Jan. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 277

Cancellation of Appointments of Trustees, Ashburton Drill-shed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to cancel, under “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” and “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” the appointments of Trustees to the Ashburton Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve, published in the New Zealand Gazette, Nos. 17 of 5th March, 1891, 65 of 1st September, 1898, and 73 of 3rd August, 1905, as from 16th January, 1908.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Defence.

Cancellation of Appointments of Trustees, Hastings Drill-shed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to cancel, under “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” and “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” the appointments of Trustees to the Hastings Volunteer Drill-shed Reserve, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 69, of 3rd September, 1903, as from 16th January, 1908.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Defence.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th January, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

ROBERT MCNAB,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

The Treasury,
Wellington, 16th January, 1908.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

PAHIATUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order striking Special Rate.—Loan 77.

THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” the Pahiatua County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of £300, authorised to be raised by the Pahiatua County Council, under the above-named Act, for metalling about one mile of Eglinton Road, the said Pahiatua County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1½d. in the pound upon the unimproved rateable value of all rateable property in the Eglinton Road Special-rating District, comprising the following sections—Reserve 33 and Section 7, Block XII, Mangahao, and part Section 3 and Section 4, Block VIII, Makuri; 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, at 4 per cent. per annum, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the Pahiatua County Council on the 7th day of December, 1907, and confirmed at a meeting of the said Council on the 4th day of January, 1908.

THOMAS HODGINS,
County Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 16th January, 1908.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

I, JAMES HORACE GREENWOOD, Mayor of the Borough of Westport, in the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, pursuant to the provisions of section 13 of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” give you notice that on the 9th day of January, 1908, a poll was taken, under the provisions of the said Act, on a proposal of the Council of the said borough to borrow by way of special loan, under the provisions of the said Act, the sum of £5,000, a copy of which proposal is next hereinafter set out:—

WESTPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Proposed Special Loan of £5,000.

The Westport Borough Council hereby gives public notice that such Council propose to borrow, by way of special loan within the meaning of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and of all other powers (if any) enabling the Council in that behalf, the sum of £5,000, to be expended in the extension and enlargement of the Corporation gasworks.

The Council proposes to make and pledge an annual-recurring special rate of ½d. in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property within the Borough of Westport as security for the said loan of £5,000 and the interest thereon and the sinking fund in connection therewith.

It is proposed that the whole amount of the loan shall be repayable on the expiration of twenty years, computed from the 14th day of November, 1907. It is not proposed to pay out of the loan the cost of raising the loan, or the first year’s interest thereon.

Dated at Westport, this 13th day of November, 1907.

A. D. G. CUMMING,
Town Clerk.

And I also give you notice that the number of votes recorded upon the taking of the said poll for and against the proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 75; against the proposal, 10; majority for the proposal, 65.

And it being provided by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” that in the case of a borough a majority of the total votes recorded shall suffice to carry the proposal, I hereby give further notice that the said proposal of the Council of the Borough of Westport was duly carried upon the taking of such poll.

J. H. GREENWOOD,
Mayor of the Borough of Westport.

I, James Horace Greenwood, of the Town of Westport, Bookseller and Stationer, Mayor of the Borough of Westport, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

1. That all the proceedings required by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” in or towards obtaining the sanction of the ratepayers of the Borough of Westport to a proposal of the Council of the said borough to borrow the sum of £5,000 by way of special loan, under the provisions of the said Act.

2. That upon a poll of the said ratepayers taken on the said proposal on the 9th day of January, 1908, the said proposal was duly carried within the meaning of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justice of the Peace Act, 1882.”

J. H. GREENWOOD.

Declared at Westport, this 13th day of January, 1908, before me—T. Bailie, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Dominion of New Zealand.