JUNE 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1341

of £60 authorised to be raised by the Manganui Road Board, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and its amendments, for the purpose of grading, forming, and metalling the Croydon Road East (to pay out of such loan the cost of raising it), the Manganui Road Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of ½d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all the rateable property in the Croydon Road East Special-rating District, comprising Sections 50, 53, 54, half 51, and half 52, Block 14, Huiroa Survey District; and that such special rate be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-six years, or until the loan is fully paid off; the rate of interest to be five per cent. per annum.

J. MACKAY,
Chairman.

I hereby certify that the above special order was made in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882,” and was passed at the Manganui Road Board’s ordinary meeting on the 6th March, 1905.

ALFRED COLEMAN,
Clerk.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 31st May, 1905.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the City of Wellington, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Treasurer.

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll.

I HEREBY give notice that the number of votes recorded upon the taking of the poll on the 12th instant, for and against the proposals of the Council of the City of Wellington set out below, were as follows:—

I. Water-supply, £190,000: For the proposal, 1,539; against the proposal, 539.

II. Destructor, £20,000: For the proposal, 1,340; against the proposal, 683.

III. Central Library (extension of), £7,500: For the proposal, 522; against the proposal, 1,301.

IV. Public lighting, £25,000: For the proposal, 1,077; against the proposal, 872.

V. Kelburne Park (levelling), £7,000: For the proposal, 549; against the proposal, 1,280.

I therefore declare proposals Nos. I., II., and IV. carried, and proposals III. and V. rejected.

Dated this 14th day of April, 1905.

JOHN G. W. AITKEN,
Mayor of Wellington.

Tenders for the Purchase of Timber accepted.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 25th May, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that tenders for the purchase of the timber mentioned in the Schedule hereto, at the prices specified, have been accepted from the persons or companies named in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Lot 1.—Mr. T. W. Slater: 426,695 superficial feet of kauri, at 1s. 3d. per 100 superficial feet, situated on Sections Nos. S.W. 47 and N.W. 48, Pupuke Parish.

Lot 3.—The Mitchelson Timber Company: 8,952,093 superficial feet of kauri, at 1s. 9d. per 100 superficial feet, situated on Blocks XV. and XVI., Tutamoe Survey District.

Lot 4.—The Mitchelson Timber Company: 705,413 superficial feet of kauri, at 3s. 3d. per 100 superficial feet, situated on Block III., Kaihu Survey District.

Lot 6.—Messrs. Smith Bros.: 6,329,875 superficial feet of kauri, at 2s. 3d. per 100 superficial feet; 517,860 superficial feet of totara, at 1s. per 100 superficial feet; 136,000 superficial feet of matai, at 1s. per 100 superficial feet; and 1,413,600 superficial feet of rimu, at 6d. per 100 superficial feet; situated on Section No. 1, Block XIV., Mangakahia Survey District.

Lot 7.—Messrs. Smith Bros.: 1,613,901 superficial feet of kauri, at 2s. 6d. per 100 superficial feet, situated on Section No. 2, Block XIV., Mangakahia Survey District.

Lot 9.—Kaipara Timber Company: 208,140 superficial feet of kauri, at 1s. per 100 superficial feet; 231,220 superficial feet of totara, at 1s. per 100 superficial feet; 1,650,400 superficial feet of rimu, at 3d. per 100 superficial feet; and 1,458,000 superficial feet of kahikatea, at 3d. per 100 superficial feet; situated on Blocks XI. and XII., Maungaru Survey District.

Lot 10.—Kaipara Timber Company: 8,129 superficial feet of totara (eight logs), at 5s. per 100 superficial feet, situated at Okahu Landing.

Lot 12.—Messrs. Ruddell and McEwen: 219,317 superficial feet of kauri, at 2s. 1d. per 100 superficial feet, and 55 totara trees, at 10s. per tree, situated on Section No. 1, Block XV., Punakitere Survey District.

Lot 14.—Messrs. Ruddell and McEwen: 295,159 superficial feet of kauri, at 2s. 4d. per 100 superficial feet, and 520,000 superficial feet of kahikatea, at 8d. per 100 superficial feet, situated on Sections Nos. 1 and 2, Block VI., Mangakahia Survey District.

Lot 15.—Mr. N. Finlayson: 136,153 superficial feet of kauri, at 1s. 6d. per 100 superficial feet, situated on Section No. S.W. 93, Ruarangi Parish.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands and Commissioner of State Forests.

Notice to Mariners No. 34 of 1905.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th May, 1905.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 88 of 1904, issued by this Department on the 29th December last, the following notice, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA.

South Channel, Port Phillip.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 129, dated 7th December, 1904, it is hereby notified that the dredger “John Nimmo” and the attendant anchor punt, at present employed dredging off Wilson’s Spit, Port of Geelong, will, within a few days, be removed therefrom to the vicinity of the Pile Light, South Channel, where the work of widening the artificial cutting of the South Channel will be recommenced at the south edge of the channel.

Two red can buoys will be moored in the vicinity of the dredger to mark the alignment of the dredging operations. It is requested that care be taken to avoid such two red can buoys.

There will be exhibited a basket ball by day and two red lights by night from the port or starboard side of the dredger, to indicate the side on which vessels navigated through the channel are to pass the dredger. When such basket ball or red lights are amidships, vessels as aforesaid may pass the dredger on either side.

Two white mast-head anchor lights will also be exhibited by night, one near the stem and one near the stern of the dredger.

The anchor punt, from which will be exhibited a white mast-head anchor light by night, will also be moored in the vicinity of the dredging operations.

Caution.—Mariners and others in charge of vessels passing the dredger must proceed at the slowest possible speed, and must stop propeller engines when passing the dredger’s chains.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Melbourne, 27th March, 1905.

Notice to Mariners No. 35 of 1905.

NEW SIGNAL FLAGSTAFF FOR KARAMEA RIVER.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 11th May, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that a new signal flagstaff has been erected at the North Head of Karamea River entrance. The old flagstaff in the town, which was found to be too far inland, has not been removed, but will not be used in future.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2616; “New Zealand Pilot,” 7th edition, 1901, page 379.

WM. HALL-JONES.