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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 7

Volunteer Officer promoted.

Defence Office,

Wellington, 23rd August, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the promotion of the undermentioned officer:-

No. 2 Battalion, Wellington (Wairarapa) Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Captain Samuel Bolton to be Major. Date of commission, 7th June, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,

Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,

Wellington, 23rd August, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments:-

Wakatipu Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

William Cumming to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 6th June, 1906.

Geraldine Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Edward Harris to be Captain. Date of commission, 6th June, 1906.

ALBERT PITT,

Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,

Wellington, 23rd August, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commissions held by the undermentioned officers:-

No. 3 Battalion, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant (Pay- and Quarter-master) Charles Ernest Randolph Mackesy. Date of resignation, 20th July, 1906.

Piako Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Captain Henry John Clifford. Date of resignation, 28th June, 1906.

Pahiatua Rifle Volunteers.

Captain William Tosswill. Date of resignation, 27th July, 1906.

ALBERT PITT,

Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Cadet Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,

Wellington, 27th August, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under clause 39, (3), of "The Defence Act, 1886," of the disbandment of the undermentioned Volunteer corps:-

St. Mary's Orphanage Defence Rifle Cadet Volunteers, with headquarters at Stoke, Nelson. Date of disbandment, 7th June, 1906.

ALBERT PITT,

Minister of Defence.

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

The Treasury,

Wellington, 25th August, 1906.

THE following special order, made by the Whangarei County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901."

J. G. WARD,

Colonial Treasurer.

WHANGAREI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order.

In the matter of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901," and its amendments, "The Counties Act, 1886," and its amendments, and "The Rating Act, 1894," and its amendments.

In pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901," and its amendments, and of all other powers it thereto enabling, the Whangarei County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £4,000, authorised to be raised by the Whangarei County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for metalling the main county roads in the Mangapai Riding Special-rating District, the said Whangarei County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 3d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Mangapai Riding Special-rating District, comprising the whole of the Road Districts of Waikiekie and Ruarangi; Sections 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, S.E. 70, 71, 72, 66, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 84, 85, 142, 86, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 135, 135A, 100, 132, 133, 79, 131, of the Parish of Maungakaramea; and all that area forming part of the Mangapai Outlying District of the Riding and Parish of Mangapai-bounded commencing at the south-eastern corner of Native Reserve No. 6676; towards the south by portion of the eastern boundary-line of the Parish of Ruarangi; towards the west generally by the said Ruarangi Parish line continued to its intersection with the southern boundary-line of the Parish of Maungakaramea; towards the north generally by said southern boundary-line of the Parish of Maungakaramea in an easterly direction to the Mangapai River; and towards the east generally by the Mangapai River, and by Sections 29, 28, 25, 26, 35, 36, and 37 of the said Parish of Mangapai to the commencing-point of the said Native Reserve No. 6676: and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be paid half-yearly on the 16th day of April and the 16th day of October 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.

Dated this 15th day of August, 1906.

G. H. MINCHIN,

Chairman.

The common seal of the body corporate known as the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Whangarei was hereto affixed and impressed, this 15th day of August, 1906, in the presence of-

FREDK. McDONALD,

W. A. KERR,

Councillors.

J. McKINNON,

County Clerk.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,

Wellington, 25th August, 1906.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Hutt River Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901."

J. G. WARD,

Colonial Treasurer.

HUTT RIVER BOARD.

Declaration by Chairman.

Notice is hereby given that a poll of the ratepayers of the Hutt River District was duly taken on Tuesday, the 21st day of August, 1906, upon the following proposal:-

PROPOSAL TO BORROW £10,000.

In the matter of "The River Boards Act, 1884," and of "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901," and the amendments thereof respectively.

Notice is hereby given that the Hutt River Board proposes to borrow, on the security of a special rate of 8d. in the pound to be made and levied within the Hutt River District on Class 1 of the lands within the said district (being the lands liable to great actual damage), and a special rate of 5d. in the pound to be made and levied within the said district on Class 2 of the said lands (being the lands liable to less actual damage), and a special rate of 1d. in the pound to be made and levied within the said district on Class 3 of the said lands (being the lands indirectly liable to damage), an additional sum of £10,000 for the construction of further protective works in the said district (including an embankment across the western branch of the Hutt River at or near White's Line, and thence through Gear Island and recrossing the aforesaid western branch of the Hutt River near the Pipe Bridge), and the acquisition of land in connection with the carrying-out of the Board's works, and the payment of compensation to any persons in connection with the existing river-protective works or the said further works, and the paying of engineering and other expenses and contingencies in connection with the said loan of £10,000; and that the said loan be borrowed for a period of twenty-six years; and that the said special rate be set apart for providing the interest at such rate as may be decided upon, not exceeding £5 per