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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

posal have been duly taken, and that the resolution in
favour of the proposal has been duly carried. And I make
this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same
to be true, and under and by virtue of “The Justices of the
Peace Act, 1882.”

R. CLEMENT KIRK.

Declared at Wellington, this 22nd day of December, 1898,
before me—Charles Wilson, a Justice of the Peace in and
for the Colony of New Zealand.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Wirokino Road District,
Horowhenua County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1898.

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

T. THOMPSON,
For Colonial Secretary.

WIROKINO ROAD DISTRICT.

RESULT of poll of ratepayers of the Otaru Special Rating
District, taken on the 8th day of December, 1898, upon the
proposal to raise a loan of £150, under “The Government
Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of con-
structing the road fronting the said special district:—

Number of ratepayers on roll, 5; number of votes, 6:
Number of ratepayers in favour, 4; number of votes in
favour, 5; number of ratepayers against, 1; number of
votes against, 1; majority of ratepayers in favour, 3; ma-
jority of votes in favour, 4.

A majority of ratepayers, exercising a majority of votes,
having voted for the proposal, I hereby declare the same to
be carried.

JOHN DAVIES,
Chairman, Wirokino Road Board, Levin.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Wairoa Harbour Board.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1898.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Wairoa Harbour Board, is published in accordance
with the provisions of “The Wairoa Harbour Board Em-
powering and Loan Act, 1898,” and “The Local Bodies’
Loans Act, 1886.”

T. THOMPSON,
For Colonial Secretary.

WAIROA HARBOUR BOARD.

Wairoa, 20th December, 1898.

In the matter of “The Wairoa Harbour Board Empowering
and Loan Act, 1898.”

To the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

I, JOSEPH CORKILL, Chairman of the Wairoa Harbour Board,
in the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, pursuant to the
provisions of “The Wairoa Harbour Board Empowering
and Loan Act, 1898,” and of “The Regulation of Local
Elections Act, 1876,” give you notice that on the 15th day
of December, 1898, a poll was taken under the said Acts on
a proposal of the said Harbour Board to borrow the sum of
£5,000 by way of special loan under the provisions of the
said Wairoa Harbour Board Empowering and Loan Act.

The following is a copy of the proposal:—

Wairoa Harbour Rating District.

Under the provisions of “The Wairoa Harbour Board
Empowering and Loan Act, 1898,” it is hereby notified for
public information that it is the intention of the Wairoa
Harbour Board to undertake the following public works:
viz., to construct 135 chains of training-walls with fascines
in the direction of the outlet of the Wairoa River, com-
mencing about one mile from the mouth of the said river,
together with contingent works, and expenses necessary for
the effectiveness of the same; that it is proposed to borrow
a sum not exceeding £5,000 for the above-mentioned purpose,
in accordance with sections 4 and 5 of the said “Wairoa
Harbour Board Empowering and Loan Act, 1898”; that a
special rate of 3/8d. in the pound is proposed to be pledged
as security for the said loan, leviable on all the rateable
property in the Wairoa Harbour Rating District, exclusive
of Crown and Native lands.

JOSEPH CORKILL,
Chairman, Wairoa Harbour Board.

Clyde, 8th December, 1898.

And I also give you notice that the number of votes re-
corded upon the taking of the said poll for and against the
said proposal were as follows:—

For the proposal, 270 votes; against the proposal, 5 votes:
majority for the proposal, 265 votes.

And, it being provided by the last above-mentioned
Act that the said proposal was to be deemed carried if a
majority of three-fifths of the votes given on the taking of
the said poll should be in favour of the said proposal, I
hereby further give you notice that the said proposal of the
Wairoa Harbour Board was duly carried upon the taking of
the said poll.

Dated this 16th day of December, 1898.

JOSEPH CORKILL,
Chairman of the Wairoa Harbour Board.

Declaration.

In the matter of a special loan for the construction of
certain works—to wit, training-walls and contingent works in
the direction of the outlet of the Wairoa River—and a pro-
posal of the Wairoa Harbour Board to borrow the sum of
£5,000 for such purpose under the provisions of “The
Wairoa Harbour Board Empowering and Loan Act, 1898,”
I, Joseph Corkill, of Clyde, Wairoa, in the Colony of New
Zealand, Chairman of the said Board, do solemnly and sin-
cerely declare as follows:—

1. That all proceedings as required by the above-named
   Act to be taken towards obtaining the sanction of the rate-
   payers in the Wairoa Harbour Rating District to a proposal
   of the said Wairoa Harbour Board to raise the sum of
   £5,000 by way of a special loan under the provisions of the
   said Act have been duly taken.

2. That upon a poll of the said ratepayers, taken on the
   said proposal on the 15th day of December, 1898, the said
   proposal was duly carried within the meaning of the above-
   named Act.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously be-
lieving 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.”

JOSEPH CORKILL,
Chairman, Wairoa Harbour Board.

Declared at Wairoa, this 20th day of December, 1898,
before me—J. W. Sargisson, J.P., Auctioneer, Wairoa.

Special Order made by the Porangahau Road Board, County
of Patangata.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1899.

THE following special order, made by the Porangahau
Road Board, is published in accordance with the pro-
visions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

T. THOMPSON,
For Colonial Secretary.

PORANGAHAU ROAD BOARD.—SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT, to secure the repayment of principal and interest for
a loan of £3,000, to be borrowed by the Porangahau Road
Board, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans
Act, 1886,” and amendments thereto, for the purpose of
carrying out certain road- and bridge-works on the Poranga-
hau—Wimbledon—Wainui (or Herbertville) Road, a special
rate of 1/4d. in the pound be levied on all rateable property
within the Porangahau Road District, the said rate to be an
annually recurring rate for a period of twenty-six years,
and to be payable in one sum on the 31st day of January in
each year.

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

GEORGE HUNTER,
Chairman.

Porangahau, 30th December, 1898.

Notice under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act Amendment
Act, 1896.”

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 4th January, 1899.

IN exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon me
by “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act Amendment
Act, 1896,” and in accordance with a requisition signed by
a three-fifths majority of the shopkeepers in the Borough
of Winton, I, Thomas Thompson, Minister of Justice,
acting for and on behalf of the Right Hon. the Minister
of Labour, hereby intimate that the Gazette notice of 25th
June, 1896, relating to the closing of shops in the Borough
of Winton at 9 of the clock on the evening of Saturday in
each week is hereby revoked.

T. THOMPSON,
For Minister of Labour.