Dec. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1943

Adjutant: Captain John Paton Watt, Wanganui Rifle
Volunteers.
Surgeon-Major: Surgeon-Captain Sydney Skerman,
General Medical List, New Zealand Volunteers.
Honorary Chaplain: The Very Rev. De Berdt Hovell,
Napier Rifle Volunteers.
Commissions to date from the 7th November, 1895.
R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officers removed from Unattached List.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 10th December, 1895.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the under-mentioned officers being removed
(as from the 8th October, 1895) from the Unattached Active
List, New Zealand Volunteers, they having been appointed to
the staff of the Canterbury and Otago Battalions of Infantry
Volunteers respectively, viz. :
Major (now Lieut.-Colonel) John Bartholomew Callan,
Otago Battalion.
Major (now Lieut.-Colonel) Frederick Wyatt Francis,
Canterbury Battalion.
Major Alfred Headland, Otago Battalion.
Captain and Adjutant William Deans Milne, Otago
Battalion.
Quartermaster John McIndoe, Otago Battalion.
R. J. SEDDON.

Special Order made by the Taratahi-Carterton Road Board,
County of Wairarapa South.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th December, 1895.
THE following special order, made by the Taratahi-
Carterton Road Board, is published in accordance
with the provisions of " The Road Boards Act, 1882."
JOHN McKENZIE,
For Colonial Secretary.

SPECIAL ORDER PASSED BY THE TARATAHI-CARTERTON ROAD
BOARD.
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and charges
on a loan of £400, to be raised under the provisions of " The
Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," for the pur-
pose of defraying a portion of the cost of erecting a cart-
traffic bridge over the Waiohine River at Matarawa (the
total cost thereof being estimated at £1,600), this Board now
levy a special rate of ½d. in the pound, annually recurring
for twenty-six years, over the rateable properties within the
Matarawa Bridge Special Rating District hereinafter defined ;
and, further, that such special rate shall be payable in two
equal instalments, on the 1st day of December and June in
each year, for twenty-six years.
All that area of land, being part of No. 5 Subdivision of
the Taratahi-Carterton Road District, bounded towards the
north and west by Sections 246 and 270, Block X., Sections
234 and 235, and by Subdivisional Allotment No. IX. of Sec-
tion 236, Block IX., Sections 352, 353, and 351, Block V.,
all in the Tiffin Survey District, and by a straight line from
the westernmost corner of said Section 351 to the summit of
Mount Waiohine; thence by a straight line running due
west to the Waiohine River; and thence towards the west,
south, and east by the Waiohine River, down stream to the
north-eastern corner of said Section 232, Block X., Tiffin
Survey District.
I certify that the foregoing special order was duly passed
by the Taratahi-Carterton Road Board on the 21st day of
September, 1895, and duly confirmed on the 2nd day of
November, 1895.
H. H. Wolters,
Clerk to Board.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Stratford County Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1895.
THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Stratford County Council, is published in accord-
ance with the provisions of " The Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1886."
JOHN McKENZIE,
For Colonial Secretary.

STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.
Result of poll taken on the 29th day of November, 1895,
upon the proposal to borrow £130, under " The Government
Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886," to form, grade, culvert,
and metal the Hastings Road from its junction with the
Finnerty Road to a point midway between that point and
the south-eastern corner of Section 27, Block VIII., Kaupo-
konui Survey District:

Number of ratepayers on special roll, 1; number of votes
exercisable, 2: Number of ratepayers voting in favour of the
proposal, 1; number of votes recorded in favour of the pro-
posal, 2; number of ratepayers voting against the proposal,
nil.
I declare the above proposal to be carried.
Wm. MonkhousE,
Chairman.
Dated at Stratford, 6th December, 1895.

Special Order made by the Otaki Road Board, County of
Horowhenua.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1895.
THE following special order, made by the Otaki Road
Board, is published in accordance with the provisions
of " The Road Boards Act, 1882."
JOHN McKENZIE,
For Colonial Secretary.

OTAKI ROAD BOARD.
Special District No. 5, comprising Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
9, and 10 of Sections 2 and 3, Awahohonu 3a; and 53
acres 3 roods 15 perches of Section 5a of Pukehou 5L,
Block IX., Waitohu Survey District.
Special order confirmed by the Otaki Road Board at a
special meeting held on the 14th December, 1895 :
" That this Board do now confirm the special order
striking a special rate of 1d. in the pound on the rate-
able value of all rateable properties comprised in the
Special District No. 5 of the Otaki Road District, as made
and defined by special order confirmed on the 7th Sep-
tember, 1895, exclusive of Crown and Native lands within
the meaning of ' The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act,
1882'—such rate to be an annually-recurring rate for twenty-
six years—to provide for interest on the loan of £100 in the
Special District No. 5, under ' The Government Loans to
Local Bodies Act, 1886 '; said rate to be payable in two
instalments, on the 1st June and the 1st day of December
in each and every succeeding year: and that the rate be now
struck."
I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was duly
made on the above date, as required by " The Road Boards
Act, 1882."
H. F. Eagar,
Clerk.
Otaki, 16th December, 1895.

Result of Polls for Proposed Loans, Pohangina County Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1895.
THE following notices, received from the Chairman of the
Pohangina County Council, are published in accordance
with the provisions of " The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1886."
JOHN McKENZIE,
For Colonial Secretary.

POHANGINA COUNTY COUNCIL.
Following is the result of the poll of ratepayers on proposal
to borrow £120, under " The Government Loans to Local
Bodies Act, 1886," for construction of 26 chains of Main
Cross Road in the Mangapiko and Coal Creek Ridings :
Ratepayers on roll, 2, representing 2 votes: Votes recorded
for proposal, 2; number of ratepayers voting, 2.
As a majority in number of the 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 proposal to be
carried.
H. Dickin,
Chairman.
Pohangina, 10th December, 1895.
Following is the result of the poll of ratepayers on pro-
posal to borrow £1,500, under " The Government Loans to
Local Bodies Act, 1886," for construction of 240 chains of
Upper Cross Road (known as Table Flat Road) in the Manga-
pikopiko Riding of Pohangina County :
Ratepayers on roll, 9, representing 9 votes: Votes recorded
for proposal, 8; number of ratepayers voting, 8; votes re-
corded against proposal, 0; ratepayers voting against pro-
posal, 0.
As a majority in number of the 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 proposal to be
carried.
H. Dickin,
Chairman.
Pohangina, 10th December, 1895.