MAY 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1349

And we do hereby declare the above proposal to be carried.
Dated at Auckland, this 10th day of May, 1906.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Mayor of the City of Auckland.
THOS. USSHER,
Returning Officer.

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CITY OF AUCKLAND.

“The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and the Amendments thereof, and “The Local Elections Act, 1904.”

Proposal of the Auckland City Council—to wit, for the purpose of enabling the Auckland City Council to provide the necessary funds for the erection of a traffic-bridge, as authorised by “The Auckland Cemetery Bridge and City Borrowing Act, 1905,” over that portion of the Symonds Street Cemetery described in the Schedule to the last-mentioned Act, in reinforced ferro-concrete, at a cost of £30,000—to borrow a sum not exceeding £30,000, at a rate of interest not exceeding £4½ per cent. per annum, upon the security of the revenues of the City of Auckland, subject to the existing loans chargeable on such revenues, and to make such loan repayable in twenty-one years, and to make provision for the payment of a sinking fund of at least £½ per cent. per annum, and to pay out of the loan such costs, charges, and expenses as the Auckland City Council may determine to have been actually incurred in connection with such loan and the interest thereon for the first year.

We hereby give notice that the number of valid votes recorded at the poll held on the 9th day of May, 1906, in respect of the above proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 1,368; against the proposal, 1,097; majority for the proposal, 271.

And we do hereby declare the above proposal to be carried.
Dated at Auckland, this 10th day of May, 1906.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Mayor of the City of Auckland.
THOS. USSHER,
Returning Officer.

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CITY OF AUCKLAND.

“The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and the Amendments thereof, and “The Local Elections Act, 1904.”

Proposal of the Auckland City Council—to wit, for the purpose of enabling the Auckland City Council to provide the necessary funds for the erection of a bridge for the use of foot passengers over such portions of the Symonds Street Cemetery and the lands adjacent thereto as was traversed by the former bridge, called or known as the Cemetery Bridge, and recently pulled down—to borrow a sum not exceeding £2,000, at a rate of interest not exceeding £4½ per cent. per annum, upon the security of the revenues of the City of Auckland, subject to the existing loans chargeable on such revenues, and to make such loan repayable in twenty-one years, and to make provision for the payment of a sinking fund of at least £1 per cent. per annum, and to pay out of the loan such costs, charges, and expenses as the Auckland City Council may determine to have been actually incurred in connection with such loan and the interest thereon for the first year.

We hereby give notice that the number of valid votes recorded at the poll held on the 9th day of May, 1906, in respect of the above proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 1,370; against the proposal, 1,035; majority for the proposal, 335.

And we do hereby declare the above proposal to be carried.
Dated at Auckland, this 10th day of May, 1906.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Mayor of the City of Auckland.
THOS. USSHER,
Returning Officer.

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CITY OF AUCKLAND.

“The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and the Amendments thereof, and “The Local Elections Act, 1904.”

Proposal of the Auckland City Council—to wit, for the purpose of enabling the Auckland City Council to provide the necessary funds for the erection of additional buildings in Victoria Park, Auckland—to borrow a sum not exceeding £2,000, at a rate of interest not exceeding £4½ per cent. per annum, upon the security of the revenues of the City of Auckland, subject to the existing loans chargeable on such revenues, and to make such loan repayable in twenty-one years, and to make provision for the payment of a sinking fund of £½ per cent. per annum, and to pay out of the loan such costs, charges, and expenses as the Auckland City Council may determine to have been actually incurred in connection with such loan, but not to pay out of the loan the interest thereon for the first year.

We hereby give notice that the number of valid votes recorded at the poll held on the 9th day of May, 1906, in respect of the above proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 1,478; against the proposal, 977; majority for the proposal, 501.

And we do hereby declare the above proposal to be carried.
Dated at Auckland, this 10th day of May, 1906.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Mayor of the City of Auckland.
THOMAS USSHER,
Returning Officer.

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Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

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The Treasury,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1906.

THE following notices, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Westport, are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Treasurer.

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I, GEORGE HARGREAVES GOTHARD, Mayor of the Borough of Westport, in the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, pursuant to the provisions of section 13 of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” give notice that on the 17th day of May, 1906, a poll was taken, under the provisions of the said Act, on a proposal of the Council of the said borough to borrow by way of special loan, under the provisions of the said Act, the sum of £1,620, a copy of which proposal is next hereinafter set out:—

WESTPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The Council of the Borough of Westport hereby gives public notice that such Council proposes to borrow (by way of special loan within the meaning of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and its amendments) the sum of £1,620, to be expended in the repayment of the liability incurred by way of overdraft towards the cost of completing the Corporation waterworks.

The Council proposes to pledge a special rate of ¼d. in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property within the Borough of Westport as security for the said loan of £1,620 and the interest and other charges thereon.

It is proposed that the whole amount of the loan shall repayable at the expiration of a term not exceeding forty-one years, to be computed from the date of raising the loan.

It is proposed to pay out of the loan the cost of raising the loan and the interest thereon for the first year.

Dated this 31st day of March, 1906.

A. D. G. CUMMING,
Town Clerk.

And I also give notice that the number of votes recorded upon the taking of the said poll for and against the said proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 269; against the proposal, 125; informal, 15: majority for the proposal, 144. And it being provided by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” that in the case of a borough a majority of the total votes recorded shall suffice to carry the proposal, I hereby give further notice that the said proposal of the Council of the Borough of Westport was duly carried upon the taking of such poll.

GEO. H. GOTHARD,
Mayor of the Borough of Westport.

I, George Hargreaves Gothard, of the Town of Westport, Ironmonger, Mayor of the Borough of Westport, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

1. That all the proceedings required by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” in or towards obtaining the sanction of the ratepayers of the Borough of Westport to a proposal of the Council of the said borough to borrow the sum of £1,620 by way of special loan, under the provisions of the said Act, which proposal is set out in the voting-paper, have been duly taken.

2. That upon a poll of the said ratepayers taken on the said proposal on the 17th day of May, 1906, the said proposal was duly carried within the meaning of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

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.”

GEO. H. GOTHARD.

Declared at Westport, this 19th day of May, 1906, before me—Wm. Gothard, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand.