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I hereby certify that the foregoing special order has been
duly passed by the Taratahi-Carterton Road Board, at a
special meeting held at the Road Board Office, Carterton, on
the 6th day of January, 1894, and has been duly confirmed
at a special meeting, held at the same place, on the 24th
day of March, 1894.
Dated the 4th day of April, 1894.
H. H. WOLTERS,
Clerk, Taratahi-Carterton Road Board.

Special Order made by the Moa Road Board, County of
Taranaki.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1894.
THE following special order, made by the Moa Road
Board, is published in accordance with the provisions
of "The Road Boards Act, 1882."
P. A. BUCKLEY.
Moa Road Board.
NOTICE is hereby given that this Board proposes to make
the following special order:-
"That, to secure the repayment of a loan of £150, raised
under 'The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,'
for the purpose of forming the Tariki Road East from the
school eastwards, a special rate of 14d. in the pound be
made and levied over the following lands, which are hereby
constituted the Tariki Road East Special Rating District:
Sections 20, 44, 45, 43, 21, 22, 19, 16, Block VI., Huiroa Survey District. Such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for
twenty-six years, and to be payable in two half-yearly instalments, on the 1st of January and 1st of July in each
year."
HARRY PETERS,
Chairman.
I hereby certify that the above special order has been
made by the Moa Road Board, in accordance with the provisions of "The Road Boards Act, 1882." Confirmed, 31st
March, 1894.
A. E. ATKINSON,
Clerk.
Special Order made by the Wairau Road Board, County of
Marlborough, adopting the Local Bodies' Loans Act.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1894.
THE following special order, made by the Wairau Road
Board, is published in accordance with the provisions
of "The Road Boards Act, 1882."
P. A. BUCKLEY.
SPECIAL ORDER made by the Wairau Road Board on the
6th day of April, 1894.
RESOLVED, That a special order is hereby made adopting
the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886," and
that the same shall be in force in the Wairau Road District
after the passing of this resolution, and shall take effect from
the date of the gazetting of this resolution.
I hereby certify that the above special order was duly
made by the Wairau Road Board, in accordance with "The
Road Boards Act, 1882."
C. J. W. GRIFFITHS,
Clerk to the Wairau Road Board.
Wairau Road Board Office,
Blenheim, 7th April, 1894.
Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Hutt County Council.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1894.
THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Hutt County Council, is published in accordance
with the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."
P. A. BUCKLEY.
COUNTY OF HUTT.-WHAREROA RIDING No. 2 LOAN.
RESULT of poll taken on the 31st day of March, 1894, on
a proposal to raise a loan of £1,550 under "The Government
Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," for the purpose of forming
and metalling that portion of the Valley Road situated
between Mr. Wise's Store and Mr. Cruickshank's gate, and
forming Amohia Street, Beach Road, and that portion of the
county road situate between Ruapehu Street and Howell's
Crossing:-
Number of ratepayers on roll, 47, representing 56 votes:
Number of ratepayers who voted in favour, nil; number of
ratepayers who voted against, 1; number of votes not recorded, 55.
As the only ratepayer who recorded his vote voted against
the proposal, I hereby declare the proposal to be rejected.
H. Cook,
Chairman.
Hutt County Council Office,
Wellington, 5th April, 1894.
Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Borough of Sumner.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1894.
THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the
Borough of Sumner, is published in accordance with
the provisions of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886."
P. A. BUCKLEY.
RESULT OF POLL FOR PROPOSED LOAN, BOROUGH OF
SUMNER.
I, JAMES TAIT, Mayor of the Borough of Sumner, in the
Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, do solemnly
declare that all proceedings required by "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1886," to be taken in or towards obtaining
the sanction of the burgesses of the said Borough of Sumner
to a proposal to borrow £1,500 by way of special loan towards
paying off existing liabilities in connection with waterworks,
and to extend the water-mains to other streets in the town,
and to the junction of the Lyttelton and Heberden Roads,
have been duly taken; and that a resolution in favour of
the proposal has been duly carried, the result of the poll,
taken on the 5th of April, 1894, being as follows:-
Number of burgesses on the roll, 173; number of votes on
the roll, 228: Votes for the proposal, 148; against the proposal, nil; number of voters, 112.
A majority in number of the burgesses, exercising more
than one-half of the total number of votes, having voted in
favour of the proposal, I declare the proposal and resolution
to be duly carried; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of
the provisions of "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."
JAMES TAIT,
Mayor.
Sumner, 9th April, 1894.
Declared at Christchurch, this 9th day of April, 1894,
before me-John Anderson, a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony of New Zealand.
Arbor Day.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1894.
WEDNESDAY, the 1st day of August next, will be
observed as a public holiday in the Government
offices throughout New Zealand, for the celebration of Arbor
Day.
P. A. BUCKLEY,
Colonial Secretary.
Resignation of Visiting Justice accepted.
Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 28th March, 1894.
HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been
pleased to accept the resignation of
JAMES ANDERSEN, Esq., J.P.,
as a Visiting Justice of Her Majesty's prison at Napier.
W. P. REEVES,
For Minister of Justice.
[This notice is in substitution for that on page 517 of the
New Zealand Gazette, No. 27, of the 5th April, 1894, which
was inserted in error.]
Notice to Mariners, No. 15 of 1894.
Marine Department,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1894.
THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the
Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, is
published for general information.
J. G. WARD.
PORT PHILLIP BAY.-SOUTH CHANNEL.
In connection with works at South Channel Fort, mariners
and others are hereby informed that on and after Monday,
the 12th day of March, 1894, no vessel, unless it be to avoid
serious consequences, shall be anchored in that part of the
South Channel which extends from No. 5 to No. 7 black
buoys.