SEPT. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2455

BOROUGH OF MOUNT EDEN.

“The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and the Amendments thereof, and “The Local Elections Act, 1904.”

PROPOSAL of the Mount Eden Borough Council, to wit:—

1. The particular undertakings proposed to be engaged in: The completion of the reconstruction and re-metalling of the two main roads of the borough—namely, Mount Eden and Dominion Roads; the tarring and sanding of the footpaths of such roads; and the widening of the approaches to the railway-bridge on the north-east side of Dominion Road.
   (2.) That the Mount Eden Borough Council, being unable to provide the necessary funds for such works out of the ordinary revenue of the Borough of Mount Eden, and the loan of £13,000 authorised by a poll of the burgesses taken on the 10th day of August, 1907, being insufficient for such purpose, proposes to borrow an additional sum of £4,500, at a rate of interest not exceeding £4½ per centum per annum.
   (3.) That the proposed security for the repayment of such loan shall be the revenues of the Borough of Mount Eden (subject to the existing loans chargeable on such revenue), and excepting special rates now levied as security for special water loans.
   (4.) That the Mount Eden Borough Council proposes to make such loan repayable in fifteen years from the 1st day of October, 1907.
   (5.) That the Mount Eden Borough Council proposes to pay out of the loan such costs, charges, and expenses as the said Council may determine to have been actually incurred in connection with such loan, but does not propose to pay thereout the interest on such loan for the first year.

We hereby give notice that the number of valid votes recorded at the poll held on the 14th day of December, 1907, in respect of the above proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 208; against the proposal, 31.

And as the number of votes recorded for the proposal is a majority of the total votes recorded at the poll, we hereby declare the proposal to be carried.

OLIVER NICHOLSON,
Mayor of the Borough of Mount Eden.

E. B. ALEXANDER,
Returning Officer.

Dated at Auckland, this 14th day of December, 1907.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of a Road through Waipuka Nos. 1, 2, and 3, and Waimarama No. 3 Blocks, Blocks IV, V, VIII, and X, Kidnapper Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 93 of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was on the 16th July, 1908, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 23rd June, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister in Charge of Roads Department.

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Notice to Mariners No. 68 of 1908.

FOG-SIGNAL, GODLEY HEAD.—ENTRANCE TO LYTTLETON HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th September, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that on and after Monday, 5th October, 1908, the following fog-signals will be sounded from a position on a ledge of rocks about 60 ft. above sea-level, half a cable south of Godley Head Lighthouse.

The signals consist of explosions of cotton-powder charges at intervals of five minutes, and will be made when the land is likely to be obscured at a distance of about three miles from seaward by either fog, mist, falling snow, or continuous rain.

It is anticipated that these sound-signals will be heard at any distance under ten miles, varying according to the state of the atmosphere and the force and direction of the wind.

Special warnings to mariners concerning fog-signals published by the Board of Trade are as follows:—
“Sound is conveyed in a very capricious way through the atmosphere. Apart from wind, large areas of silence have been found in different directions and different distances from the signals, in some instances even when in close proximity to the sound-signal.
“‘The mariner should not assume—
‘1. That he is out of ordinary hearing-distance because he fails to hear the sound.
‘2. That because he hears a fog-signal faintly that he is at a great distance from it.
‘3. That he is near it because he hears the sound plainly.
‘4. That the distance from and the intensity of the sound on any one occasion is a guide to him for any future occasion.
‘5. That the fog-signal has ceased sounding because he does not hear it even when in close proximity.’”

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1999 and 2529; “New Zealand Pilot,” seventh edition, 1901, Chap. viii, page 276; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1908, page 161.

J. A. MILLAR.

Notice to Mariners No. 69 of 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 14th September, 1908.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the President of the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, are published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.

GULF ST. VINCENT.—ENTRANCE TO PORT ADELAIDE RIVER.—OCCLUDING LIGHT BUOY.

MASTERS of vessels, pilots, and others are hereby notified that on and after the 18th instant the following alterations will be made at the entrance to the Port Adelaide River:—

The red buoy with occulting white light will be moved nine hundred feet W. by N. ½ N. from its present position, and three of the temporary buoys referred to in Notice to Mariners No. 17 of 1908 (2 red and 1 black) will be removed. The light on the Old Port Lighthouse will then bear E. by N. two thousand six hundred feet distant. The occulting light buoy will be moored in about twenty-five feet of water O.L.W.S. The temporary black buoy on the north bank will for the present be retained.

Vessels bound inward should, before passing the occulting light buoy, bring the beacons or lights of No. 0 lead in line (N. 74° E.) and keep them in line until No. 1 lead comes on, then proceed as directed in previous notices.

The sailing directions for the outer harbour remain unchanged.

This affects Admiralty Charts 2389B and 1752.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 7th August, 1908.

BACKSTAIRS PASSAGE.—KANGAROO ISLAND.—CAPE ST. ALBANS LIGHT.

Masters of vessels and others are hereby informed that on or about 1st December, 1908, a fixed light will be exhibited