APRIL 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 661

In the matter of “The Wellington City Empowering Act, 1897,” and of Part IX. of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886.”

I, John Rutherford Blair, of Wellington Terrace, in the City of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, Mayor of the said city, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

1. That all the proceedings which, by the joint operation of the above-named Acts, were required to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the citizens of the said City of Wellington to a proposal of the Council of the said city to raise by way of special loan, under the provisions of the said Acts, the sum of £15,000, being part of the amount mentioned in section 4 of “The Wellington City Empowering Act, 1897,” which proposal is set out in the voting-paper hereunto annexed and marked with the letter A, have been duly taken.

2. That, upon a poll of the said citizens taken on the said proposal on the 11th day of March, 1898, the said proposal was duly carried within the meaning of the above-named Acts (read together).

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

J. R. BLAIR,
Mayor.

Declared at the City of Wellington, this 18th day of April, 1898, before me—T. F. Martin, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

A.

FORM OF VOTING-PAPER FOR SPECIAL LOANS.

Proposal to raise a Special Loan upon which a Poll will be taken upon the 11th Day of March, 1898.

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.—PROPOSED SPECIAL LOAN.

In the matter of “The Wellington City Empowering Act, 1897,” and Part IX. of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886.”

I hereby give notice that the Council of the City of Wellington proposes to borrow the sum of £15,000 by way of special loan, under the provisions of the above-named Acts, such sum to be appropriated to the purposes following, the sum set opposite each of the following eight items to be appropriated exclusively to the purposes described in such item:—

£

1. For providing four new cells to the Destructor 2,000
2. For providing public baths at Te Aro .. 2,000
3. For erecting a fire-brigade station at Cuba Street Extension .. .. .. 3,000
4. For providing a fire-brigade station at Newtown .. .. .. .. .. 1,000
5. For constructing new storm-water culverts in Grey Street, Hunter Street, and Reclaimed Land .. .. .. .. .. 2,000
6. For lowering and widening Adelaide Road, south of Luxford Street.. .. .. 1,500
7. For widening and improving Clyde Quay and Esplanade at Oriental Bay .. .. 2,000
8. For completing Thorndon Quay to its full width .. .. .. .. .. 1,500

J. E. PAGE,
Town Clerk.

28th January, 1898.

1. I vote for the above proposal.
2. I vote against the above proposal.

N.B.—The voter must erase the line marked 2 if he wishes to vote for the proposal, and line 1 if he wishes to vote against it.

This is the voting-paper, marked A, referred to in the annexed declaration of John Rutherford Blair declared before me this 18th day of April, 1898.

T. F. MARTIN,
A Solicitor, &c.

Special Order made by the Wairarapa North County Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1898.

THE following special order, made by the Wairarapa North County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

WM. HALL-JONES.

SPECIAL ORDER made by the Council of the County of Wairarapa North, altering the Boundaries of the Akitio, Castlepoint, Masterton, and Upper Taueru Road Districts, and the Alfredton Outlying District.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf, the Council of the County of Wairarapa North doth hereby make the following special order:—

Akitio Road District.

