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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

We hereby give notice that on the 26th day of June, 1907,
a proposal was submitted by the Christchurch City Council
to the ratepayers of the Sydenham Ward of the City of
Christchurch for raising a special loan of £13,000 for the
purpose of constructing waterworks to complete the reticu-
lation of the said ward with water-mains for the supply of
pure water for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the
said ward, and that the number of votes recorded for and
against the proposal was as follows: For, 246; against, 246.
And we declare the said proposal to be rejected.

GEORGE PAYLING,
Mayor.
GEORGE W. HULME,
Substitute Returning Officer.

Dated this 27th day of June, 1907, City Council Chambers,
Christchurch.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 8th July, 1907.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Geraldine County Council, is published in accord-
ance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1901.”

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Treasurer.

GERALDINE COUNTY COUNCIL.

In the matter of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and
the several Acts amending the same; and in the matter
of the following proposal, that is to say:—

THAT the Geraldine County Council shall raise a loan of
£8,000, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans
Act, 1901,” for the following undertakings, and that the
sum to be borrowed for each of the said undertakings shall
be as follows—

Reconstructing Rangitata Bridge .. .. £2,000
Reconstructing Opihi Bridge on main road
between Temuka and Timaru .. .. 5,000
Erection of bridge over Opihi at Hanging Rock 1,000
———
£8,000

the said loan being granted for two successive years’ expendi-
ture.

And, further, that the proposed security for the said loan
shall be a special rate of ⅓d. in the pound upon the rateable
valuations of all rateable property in the County of Geraldine,
and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring
rate during the currency of the said loan.

And, further, that the said loan shall be for a period of
twenty-six years, and that the rate of interest shall be 5 per
cent., subject to the provisions of the said Act; that at the
expiration of the period during which interest is payable
the liability of the County Council shall cease without
further payment.

And, further, that it is not proposed to pay out of the
loan the cost of raising the same or the interest for the
first year.

Notice is hereby given that the number of valid votes
recorded at the poll of the ratepayers of the Geraldine
County taken on Tuesday, the 25th day of June, 1907, for
and against the above-mentioned proposal is as follows:
For the loan, 476 votes; against the loan, 58 votes.

As the number of valid votes recorded in favour of the
proposal is in excess of three-fifths of the total number of
valid votes recorded at the poll. I, John Talbot, Chairman
of the Geraldine County Council, do hereby declare the pro-
posal carried.

Dated this 1st day of July, 1907.

JOHN TALBOT,
Chairman of Geraldine County Council.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 8th July, 1907.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Christchurch Drainage Board, is published in accord-
ance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1901.”

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Treasurer.

CHRISTCHURCH DRAINAGE BOARD.

“The Local Elections Act, 1904,” and “The Christchurch
District Drainage Act 1875 Amendment Act, 1905.”

We hereby give notice that on the 20th day of June, 1907,
proposals were submitted by the Christchurch Drainage
Board to a poll of the ratepayers in the Districts of Rich-
mond, St. Albans, Linwood, Sydenham No. 1 (East), and
Sydenham No. 2 (West) that the sewerage-area of the Christ-
church Drainage District be enlarged by taking in those
portions of the Christchurch Drainage District particulars
of which were advertised in the Lyttelton Times newspaper
on the 5th day of June, 1907, and that the votes recorded
respectively for and against the said proposals were as
follows:—

District of Richmond.—For, 9; against, 7.
District of St. Albans.—For, 36; against, 10.
District of Linwood.—For, 53; against, 34.
Sydenham District No. 1.—For, 29; against, 24.
Sydenham District No. 2.—For, 3; against, 3.

As in the Districts of Richmond, St. Albans, Linwood,
and Sydenham No. 1 the votes recorded in favour of the
respective proposals exceeded the number of votes recorded
against the same, the proposals in respect of the said districts
we declare to be carried. As in the District of Sydenham
No. 2 the number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal
did not exceed the number of votes against the same, we
declare the proposal not carried.

Dated this 21st day of June, 1907.

WALTER HILL,
Chairman of the Christchurch Drainage Board.
GEORGE W. HULME,
Substitute Returning Officer.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 9th July, 1907.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Carrington Road Board, is published in accordance
with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Treasurer.

CARRINGTON ROAD DISTRICT.

£2,700 Special Loan.

WHEREAS the voting of ratepayers of the Carrington Road
District on loan proposals at poll taken on the 4th July,
1907, is as follows:—

Total valid votes recorded, 121; votes in favour of pro-
posal, 95; votes against proposal, 26.

The required three-fifths majority being in favour, I
therefore declare the loan proposals duly carried.

CHRISTOPHER CARTER,
Chairman.

Notice of Determination of Order in Council authorising the
Christchurch Exhibition Tramway.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the second
day of October, one thousand nine hundred and six,
the Christchurch Tramway Board was empowered to
construct, maintain, and use an electric tramway, com-
mencing at the intersection of Victoria Street and Peter-
borough Street, thence westerly along the latter street to its
junction with Park Terrace, thence northerly along Park
Terrace to its junction with Salisbury Street, thence easterly
along that street to its intersection with Victoria Street:
And whereas clause 44 of the said Order in Council provides
that, as soon as possible after the New Zealand International
Exhibition has been closed, the Christchurch Tramway
Board shall take up and remove the tramway and make
good the roads, and thereupon the Order in Council afore-
said shall be deemed to be determined by effluxion of time;
And whereas the said Exhibition has been closed, and the
Christchurch Tramway Board has taken up and removed
the said tramway and made good the roads:

Now, therefore, I, James McGowan, the Minister acting
for the Minister for Public Works, in exercise and pursu-
ance of the said clause, do hereby declare that the said
Order in Council has been duly determined by effluxion of
time.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this sixth day of
July, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.