaster.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Brisbane, 1st September, 1892.

ALTERATION TO LEADING-LIGHTS AT MACQUARIE HEADS, WEST COAST, TASMANIA.
NOTICE is hereby given that, on and after the 1st day of October next a red sector of 35° (from S. 16° E. to S. 51° E.) will be exhibited from the white light shown from the tower on Entrance Island. Likewise that a wire cable has been stretched from Bushy Island (Cap and Bonnet) to the mainland for the use of the station; therefore in future there will be no passage for vessels on the south-west side of these islets.
THOS. M. FISHER,
Master Warden.

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.