Aug. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2765

DUNEDIN CITY COUNCIL.

Notice of Result of Poll on Loan.

I HEREBY give notice that on the twenty-first (21st) day of July, 1915, a proposal was submitted by the City Council of Dunedin to the ratepayers of the said city for raising a special loan of twenty-six thousand pounds (£26,000) for tramway purposes, and that the number of votes recorded respectively for and against the proposal were as follows: For the proposal, 312; against the proposal, 311; majority, 1.

And I declare the said proposal to be carried.

J. J. CLARK,
Mayor of the City of Dunedin.

Dunedin, 26th July, 1915.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Waitara Harbour Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY,
For Minister of Finance.

WAITARA HARBOUR BOARD.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and the Waitara Harbour Board Empowering Bill, 1914, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Waitara Harbour District taken on the 21st day of July, 1915, on the proposal of the Waitara Harbour Board to borrow the sum of £13,000 for the purpose of purchasing or constructing a dredge, and for making improvements in the Harbour of Waitara in accordance with the reports of the Engineers, Messrs. Howorth and Vickerman, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 251, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 78.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Waitara this 28th day of July, 1915.

JAS. HINE, Jun.,
Chairman, Waitara Harbour Board.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1915.

THE following notices (four), received from the Council of the Borough of Taumarunui, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.

TAUMARUNUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on Proposed Loans.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, public notice is hereby given that a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Taumarunui was taken on the 18th day of March, 1915, on proposals to raise special loans for the following purposes:—

(a.) Subsidizing the erection of a traffic-bridge across the Wanganui River at Taumarunui: £1,000.

(b.) Drainage extension to Rangaroa, Ngatai’s Extension, Bell’s Extension, Maata, Tumoana, Turaki, and Taitua Streets, Manuaute, Taumarunui, Marae, and Huia Streets: £8,434.

(c.) Formation of footpaths and streets of Matapuna; formation of footpaths and streets at the Rangaroa Village Settlement; metalling and formation of footpaths in Hakiaha Street from Katarina to Turaki Streets, also the footpath in Manuaute Street from Hakiaha Street to Miriama Street: £5,440.

(d.) Purchase of land and the erection of a municipal hall thereon: £5,500.

(a.) Proposal for Wanganui Bridge Subsidy, £1,000.

The total number of votes recorded for the proposal, 126; the total number of votes recorded against the proposal, 18; majority for the proposal, 108.

(b.) Proposal for Extension of Sewerage, £8,434.

Total number of votes recorded for the proposal, 45; total number of votes recorded against the proposal, 39; majority for the proposal, 6.

(c.) Proposal for Streets and Footpaths, £5,440.

Total number of votes recorded for the proposal, total number of votes recorded against the proposal, 61; majority for the proposal, 18.

The majority of votes being in favour of the proposals marked (a), (b), and (c), I therefore declare the said proposals carried.

E. W. SIMMONS,
Mayor.

23rd March, 1915.

(d.) Proposal for the Purchase of Land and Erection of Municipal Buildings, £5,500.

Total number of votes recorded for the proposal, 54; total number of votes recorded against the proposal, 89; majority against the proposal, 35.

The majority being against the proposal, I therefore declare the said proposal lost.

E. W. SIMMONS,
Mayor.

23rd March, 1915.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Pork-butcher’s Shops in the City of Auckland, under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the pork-butcher’s shops in the City of Auckland, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the city shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Monday, 9 p.m.; Tuesday, 9 p.m.; Thursday, 9 p.m.; Friday, 10 p.m.; and Saturday, 11 p.m.; subject to the closing at not later than 1 p.m. on the day observed for the statutory half-holiday; excepting that in the case of any shopkeeper whose shop is closed for the whole of any day which is generally observed as a public holiday in the city, the closing-hour on the preceding evening shall be 11 p.m.:

And whereas the Auckland City Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the pork-butcher’s shops within the City of Auckland:

Now, therefore, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that from and after the 9th day of August, 1915, all pork-butcher’s shops in the City of Auckland shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of August, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Plants declared by the Mangonui County Council to be Noxious Weeds.—Notice No. 1789.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 28th July, 1915.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Mangonui County Council has, by special order, declared the following plants to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction: Ox-eye daisy and foxglove.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VIII, Hororata Survey District, for the Purposes of the Development of the Lake Coleridge Water-power Scheme.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of the development of the Lake Coleridge water-power scheme. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Glentunnel, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 2 roods, being Lots 3 and 4, Block IX (D.P. 406), part R.S. 14987 (Canterbury R.D.).

Situated in Block VIII, Hororata Survey District.