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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th April, 1900.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Mangahoe Drainage Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Land Drainage Act, 1893.”

J. CARROLL,
For Colonial Secretary.

Notice verifying Result of Poll taken on a Proposed Special Loan of £1,000, taken under “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” and “The Counties Act, 1886.”

At a poll of the ratepayers of the Mangahoe Drainage District, taken on Saturday, the 24th day of March, 1900, upon a proposal to borrow £1,000 by way of a special loan under the provisions of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of clearing, deepening, widening, straightening, diverting, and otherwise generally improving the Mangahoe River, the following votes were recorded :—
Number of ratepayers on the roll, 60; number of votes exercisable, 63: Number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 33; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 1; number of informal votes, nil.
As the number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal exceeds the number of valid votes recorded against the proposal, I declare the resolution duly carried.

WILLIAM NORTH,
Chairman, Mangahoe Drainage Board.

Office Mangahoe Drainage Board,
Te Awamutu, 26th March, 1900.

In the matter of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” and “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Local Government Voting Reform Act, 1899,” and of the proposal of the Mangahoe Drainage Board to borrow £1,000 by way of a 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 Mangahoe 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 borrow £1,000 by way of a special loan for the purpose of clearing, deepening, widening, straightening, diverting, and otherwise generally improving the Mangahoe River 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 28th day of March, 1900, before me—P. O’Connor, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.

Bonus on Mineral Oil produced from Shale obtained in New Zealand.—Extension of Time.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1900.

THE time for notifying intention to claim the under-mentioned bonus, and for making such claim, has been extended as follows:—
Notice of intention to claim the bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1900.
The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1901.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

Bonus on Mineral Oil produced from Shale obtained in New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th October, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus will be paid for the production of mineral oil under the following conditions:—

1. A bonus of 1s. per gallon (£5,000) will be paid on the first 100,000 gallons of mineral oil produced from shale obtained in the Colony of New Zealand, the oil to be of a quality approved of by Government, and to be sold at a price not exceeding 1s. a gallon at any port of shipment in the colony.
2. Notice of intention to claim the aforesaid bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1899.
3. The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1900.
4. The first claimant who proves to the satisfaction of the Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions to be the recipient of the bonus.
5. The other conditions—as to quantity, priority, quality, and value—to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer appointed for the purpose by the Government.

J. CARROLL.

Recognising Load-lines of Vessels fixed by Governments of India and Straits Settlements.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th April, 1900.

THE following circular despatch and its enclosure, received from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

CIRCULAR.

Downing Street, 20th January, 1900.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, with a view to its being brought to the notice of the colonial shipping authorities, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty in Council recognising, under the provisions of section 444 of “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,” the load-lines fixed and the certificates of freeboard issued by the Government of India to vessels registered in that possession.
2. I have to add that similar Orders in Council were issued on 15th March, 1893, and the 7th March, 1899, respectively, recognising the load-lines fixed and the certificates of freeboard granted by the local authorities with respect to steamships registered in the Straits Settlements and with respect to ships registered in Victoria.
I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

At the Court at Windsor, the 28th day of November, 1899.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,” section 444, it is enacted that—“Where the Legislature of any British possession by any enactment provides for the fixing, marking, and certifying of load-lines on ships registered in that possession, and it appears to Her Majesty the Queen that that enactment is based on the same principles as the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to load-lines, and is equally effective for ascertaining and determining the maximum load-lines to which those ships can be safely loaded in salt water, and for giving notice of the load-line to persons interested, Her Majesty in Council may declare that any load-line fixed and marked and any certificate given in pursuance of that enactment shall, with respect to ships so registered, have the same effect as if it had been fixed, marked, or given in pursuance of this Part of this Act”:
And whereas the Legislature of the Government of India have, by “The Deck and Load Lines Act, 1891,” made provision for the fixing, marking, and certifying of load-lines on ships registered in that possession, and for giving notice of the load-line to persons interested:
And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty the Queen that such provision is based on the same principles as the provisions of Part V. of “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,” and is equally effective for ascertaining and determining the maximum load-lines to which such ships can be safely loaded in salt water, and for giving notice of the load-line to the persons interested:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers vested in her by “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,” by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to declare and doth hereby declare that any load-line fixed and marked and any certificate given in pursuance of the said enactment shall, with respect to such ships so registered, have the same effect as if it had been fixed, marked, or given in pursuance of Part V. of “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.”

A. W. FITZROY.