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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 56

Special Order made by the Fitzherbert Road Board, County of Oroua.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th June, 1899.

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

J. CARROLL.

SPECIAL ORDER made by the Fitzherbert Road Board in accordance with Section 113 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” and Section 16 of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” at a Special Meeting held on Saturday, the 24th Day of June, 1899.

To raise a loan of £2,200 under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the Board’s proportion of the cost of additions and repairs to the Fitzherbert Bridge, over the Manawatu River, incurred by flood-damage. Further, for the purpose of paying interest at 5 per centum, and other annual charges, for a period of twenty-six years, on the said loan of £2,200, it is proposed to levy a special annual recurring rate of ¾d. in the pound on the rateable value of all the properties within the Fitzherbert Road District, payable at the office of the Fitzherbert Road Board in two instalments—viz., on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each year. The cost of raising the said loan, together with the first year’s interest on the same, to be paid out of loan.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order has been duly made by the Fitzherbert Road Board, as required by “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

J. STANLEY BRUCE,
Secretary, Fitzherbert Road Board.

Special Order made by the Kaikoura County Council, altering Name of Town Riding and Boundaries of Ridings.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1899.

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

J. CARROLL.

COUNTY OF KAIKOURA.
Special Order.

In pursuance of the powers conferred by “The Counties Act, 1886,” and the several Acts amending the same, the Kaikoura County Council doth hereby make this special order altering the name of the Town Riding, and altering the boundaries of the several ridings within the County of Kaikoura.

1. The ridings shall be four in number, as at present.
2. The Town Riding shall be abolished, and the enlarged riding called the Peninsula Riding.
3. The boundaries of the Peninsula Riding shall be: Commencing on the sea-beach at a point opposite to the north-east corner of Section 341; thence in a westerly direction along a public road to the north-west corner of Section 191; thence in a southerly direction along a public road to the south corner of Section 133; thence by a public road to the north-west corner of Section 196; thence by a public road to the South Bay Road, across that road, and by a right line between Reserve Sections 346 and 349; thence by the sea round the Peninsula to the starting-point. This riding to return two members, as at present.
4. The boundaries of the Suburban Riding shall be: The sea on the east from the Peninsula Riding to a point opposite the north-west corner of Section 180; thence by a public road to the Old Waimanarara River bed; thence in an easterly and northerly direction by that river-bed, along Sections 33, 32, 31, to the north-west corner of Section 30; thence in a westerly direction by a public road to the Kohai River at the north-west corner of Section 1; thence by the boundary of the Mount Fyffe Survey District down the Kohai River, and by a public road to the northern corner of Section 235; thence by a public road to the southern point of Section 212; thence by the Kohai River to the sea; thence by the sea to the boundary of the Peninsula Riding, and by the boundary of that riding to the starting-point. This riding shall return three members, as at present.
5. The boundaries of the Conway Riding shall commence from the public road between Sections 112 and 235; then up the Kohai River to the junction with Snowflake Creek; thence in a north-west direction, along the east side of Run 127 to the summit of the Seaward Kaikouras; thence along that summit to Trig. Station R; thence by a right line to the junction of the Clarence River with the Jam River; thence by the south bank of the Clarence River to the boundary of the Amuri County; thence by a right line to the Palmer Saddle; thence by the Conway River to the sea; and thence by the sea to the mouth of the Kohai River. This riding shall return two members, as at present.
6. The Clarence Riding shall include all the remaining portion of the county to the northward of the Suburban Riding, and eastward of the Conway Riding. This riding shall return two members, as at present.

This special order was made at a special meeting held on the 20th day of May, 1899, and confirmed at a subsequent special meeting held on the 17th day of June, 1899; and the common seal was fixed hereto and hereon, in pursuance of a resolution passed at such subsequent special meeting, in the presence of—

[SEAL.]
G. TAYLOR, Chairman.
JAMES DAVIDSON, Councillor.
CALEB SMITH, County Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed by the Kaikoura County Council at a special meeting held on the 17th day of June, 1899, in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

CALEB SMITH,
County Clerk.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Ngaroto Drainage Board, County of Waipa.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th June, 1899.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Ngaroto Drainage Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893.”

J. CARROLL.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposed Loan of £500 taken under “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” and “The Counties Act, 1886.”

At a poll of the ratepayers of the Ngaroto Drainage District, taken on Saturday, the 25th day of February, 1899, upon a proposal to raise £500 by way of special loan under the provisions of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of making, clearing, and altering drains, and making necessary works in connection therewith, and to lower the lakes and drain the lands in the Ngaroto Drainage District, the following votes were recorded:—

Number of ratepayers on the roll, 40; number of votes exercisable, 46: Number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal, 24; number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 28; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 1.

As the number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal represent more than one-half of the total number of ratepayers, and more than three-fifths of the rateable value of the rateable property in the drainage district, I declare the resolution carried.

THOMAS FRY,
Chairman, Ngaroto Drainage Board.

Office Ngaroto Drainage Board,
Te Awamutu.

In the matter of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” and of “The Counties Act, 1886”; and of the proposal of the Ngaroto Drainage Board to raise £500 by way of special loan under the provisions of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886.”

I, Dudley Bockett, of Te Awamutu, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in New Zealand, clerk to the Ngaroto Drainage Board, do solemnly and sincerely declare that the proceedings required by “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” and “The Counties Act, 1886,” to be taken towards obtaining the sanction of the ratepayers to the proposal of the said Board to raise £500 by way of special loan have been duly taken, and the resolution in favour of the proposal has been duly carried by the majority required by law; 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.”

DUDLEY BOCKETT.

Declared at Te Awamutu, this 23rd day of June, 1899, before me—Richard Bosanko, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 3rd September, 1898.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1900, the period of literature will be from 1744 to 1800, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s “Julius Cæsar” and Thackeray’s “Esmond.”

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.