APRIL 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1575

3. Any person whose name appears on the roll may object to any matter or thing contained in
   the said roll, or to the omission of any matter or thing from the said roll, and may forward notice
   thereof in writing to the local authority within seven days after the last day on which the roll was
   deposited as aforesaid. Such notice shall be in duplicate, and shall state fully the grounds of objec-
   tion, and also the full name and address of the objector.

4. The local authority shall cause to be prepared a list of all objections (if any) to the said roll,
   and such list shall state the name and address of the objector, his number on the special roll, and his
   reasons for objecting to any matter or thing contained in or omitted from the said roll.

5. Such list, together with the said roll, shall be submitted to a Stipendiary Magistrate exercising
   jurisdiction within the said district, who shall give at least seven days’ notice of the time and place
   appointed by him to hear such objections; and he shall have jurisdiction to hear and finally determine
   the same, and all matters directly connected with such objections, and also to make all such
   alterations in the said roll as he thinks proper, and shall initial all alterations, additions, or erasures
   so made by him, and shall sign the said roll.

6. The roll when so signed and initialled shall be the special roll for the portion of the district
   specified therein, and shall be delivered by the said Stipendiary Magistrate to the local authority as
   the complete special roll for the particular rating district or area to which the same relates.

7. Where no objections have been made to the said special roll the Chairman of the local authority
   shall sign the said roll and affix the seal of the local authority to the same, and such roll shall there-
   upon be deemed to be duly authenticated.

RATEPAYERS’ CONSENT.

8. The signatures to every consent of the ratepayers under paragraph (e) of section 16 of the
   said Act shall be witnessed by some adult person or persons, and verified by statutory declaration
   as hereinafter prescribed, and such consent shall, when completed, be accompanied by a statutory
   declaration made by the Chairman in the form hereinafter prescribed. If the loan is to be applied
   for from the State Advances Office, such consent shall be forwarded by the Chairman of the local
   authority of the district to the State Advances Superintendent at Wellington.

9. Every such consent shall be in the following form :—

Ratepayers’ Consent.—The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.—Section 16 (e).

WE, the undersigned ratepayers, being owners or occupiers of the land described opposite
our names hereunder, do hereby consent to the levying of a special rate of [State amount in
the pound] on the rateable values of the said land for the payment of principal, interest, and
other charges on a loan of £ under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose
of [State purpose of loan]. Such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, and be payable on the day of [State date] and the
day of [State date] in each and every year during a period equal to the
currency of such loan, being a period of [State number] years, or until the loan is fully paid off,
and be subject in all respects to the provisions of the said Act [and we further consent to the
payment of the cost of raising the loan and of the first year’s interest and sinking fund
during the construction of the work or works out of the loan].

Dated this day of , 19 [Fill in date of last signature to the consent].

10. The declaration verifying the signatures to such consent shall be in the following form :—

Declaration verifying Signatures to Consent.

I, A. B., of , do solemnly and sincerely declare—

That the signatures affixed to the above consent initialled by me are the genuine signa-
tures of the persons whose signatures they purport to be.

That such persons are ratepayers of the rating-area to which such consent relates.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and
by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

Declared at , this day
of , 19 , before me—

C. D.,
Justice of the Peace [or Solicitor].

11. A statutory declaration in the form hereunder, made by the Chairman of the local authority
    proposing to raise a loan, shall be accepted as sufficient evidence of the required proportion of the
    number of ratepayers signing any such consent.