Oct. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1931

basis of effective 5 per cent. on maritime imports, including articles hitherto free, with the exception of rice, cereals, and flour of foreign origin. New tariff will come into force two months after 7th September, and exception has been made only in the case of merchandise en route ten days at latest after 7th September. Duties will be levied ad valorem pending specific duties.”

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Special Order made by the Wirokino Road Board, County of Horowhenua.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1901.

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

J. G. WARD.

WIROKINO ROAD BOARD.

Special Order.

RESOLVED, That, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in them in that behalf by “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” the Wirokino Road Board do hereby resolve as follows: That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of £200 authorised to be raised by the Wirokino Road Board, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” for metalling Victoria Road, Tokomaru, for a distance of 62 chains from the Main Road, the said Wirokino Road Board now make a special rate of ½d. in the pound upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property of the Victoria Special District, comprising Sections 31, 32, Block V., Arawaru Survey District; 33, 41, Block XII., Mount Robinson Survey District: and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable in one instalment on the 1st day in June in each and every year during the period equal to the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order by the Wirokino Road Board was duly adopted at an ordinary meeting held on the 17th day of August, 1901, and confirmed at a special meeting on the 21st day of September, 1901, and in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882”; dated this 25th September, 1901.

E. H. SNOW,
Clerk, Wirokino Road Board, Levin.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Borough of St. Kilda.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1901.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of St. Kilda, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

J. G. WARD.

BOROUGH OF ST. KILDA.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

Sir,—I have the honour to inform you that a poll of the electors of this borough duly qualified to vote under section 22 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” was taken on 9th September, 1901, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £7,000 sterling by way of special loan, to be repayable on the 31st day of March, 1922, bearing interest at £4 per centum per annum, for the following purposes:—
(1.) The sum of £3,000 to pay off the special loan which fell due on the 1st day of March, 1901;
(2.) The sum of £700 to purchase Sections 3 and 4, Block VI., Township of St. Kilda, and to cause to be erected on the said parcel of land a hall and public offices, with fitting furniture for the same, respectively for holding the meetings and transacting the business of the Council and for the use of its officers, and for holding public meetings and other purposes;
(3.) The sum of £3,300 for and in connection with the construction and formation of roads and drains in the Borough of St. Kilda.

And, by way of security for and provision for repayment of the said loan and interest, to pledge a special rate of 6d. in the pound sterling on the rateable value of all property in the borough, and the general indebtedness of the borough, subject to a loan of £2,000, bearing interest at £4 10s. per centum per annum, secured on the general rates of the borough, and to a loan of £5,000 secured on the whole of the waterworks constructed, being a first charge thereon; and also such rates as the Council is empowered to make and levy by virtue of the provisions of section 325 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” and all other powers the said Council thereunto enabling. And to issue seventy debentures for £100 each, with separate coupons attached thereto for each half-year’s interest, and with the principal and interest moneys secured by such debentures made payable at any branch of the National Bank of New Zealand in the Australian Colonies or in London.

The result of the poll was: Number of votes for the proposal, 54; number of votes against the proposal, 6.

A majority of the electors duly qualified to vote having voted in favour of the proposal, I declare the resolution duly carried.

I have, &c.,
GABRIEL HODGES,
Mayor.

Town Clerk’s Office, Borough of St. Kilda,
10th September, 1901.

I, James Bertram Dick, Town Clerk of the Borough of St. Kilda, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all proceedings required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the electors duly qualified to vote, under the provisions of the aforesaid Act, to the proposal to borrow the sum of £7,000 sterling by way of special loan for the purposes of—
(1.) Paying off an existing special loan of £3,000 falling due on 1st March, 1901;
(2.) Purchasing Sections 3 and 4, Block VI., Township of St. Kilda, and causing to be erected thereon a hall and public offices, £700;
(3.) And to undertake the work of street-formation and drainage to the extent of £3,300 for the Borough of St. Kilda
—have been duly taken, and that the resolution in favour of the proposal has been 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 entitled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

JAMES BERTRAM DICK.

Declared at Dunedin, this 10th day of September, 1901, before me—C. Fisher, J.P.

Result of a Road Board Election.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1901.

THE following notice of the election of a member of a Road Board has been received at this office, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Mangorei Road District, County of Taranaki:
Charles Edwin Gledhill.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—
Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 28th August, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application on that behalf made to me by the Waimate Branch of the New Zealand Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 65, situated at Waimate, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Notice of Cancellation of Registry under “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 3rd October, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Federated Seamen’s Industrial Union of New Zealand of Workmen, No. 10, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.