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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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about 28 miles 54 chains, and passing in, into, through, or
over the following lands—viz., railway land, R.S. 7538, part
of said R.S. 7538 belonging to Eli Scott, subdivisions of said
R.S. 7538 being Glen Mark Agricultural Farms numbered 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, other part of said R.S.
7538 belonging to Charles T. Newton, other part of said R.S.
7538 belonging to George B. Starkey, subdivisions of said
R.S. 7538 being Glen Mark Agricultural Farms numbered
27, 28, 29, and 30, and other portion of said R.S. 7538, all in
Block I., Teviotdale Survey District, and in Blocks XVI.,
XVII., XVIII., XIV., XV., and XI., Waikari Survey Dis-
trict; R.S. 29815, 11048, 11049, 11050, 11051, and other
intermediate portions of said R.S. 29815, all in Block XI.,
Waikari Survey District, and in Blocks V. and I., Stoney-
hurst Survey District; R.S. 28896, 29816, 23813, 11044,
24395, 24396, 36316, 27365, and other portion of said R.S.
24396, Blocks V., I., and II., Stoneyhurst Survey Dis-
trict—and terminating at a point in Crown lands forming
part of the Cheviot Estate distant about 77 chains in a
south-easterly direction from the junction of the Kaiwara
Stream with the Hurunui River; including all adjoin-
ing and intervening places, lands, roads, tracks, rivers,
streams, and watercourses: all in the Land District of
Canterbury: in the manner delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 18804, deposited in the office of the Minister for
Public Works at Wellington.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly;
Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George;
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House, at Wel-
ington, this tenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 5th March, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the under-mentioned appointments:—

2nd Battalion, Auckland Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant Thomas White Sommerville, of the Thames
Naval Artillery Volunteers, to be Lieutenant and Adjutant.
John Brown, late Lieutenant, No. 1 Company, Ohinemuri
Rifle Volunteers, to be Pay- and Quarter-master.
Commissions to date from the 9th day of February, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 5th March, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve, under paragraph 63, Volunteer Regulations,
1895, of the under-mentioned appointment:—

Christ College Rifle Volunteers.

George Harper, to be Captain. Date of commission, 25th
January, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON.

Holiday on 17th March (St. Patrick’s Day).

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th March, 1900.

THE public offices throughout the colony will be closed
on Saturday, the 17th March instant, being St. Pat-
ricks Day.

J. CARROLL,
For Colonial Secretary.

Special Order made by the Hunua Road Board, County of Manukau.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th March, 1900.

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

J. CARROLL,
For Colonial Secretary.

HUNUA ROAD BOARD.

Mr. Hirst proposed, “That to provide interest and sinking
fund on a loan of £700, to be borrowed under the provisions
of ‘The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,’
the Local Bodies Loan Act of 1886, and their amendments,
this Board do make a special order to strike a special rate
of 13/16d. in the pound of the rateable value of all the pro-
perties included within the Hunua Main Road Special Rating
Division—namely, Sections, 65 acres 2 roods, being north-
east part of Section 81, Block IV., and Sections 79, 179, 9,
213, 10, 13, 70, 40, 47, 15, 59, 68, 17, 45, 73, 74, 53, 52, 51, 24,
25, 87, 88, 130, 228A, 18, 12, 14, 11, 16, 123, 23, 90, 92, 94, 95,
96, 227, 97, 129, 126, 122, 121, 82, 93, 94, 53, 50, 54, 56, 26,
72, 71, 127—and all the properties on the eastern side of
River Road, and recently transferred from the Opaheke Road
District into the Hunua Road District; also four parts of
Section 52, as recently transferred from the Opaheke North
Road District into the Hunua Road District by Order in
Council of the 26th January, 1899, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the 2nd February, 1899; the said
special rate to be an annual-recurring rate for twenty-six
years, and will become due and payable in two instalments
—viz., on the first Saturdays in March and September in
each year—to the Collector, at the office of the Board, the
first instalment to become due on Saturday, the 3rd March,
1900.” Seconded by Mr. Hill, and carried.

I hereby certify the above to be a true copy of special
order made by the Hunua Road Board on the 6th January,
1900, and confirmed on the 12th February, 1900.

Geo. A. WILSON,
Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Upper Wangaehu Road Board, County of Wanganui.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th March, 1900.

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

J. CARROLL,
For Colonial Secretary.

UPPER WANGAEHU ROAD BOARD.

RESULT of poll on proposal to borrow £700 for metalling from
Kauangaroa to Mangamahu, &c., Upper Wangaehu Road
District:—

Total number of ratepayers on roll, 138: Votes recorded
for proposal, 49; number of ratepayers voting for the pro-
posal, 22; votes against, nil; number of ratepayers voting
against the proposal, nil; informal, nil.

As a majority of the number of the ratepayers recording
their votes were in favour of the loan, I do hereby declare
the proposal to be carried.

Dated this 26th day of February, 1900.

ROBERT LILBURN,
Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Stratford County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th March, 1900.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Stratford County Council, is published in accord-
ance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1886.”

J. CARROLL,
For Colonial Secretary.

STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESULT of a poll taken on the 8th day of March, 1900, upon
the proposal to borrow £250, under “The Government
Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and the amendments
thereof, for completing the construction of the Taihore
Road:—

Number of ratepayers on special roll, 23; number of votes
exercisable, 23: Number of ratepayers voting in favour of
the proposal, 12; number of votes recorded in favour of the
proposal, 12; number of ratepayers voting against the pro-
posal, nil.

The required majority having been obtained, I hereby
declare the above proposal to be carried.

R. DINGLE,
Chairman.

10th March, 1900.