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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

Result of Requisition for Proposed Loan, Lower Wairau River District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th June, 1898.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Lower Wairau River Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

J. CARROLL.

LOWER WAIRAU RIVER BOARD.

Notice is hereby given that the following is the true statement of a requisition, in accordance with section 21, “Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” from the ratepayers of Sections 1 to 29, inclusive, of Wairau West, for the purpose of raising a loan of £1,000, to be spent in completing the Opawa Relief Channel, that a special rate be levied on their properties, comprised in the lands being Sections 1 to 29, inclusive, Wairau West:—

Number of ratepayers on roll, 19; value of whose property is £31,900: Number of ratepayers consenting to special rate, 15, whose property is valued at £25,350; number of ratepayers refusing to consent, 4, whose property is valued at £6,550.

As the number of ratepayers consenting to such special rate are three-fourths of the whole ratepayers, and the rateable properties are collectively greater than the value of the properties of those who do not consent, I hereby declare the special rate above mentioned to be duly authorised by the ratepayers in the part of the district above mentioned.

WILLIAM CARR,
Chairman.

Dated 9th June, 1898.

Special Orders made by the Waimate Road Board, County of Hawera.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th June, 1898.

THE following special orders, made by the Waimate Road Board, are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

J. CARROLL.

WAIMATE ROAD BOARD.

SPECIAL orders re 10 per cent. additional loans to original Upper Rowan Road £500, and Opunake Road £350 loans:—

“That, to secure repayment of a loan of £50, and interest thereon, being an additional advance of 10 per cent. on the Upper Rowan Road £500 loan, raised under ‘The Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,’ and its amendments, for the purpose of forming and metalling the unmetalled portions of the Upper Rowan Road, from the Eltham Road northwards to the Stratford County boundary, a special annual-recurring rate of 7/3d. in the pound be made and levied for a period of twenty-six years over the Upper Rowan Road Special Rating-area, comprising the following sections: viz., 79, 81, 83, the northern portion of 88 (73 acres 2 roods 35 perches), Block X., 80, 82, 85, and the northern portion of 88 (50 acres), Block XI., all in the Kaupokonui Survey District. Such rate to be payable, if required, in one instalment, on the 1st day of January in each year of the aforesaid period.”

“That, to secure repayment of a loan of £35, and interest thereon, being an additional advance of 10 per cent. on the Opunake Road £350 loan, raised under ‘The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,’ and its amendments, for the purpose of forming and metalling the Opunake Road from the Auroa Road eastwards, as far as the loan-moneys will permit, a special annual-recurring rate of 4d. in the pound be made and levied for a period of twenty-six years over the Opunake Road Special Rating-area, comprising the following sections: viz., 29 to 42, 44, the southern portion of Section 45 (13 acres and 12 perches), the southern portion of Section 46 (25 acres and 2 perches), 47, 48, 49, the northern portion of Section 50 (25 acres), the northern portion of Section 51 (25 acres and 2 perches), 52, 53, 54, and the northern portion of Section 55 (17 acres 1 rood), Block X., Kaupokonui Survey District. Such rate to be payable, if required, in one instalment, on the 1st day of January in each year of the aforesaid period.”

I certify that the above special orders were duly made in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

JAMES C. DATSON,
Clerk, Waimate Road Board, Manaia.

8th June, 1898.

Special Order made by the Eketahuna Road Board, County of Wairarapa North.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th June, 1898.

THE following special order, made by the Eketahuna Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and is in substitution of that published in page 942 of Gazette No. 42, of the 2nd instant.

J. CARROLL.

SPECIAL ORDER.

Notice is hereby given that the following special order was made on Saturday, the 5th March, 1898, and confirmed on Saturday, the 7th May, 1898:—

“That, for the purpose of securing payment of £800 borrowed by this Board under ‘The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,’ for the purpose of metalling Pukohai Road, a special rate of 2½d. in the pound be made and levied on the rateable value for the time being of the following properties: namely, Sections 12, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, Block I., Mangaone; Sections 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, Block XIII., Mangahao; and Section 2, Block IV., Tararua. Such rate shall 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.”

T. T. YOULE,
Treasurer, Eketahuna Road Board.

Road Board Office, Eketahuna, 10th June, 1898.

Special Order made by the Mangonui County Council, merging the Oruaiti Road District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th June, 1898.

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

W. C. WALKER.

SPECIAL ORDER.

That the petition of the ratepayers of the Oruaiti Road District be granted, and that the Oruaiti Road District be merged in the County of Mangonui by special order, to take effect on the 6th day of July, 1898.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made according to law.

ROBT. M. HOUSTON,
County Chairman.

W. J. HARRIS,
County Clerk.

Mangonui, 4th June, 1898.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st October, 1897.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1899, the period of literature will be the reign of Queen Anne, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s “King Henry V.” and Lamb’s “Essays of Elia.”

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

By-laws regulating Traffic on the Kimbolton-Mangawharariki Road.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 130 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and every Act amending the same, I, John McKenzie, Minister of Lands, do, in respect of the Government road known as the Kimbolton–Mangawharariki Road, extending from the junction of Kimbolton Road, near Rangiwahia, to Mangaweka Township on the Mangawharariki Road, hereby make the following by-laws:—

1. The use of bullocks as traction animals on the said road is prohibited for the period from 1st May to 1st November in any year.

2. The haulage or transportation on the said road of any engine or machine coming under the definition of “heavy traffic” within the meaning of clause (a) of subsection (1) of section 130 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” during the months of May, June, July, August, and September in any year shall cease.