Mar. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 865

Special-rating District, comprising Section 1, Newman Suburbs, Section 1, Newman Township, of Blocks V–VI, Mangaone Survey District, and Section 73 of Block V, Mangaone Survey District; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate, 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 interest to be paid on such loan to be at the rate of 3½ per cent. per annum. The cost of raising the loan and the interest for the first year to be paid out of the loan.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made at a special meeting of the Ekatahuna County Council held on the 11th day of January, 1908, and was duly confirmed at a special meeting held on the 8th day of February, 1908.

Dated at Ekatahuna, the 3rd day of March, 1908.

THOS. MOSS,
Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Ekatahuna County was hereto affixed in our presence on the 8th day of February, 1908.

THOS. MOSS,
Chairman.

R. J. McLEAN,
Clerk.

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

The Treasury,
Wellington, 10th March, 1908.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

OPOTIKI COUNTY COUNCIL.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given, in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act Amendment Act, 1903,” that at a special meeting of the Opotiki County Council held on Saturday, the 25th January, 1908, it was resolved to adopt the following special order :—

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 Opotiki County Council hereby resolves as follows : That, for the purpose of providing the interest at £3 10s. per centum per annum and other charges on a special loan of £5,400 as part of a joint special loan of £6,000 in conjunction with the Opotiki Town Board, authorised to be raised by the Opotiki County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the formation, construction, and metalling of roads in the Opotiki County, the purchase of land required for the said roads or any portion thereof, and generally all things necessary or incidental to the execution and completion of the said works, the Opotiki County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of ½d. in the pound upon the capital value of all rateable property in the Opotiki County, as constituted and defined by “The Whakatane County Act, 1899”; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the 1st day of April 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 resolution will be submitted for confirmation to a special meeting of the Council to be held on Saturday, the 29th day of February, 1908.

F. W. L. KIRK,
County Clerk.

Notice of Intention to take Land in the Suburbs of Auckland for a Police-station.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a police-station at Eden Terrace, Auckland, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Public Works Office, at Auckland, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land required to be taken :—

In the Land District of Auckland; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 23459, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Notice to Mariners No. 17 of 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 7th March, 1908.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Hydrographic Office, Washington, D.C., United States of America, are published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.

WASHINGTON.

UMATILLA REEF LIGHT-VESSEL.—SUBMARINE FOG-BELL ESTABLISHED.—Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 32 (1472) of 1907, further notice is given that about 15th February, 1908, a submarine fog-signal bell will be established on board relief light-vessel No. 76, temporarily marking the station, about 2½ miles S. 61° 30′ W. true (S.W. ⅚ S. mag.) from Umatilla Reef, Flattery Rocks, making off from Cape Alava, sea-coast of Washington, and about 4½ miles west-south-westward from the cape.

This submarine fog-bell will sound, during thick or foggy weather, the number 67 at regular intervals—thus, 6 strokes, silent interval 3 seconds, 7 strokes, silent interval 5 seconds.

When Umatilla relief light-vessel No. 67 is returned to her station, of which due notice will be given, she will also be equipped with a submarine bell, which will strike the station-number as indicated above.

Approx. position : Lat. 48° 9′ 43″ N., long. 124° 50′ 43″ W.

Hydrographic Office Charts.—Nos. 527 and 903.

Coast Survey Charts.—Nos. S, 5052, 6400, 6300, and 6265.

U.S. Lighthouse Board List of Lights on the Pacific Coast, 1907, No. 212. United States Coast Pilot, Pacific Coast, 1903, pages 22, 79, 87, and 122.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

VANCOUVER ISLAND.—SOUTH-WEST COAST.—ESTEVAN POINT.—LIGHT ESTABLISHED.—Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 45 (1987) of 1906, the Canadian Government has given further notice that a temporary fourth-order dioptric intermittent white light every 11 seconds—thus, light 3 seconds, eclipsed 8 seconds—has been established on a wooden platform enclosing a gas-tank, located at the Hole-in-the-Wall, on the south-western extremity of Estevan Point, south-west coast of Vancouver Island. The light is elevated 25 ft. above high water, and should be visible 6 miles.

This light will be maintained until the contemplated lighthouse is constructed and the permanent light established.

Approx. position : Lat. 49° 22′ 5″ N., long. 126° 32′ W.

Hydrographic Office Charts.—Nos. 527, 903, 1450, and 1388.

Coast Survey Charts.—Nos. S and 7000. H.O. Light List, Vol. i, 1907, No. 1259a*. U.S. Lighthouse Board List of Lights on the Pacific Coast, 1907, No. 3, page 76. H.O. Publication No. 96, the Coast of British Columbia, 1907, page 409.

WASHINGTON.

TATOOSH ISLAND.—CAPE FLATTERY LIGHT-STATION.—EXPERIMENTAL LIGHT TO BE EXHIBITED.—About 14th February,