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annually recurring one during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off. The cost of raising the loan and the interest for the first year shall be paid out of the aforesaid sum of £1,000.”

Dated at Petone, this 15th day of March, 1905.

G. T. LONDON,
Mayor.

Special Order made by the Council of the County of Masterton.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 20th March, 1905.

THE following special order, made by the Masterton County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Treasurer.

MASTERTON COUNTY.

Special Order making Special Rate.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” the Masterton County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing interest at the rate of £4 per centum per annum and other charges on a loan of £100 authorised to be raised by the Masterton County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of forming the Homewood–Kaiwhata Road, the said Masterton County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of ⅛d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Homewood–Kaiwhata Road Loan Special-rating District, comprising Section 903, Block XIV., Rewa Survey District (600 acres); parts of Sections 775, 780, 781, 782, Blocks II. and III., Kaiwhata Survey District (1,001 acres); Small Grazing-run 56, Blocks XIV., Rewa, and II., Kaiwhata (1,440 acres); Section 32, parts of 781, 777, 778, 775, 779, 780, 776, part 853, Block III. (2,177 acres 3 roods 26 perches); Section 12, Block IV. (360 acres); Subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5A, 5B, 6, and 7, Ngapuketarua, Subdivisions 1 and 5, Tutaehauhau, Sections 771, 773, parts of Sections 767, 768, 769, 770, Small Grazing-run No. 1, Blocks II., IV., and V. (4,729 acres 3 roods 6 perches); and Subdivision 5c, Ngapuketarua, Blocks II. and V.; all in the Kaiwhata Survey District: and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

Passed at a special meeting of the said Council this 9th day of February, 1905. Confirmed this 9th day of March, 1905.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Masterton was affixed hereto in the presence of—

C. E. COCKBURN-HOOD,
County Chairman.

F. G. MOORE,
County Clerk.

I certify that the foregoing special order has been duly made.

F. G. MOORE,
County Clerk.

Special Order made by the Council of the Borough of Petone.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 20th March, 1905.

THE following special order, made by the Petone Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Treasurer.

BOROUGH OF PETONE.

I, GEORGE THOMAS LONDON, Mayor of the Borough of Petone, do hereby certify that at a special meeting of the Borough Council of the Borough of Petone held on the 13th day of February, 1905, the resolution hereinafter set out was duly passed, and, after the same had been duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” regulating the making of special orders, such resolution was duly confirmed at a meeting of the Council of the said borough held on the 13th day of March, 1905; such resolution being in the words and figures following:—

“In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by ‘The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,’ and ‘The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,’ the Council of the Borough of Petone does hereby resolve as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking fund and other charges on a loan of £500 (five hundred pounds sterling), authorised to be raised by the said Council under the provisions of ‘The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,’ for the purpose of enabling the said Petone Borough Council to bear its proportion of the money expended in constructing the Hutt Bridge, the Council of the said Borough of Petone hereby makes and levies a special rate of ¼d. (one farthing) in the pound sterling on the annual rateable value of all the rateable property within the Borough of Petone; and such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being for a period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off. The cost of raising the loan and the interest for the first year shall be paid out of the aforesaid sum of £500.”

Dated at Petone, this 15th day of March, 1905.

G. T. LONDON,
Mayor.

Special Order made by the Mackenzie County Council altering Ridings.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1905.

THE following special order, made by the Mackenzie County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

MACKENZIE COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL ORDER made by the Mackenzie County Council dividing the Albury Riding, and creating New Riding of Cave.

RESOLVED, That the Albury Riding of the Mackenzie County be divided into two ridings by a line commencing at the county-boundary in the Pareora River at the easternmost corner of Rural Section 36054; thence running in a northerly direction along the western and north-western boundaries of forest reserve and Rural Sections 36053, 36052, and 36058; thence along the northern boundary of said Rural Section 36058 to its north-easternmost corner; thence by a right line to the southernmost corner of Section 17, Rosewill Settlement; thence along the northern boundaries of Sections 18 and 21, Rosewill Settlement, to the railway reserve; thence by a line running due east across the said railway reserve and the Mackenzie Road and Rural Section 29513 to the county-boundary at the Tengawai River: the portion of the Albury Riding to the south and east of the before-described line to be called Cave Riding; the remainder of the Albury Riding to be called Albury Riding as before: Cave Riding to be represented on the Council by one member, Albury Riding to be represented on the Council by two members. That this special order come into force and take effect as from the 1st day of April, 1906.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been made in conformity with the statutory requirements.

R. L. BANKS,
Clerk to Mackenzie County Council.

Fairlie, 15th March, 1905.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 15th March, 1905.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Stratford County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Treasurer.

STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESULT of a poll of ratepayers of the West Riding of the County of Stratford taken on Thursday, 9th March, 1905, on the proposal to raise a special loan as follows: (1) To reconstruct bridges on roads in the West Riding of the County of Stratford under the jurisdiction of the Stratford County Council; (2) to borrow for such purpose, under