Aug. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3035

and the first year’s interest thereon, hereby authorizes the raising of a special loan of nine hundred pounds (£900) at the rate of 4½ per cent. per annum for a period of thirty-six years and a half; and that such special loan be raised through the State Advances Office, such loan to be secured by a special rate of ⅔d. in the pound on the capital value of all rateable property in the whole of the Panmure Township Road District.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a resolution passed by the Panmure Township Road Board at a special meeting on the 19th day of May, 1915, and confirmed on the 23rd day of June, 1915, and in accordance with the Road Boards Act, 1908.

ALFRED J. LOOMB,
Clerk.

Panmure, 16th August, 1915.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 25th August, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Council of the County of Weber, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

WEBER COUNTY COUNCIL.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan of £10,000.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give public notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Weber taken on the 27th day of July, 1915, on the proposal to raise a loan of £10,000 for the purpose of reforming and metalling roads in the said county, the voting resulted as follows: For the proposal, 132 votes; against the proposal, 35 votes; informal, 1 vote.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

L. G. CROSSE,
Acting Chairman.

Ti-tree Point, 28th July, 1915.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 25th August, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Council of the County of Cook, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

COOK COUNTY COUNCIL.

Taurau Valley Loan Poll.

I HEREBY give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Taurau Valley Special-rating district held on Friday, 28th August, 1914, upon a proposal by this Council to raise a loan of £700 for metalling the Taurau Valley Road, the following votes were recorded: For the proposal, 27 votes; against the proposal, 18 votes; informal, 3 votes.

As twenty-seven votes represent three-fifths of the valid votes recorded, I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

THOMAS JEX-BLAKE,
Chairman, Cook County Council.

Gisborne, 11th August, 1915.

Passports.—Hong Kong.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th August, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, is published for general information.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Colonial Secretary’s Department,
Hong Kong, 8th July, 1915.

It is hereby notified that British, Allied, or neutral passengers may be called upon to produce either—

(a.) A passport on an official form and bearing an official stamp (this is essential in the case of passengers to Europe); or

(b.) A certificate of nationality signed by a Consul or other proper authority, stating name of passenger, destination, name of ship by which travelling, and date of sailing.

CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.

Members Woolston Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th August, 1915.

THE undermentioned persons have been appointed or elected to be members of the Woolston Fire Board, constituted under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointed by the Governor—
John James Graham.

Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
James Charles Cooper.
John Frederick Grierson.
Henry Percy Hopkins.

Elected by the Woolston Borough Council—
Leslie M. G. Hart.
Charles Hill.
John Blair Richardson.

King’s Birthday Honours.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th August, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct the publication in the New Zealand Gazette of a notification of the appointment by His Majesty the King of—

The Hon. FRANCIS HENRY DILLON BELL, K.C., as a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; and

JAMES MACKENZIE, Esq., as a Companion of the Imperial Service Order.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notifying Land in the Otago Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 19th August, 1915.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Waitahuna Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from the 30th March, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

WAITAHUNA SETTLEMENT NO. 1.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,113 acres 1 rood 35 perches, more or less, being Sections 5, 7, 25, Block VI, Waitahuna West District, and 45, 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, Block VII, Waitahuna East District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-west corner of Section 59, Block VII, Waitahuna East; thence towards the north by said section, 1331·8 links, to a public road; thence towards the south-east generally by said road, 1297·4 links, 1151·3 links, 1019·8 links, 511·6 links, 754 links, 968·6 links, 372·2 links, 497·7 links; thence towards the south by a public road, 567·2 links; thence generally towards the south-west by a public road, 1239·6 links, 686 links, 1517·5 links, 369·4 links, 602·7 links, 1192·2 links, 636·9 links, 1082·1 links, 2181·4 links, 541·1 links; thence towards the north-west by a public road 100 links wide, 1142·6 links, 948·1 links, 442·1 links; thence across said road; thence generally towards the south-west and west by a public road, 670·1 links, 424·6 links, 526·8 links, 1015 links, 1419·1 links, 358 links, 319·7 links, 281·4 links, 356·1 links, 378·4 links, 833·9 links, 578·3 links, 602·4 links, 561·5 links, 335·7 links; thence towards the north by a public road, 748·4 links, 2048·5 links; thence across a public road 50 links wide; thence generally towards the north-west by a public road, 3·2 links, 444·4 links, 510 links, 495·8 links, 710 links, 2024·9 links, 368·2 links, 190·9 links; thence towards the north-east, north, and north-west generally by a public road, 119 links, 743 links, 1315·3 links, 703·2 links; thence towards the east generally by a public road, 377 links, 1629·9 links, 461·1 links, 393·8 links, 778·9 links, 945·4 links; thence towards the south by a public road and Sections 50 and 51, Block VII, Waitahuna East, 4055·1 links; thence towards the east by said Section 51, 3472·1 links; thence across a public road 50 links wide; thence towards the east by Section 54, Block VII, Waitahuna East, 3720·2 links; thence across a public road 100 links wide; thence towards the north and north-west generally by said road, 118·4 links, 306·3 links,