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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 56

per annum on the loan, and annual contribution to a sinking fund for the extinction or repayment of the loan in thirty-eight years.

It was proposed to pay out of the said loan the cost of raising the same, and the interest and sinking fund on the said loan for the first year.

At the said poll votes were recorded as follows: For the proposal, 151; against the proposal, 5; informal, 1.

I declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated this 27th day of May, 1914.

RICHARD MORTEN,
Chairman, Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board.

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RESULT OF POLL.

WAIROA BOROUGH COUNCIL.—LIGHTING-EXTENSION POLL.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the rate-payers of the Borough of Wairoa taken on the 26th May, 1914, on the proposal of the Wairoa Borough Council to borrow the sum of £4,000 for electric light and power extension, as advertised in the Wairoa Guardian of 24th April and 1st, 8th, and 15th May, the voting was: For the proposal, 117; against the proposal, 41.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Wairoa this 27th day of May, 1914.

JOSEPH CORKILL,
Mayor.

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WE, HARRY RAMSEY, MARY MARIA RAMSEY, and REGINALD LAWLEY RAMSEY, heretofore respectively called and known by the names of Harry Ramsbottom, Mary Maria Ramsbottom, and Reginald Lawley Ramsbottom, all of Pukepoto, near Kaitaia, in the Provincial District of Auckland, New Zealand, Farmers, hereby give public notice that on the sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, we formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of our said surname of “Ramsbottom,” and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Ramsey” instead of the said name of “Ramsbottom”; and we give further notice that by a deed-poll dated the sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Northern District, we formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of “Ramsbottom,” and declared that we had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Ramsey” instead of “Ramsbottom,” and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the name of “Ramsey” exclusively.

Dated at Auckland this sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

HARRY RAMSEY,
Late HARRY RAMSBOTTOM.

MARY MARIA RAMSEY,
Late MARY MARIA RAMSBOTTOM.

REGINALD LAWLEY RAMSEY,
Late REGINALD LAWLEY RAMSBOTTOM.

Witness—Wm. Oliphant, Solicitor, Auckland, N.Z. 534

TUAPEKA COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL ORDER MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

SPECIAL order of the Tuapeka County Council passed at a special meeting of the Council held on the ninth day of May, 1913, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting thereof on the fourth day of July, 1913:—

“That a special rate of twopence in the pound, on the basis of the capital value, be and the same is hereby made and levied under section 123 of the Counties Act, 1908, the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and the Rating Act, 1908, on all the rateable property within the Kelso Special-rating District, being part of the Tapanui Riding within the County of Tuapeka, but not a legal subdivision thereof, as appearing in the special roll made under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its amendments, now in force, as signed and sealed by the Chairman of the Tuapeka County Council on the 14th day of March, 1913, in connection with the proposed loan for the construction of the Kelso Drainage Work, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking fund upon such loan, such rate to be for the period from 1st April, 1913, to 31st March, 1914, and to be annually recurring during the currency of such loan, the rate to be payable in one sum on the 10th day of May in each year; further, that an additional charge of ten per centum be added to all rates unpaid at the expiration of six months and fourteen days from the demand thereof.”

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Tuapeka County was hereto affixed in the presence of—

ROBT. WOOD,
Chairman, Tuapeka County Council.

JOHN J. WOODS,
Clerk, Tuapeka County Council.

We hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed at a special meeting of the Tuapeka County Council held on the ninth day of May, 1913, and was duly confirmed at a special meeting of the Tuapeka County Council held on the fourth day of July, 1913.

Dated this eleventh day of July, 1913.

ROBT. WOOD,
Chairman, Tuapeka County Council.

JOHN J. WOODS,
Clerk, Tuapeka County Council.

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SOUTHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION BY WAY OF SPECIAL ORDER MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

THAT, whereas the sum of £1,400 borrowed by the Southland County Corporation became due and payable on the 12th day of March, 1914: And whereas the sinking funds in respect of the said loan amount to £319 13s. 1d., and the amount payable by the Clutha County Council as its share of the said loan is £73 14s. 8d.: And whereas the sum of £1,000 is required to pay off the balance of the said loan

Now, therefore, the Southland County Council, in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its amendments, hereby resolves by way of special order,—

First, to borrow the said sum of £1,000 for the purpose of paying off the said loan.

Second, that the said sum of £1,000 shall be raised by the issue of ten debentures of £100 each, bearing interest at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, and shall be repayable on the first day of June, 1928.

Third, that for the purpose of providing interest and sinking fund and other charges on the said loan of £1,000 the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-seventh of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all the rateable property of the district known (before the merger thereof) as the Otaraia Road District, comprising all that area of land bounded on the north by the Township of East Gore and Pukerau Stream; thence on the west by Block II, Waikaka Survey District; thence again towards the north by Glenkennich Survey District; thence towards the east by the Clutha County to a point due east of the south-eastern corner of Section 2, Block VI, Slopedown Survey District, to the south-east corner of Tuturau Survey District; thence on the west by the Tuturau Survey District to the north-east corner of said district, and again towards the south by the aforesaid Tuturau Survey District to the Mataura River, and again towards the west by the Mataura River to the Township of East Gore aforesaid, being the starting-point.

And that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of September in each year during the currency of such loan, being a period of fourteen years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

COPY OF RESOLUTION PASSED ON THE 8TH DAY OF MAY, 1914, CONFIRMING THE ABOVE SPECIAL ORDER.

That this Council hereby confirms the special order being resolution number 1 passed on the 7th day of April, 1914, making a special rate in the Otaraia Road District (some time merged in Southland County) of one-seventh of a penny in the pound on the unimproved rateable value of the rateable property in the said district, and the issue of ten debentures of £100 each, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, to pay off an equal amount of debentures now matured.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was duly made in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1908, and its amendments.

A. J. SERVICE,
Clerk to the Southland County Council.

County Office, Invercargill, 9th May, 1914. 536