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CERTIFIED COPY.

At a special meeting of the Makerua Drainage Board held at Tokomaru on the 15th day of December, 1906, the following special order was duly made, and was confirmed at a subsequent special meeting held at Tokomaru on the 1st day of February, 1907, as adjourned from the 26th day of January, 1907:

MAKERUA DRAINAGE BOARD.

Special Order making Special Rate.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by "The Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1901," the Makerua Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows : That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £6,000, authorised to be raised by the Makerua Drainage Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of constructing in part and reconstructing in part a drain to be known as the main drain from the Manawatu River to a junction with the Mangaone Creek, and for improving, widening, and deepening the Tokomaru Stream from Section 56 to the Manawatu River, the said Makerua Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1¼d. in the pound upon the rateable value of the rateable property of the Makerua Drainage District, comprising the said sections and blocks—viz., Sections 15 to 34 (both inclusive), Sections 42 to 57 (both inclusive), and 31 acres 3 roods 13 perches and £285 valuation of Section 136, and 46 acres 1 rood 21 perches and £465 valuation of Section 137, all in Block I, Arawaru Survey District, Counties of Kaikoura and Horowhenua; Sections 3, 4, 5, and 65 acres and £625 valuation of Section 6, and 20 acres and £166 valuation of Section 7, in Block VIII, Mount Robinson Survey District; and 20 acres and £250 valuation of Section 2, 12 acres and £110 valuation of Section 3, and 40 acres and £420 valuation of Sections 4, 5, and 9, and 10 acres and £105 valuation of Section 10, all in Block XII, Mount Robinson Survey District; and 317 acres and £3,459 valuation of Sections 6B and 7, and Section P, in Block XI, Mount Robinson Survey District; and the Kakerua Estate: excepting 1,961 acres and £7,479 valuation in Blocks VIII and XI, Mount Robinson Survey District, County of Horowhenua: and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August 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 said special order to be confirmed at a special meeting of the Board to be held on the 26th day of January, 1907.

By order.

H. GREIG,

Chairman.

24th December, 1906.

I, Edward John Armstrong, of Palmerston North, Clerk and Engineer to the Makerua Drainage Board, duly appointed, do hereby certify that the preceding special order and statement of facts is a true and complete copy of the said special order and of the facts relating thereto as extracted from the Board's minute-book.

Dated this 18th day of February, 1907.

As witness my hand.

E. J. ARMSTRONG, C.E.

Palmerston North, 18th February, 1907.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of a Road through Section 20, Block III, Wairere Survey District, Piako County.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, that, in pursuance of the rights reserved to the Crown in certificate of title, Volume 21, folio 234, in the Registration District of Auckland, the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 14th October, 1906, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by Warrant dated the 24th February, 1906.

SCHEDULE.

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All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Dated this 13th day of February, 1907.

WM. HALL-JONES,

Minister for Public Works

Approving and Appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by "The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882," I, the Minister of Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the undermentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely:

Port of Dunedin.

A building of brick and stone, roofed with slates, situate on Sections 10 and 11, Block 39, Bond Street, to be known as DENNISTON'S BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. A. MILLAR,

Minister of Customs.

Minister's Order No. 833.]

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Shops in the Borough of Ross under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the Borough of Ross, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all shops in the borough shall be closed at 8 o'clock p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays (except butchers, who shall close at 7 p.m.), at 10 o'clock p.m. on Saturdays and at 1 o'clock p.m. on Wednesdays (the statutory half-holiday): And whereas the Ross Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops within the borough:

Now, therefore, I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of "The Shops and Offices Act, 1904," and section 5 of "The Shops and Offices Act Amendment Act, 1905," do hereby direct that from and after the 1st day of March, 1907, all shops in the Ross Borough shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of February, 1907.

J. A. MILLAR,

Minister of Labour.

Notice as to Statutory Closing-day under "The Shops and Offices Act, 1904."

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by "The Shops and Offices Act, 1904," and in terms of notice in writing duly received by me from the Chairman of the Conference of Delegates of all the local authorities of the Combined District of Whangarei and Kamo, as constituted for the purposes of that Act, and comprising the Borough of Whangarei and the Town District of Kamo, I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint Thursday to be the statutory closing-day for shops in the said Combined District of Whangarei and Kamo.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of February, 1907.

J. A. MILLAR,

Minister of Labour.

Notice as to Statutory Closing-day under "The Shops and Offices Act, 1904."

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by "The Shops and Offices Act, 1904," and in terms of notice in writing duly received by me from the Chairman of the Conference of Delegates of all the local authorities of the Combined District of Auckland, as constituted for the purposes of that Act, and comprising the City of Auckland and the Boroughs of Parnell, Newmarket, Grey Lynn, and Mount Eden, I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Labour, do hereby appoint Wednesday to be the statutory closing-day for shops in the said Combined District of Auckland.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of February, 1907.

J. A. MILLAR,

Minister of Labour.