May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1491

Works Act, 1905,” doth hereby raise and borrow from the Colonial Treasurer, under Part II of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” a special loan of £3,000 for the purpose of providing the Council’s share of the cost of constructing that bridge over the Waihou River at Te Aroha at the foot of Kenrick Street, Te Aroha, and approaches thereto, as set forth in the Governor’s Warrant gazetted on page 916 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1908; the proposed security for which loan shall be a special annual-recurring rate for forty-one years of 5d. in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of annual value) of the rateable property in the Borough of Te Aroha, such providing interest at 3½ per cent. per annum, which being paid for the period aforesaid pays off the loan, and is the provision for repayment thereof; and the cost of raising such loan shall be paid thereout, but not the interest for the first year.

SPECIAL ORDER NO. 2.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and by section 118 of “The Public Works Act, 1905,” the Te Aroha Borough 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 said Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, from the Colonial Treasurer for a period of forty-one years at 3½ per cent. per annum, for the purpose of providing the said Council’s share of the cost of constructing that bridge over the Waihou River at Te Aroha at the foot of Kenrick Street, Te Aroha, and approaches thereto, as set forth in the Governor’s Warrant gazetted on page 916 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1908, the said Te Aroha Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 5d. in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of annual value) of all rateable property of the Te Aroha Borough, comprising all lands within the boundaries thereof gazetted on page 686 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1898; 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 April and the 1st day of October 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. I hereby certify that the above special orders were duly adopted at a special meeting of the Te Aroha Borough Council held on the 1st day of April, 1908, and were duly confirmed at a special meeting of the Council held on the 30th day of April, 1908.

R. L. SOMERS,
Mayor.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 18th May, 1908.

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,
Minister of Finance.

KAWHIA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

I HEREBY give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Kawhia County whose properties are within the Mahoenui-Kawhia Road Special-rating District, taken on the 18th day of January, 1908, upon the proposal of the Kawhia County Council to borrow, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” a sum of £2,500 for forty-one years at 4 per cent. for the purpose of widening and metalling the Mahoenui-Kawhia Road, the number of votes recorded for and against the said proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 13; against the proposal, 2.

The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby declare the proposal carried.

Dated at Kawhia, this 6th day of May, 1908.

WILLIAM J. SHAW,
Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 18th May, 1908.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

AKAROA COUNTY COUNCIL.

I HEREBY certify that the following is the result of a poll of ratepayers on a proposal to raise a loan of £2,000, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purposes of building a wharf on the foreshore of Akaroa Harbour near “The Gap,” Onawe Peninsula, also goods-shed, &c., and road-approaches on both Duvauchelle’s and Barry’s Bay sides of the said peninsula: For the proposal, 53 votes; against the same, 17 votes.

The number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded, I hereby declare the said proposal to be carried.

W. D. WILKINS,
Returning Officer.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 19th May, 1908.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF ALEXANDRA.

Notice of Result of Poll on Loan.

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

I HEREBY give notice that on the 7th day of May, 1908, a proposal was submitted by the Alexandra Borough Council to the ratepayers of the Borough of Alexandra for raising a special loan of £1,200 for the purpose of providing a water-supply for the domestic and general use of the inhabitants of the said borough by the construction of water-race, dams, pipe-lines, and other necessary work in connection with water-race held by the said borough out of Butcher’s Gully under License No. 1008A, and to make an annually recurring rate of 3d. in the pound on the annual value of all rateable property in the said borough as security for the interest and other charges in connection with such loan.

The whole of the loan is to be borrowed from the Colonial Treasurer under Part II of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and to bear interest at the rate of 3½ per centum per annum for a period of forty-one years. At the expiration of the period during which interest is payable the liability of the borough shall cease without further payment. It is not proposed to pay out of loan-moneys the cost of raising the loan or the first year’s interest of the loan during the construction of the said works.

And that the number of votes recorded respectively for and against the proposal was as follows: For, 82; against, 4; informal, 1.

And I declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated the 8th day of May, 1908.

HENRY SCHAUMANN,
Mayor of the Borough of Alexandra.

Forbidding Money-order and Correspondence for Mons Gourand, Melbourne.

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.

Mons. GOURAND, 82 Little Flinders Street, Melbourne.

Dated this 15th day of May, 1908.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Postmaster-General.