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payable yearly on the 30th day of March in each and every year during the currency of such loan, or until the said loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed at a special meeting of the Hastings Borough Council this 6th day of March, 1913.

W. H. COOK,
Town Clerk.

[NOTE.—The above resolutions are inserted in lieu of those appearing on pages 907-8 of the Gazette, 1913.]

Resolution made by the Council of the Borough of Wanganui.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st April, 1913.

THE following resolution, made by the Wanganui Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, and its amendment.

W. FRASER,
Acting Minister of Finance.

WANGANUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Resolution making Special Rate.

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, 1910, the Wanganui Borough Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking fund and other charges on a loan of £30,000, authorized to be raised by the Wanganui Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the following purposes—namely, the extension and improvement of the gas service of the said borough in the manner or direction following, that is to say: By the providing and installing of two new purifiers, the erection and completion of a gas-holder, the laying of high-pressure mains, the improvement and extension of the retort-house, and the installing of vertical retorts and the providing of additional mains, service pipes, and meters—the Wanganui Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 5d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property within the said Borough of Wanganui comprised within the following special-rating area, namely:—

The Town of Wanganui, as the boundaries thereof are laid down in the New Zealand Company's map; towards the north-east and south-east by the Wanganui River; and towards the south, south-west, and north-west by the Town Belt; together with the parcel of land adjoining the Town of Wanganui and commonly known as “the Town Belt,” granted to the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington by letters patent or Crown grant dated the 3rd day of June, 1861, under the public seal of the Colony and the hand of Thomas Gore Browne, the then Governor thereof, which said borough was proclaimed as such by a Proclamation published in the New Zealand Government Gazette of the year 1872, at page 88. And also comprising Section No. 15 and part of Sections Nos. 14, 16, 17, 18, and 19, right bank Wanganui River, bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the south-east boundary of Section No. 14, distant 554·7 links from the southernmost corner of that section; thence south-easterly on a bearing of 134° 50′ to the south-eastern side of the Town Belt Road; thence north-easterly along the south-eastern side of that road to the north-west side of the railway-line; thence north-easterly along the railway-line to the easternmost corner of Lot No. 61 on Land Transfer deposited plan No. 258; thence westerly along the northern boundary of the land comprised in the said deposited plan No. 258 to the north-west corner of Lot No. 24 of the said plan; thence south-westerly along the north-western boundary of the said lot to its westernmost corner, being the angle of the road there; thence south-westerly across the said road to its opposite angle; thence south-westerly and south-easterly following the said road and an old road along the north-western and south-western boundaries of Land Transfer deposited plan No. 543 to the southernmost corner of Lot No. 18 on the said deposited plan; thence continuing southerly along the last-mentioned road to the Virginia Lake, and along the lake to a point due east of the intersection of the north-west side of the last-mentioned road with the north-east boundary of Section No. 15, right bank Wanganui River: thence due west to the said intersection; thence north-westerly along the north-east boundary of the said Section No. 15 to its northernmost corner; thence south-westerly along the north-western boundary of Section No. 15 to the westernmost corner of

that section; thence south-easterly along the south-western boundary of Section No. 15 for a distance of 2285 links to a point about the centre of Peake's Road; thence south-westerly, bearing 243° 11′ for a distance of 46·3 links, to the south-west side of Peake's Road; thence south-westerly along the south-west side of the said road for a distance of 432·3 links; thence south-westerly, south-easterly, and again south-westerly along the south-eastern, north-eastern, and again south-eastern boundaries of the land comprised in Land Transfer deposited plan No. 768 to the westernmost corner of the land comprised in deposited plan No. 268; and thence south-easterly along the south-western boundary of that land to the commencing-point. And also comprising that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north by Sections Nos. 54, 53, 52, 51, and 50, Block III, Western Survey District, from the easternmost corner of Section No. 248 to the north-western corner of Section No. 31; thence towards the east by Section No. 31, Block III aforesaid, and the production of the western boundary-line of that section to the Wanganui River; thence towards the south and south-east by the Wanganui River to the Borough of Wanganui; thence towards the south-west by the Borough of Wanganui to the north-eastern boundary-line of Original Section No. 18, Block V, Western Survey District; thence by that section to its north-eastern corner; and thence towards the north-west generally by Sections Nos. 42, 43, 228, 25A, and 248, Block III aforesaid, to the place of commencement. And also comprising all that area in the Wellington Land District bounded by a line commencing on the left bank of the Wanganui River at the mouth of the Purua Stream; thence easterly along the right bank of that stream to the eastern boundary of Section No. 44, Block V, Ikitara Survey District; thence southerly along the eastern boundary of that section to No. 2 line of road; thence across that road to the western side of a road opposite the south-eastern corner of the aforesaid Section No. 44; thence along the western and north-western side of that road to the eastern boundary of Te Iwi Roa Block; thence northerly along the eastern boundary of that block to Section No. 29, Block V aforesaid; thence westerly along the southern boundaries of the said Section No. 29 and Manawakawara No. 3 and Kaiate No. 2 Blocks and the production of the southern boundary of the last-mentioned block to the Wanganui River; and thence northerly along the left bank of the Wanganui River to the place of commencement.

And that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of May and the 1st day of November in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui was hereto affixed to the above-written resolution by Order of the Council of the said borough, this 11th day of March, 1913, by and in the presence of—

C. E. MACKAY,
Mayor.

G. MURCH,
Town Clerk.

Resolution made by the Avondale Road Board.

State-guaranteed Advances Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1913.

THE following resolution, made by the Avondale Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Amendment Act, 1912.

W. FRASER,
Acting Minister of Finance.

AVONDALE ROAD BOARD.

Resolution made by the Avondale Road Board.

WHEREAS the Avondale Road Board has been authorized by the ratepayers to borrow £15,500 for the purpose of road-improvement, and the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Board has finally granted the application for such loan at the rate of £3 10s. per cent. per annum: And whereas the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Office Superintendent is unable to advance part of such loan (namely, £3,500) at the said rate of interest, but can advance the same at the rate of £3 17s. 6d. per centum per annum:

Now, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, and