May 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1817

one of the local authorities as mentioned: And whereas the same Act authorizes the issue by each of the local authorities of debentures for the amount payable by it as aforesaid: And whereas it is further provided that for the purpose of paying the interest and sinking fund in respect of debentures so issued the local authority shall make and levy a special rate on all rateable property within its district:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Hutt Road Act, 1915, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and the amendments thereto, and all other Acts and powers (if any) enabling it in that behalf, the Petone Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of ten thousand eight hundred pounds (£10,800), authorized to be raised by the Petone Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of providing its share of the cost of the construction of the Hutt Road as set out in the First Schedule to the Hutt Road Act, 1915, the said Petone Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of thirty-one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighths of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the district, comprising the whole of the Borough of Petone; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the last day of September in each year during the currency of such loan, being a period of fifty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

We hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the resolution passed at a meeting of the Petone Borough Council held at Petone on the 15th day of May, 1916.

J. W. McEWAN,
Mayor.

W. J. GARDNER,
Town Clerk.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership between the undersigned, PAUL MAXIMILIAN HANSEN and ALBERT WILLIAMSON CLARK, in the business of Land and Estate Agents carried on by them in Auckland, under the style of “Paul Hansen & Co.,” is dissolved as from this date. Dated the 6th day of May, 1916.

P. M. HANSEN.
ALBERT W. CLARK.

Witness—F. Wilson Smith, Solicitor, Auckland. 378

AWAKINO COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Awakino County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and annual charges on a loan of £5,300, authorized to be raised by the Awakino County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of completing the formation of and for widening, culverting, and metalling the Marakopa Valley Road from Marakopa to the bridge over the Marakopa River at Karaka, and also the Kairimu Road from its junction with the Marakopa Valley Road to the south-east corner of Section 2, Block XIII, Kawhia South Survey District, and also the Mangapohue Road from the bridge over the Marakopa River at Pipipiri to its junction with the Kokakora Road, the said Awakino County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 2¾d. in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Marakopa-Mangapohue Special-rating Area, such special-rating area being bounded on the south generally by a line commencing at a point on the county boundary at the south-west corner of Kinohaku West P No. 2B 4, and following in an easterly direction generally to the southern boundaries of that section and of Kinohaku West P 2B 2, Kinohaku West T Section 2, Sections 3 and 4, Block VI, Marakopa Survey District; Section 5, Block XIII, Kawhia South Survey District; and Section 1, Block XIII, Kawhia South Survey District aforesaid, to the south-east corner of the last-named section; thence following the eastern boundary of Section 1, Block XIII, Kawhia South Survey District aforesaid, to where it first meets the western boundary of Section 1, Block XIV, Kawhia South Survey District aforesaid; thence in a straight line to such a point on the eastern boundary of the last-named section as shall cause the said straight line to divide this section into two equal areas; thence following in a southerly direction the western boundary of Section 7A, Block X, Marakopa Survey District aforesaid, to the south-east corner of that section; thence following in an easterly direction generally the southern boundaries of Kinohaku West S No. 1B to the county boundary at the south-east corner of the last-mentioned section; thence following the county boundary in an easterly direction generally to the south-east corner of Section 4, Block XII, Kawhia South Survey District aforesaid; thence following the county boundary in a northerly direction to the north-east corner of Section 4, Block XII, Kawhia South Survey District aforesaid; thence following the county boundary in a westerly direction to the point of commencement, such special-rating area comprising the following sections:—

Sections 3, 3A, 4, and 6, Block VI, Marakopa Survey District; Lots 1 and 2 of Section 2, Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, Block XIII, Kawhia South Survey District; Section 4, Block IX, Kawhia South Survey District; C.L., Block XI, Kawhia South Survey District; Section 6, Block XII, Kawhia South Survey District; Sections 7 and 7A, Block X, Marakopa Survey District; Section 10, Block X, Kawhia South Survey District; Sections 2 and 3 and C.L., Block X, Kawhia South Survey District; Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, and C.L., Block XII, Kawhia South Survey District; part Section 1, Block XIV, Kawhia South Survey District; the following sections of Kinohaku West—P No. 2B Section 1, P No. 2B No. 2, P No. 2B No. 3A, P No. 2B 3B, P No. 2B 4A, P No. 2B 4B, T Section 1 east portion, T Section 1 west portion, T Section 2A, T Section 2B, T Lot 1 Section 2C, T Lot 2 Section 2C, T Section 2D, T Section 2E part, T Lot 1 Section 2E, T Lot 2 Section 2E, T Section 2F No. 1, T Section 2F No. 2, K Lot 2 Section 2B, K Section 2B part, K Section 2B part, K Section 2C No. 1, K Section 2C No. 2, Marakopa No. 3, No. 4A, No. 4B, No. 4C, No. 4D, No. 4E, L Section 2B No. 1, L Section 2B No. 2, M Section 1B, N Section 2B, S Section 1B No. 1, S Section 1B No. 2, S Section 1B No. 3, S Section 1B No. 4, S Section 1B No. 5, and the following sections in the Taumatatotara Block—1A Section 1, 1A Section 2, 1B Section 2, 1D Section 1, 1D Section 2B part, 1D Section 2C part, 1H Section 2, 6A, and 6B.

And that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six (36) years or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Awakino County Council was hereto affixed at the office of and pursuant to a resolution of the Awakino County Council in the presence of—

B. BODDY,
Chairman.

GEO. BROWN,
Clerk.

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WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Wellington City Empowering Act, 1897, the Wellington City Empowering Act, 1899, the Wellington City Empowering Act, 1908, the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and their amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Council of the City of Wellington proposes, under the provisions of the above-named Acts, and all other Acts and powers enabling it in that behalf, to execute a certain public work—namely, the widening of Kent Terrace and Ellice Streets of the City of Wellington, and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Town Clerk to the said Council, in the Town Hall, Cuba Street, in the said city, and is there open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or the taking of such lands should, if they have well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Wellington City Council, addressed to the Town Clerk at his said office.

SCHEDULE.

AREA, 12·85 perches.
Being part of Lot 9, D.P. 15, Section 286.
Coloured on plan: Red.
Situated in City of Wellington.

In the Land District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan above mentioned.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 19th day of May, 1916.

JNO. R. PALMER,
Town Clerk.

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