Oct. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3043

Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £500, authorised to be raised by the Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of metalling the Valley Road from the Waitotara Township to the northern boundary of Section 394, Block VIII, Wairoa Survey District, the said Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of 3d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Waitotara-Momohakinui Special-rating District, comprising Sections 297, 298, 299, 305, Block XII; 389, 388, part 390, and northern portion of 394, Block VIII; and 358 and 387, Block IX, Wairoa Survey District: and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of August and the 1st day of February in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-six years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I certify the above to be a copy of the special order made and adopted in reference to the loan of £500 for the Waitotara-Momohakinui Special-rating District at a special meeting held on the 9th day of July, 1907, and confirmed at a meeting held on the 13th day of August, 1907.

F. TRAIN,
Chairman, Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 7th October, 1907.

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

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Treasurer.

HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers in the Te Horo Riding of the Horowhenua County in respect of all rateable properties within the said riding was taken on the 28th day of September, 1907, in the matter of the proposal to borrow from the Colonial Treasurer the sum of £2,000 for the purpose of widening and constructing a road from the Waiohenga Bridge to The Forks on the Gorge Road, Te Horo Riding, and to provide interest and other charges thereon by a special rate of 17/100d. in the pound upon the capital value of all rateable properties in the above riding for a period of forty-one years, at 4 per cent. per annum, and that it is proposed to pay the cost of raising the loan and the first year’s interest out of loan, and the following was the result:—

Number of valid votes recorded .. .. 88
For the proposal .. .. 59
Against the proposal .. .. 29
Informal votes .. .. 2

As the total number of valid votes recorded at the said poll in favour of the said proposal exceeds three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded thereat, I therefore declare the said proposal to have been carried.

JAMES PROUSE,
Chairman, Horowhenua County Council.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 8th October, 1907.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Kawhia County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” in substitution for that already gazetted on page 2767 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1907.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Treasurer.

KAWHIA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

I HEREBY give notice that at the poll held, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” on Saturday, the 21st day of July, 1906, on the proposal to raise a special loan of £2,500 to widen and metal the Awaroa-Mahoe Road,

the following number of votes was polled: For the proposal, 15; against the proposal, 0.

I hereby declare the proposal carried.

WILLIAM J. SHAW,
Chairman, Kawhia County Council.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 8th October, 1907.

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

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Treasurer.

KAWHIA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

I HEREBY give notice that at the poll held, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” on Saturday, the 27th day of October, 1906, on the proposal to raise a special loan of £234 (£250) to form and metal the roads in the Te Puru, Kawhia, and Karewa Townships, the following number of votes was polled: For the proposal, 8; against the proposal, 0.

I hereby declare the proposal carried.

WILLIAM J. SHAW,
Chairman, Kawhia County Council.

Requisition as to taking Land compulsorily under “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its Amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, on behalf of His Majesty, to take compulsorily, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its amendments, the land the acreage, description, and classification of which, as also the names and addresses of the owners of such land, are specified in the Schedule hereto; and every owner of the land, and also every other person having any estate or interest therein, is hereby required to serve their respective claims for compensation on the Minister of Lands, in the form and manner and within the period provided by the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

CULVERDEN ESTATE.

ACREAGE and Description.—All that area, containing 25,155 acres, more or less, known as the Culverden Estate, consisting of Sections 1 to 12, 12, 13 to 17, 17, 18 to 21, 21, 22 to 29, 49, 61 to 63, 75, 76, 76A, 77 to 83, 85 to 101, 105 to 116, 125 to 129, 189 to 232, 234, 237, and 238, Culverden and Mandamus Survey Districts, Canterbury Land District, as shown in certificate of title, Vol. 194, folios 240 and 241.

The Minister’s classification of the land: First-class, 8,910 acres; second-class, 9,883 acres; third-class, 6,362 acres.

The land intended to be taken is the whole of the owners’ interest.

The registered owners are the trustees of Sir J. Cracroft Wilson’s estate, Messrs. E. C. J. Stevens and R. M. Macdonald.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of August, 1907.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Cook County and Pokeno and Tamaki West Road Districts.—Notice No. 1147.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1907.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned local authorities have by special order declared the plants enumerated opposite each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under the jurisdiction of each respectively:—

Local Authorities. Plants.
Cook County Council .. Gorse.
Pokeno Road Board .. Gorse, ragwort, and ox-eye daisy.
Tamaki West Road Board .. Bathurst burr and gorse.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister for Agriculture.