Feb. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 651

Award of the Meritorious-service Medal.

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Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 468, General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, 1906, of the award of a Meritorious-service Medal to

No. 256, Sergeant-Major Artificer JOHN TRAINER, Royal New Zealand Artillery.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

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Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

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Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th February, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to

No. 182, Private MALCOLM JAMES BELL, Royal Rifles, he having a total service to 31st December, 1910, entitling him thereto of twenty years and two days.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

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Notice respecting Proposed Alteration in Boundaries of Borough of Invercargill.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th February, 1911.

PURSUANT to section 118 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, has been presented to him, praying that the said area may be included in the Borough of Invercargill. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE BOROUGH OF INVERCARGILL.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District bounded towards the north-west by the present boundary of the Borough of Invercargill from the north-western corner of Lindisfarne Estate to the north-eastern side of Bamborough Road; thence towards the north-east by the north-eastern side of the said Bamborough Road to East Road; thence again towards the north-west by the north-western side of East Road to the south-western boundary of Inglewood Estate; thence again towards the north-east by Inglewood Estate to the southern side of Oteramika Road; thence towards the south by the southern side of that road to Elles Road; and thence towards the west generally by the present boundary of the Borough of Invercargill to the place of commencement.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

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The Treasury,
Wellington, 11th February, 1911.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

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SPECIAL ORDER MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1908, the Waimarino County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,200, authorized to be raised by the Waimarino County Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, for trimming and metalling the Rangataua Road from its junction with the Kopurutuku Road to its junction with the Mangahouhou Road, and to trim and metal the Kopurutuku Road from its junction with the Rangataua Road to a point 3 chains beyond the north-west boundary of Section 13, Block V, Karioi Survey District, the said Waimarino County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 2¾d. in the pound sterling upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Rangataua No. 2 Special Rating District, comprising all the properties situated within the following boundaries: Commencing at a point where the south boundary of Section 13, Block V, Karioi Survey District touches the Kopurutuku Road; thence in an easterly direction along the south boundary of Section 13, Block V, Karioi Survey District, to the north-east boundary of the said Section 13, Block V, Karioi Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 13, 12, 11, Block V, Karioi Survey District, to the north-west boundary of Section 10, Block VIII, Makotuku Survey District, to the Kopurutuku Road; thence north by the north side of the Kopurutuku Road to the north side of the Rata Maire Road; thence south by the north side of the Rangataua Road to the east boundary of Section 22, Block VIII, Makotuku Survey District; thence north-west by the east boundary of Section 22, Block VIII, Makotuku Survey District, to the west boundary of Section 22, Block VIII, Makotuku Survey District; thence generally south by the west boundaries of Sections 22, 21, 20, Block VIII, Makotuku Survey District, to the north boundary of the Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District; thence east and south by the north boundary of the Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District, to the west boundary of Section 4D, Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District; thence south by the west boundary of Section 4D, Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District, to the north boundary of Section 2, Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District; thence north-west by the north boundary of Section 2, Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District, to the west boundary of the said Section 2, Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District; thence south and east by the south and west boundaries of the said Section 2, Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District, to the east boundary of Section 4E No. 4, Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District; thence north by the east boundary of Section 4E No. 4, Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District, to the south boundary of Section 14, Block VIII, Makotuku Survey District; thence east by the south boundary of Section 14, Block VIII, Makotuku Survey District, to the starting-point: comprising all the following properties—Sections 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, Block VIII, Makotuku Survey District; Sections 11, 12, 13, Block V, Karioi Survey District; Section 2, Otiranui Block, and Sections 4D, 4E No. 4, Otiranui Block, Makotuku Survey District: and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of October 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 loan will bear interest at the rate of 3½ per cent. per annum; and it is proposed to pay out of the loan-moneys the first year’s interest thereon and the cost of raising the loan.

I, John Punch, Deputy Chairman of the Waimarino County Council, do hereby certify that the above special order was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the Waimarino County Council held on the 23rd day of November, 1910, and duly confirmed at a special meeting held on the 6th day of January, 1911.

In testimony whereof the common seal of the Waimarino County Council has been hereunto affixed.

Dated this 6th day of January, 1911.

JOHN PUNCH,
Acting-Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Waimarino was hereunto affixed on the 6th day of January, 1911, in the presence of—

A. MABBOTT,
County Clerk.

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Special Orders made by the Council of the County of Piako.

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The Treasury,
Wellington, 15th February, 1911.

THE following special orders, made by the Piako County Council, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.