Dec. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2183

Regulations under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act Amendment Act, 1900.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

Pursuant to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred on him by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act Amendment Act, 1900,” the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby make the following regulations respecting the form of ratepayers’ consent to a special rate, and the form of special order making the said rate, and generally for giving effect to the provisions of section twenty one of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886”:

REGULATIONS.

1. The signatures to every consent of the ratepayers to be testified for the purposes of section 21 of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” shall be witnessed by some adult person or persons, and verified by statutory declaration of the attesting witness or witnesses, and such consent shall, when completed, be forwarded by the Chairman of the local authority of the district to the Secretary to the Treasury at Wellington, together with a declaration made by such Chairman in the form hereinafter prescribed.

2. Every such consent shall be in the form following, namely:

Form of Ratepayers’ Consent.

(Section 21, “Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”)

We, the undersigned ratepayers, being owners or occupiers of the sections of land respectively set opposite to our names hereunder, do hereby consent to a special rate of [Stating the amount in the pound] on the rateable valuations of the said sections being made and levied for the payment of interest and other charges on a loan of £ __, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” for the purpose [Naming the purpose for which loan is to be raised]. Such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the day of [State date] and the day of [State date] in each and every year during a period equal to the currency of such loan, being a period of [State number] years, or until the loan is fully paid off, and subject in all respects to the provisions relating to a special rate raised as security for a loan under the said Act.

Dated this __ day of __, 190____. [Fill in date of last signature to consent.]

3. The declaration verifying the signatures to such consent shall be in the form set forth hereunder, viz:

Declaration verifying Signatures to Consent.

I, A. B., do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare—

That the signatures affixed to the above consent, initialled by me [or which I have marked (describing the mark)], are the genuine signatures of the persons whose signatures they purport to be;

That such persons are ratepayers of the __ District [Naming the district in full], to which such consent relates.

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.”

Declared at __, this __ day} of __, 190____, before me—

C. D.,
Justice of the Peace
[or Solicitor, or Notary Public].

4. Declaration by Chairman of Local Authority.

I, A. B., Chairman of the [Name of the local authority and the district in full], do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare—

That the signatures appended to the consent hereto attached (and which said consent is initialled by me on each page) comprise the signatures of three-fourths of the ratepayers of the __ District, and that the rateable values of the properties of the ratepayers signing the said consent are collectively greater than the rateable values of the properties of those ratepayers who do not consent to the levying of the special rate mentioned in the said consent.

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.”

Declared at __, this __ day} of __, 190____, before me—

C. D.,
Justice of the Peace
[or Solicitor, or Notary Public].

5. In any proceedings for raising a loan under the provisions of section 21, “Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” the special order making a special rate may be in the form hereunder set forth; subject, however, to the provisions of any Act affecting the local authority making such order:

Form of Special Order making Special Rate.

(Section 21, “Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”)

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in them in that behalf by [Quote Acts under which special order is made], the [Name of local authority] do hereby resolve as follows:

That for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of [Amount of loan], authorised to be raised by [Name of local authority], under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” for [Name the public work or works for which loan is required], the said [Name of local authority] do hereby make and levy a special rate of [State amount in the pound] upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property of the [Name of district], comprising [State the number of sections and block and name of survey district, or describe the district by its boundaries], and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the __ day of __ [Date] and the day of __ [Date] in each and every year during a period equal to the currency of such loan, being a period of [State number] years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred.

W. C. WALKER,
For Colonial Treasurer.

Setting apart Reserve under “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of November, 1900.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

Whereas by “The Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council is authorised under the said Act to set apart any specified area of Crown lands within a kauri-gum district to be kauri-gum reserves under the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to create and set apart the kauri-gum reserve hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby set apart the area of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto as a kauri-gum reserve, with the name set over the description of such reserve in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

HOBSON COUNTY.

Tikinui No. 3 Kauri-gum Reserve: 265 acres 3 roods 20 perches. For Tikinui Settlement.

Tikinui No. 3 Kauri-gum Reserve.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, being Sections Nos. 5 and 6 of Block I., Te Kuri Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 265 acres 3 roods 20 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north by a public road, and towards the north-east, south-east, and south-west by unsubdivided Crown land to the point of commencement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.