SEPT. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3319

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

The Treasury,
Wellington, 30th August, 1910.

THE following special order, made by the Waipa County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order making Special Rate.—£1,500 Loan, Share of Cost of Construction of Cambridge High-level Bridge.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, the Waipa County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,500, authorized to be raised by the Waipa County Council for the payment of the contribution towards the cost of the construction of the high-level bridge across the Waikato River at Cambridge, ordered to be paid by a Warrant of His Excellency the Governor dated 7th May, 1906, the said Waipa County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/5d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the whole of the County of Waipa; 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 thirty-six years and a half, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The above special order was made on the 14th day of June, 1910, at a special meeting of the Waipa County Council, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the said Council held on the 9th day of August, 1910.

CHAS. BOWDEN,
County Clerk.

Te Awamutu, 26th August, 1910.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 26th August, 1910.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Greymouth, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

GREYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Result of Poll for Special Loan.

I HEREBY give notice that the number of votes recorded upon the taking of the poll on the 18th day of August, 1910, for and against the proposal of the Council of the Borough of Greymouth to borrow by way of special loan (within the meaning of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908) the sum of £23,610, for the purposes hereunder set forth,—

Description.

Gasworks: Holder, retorts, extension of mains, &c., £6,000. Waterworks: Additions to pumping-station and main extensions, £2,000. Drainage: Extension of sewer-pipes, &c., £1,500. Tidal Creek: Extension of culvert, £1,000. New streets: Shakespeare Street South, £630; Marlborough Street East, £450; Milton Road, £600; Nelson Street, £300: £1,980. Blaketown: Reid Street, £270; Blake Street, £270; Merrick Street, £60: £600. Blaketown footpaths, £300; Preston Road and footpaths south of Lake Street, £500; Cowper Street, £500; Shakespeare Street from Thompson Street to Marlborough Street, £300; Alexander Street and Murray Street, £1,200; footpaths where required, £1,000; cemetery improvements, £600; Town Hall, fencing, channelling, kerbing, &c., £300; Marsden Road and bridges, £1,000; Tainui Street to Sawyer’s Creek bridge, £500; High Street from Sawyer’s Creek to Hospital Creek, £700; Paroa Road from Hospital Creek to cemetery, £500; Chapel Street West from Tainui Street, £375; Leonard Street, £375; William and Frederick Streets, £350; Swainson Street, £200; channelling inner area, £300; contingencies, £200; interest for first year and flotation expenses, £1,330. Total, £23,610.

The Council to pledge a special rate of 1¾d. in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property within the Borough of Greymouth as security for the said loan of £23,610, and the interest and sinking fund (if any) thereon.

The whole loan shall be repayable at the expiration of a term of thirty-six years and a half from the date of issue thereof.

It is proposed to issue the said loan at the rate of £11,610 for the first year, and then at the rate of £4,000 per year for three years or until the whole loan of £23,610 is inscribed.

It is proposed to pay out of the loan the cost of raising same and the interest thereon for the first year,—was as follows: For the proposal, 208 votes; against the proposal, 151 votes; majority for proposal, 57 votes.

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

Dated this 19th day of August, 1910.

ALFRED C. RUSSELL,
Mayor of Greymouth.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 30th August, 1910.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Bruce County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

COUNTY OF BRUCE.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act, 1909, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the outlying district of the Matau Riding, being a legal subdivision of the County of Bruce, was taken on Wednesday, the 17th day of August, 1910, on the proposal to raise a special loan of £1,000 for the purpose of forming and metalling the Stirling to Benhar Road.

The result of the said poll was as follows: Number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 94; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 1; majority of votes in favour, 93.

And I therefore declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated this 18th day of August, 1910.

H. M. DRIVER,
Chairman, Bruce County Council.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of a Road in Section 4, Block I, Waipawa Survey District, Dyer Settlement, Wellington Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 14 of the Land Act, 1908, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 15th day of February, 1910, 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 29th day of November, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

In the Wellington Land District; as the said area is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington.

Dated this 20th day of August, 1910.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.