Nov. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2919

COUNTY OF BRUCE.

Special Order made 1st day of October, and confirmed on the 2nd day of November, 1909.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” the Bruce County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of £500, authorised to be raised by the Bruce County Council, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and its amendments, for the formation of a road through Waitahuna East, Hillend, and Table Hill Survey Districts to Manuka Creek Railway-station, the said Bruce County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of ⅜d. in the pound upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property of that portion of Balmoral and Mount Stuart Ridings comprising Sections 14, 15, Block XI, Waitahuna East; and Sections 15, 19, Block VII, Sections 6, 9, Block IX, Hillend Survey District; Lot 1A, Barnego Settlement; Lot 22, parts 22, Manuka Island Estate; Lots 4, 6, 8, 9A, 10, 13, Roxburgh Estate; Lots 19, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, Blackburn Settlement: and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, and the interest to be at the rate of 3½ per cent. per annum.

ARTHUR S. BROWNE,
County Clerk.

Special Order made by the Hunterville Town Board.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 8th November, 1909.

THE following special order, made by the Hunterville Town Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.”

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

SPECIAL ORDER MADE BY THE HUNTERVILLE TOWN BOARD.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a special meeting of the Hunterville Town Board, held at the Board’s office, Bruce Street, Hunterville, on the 16th day of August, 1909, it was resolved that, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” and its amendments, and all other powers and authorities enabling it in that behalf, the Hunterville Town Board doth hereby resolve by special order: That, for the purpose of providing interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a special loan of £1,500, authorised to be raised, under “The Town Boards Act, 1908,” and its amendments, and “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” and its amendments, for the purpose of completing and extending works for the supply of water to the Hunterville Town District, and works of drainage and sewerage in the said town district, the said Hunterville Town Board makes and levies a special rate of ⅞d. in the pound sterling on the capital value of all rateable property within the Hunterville Town District; such rate to be an annual-recurring rate, payable annually on the 1st day of July in every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-one years from the 1st day of August, 1909, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Hunterville Town Board was hereto affixed at the office of and pursuant to a resolution of the Commissioners in the presence of—

WM. MELDRUM,
Chairman.

ROBT. B. COLE,
Commissioner.

FRED. MARSHALL,
Clerk.

I, Frederick Marshall, do hereby certify that the foregoing special order was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the Hunterville Town Board held on the 16th day of August, 1909, and was duly confirmed at a special meeting of the said Board held on the 13th day of September, 1909.

FRED. MARSHALL,
Clerk.

Notice respecting Proposed Borough of Te Kuiti, County of Waitomo.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th November, 1909.

PURSUANT to section 117 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,” His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that a petition has been presented to him praying for the constitution of the area described in the Schedule hereto as a borough under the said Act, to be named the Borough of Te Kuiti. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to, or petitions against, the constitution of the said borough which they may desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED BOROUGH OF TE KUITI.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by Te Kumi No. 3 Block and the crossing of a road from the southernmost corner of the said Te Kumi No. 3 Block to the Mangackewa Stream; thence across and by that stream to a point in line with the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 2A, Block XV, Orahiri Survey District; thence by a right line to the north-western corner of that section, by its north-western boundary-line and the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 1, Block XV aforesaid, and by Allotment No. 5 of Section No. 11, Block XVI, Orahiri Survey District, to the road at its south-eastern corner; thence towards the north-east by a right line to the northernmost corner of Te Kuiti No. 7; thence by Te Kuiti No. 10 Block to the north-western boundary of Te Kuiti No. 11 Block; thence towards the south-east by the last-mentioned block to the Mangackewa Stream; thence towards the east generally by a line across that stream and by its left bank to Pukenui No. 2d4 Block; thence by the last-mentioned block to a branch railway-line to ballast-pit; thence by the said branch railway-line to the Main Trunk Railway; thence by the said railway-line to the north-western boundary of Pukenui No. 2n Block; thence towards the south-east by the last-mentioned block and the crossing of a road at its north-western corner; thence towards the south-west generally by a right line to the northernmost corner of Pukenui No. 2d7 Block; thence by Pukenui No. 2T Block to the westernmost corner of Pukenui No. 2p Block; thence by a right line to Trig. Station A (Te Whaukotuku); thence by a right line to a point called Wharekakaka on the eastern boundary of Tapui Wahine 1c Block; and thence by Tapui Wahine 1c and 1A Blocks to the southernmost corner of Te Kumi No. 3 Block to the place of commencement.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Varied Notice fixing Closing-hours of Tobacconists’ and Hairdressers’ Shops in the Borough of Marton under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the tobacconists’ and hairdressers’ shops in the Borough of Marton, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 11 p.m.; Wednesdays at 1 p.m.: And whereas the Marton Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the tobacconists’ and hairdressers’ shops within the Borough of Marton:

Now, therefore, I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1908,” do hereby direct that, from and after the 15th day of November, 1909, all the tobacconists’ and hairdressers’ shops in the Borough of Marton shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

The notice gazetted the 16th day of April, 1908, fixing the closing-hours of all such shops in the borough, is hereby varied accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of November, 1909.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.

Notice to Mariners No. 91 of 1909.

BLUFF HARBOUR LEADING-LIGHTS AND SOUNDINGS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 4th November, 1909.

THE Bluff Harbour Board has notified the following discrepancies between its observations of the bearings of the leading harbour lights and of those given in the latest Admiralty charts, viz.:

Middle Bank dolphin lights bear in line with one another N. 66° W., instead of N. 68° W.

The outer (old) South Channel beacons in line bear N. 13° E., instead of N. 11° E.

The new South Channel beacon lights in line bear N. 4° E., instead of N. 2° E.,