JULY 18. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2241

No. 33, Lower Kaikorai District, to the Lower Kaikorai Road; thence southerly along the western side of that road, 300 links; thence south-easterly across that road and along the south-western boundary of Section No. 45, Block VI, Town District, to its southernmost corner, and in a continuing line to a point on the south-eastern side of the main South Road, a distance of 300 links; thence generally south-westerly along the south-eastern side of the main South Road to its intersection by the north-western boundary of Block XV, Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District; thence generally south-westerly along the north-western boundary of Block XV aforesaid to Cemetery Road; thence westerly along the northern side of Cemetery Road to Mill Road; thence south-westerly along the north-western side of Mill Road to Brighton Road; thence north-easterly along the south-eastern side of Brighton Road to the southern boundary of the lease to Murray, Roberts, and Co. for a fellmongery in Section No. 86, Lower Kaikorai District; thence westerly across Brighton Road, and along the southern boundary of the said lease to its westernmost corner; thence northerly along the western boundary of the said lease and across a right-of-way to the Walton Park Branch Railway Reserve; thence south-easterly along the southern side of the said railway reserve and across Brighton Road; thence north-easterly across that railway reserve; and thence north-westerly along the northern side of the said railway reserve to Abbot's Creek; thence northerly along the eastern side of that creek to Section No. 60, Block VII, Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District; thence easterly along the southern boundary of that section to the main South Road; thence south-easterly along the south-western side of that road to the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 97, Lower Kaikorai District; thence north-westerly across the main South Road, and along the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 97 aforesaid to its northernmost corner; thence south-westerly along the north-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 97 and 98, Lower Kaikorai District, to the south-western corner of Section No. 15, Township of Abbotsford; thence north-westerly along the south-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 15, 16, 17, and 18, Township of Abbotsford, and the abutments of two roads to the westernmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundaries of Sections Nos. 18, 14, 10, and 5, across a road, and along the north-western boundary of railway reserve, 1223·5 links; thence north-westerly by a right line to the westernmost corner of Allotment No. 3 of Section No. 60, Block VII, Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundaries of the said Allotment No. 3 and Allotment No. 1 to the northernmost corner of the last-mentioned allotment; thence across the North Taieri Road and north-westerly along the north-eastern side of that road to the north-western corner of Allotment No. 15, Township of Abbotsford Extension; thence north-easterly along the north-western boundary of that allotment, the north-western boundary of Allotment No. 16, and that boundary produced to a right line running from the northernmost corner of Allotment No. 1 of Section No. 60, Block VII aforesaid, to the westernmost corner of Allotment No. 45, Township of Abbotsbill Extension; thence along that right line to the westernmost corner of the said Allotment No. 45; thence along the north-western boundaries of Allotments Nos. 45, 44, 32, and 31, Township of Abbots-hill Extension, and the abutments of two roads, to Torquay Road; thence south-easterly along the south-western side of Torquay Road to a point in line with the northern boundary of Section No. 1, Township of Plevna; thence easterly across Torquay Road and along the northern boundaries of Sections Nos. 1, 19, 20, 36, 37, 38, and across two streets to the north-eastern corner of the last-mentioned section; thence southerly along the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 38, 39, 40, 41, and 43, Township of Plevna, to a point in line with the southern side of Edward Street; and thence easterly along the southern side of Edward Street to the place of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan marked 21, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF THE COUNTY OF TAIERI.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District bounded towards the north-west generally by Maniototo County, as described in the First Schedule to the Counties Act, 1876, from Tuapeka County to Waihemo County; thence towards the north-east generally by Waihemo and Wai-kouaiti Counties, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 44, of the 25th May, 1883, to the Borough of Maori Hill; thence towards the east generally by the Boroughs of Maori Hill, Roslyn, Mornington, and the City of Dunedin to the sea; thence by the sea to the mouth of the Taieri River; thence towards the south-west generally by Bruce County, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 3, of the 3rd January, 1884, and Tuapeka County, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 111, of the 30th December, 1882, to the place of commencement: excluding the Boroughs of Mosgiel and Green Island.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Retention of Title of “Honourable.”

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th July, 1912.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.—Miscellaneous.)

Downing Street, 1st June, 1912.

My Lord,—With reference to your Lordship’s despatch, No. 55, of the 24th of April last, I have the honour to request that you will inform your Prime Minister that His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve of the retention of the title of “Honourable” by Sir James Carroll, K.C.M.G., Mr. John Andrew Millar, Mr. Roderick McKenzie, Mr. David Buddo, and Mr. Apirana Turupa Ngata, who have each served for more than three years as Members of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand.

A notification to this effect will be published in the London Gazette.

I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.

Governor the Right Honourable Lord Islington,
K.C.M.G., D.S.O., &c.

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

The Treasury,
Wellington, 12th July, 1912.

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

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.

EKETAHUNA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order making Special Rate for forming and metalling Milne Street, Hukanui.—Loan of £150.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, the Ekatahuna County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £150, authorized to be raised by the Ekatahuna County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of forming and metalling Milne Street, in the County of Ekatahuna, the said Ekatahuna County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 10·1d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Milne Street Special-rating Area, comprising Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 of Block IX, and 1, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20 of Block VIII, and 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 of Block VII, Township of Hukanui, in the Ekatahuna County; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring special rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st days of February and August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being for a period of thirty-six years and a half, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The above resolution was duly passed at a meeting of the Ekatahuna County Council held at Ekatahuna on the 13th day of April, 1912.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Ekatahuna has hereto been affixed, this 11th day of May, 1912, in the presence of—

JOSEPH DAWSON,
Chairman.

F. COWLAM,
County Clerk.