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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 104.

Special Order made by the Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board, County of Patea.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th December, 1900.

THE following special order, made by the Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

WAITOTARA-MOMOHAKI ROAD BOARD.
Special Order.

THAT a special order be now made forming a special rating district to be called the Puao Special Rating District, and that to secure the repayment and interest on a loan of £650, to be raised under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and its amendments, a special rate of 1½d. in the pound be levied on all the rateable property in the Puao Special Rating District, which is hereby constituted to include the following lands—viz., Sections 2, 3, Block XIII., Momohaki Survey District; Section 4, Block I., Nukumaru Survey District; and the Puao Reserve Block I., Nukumaru Survey District—such rate to be an annual-recurring rate for a period of twenty-six years, and to be payable in two equal instalments on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each year.

That the purpose for which such loan shall be used be as follows:—

1. The converting of the present bridle-track known as the Puao Track into a dray-road from the end of the present dray-road at the boundary of the University Reserve to the Waitotara River.
2. That the cost of raising the loan, engineering expenses, and the first year’s interest during construction, be paid out of loan.
3. That any surplus remaining be used in extending the dray-road towards the south-eastern corner of Section 3, Block XIII., Momohaki Survey District; and that the above work shall include all necessary bridges and culverts.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was made in accordance with section 76 of “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” by the Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board, at a meeting held on the 10th day of November, 1900, and confirmed at a special meeting of the Board held on the 15th day of December, 1900.

WILL. B. FISHER,
Chairman, Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board.

Notice to Mariners No. 55 of 1900.

BEACONS FOR ENTERING WAIKATO RIVER.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th December, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that Captain Bollons, of the Government s.s. “Hinemoa,” reports that he has re-erected the leading-beacons situated on the right bank at the entrance to the Waikato River.

They lead in over the bar in 7 ft. of water at low-water springs, bearing when in line N. 48° E., correct magnetic.

The beacons are painted white, the back one having a black horizontal band to distinguish it. They show up plainly four miles seaward of the bar.

This affects Chart 2535, sheet 6, New Zealand Coast; “New Zealand Pilot,” Chapter vi., page 264, edition 1891.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners No. 56 of 1900.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—FREEMAN’S BAY.—DOLPHIN FOR MOORING RAFTS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 18th December, 1900.

THE Auckland Harbour Board have notified that a dolphin for mooring rafts has been erected 1¾ cables off Freeman’s Bay, Auckland Harbour, and masters of coasting and other vessels are cautioned against making their vessels fast thereto, or in any way colliding with or damaging the dolphin.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely,—

Port of Dunedin.

Portion of a building built of brick and stone, roofed with slate, situated in Macandrew Street, on Section No. 9, Block XV., City of Dunedin, to be known as

BENJAMIN’S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner's Order No. 652.]

Notice of Intention to take Land for Electric-lighting Purposes, Rotoiti Survey District, Rotorua County.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the purpose of generating electric-lighting power at Rotorua, in Rotoiti Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plans of the lands so required to be taken are deposited in the Post-office at Rotorua, and are there open for inspection. And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Lands, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE several parcels of land mentioned in list hereunder:—

All in the Auckland Land District; as the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above stated, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 31st October, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £3,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 8th February, 1901, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, on or before the 31st January, 1901.

A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the control of an association, society, or club, whose membership is composed of a section of the community only, and if within a borough it must be open to the public free of charge. The receipts for the year from subscriptions and donations must not have been less than £2, exclusive of moneys received from endowments, or from Government, or from Borough or County Councils, or for special building purposes, or as rent, hire, or consideration for the use of any room, or building, or land belonging to the institution, in respect of none of which will subsidy be allowed. The net proceeds of concerts, lectures, or other entertainments on behalf of the current expenses of the library will be regarded as voluntary contributions. A subsidy will not be given to more than one library in the same town.

In the division of the vote, a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of the income of each library derived from subscriptions, donations, and rates, and the vote will