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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

Resignation of Trustee of Dannevirke Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th February, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” and “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” the resignation of

ANDERS HAGENSON, Esq., Dannevirke,

as a Trustee of the Dannevirke Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve. Date of resignation, 19th December, 1906.

ROBERT MCNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Trustee of Dannevirke Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th February, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” and “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” of the appointment of

FRANCIS JOHN KNIGHT, Esq., Dannevirke,

as a Trustee of the Dannevirke Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve, vice Anders Hagenson, Esq., resigned. Appointment to date from 29th December, 1906.

ROBERT MCNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.

Approval of Fees for licensing of Vehicles fixed by By-law, Wairoa County Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1907.

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 311 of “The Counties Act, 1886,” that so much of the By-law No. 6 made by the Wairoa County Council, and sealed on the 12th day of December, 1906, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Wairoa County funds for the licensing of vehicles has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.

Mr. Montgomery to retain the Title of “Honourable.”

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1907.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State, is published for general information.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.

(New Zealand.—Miscellaneous.)

Downing Street, 14th December, 1906.

My LORD,—In reply to Your Lordship’s despatch (No. 90) of the 23rd October last, I have the honour to inform you that His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve of the retention of the title of “Honourable” by Mr. William Montgomery on his retirement from the Legislative Council of the Colony of New Zealand, after a continuous service of more than ten years.

A notification to this effect will be published in the London Gazette.

I have, &c.,
ELGIN.

Governor the Right Honourable
Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., &c.

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

The Treasury,
Wellington, 7th February, 1907.

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

W. HALL-JONES,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.

RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order making Special Rate.—Loan of £100, Union Road.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” the Rangitikei County Council doth hereby resolve as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £100, authorised to be raised by the Rangitikei County Council, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of completing the metalling, a distance of about 60 chains, on the Union Road, between the Makirikiri Road and the Bull’s-Turakina Road, and the cost of raising the loan to be paid out of the loan, the said Rangitikei County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of ⅓d. in the pound sterling upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property of the Union Special-rating District, comprising Sections 46A, part 52, and part 58 (containing in all 279 acres 1 rood 13 perches, assessed to Fullerton-Smith and Miles), and Sections 56 and 57, all in Block I; Sections parts 31 (102 acres assessed to D. McLean and 100½ acres to A. Poppe), also part 31, 34, part 35, and 57A (containing in all 155½ acres, and assessed to J. Gair), all being in Block II; Sections part 37 in Block V, and part 38 in Block VI (containing together 105 acres and 33 perches, and assessed to J. Davey), and part Section 58, Block V (400 acres assessed to late W. B. Rhodes’s trustees), all being in the Rangitoto Survey District: and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable in one sum on the 1st day of May 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, the interest on such loan being at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum.

I, Reginald Edward Beckett, Chairman of the Rangitikei County Council, do hereby certify that the above special order was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the Rangitikei County Council held on the 19th day of December, 1906, and was duly confirmed at a special meeting of the said Rangitikei County Council held on the 2nd day of February, 1907.

In testimony whereof the common seal of the Rangitikei County Council has been hereunto affixed.

Dated this 2nd day of February, 1907.

R. E. BECKETT,
Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Rangitikei was hereunto affixed on the 2nd day of February, 1907, in the presence of—

HAROLD H. RICHARDSON,
County Clerk.