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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

Rates in Arrears.

24. At the expiration of fourteen days from the date of any water account being due, and after delivery of notice on the premises to which such water is laid on (excepting temporary supplies which may be cut off after twenty-four hours’ notice), it shall be competent for the officers of the Board to cut off any such supply in whatever manner may be deemed advisable.

Wrong or False Information.

25. Any person who shall give to any officer of the Board false information upon any matter pertaining to water-supply shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalties.

If any person does any of the following things :—

26. Wilfully injures or destroys any part of the water-works :

27. Unlawfully draws off or diverts any water belonging to the waterworks or alters any meter, or does or suffers any act whereby his supply of water is improperly increased :

28. Not having agreed to be supplied with the water from the waterworks, takes any such water from the supply furnished to another person :

29. Being supplied with water from the waterworks, supplies another person who has not agreed to be so supplied with, or permits him to take any such water :

30. Obstructs any person acting under the authority of the Board in doing anything which the Board is hereby empowered to do :

31. Opens the ground so as to uncover any pipe belonging to the waterworks, or connects any pipe with such pipe without giving the Board seven days’ notice in writing of his intention so to do :

32. Connects any pipe with a pipe belonging to the waterworks without giving the Board two days’ notice in writing of the day and hour he proposes to do so, or without having obtained the permission of some person acting under the authority of the Board in that behalf :

33. Connects any pipe with a pipe of the waterworks, except in the presence of or contrary to the direction of the officer appointed by the Board to superintend the same, unless such officer fails to attend at the time named in the notice :

34. Connects with a pipe of the waterworks any pipe of a strength or material not approved by the Board,—

he shall be liable to a penalty of not more than £20 for each such offence, and to a further sum equal to the cost incurred by the Board in repairing the injury done to any part of the waterworks by any such act.

35. Any person who shall violate, or fail to do or observe, any rules, matters, or things laid down in these by-laws, or shall do that which he is not entitled or allowed to do under the authority of these by-laws, shall be deemed guilty of an offence, and for each such offence shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding £5, and a further sum not exceeding £5 for every day during which such offence shall continue.

36. The Board may by ordinary resolution from time to time vary or alter, increase or reduce, the water rates payable under and by virtue of these by-laws.

The above by-laws were made by special order passed at a special meeting of the Point Chevalier Road Board held on the 6th day of February, 1911, and duly confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the said Board on the 6th day of March, 1911.

The common seal of the Inhabitants of the Point Chevalier Road District was affixed thereto at a meeting of the Point Chevalier Road Board on the 6th day of March, 1911, in the presence of—

THOS. DIGNAN,
Chairman.

H. T. G. McELROY,
Clerk.

I, Herbert Thomas Granville McElroy, of Point Chevalier, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Dominion of New Zealand, Clerk to the Point Chevalier Road Board, do hereby certify that the foregoing, being the Waterworks By-law, was duly passed as a special order in accordance with the provisions of the Road Boards Act, 1908, and that all the requirements of the law in that behalf have been duly complied with.

Dated this 6th day of March, 1911.

H. T. G. McELROY,
Clerk.

Special Order made by the Council of the Borough of Westport.

The Treasury.
Wellington, 24th March, 1911.

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

J. A. MILLAR,
Acting Minister of Finance.

WESTPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Special Order authorizing Special Loan of £9,613 9s. 2d.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and the amendments thereof respectively, and of every other power in that behalf enabling it, the Council of the Borough of Westport hereby resolves by way of special order as follows :—

(a.) That the Council do raise a special loan of £9,613 9s. 2d., repayable in Sydney, New South Wales, on the 15th day of March, 1931, at a rate of interest not exceeding 4½ per centum per annum, payable half-yearly, free of exchange, in Sydney, New South Wales, for the purpose of paying or clearing off the Council’s overdraft of £9,613 9s. 2d. existing on the 31st day of March, 1910. And, further, that, for the purpose of providing a sinking fund for the repayment of the said special loan of £9,613 9s. 2d., the Council do pay to the Public Trustee, as Sinking Fund Commissioner, 1 per centum per annum, free of exchange, in the City of Wellington, on the total amount of the said special loan of £9,613 9s. 2d., payable half-yearly, to form such sinking fund.

(b.) That the said overdraft of £9,613 9s. 2d. be paid or cleared off.

(c.) That the security for the repayment of the said special loan of £9,613 9s. 2d., and the interest, sinking fund, and other charges thereon, be a special annual-recurring rate of ½d. in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the Borough of Westport, comprising the whole of the Borough of Westport.

The foregoing resolution was duly passed at a special meeting of the Westport Borough Council held on the 8th day of February, 1911, and confirmed as a special order at a special meeting of the said Council held on the 9th day of March, 1911.

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Westport was hereto affixed this 16th day of March, 1911.

J. H. GREENWOOD,
Mayor.

DOUGLAS DOBSON,
Town Clerk.

Special Order made by the Council of the City of Christchurch.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 28th March, 1911.

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

J. A. MILLAR,
Acting Minister of Finance.

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

Special Order levying Special Rate.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Christchurch City Sanitation Empowering Act, 1908, the Public Health Act, 1908, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, the Christchurch City Council hereby resolves as follows :—

(a.) That whereas by section 3 of the Christchurch City Sanitation Empowering Act, 1908, the Christchurch City Council is empowered by special order, and in manner provided by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, to borrow moneys not exceeding in the whole the sum of £30,000 : Now, therefore, the said Christchurch City Council doth hereby by special order resolve to borrow, by way of special loan, the sum of £5,000 (making £15,000 in all borrowed under the said Act), to be expended in manner