That the boundaries of the Akitio Road District be and the same are hereby amended in the following manner, that is to say: Commencing from a point on the Puketoi Range where the eastern boundary of the Pahiatua County joins the boundary of the Wellington Provincial District, in Block XII., Mount Cerberus; thence eastwards bounded by the boundary of the said provincial district to the mouth of the Waimata River; thence by the sea to the south-east corner of Section 724, in Block VIII., Castlepoint Survey District; thence by the south-west boundaries of Sections 724, 723, and 722, Block VIII., Castlepoint Survey District, by the south boundaries of Sections 721 and 720, Block V., Castlepoint Survey District, and of Sections 719 and 718, Block IV., Castlepoint, to the south-west corner of the said Section 718, on the Tinui River; thence by the Tinui River to the westernmost corner of Section 471, in Block I., Castlepoint; thence by the north-western and western boundaries of Sections 471, 472, and 473, Block I., Castlepoint, 474, 475, 476, 477, Block XIII., Aohanga, to the westernmost corner of Section 477 aforesaid, on the Pakowai River; thence by that river to its intersection by the north boundary of Section 819, Block XIII., Aohanga; thence by the said north boundary of Section 819 and by the west boundaries of Section 817, Block IX., Aohanga, to the north-east corner of Section 21, Block XII., Puketoi; thence by a public road and the crossing of the said road to the south-west corner of Section 221, Block XII., Puketoi; and thence by the west boundary of the said Section 221 to its intersection by the south boundary of Section 16, Block XII., Puketoi; thence by the south and west boundaries of the said Section 16, and by the west boundary of Section 1 of Block VIII., Puketoi, and the crossing of the Waihoki Valley Road; thence by that road to the south-west corner of Section 4, Block V., Aohanga; thence by the western boundary of the said Section 4, by the southern boundary of Sections 28 and 29, Block V., Aohanga, by part of the west boundary of Section 29 aforesaid, to the south corner of Section 7, Block VIII., Puketoi; thence by the south-west boundary of the said Section 7 and the crossing of the Alfredton-Weber Road; thence by that road to the south-west corner of Section 28, Block IV., Puketoi, by the south-west boundaries of the said Section 28, by the south boundaries of Sections 29 and 7, Block IV., Puketoi, by the south-west boundaries of Sections 6, 5, 4, and 3 of Block IV., Puketoi, to the Hutewai Road, by the crossing of that road, and by the south-west boundaries of Sections 25 and 28, by the north-east boundary of Section 23, all of Block III., Puketoi; and thence by traverse lines along the watershed to Peg VIII. on the top of the Puketoi Range, being on the boundary of the Pahiatua County; and thence by the Pahiatua County to the point of commencement.

Castlepoint Road District.

That the boundaries of the Castlepoint Road District be and the same are hereby amended in the following manner, that is to say: Commencing from the north-west corner of Section 19, Block XII., Puketoi, and proceeding eastwards; bounded thence by a public road to the boundary of the Akitio Road District as hereinbefore described; thence by the said boundary of the Akitio Road District to the sea; thence by the sea to the mouth of the Whareama River; thence by that river to the confluence of the Mangapokia River; thence by that river to the south-east corner of Section 240, Block III., Rewa Survey District, by the eastern boundaries of the said Section 240 and of Section 260, by the northern boundaries of Section 260, part of the eastern boundary of Section 262 and northern boundary of Section 261, all in Block III., Rewa Survey District; thence by the southern boundaries of Sections 266, 267, 268 in Block II., Rewa, of Section 729 and part of the southern boundary of Section 725, in Block XIV., Mangapakeha, by the eastern and part of the south-western boundary of Section 616, and the southern boundaries of Sections 519 and 518, all in Block XIII., Mangapakeha, by part of the north-western boundary of the said Section 518, the western and part of the northern boundary of Section 867 in Block XIII., Mangapakeha, by the western and northern boundaries of part 2 of Section 874 in Block X., Mangapakeha, by the eastern boundary of part 1 of Section 874, the crossing of the Mangapakeha Road, by that road, by the eastern boundary of Section 875, by part of the northern boundary of Section 875, the north-eastern boundary of Section 872, all in Block X., Mangapakeha, by part of the south-eastern and the north-eastern boundaries of Section 293, the north-eastern boundary of Section 292, the eastern boundaries of Sections 789, 788, 787, and 150, all in Block VI., Mangapakeha, and of Sections 151, 152, 147, 146, 145, and 157, all in Block II., Mangapakeha; thence by the northern boundary of the said Section 157 and its production to the centre of the Taueru River, by the centre of that river to a point where it is cut by the production of the north-western boundary of Section 175 in Block XV., Pu-