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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

Council to borrow the sum of £150,000 to purchase and acquire the fee-simple of such properties mentioned in the First Schedule of “The Auckland Waterworks Extension Act, 1904,” as may be considered by the Corporation of the City of Auckland necessary for the purposes of a catch-water or gathering-ground in connection with the waterworks belonging to the Corporation of the City of Auckland, and to pay the compensation therefor, and for the interests in the properties mentioned in the Second Schedule of the said Act of the persons whose interests are prejudicially affected as in the said Act mentioned, and for the construction and carrying-out of the works necessary to obtain and utilise an increased supply of water for the inhabitants of the City of Auckland.

The following votes were recorded on the proposal: viz., For the proposal, 300; against the proposal, 110; informal, 1.

I therefore declare the proposal carried.

E. MITCHELSON,
Mayor.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 8th April, 1905.

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

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll.

The following is the result of a poll taken on the 11th March, 1905, on the proposal to borrow a loan of £1,000, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of forming and metalling roads at Te Mata:—

For the proposal, 25; against the proposal, 3; informal, 4.

As the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal exceeds three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby declare the proposal carried.

BASIL HEWETT,
Chairman, Raglan County Council.

Red Deer and Australian Stubble Quail turned at large in Feilding and District Acclimatisation Society’s District declared to be vested in Chairman of that Society.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th April, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that the Feilding and District Acclimatisation Society have turned at large a number of red deer and Australian stubble quail in the Feilding and District Acclimatisation District, and that the property in such red deer and quail and their offspring, and in every animal of a like species at large in that acclimatisation district, is deemed to be absolutely vested in the Chairman of the said Feilding and District Acclimatisation Society for a period of two years from the date hereof, as provided by section 38 of “The Animals Protection Act, 1880.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 6th April, 1905.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

NAPIER POST-OFFICE, ADDITIONS, ALTERATIONS, ETC., CONTRACT.

Accepted.

Bull Bros., Napier .. .. .. £ s. d.
580 0 0

Declined.

Byrne, M. F., Napier .. .. .. 642 6 0
Taylor, T. F., Napier .. .. .. 673 5 0

Reducing the Rates and Charges for Water from Government Water-races.

IN pursuance of the provisions of section 264 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” I, William Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works, do hereby repeal the regulations published in the Gazette of the 10th day of January, 1901, and in lieu thereof do make the following regulation prescribing the rates and charges to be paid for water supplied from Government water-races:—

REGULATION.

From and after the 1st day of May, 1905, the price of water supplied from Government water-races will be ten shillings (10s.) per sluice-head of water per week of forty-eight (48) hours, or two and one-half pence (2½d.) per sluice-head per hour.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 11th day of April, 1905.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Notice to Mariners No. 25 of 1905.

BUOY ADRIFT, TORY SHOAL, KAIPARA HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 7th April, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the large red buoy marking the western edge of Tory Shoal, at the entrance to Kaipara Harbour, has gone adrift.

Chart, &c., affected: Admiralty chart No. 2614; “New Zealand Pilot,” seventh edition, 1901, Chap. vii., page 244.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners No. 26 of 1905.

OTAGO HARBOUR. — MAIN CHANNEL, PORT CHALMERS TO DUNEDIN.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 10th April, 1905.

THE Otago Harbour Board have given notice that on and after Monday, the 1st May, 1905, a black port-hand pile beacon, surmounted by a barrel, will be placed on the eastern side of the main channel from Port Chalmers to Dunedin, Otago Harbour, in 16 ft. at low water, Observation Point, Port Chalmers, bearing N. 35° W., four cables distant.

Vessels proceeding down channel should sight the beacon when between Quarantine Island and Goat Island, and should then steer to leave the beacon close to on the starboard hand.

Chart, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2411; “New Zealand Pilot,” seventh edition, 1901, Chap. viii., page 297.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Officiating Ministers for 1905.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th April, 1905.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII., and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1904,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend Macdonald Aspland.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Auckland Grammar School.

Education Board Office,
Auckland, 5th April, 1905.

IN accordance with “The Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899,” and with the regulations thereunder for the election of Governors by the Education Board of the District of Auckland, I hereby notify that, at a meeting of the said Board held this day,

LEMUEL JOHN BAGNALL

was duly re-elected a member of the Board of Governors constituted by the said Act.

SAMUEL LUKE,
Chairman of Meeting.