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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans, Borough of City of Wellington.

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

THE following notices, received from the Mayor of the Borough of the City of Wellington, are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

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WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

The Mayor’s Office, Wellington, 1st May, 1901.

In the matter of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

To the Honourable the Colonial Secretary.

SIR,—I have the honour to give you notice that at a poll of the electors (other than those enrolled upon a residential qualification) held in the City of Wellington on the 19th day of April, 1901, upon the proposal of the Council of the City of Wellington set out below, such proposal was duly carried, the votes recorded being,—

For the said proposal, 798; against the said proposal, 677.

The said proposal was as follows:—

In the matter of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

The Council of the City of Wellington hereby gives public notice that such Council proposes to borrow (by way of special loan within the meaning of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900”) the sum of £55,000, to be expended in paving the streets along the present tramway-line with wooden blocks.

The Council proposes to pledge a special rate of 2d. in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of annual value) of all rateable property in the city as security for the said loan and the interest thereon.

It is proposed that the whole amount of the loan shall be repayable at the expiration of a term of twenty years, computed from the raising of the loan.

I have, &c.,
JOHN G. W. AITKEN,
Mayor of Wellington.

I, John Guthrie Wood Aitken, Mayor of Wellington, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all proceedings required by law to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the electors of the City of Wellington (other than those enrolled upon a residential qualification) to the proposal of the Council of the City of Wellington set out in a notice in writing of even date herewith, under my hand, addressed to the Honourable the Colonial Secretary (which proposal relates to the raising of a special loan of £55,000 for paving streets with wooden blocks), have been duly taken, and that the resolution in favour of the said proposal was duly carried.

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.”

JOHN G. W. AITKEN.

Taken and declared at the City of Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1901, before me—John Jack, J.P.

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The Mayor’s Office, Wellington, 1st May, 1901.

In the matter of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

To the Honourable the Colonial Secretary.

SIR,—I have the honour to give you notice that at a poll of the electors (other than those enrolled upon a residential qualification) held in the City of Wellington on the 19th day of April, 1901, upon the proposal of the Council of the City of Wellington set out below, such proposal was duly carried, the votes recorded being,—

For the said proposal, 1,150; against the said proposal, 344.

The said proposal was as follows:—

In the matter of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

The Council of the City of Wellington hereby gives public notice that such Council proposes to borrow (by way of special loan within the meaning of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900”) the sum of £50,000, to be expended in the erection of a Town Hall and municipal offices on a site owned by the Corporation, situate at the corner of Mercer Street and Cuba Street Extension, and that the Council proposes to pledge as security for the said loan the net rents and profits to be derived from time to time from any letting to be made from time to time of the present Corporation Offices and Town Hall site, situate in Brandon and Featherton Streets, and the buildings thereon, or any part of such offices, site, or buildings, and from any letting from time to time of the proposed Town Hall and offices or any part thereof.

It is proposed that the whole amount of the loan shall be repayable at the expiration of a term of thirty years, computed from the raising of the loan.

I have, &c.,
JOHN G. W. AITKEN,
Mayor of Wellington.

I, John Guthrie Wood Aitken, Mayor of Wellington, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all proceedings required by law to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the electors of the City of Wellington (other than those enrolled upon a residential qualification) to the proposal of the Council of the City of Wellington set out in a notice in writing of even date herewith, under my hand, addressed to the Honourable the Colonial Secretary (which proposal relates to the raising of a special loan of £50,000 for the erection of a Town Hall and municipal offices), have been duly taken, and that the resolution in favour of the said proposal was duly carried.

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.”

JOHN G. W. AITKEN.

Taken and declared at the City of Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1901, before me—John Jack, J.P.

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The Mayor’s Office, Wellington, 1st May, 1901.

In the matter of “The Tramways Act, 1894,” and of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

To the Honourable the Colonial Secretary.

SIR,—I have the honour to give you notice that at a poll of the electors (other than those enrolled upon a residential qualification) held in the City of Wellington on the 19th day of April, 1901, upon the proposal of the Council of the City of Wellington set out below, such proposal was duly carried, the votes recorded being,—

For the said proposal, 1,237; against the said proposal, 268.

The said proposal was as follows:—

In the matter of “The Tramways Act, 1894,” and of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

The Council of the City of Wellington hereby gives public notice that such Council proposes to borrow by way of special loan within the meaning of the above-named Acts the sum of £225,000 for the purpose of constructing an electric tramway in the City of Wellington, with an extension of such tramway to Island Bay in the Borough of Melrose.

And notice is hereby further given that the said Council proposes to secure the repayment of the said loan, and the payment of the interest thereon, by a mortgage of the said tramway and the undertaking thereof, and the revenues, rents, tolls, issues, and profits of such tramway and such undertaking, and proposes also to make, pledge, and permanently appropriate, as further security for the said loan and the interest thereon, a special rate of 2d. in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the annual value) of all rateable property within the City of Wellington.

And the Council further proposes that the whole amount of the said loan shall be made repayable at the expiration of a term of twenty years, computed from the date of the publication in the New Zealand Gazette of the statutory notice to the effect that all proceedings required by law to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the electors to the present proposals have been duly taken, and that the resolution in favour of the said proposals has been duly carried.

I have, &c.,
JOHN G. W. AITKEN,
Mayor of Wellington.

I, John Guthrie Wood Aitken, Mayor of Wellington, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all proceedings required by law to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the electors of the City of Wellington (other than those enrolled upon a residential qualification) to the proposal of the Council of the City of Wellington set out in a notice in writing of even date herewith, under my hand, addressed to the Honourable the Colonial Secretary (which proposal relates to the raising of a special loan of £225,000 for an electric tramway), have been duly taken, and that the resolution in favour of the said proposal was duly carried.

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.”

JOHN G. W. AITKEN.

Taken and declared at the City of Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1901, before me—John Jack, J.P.