992

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 49

payers who did not record their votes, 25, being entitled to
exercise 39 votes; informal ballot-papers, 1.

As the number of ratepayers who voted and the number of
votes recorded in favour of the proposal are in each case a
majority of the total numbers on the roll, I therefore declare
the proposal carried.

THOMAS CARTER,
Chairman of the Wairau Road Board.
Blenheim, 11th June, 1894.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Upper Taueru Road
Board, County of Wairarapa North.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1894.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Upper Taueru Road Board, is published in accordance
with the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."

P. A. BUCKLEY:

RESULT of Poll for Proposed Loan, Upper Taueru Road
Board, County of Wairarapa North, Upper Taueru Road
District.

PROPOSAL to raise £500 for formation of a road up the
Mungaparapara Creek to Block X., Mungapakeha, upon
which a poll was taken on the 16th day of June, 1894.

Result of Poll.—Number of ratepayers on special roll, 4,
exercising 6 votes: Number of ratepayers on special roll who
voted in favour of the proposal, 3, exercising 5 votes; number
of ratepayers not voting, 1, capable of exercising 1 vote.

As a majority of the number of ratepayers voted in favour
of the proposal, and the number so voting are entitled to
more than one-half of the votes that can be exercised by the
whole number of ratepayers, I declare the above proposal
carried.

C. E. COCKBURN-HOOD,
Chairman.

Bideford, 18th June, 1894.

"The Rating Act, 1882," to be in Force in the County of
Waikouaiti.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1894.

THE following notice, received from the Clerk to the
Waikouaiti County Council, is published in accordance
with section 2 of "The Rating Acts Amendment Act, 1893."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

WAIKOUAITI COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION, That the Council of the Waikouaiti County
hereby determine that "The Rating Act, 1882," shall be in
force within the Waikouaiti County, and that all assessments
of property within the said county shall be made under the
provisions of subsection (6) of section 2 of "The Rating Act
Amendment Act, 1893," according to the rateable value of
such property as defined in section 2 of "The Rating Act,
1882."

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution
passed by the Waikouaiti County Council on the 25th
day of May, 1894.

J. SMITH,
County Clerk.

County Council Chambers,
Waikouaiti, 19th June, 1894.

Special Order made by the Manganui Road Board,
County of Stratford.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th June, 1894.

THE following special order, made by the Manganui
Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of "The Road Boards Act, 1882."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

MANGANUI ROAD BOARD.

Notice is hereby given that the following special order was
made on Saturday, 12th May, 1894, and confirmed on Monday,
18th June, 1894:—

"That, to secure the repayment of a further loan of
£79, raised under 'The Government Loans to Local Bodies
Act, 1886,' for the purpose of completing the formation
and metalling on the Beaconsfield Road from the Salisbury Road eastward, a special rate of 4d. in the pound be
made and levied over the following lands—namely, Sections 7 and 8, Block XIII., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, and 39, Block XIV.,
Huiroa Survey District. Such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-six years, and shall be payable in two
half-yearly instalments on the 1st January and the 1st July
in each year."

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly
made in accordance with "The Road Boards Act, 1882."

HENRY WATSON,
Clerk.

Midhirst, 20th June, 1894.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans, Mauriceville Road
Board, County of Wairarapa North.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1894.

THE following notices, received from the Chairman of the
Mauriceville Road Board, are published in accordance
with the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."

P. A. BUCKLEY.

MAURICEVILLE ROAD BOARD.—RESULTS OF POLLS.

THE following is the result of a poll taken on the 23rd
June, 1894, on a proposal to borrow £1,000, under "The
Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," and amendments, for the purpose of forming the Ihuraua Valley Road
from the end of the present formation at Section 10,
Block III., Kopuaranga, to the junction with Mangamahoe
Road:—

Number of ratepayers on roll, 6, representing 10 votes:
6 ratepayers, representing 10 votes, voted for the proposal.
I therefore declare the proposal carried.

CHARLES FORSBERG,
Chairman.

The following is the result of a poll taken on a proposal to
borrow £1,000, under "The Government Loans to Local
Bodies Act, 1886," for the purpose of forming Dagg's Road.
The poll was taken on the 23rd June, 1894.

Number of ratepayers on roll, 10, representing 11 votes:
3 ratepayers, representing 3 votes, voted for the proposal;
votes unrecorded, 8.

A minority of the ratepayers, exercising less than one-half
of the total number of votes, being in favour of the proposal,
I therefore declare the proposal rejected.

CHARLES FORSBERG,
Chairman.

Mauriceville, 25th June, 1894.

Gold-mining Lease cancelled.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 18th June, 1894.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor
has been pleased to pronounce the under-mentioned
gold-mining lease cancelled, and that the ground is now open
for application as if no lease of the said ground had ever
been applied for:—

Samuel Barr, for the Argus Gold-mining Company, Section 19, Block XL., Reefton Survey District, No. 1389,
16 acres 1 rood 15 perches.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Notice of the Laying off of a Road over Land in the
Wellington Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under
the authority of "The Native Land Court Act, 1886," and
its amendments, that the road described in the Schedule
hereto was, on the 23rd March, 1892, duly taken and laid
off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under
the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant
dated the 27th October, 1891.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, situated in
Block XIV., Rarote Survey District, containing by admeasurement 13 acres, more or less, being a road not less
than 100 links in width as far as the Oau Creek, and thence
not less than 200 links in width to the bank of the Wanganui River, the centre-line of which commences at a point
on the eastern boundary of Ohoutahi 1A Block marked HA
on plan hereafter mentioned, distant 1080 links from the
south-east angle of the said Ohoutahi 1A Block, and thence
proceeds generally in a north-westerly direction to a point
marked DA on plan hereafter mentioned, about 500 links
above the Oau Creek, and about 50 links from the left bank
of the Wanganui River: be all the aforesaid linkages more
or less; as the said road is more particularly delineated on
the plan marked P.W. 681, deposited in the District Lands
and Survey Office, Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured brown.

Dated this 22nd day of June, 1894.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.