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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 103

C. If the number of animals employed to draw a vehicle having four wheels be six or under, then the minimum width of the tires of the wheels of such vehicle shall be four and one-half inches.

D. If the number of animals employed to draw a vehicle having four wheels be seven or eight, then the minimum width of the tires of such vehicle shall be eight inches.

E. If the number of animals employed to draw a vehicle having four wheels be more than eight, then the minimum width of the tires of such vehicle shall be one inch greater than eight inches for each animal so employed.

Schedule B.

PELORUS ROAD BOARD.—VEHICLE [ENGINE] [MACHINE] LICENSE.

Number: . Annual License Fee: .

This is to certify that, pursuant to the provisions of by-laws numbers four and six of the by-laws with reference to heavy traffic passed by the Pelorus Road Board on the 5th day of November, 1901, the vehicle [engine] [machine] numbered [to be numbered ], of which , of , is the owner, is hereby licensed to engage in the heavy traffic in the transportation of timber mentioned in the said by-law number four upon and over the roads, bridges, ferries, and fords in the Pelorus Road District, under the care, control, or management of the said Board, and from time to time during the term or period hereinafter mentioned passable and safe for, and not closed to, heavy traffic, for the term or period of one year from the day of , one thousand nine hundred and .

Dated this day of , one thousand nine hundred and .

, Secretary.

These by-laws shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1902.

I hereby certify that the foregoing by-laws have been duly made and adopted by special order at a meeting of the Pelorus Road Board held on the 5th day of November, 1901, and the common seal of the Board has been affixed thereto in my presence.

HARRY MARSH READER,
Chairman, Pelorus Road Board.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Mount Roskill Road Board, County of Eden.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1901.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

“THE LOANS TO LOCAL BODIES ACT, 1886,” AND ITS AMENDMENTS.

I HEREBY declare the result of the poll taken on the 23rd day of November, 1901, of the ratepayers of that part of the Mount Roskill Road District described in the schedule of the published notices in respect of the proposal of the Mount Roskill Road Board to raise a loan of £4,000 for the purpose of providing a water-supply for that part of the district referred to, upon the terms set out in the said notices, to be as follows: For the proposal, 87; against the proposal, 1.

As the number of valid votes recorded in favour of the said proposal is more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded, I hereby declare the said proposal carried.

CHAS. BAGLEY,
Chairman, Mount Roskill Road Board.

Mount Roskill, 25th November, 1901.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Horowhenua County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th December, 1901.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on Proposed Loan.

Result of the poll of ratepayers in the Otaki Riding of the Horowhenua County, taken on Wednesday, the 27th day of November, 1901, upon the proposal to borrow £500 from the Colonial Treasurer, under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and Amendment Act, 1899, for the purpose of acquiring land to widen, reconstruct, and fence the Main County Road at Otaki from the Mill Road to the Waerenga Road:—

Number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 20; number of valid votes recorded against the proposal, 3.

As the number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal is more than three-fifths of the total valid votes recorded at the poll, I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

JNO. DAVIES,
Chairman, Horowhenua County Council.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Otatau Town District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1901.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

OTATAU TOWN BOARD.

Result of Poll on Proposed Loan.

Result of the poll of ratepayers within the Otatau Town District, taken on Wednesday, 31st day of July, 1901, upon the proposal to borrow £600 from the Colonial Treasurer, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” and “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and their amendments, for the purpose of constructing a sewer, and £200 by debentures for the purpose of asphalting of streets:—

In favour of the proposal was 38, representing 38 votes; against the proposal was 18, representing 18 votes; informal 1, representing 1 vote. The number who did not vote was 37, representing 37 votes.

As the number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal is in excess of the votes recorded against it, I do hereby declare the proposal carried.

D. MCNEIL,
Chairman, Otatau Town Board.

Otatau, 31st July, 1901.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds.—Notice No. 678.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1901.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the under-mentioned local governing bodies have, by special order, declared the plants enumerated opposite the name of each to be “noxious weeds” within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under the jurisdiction of each respectively.

Local Bodies. Plants.
Manawatu County Council .. Bathurst burr, broom giant burdock, gorse, hakea, ragwort.
Port Levy Road Board .. Gorse and broom.
Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board .. Pennyroyal.
Mauku Road Board .. Gorse.
Kensington Road Board .. Gorse.
Whareora Road Board .. Gorse.
Nelson Borough Council .. Gorse.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000 lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1903, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1904.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAMES McGOWAN.
Minister of Mines