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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 30

Tauranga County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £3,000, authorised to be raised by the Tauranga County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for metalling main roads in the Te Puke Riding of the County of Tauranga, the said Tauranga County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of ¾d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Te Puke Riding, County of Tauranga; 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 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 seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Tauranga was hereunto affixed, this 8th day of April, 1908, in the presence of—

J. A. M. DAVIDSON,
Chairman.

D. J. MCEWEN,
Councillor.

The above special order was made at a special meeting of the Tauranga County Council held on the 10th day of March, 1908, and confirmed at a special meeting of the said Council held on the 8th day of April, 1908.

JNO. H. GRIFFITHS,
County Clerk.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 10th April, 1908.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

In the matter of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” and of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and the Acts amending the same respectively.

We hereby give notice that on the 7th day of April, 1908, a proposal was submitted by the Christchurch City Council to the ratepayers of that part of St Albans Ward of the City of Christchurch named “St. Albans Ward No. 3 Loan Special-rating Area” for raising a special loan of £11,500 for the undermentioned undertakings:—

Construction of concrete channelling and kerbing .. .. .. £6,130
Asphalting footpaths .. .. .. 3,047
Purchase of screenings .. .. .. 610
Construction of culverts .. .. .. 460
Formation of streets and footpaths .. .. 610
Cost of raising the loan, and interest for the first year, and contingencies .. .. 643

£11,500

And that the number of votes recorded respectively for and against the proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 84; against the proposal, 9.

And we declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated the 8th day of April, 1908.

GEORGE PAYLING,
Mayor of the City of Christchurch.

HY. R. SMITH,
Returning Officer.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 13th April, 1908.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Maori Hill, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF MAORI HILL.

In the matter of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” and of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and the Acts amending the same respectively.

Notice is hereby given that at a poll taken on the 9th day of April instant on a proposal of the Council of the said borough to raise a special loan of £2,500 for improvements to the streets in South Ward of the Borough of Maori Hill—the security of the said loan to be the amount to be produced by an annually recurring special rate of not more than ¾d. in the pound on the unimproved value of the rateable property in the said ward; the said loan to be repayable at the expiration of not more than forty-one years from the date of the raising of the said loan, and (if not obtained from the Government) to be raised by the issue of debentures under the said Acts—the following votes were recorded: For the proposal, 119 votes; against the proposal, 80; informal, 1 vote.

There being a majority of votes polled in favour of the proposal, I hereby declare the proposal to be carried.

Dated this 10th day of April, 1908.

S. N. BROWN,
Mayor.

Forbidding the Issue of Money-orders and the Transmission of Correspondence for Sir Robert Bear, Sydney.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in advertising the treatment of diseases of the sexual organs, it is hereby ordered, under section 9 of “The Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1906,” that no money-order in favour of the said person shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his own or any fictitious or assumed name), or to such address without a name, shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

SIR ROBERT BEAR, 16 Park Street, Sydney.

Dated this 9th day of April, 1908.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Postmaster-General.

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 9th April, 1908.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

HELENSVILLE NORTHWARDS RAILWAY.—WELLSFORD STATION BUILDINGS.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Ashton, T. H., Wellsford .. .. 1,217 17 10

Declined.
Frankham, C. H., Ponsonby .. .. 1,569 0 0
Mathieson, J. G., Ponsonby .. .. 1,592 12 6

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 14th April, 1908.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

ERECTI0N OF CUSTOMHOUSE, NELSON.

Accepted.
£ s. d.
Stringer, J. A., Nelson .. .. 2,100 17 8

Declined.
Chamberlain and Stannard, Nelson .. 2,190 16 1