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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 56

HUNTLY ROAD DISTRICT.

Notice of Result of Poll.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Starrtown Special-rating Area of the Huntly Road District taken on the 3rd day of March, 1917, on the proposal of the Huntly Road Board to borrow the sum of £300 for the metalling of the roads of the Starrtown Special-rating Area, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 5, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

J. P. BAILEY,
Chairman, Huntly Road Board.

Dated at Huntly this 8th day of March, 1917.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 27th March, 1917.

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

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

OPUNAKE HARBOUR DISTRICT.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Opunake Harbour District on the 19th February, 1917, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £50,000 for harbour-works, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 125, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 122.

And I declare the proposal to be rejected.

Dated this 20th day of March,1917.

T. P. HUGHSON, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 28th March, 1917.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Picton, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF PICTON.

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

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give public notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Borough of Picton taken this 23rd day of March, 1917, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £7,200 for the purpose of supplying the residents of the Borough of Picton within No. 2 Special Drainage Area with a sewerage system to serve the said residents, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 105, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 20.

I therefore declare the proposal to borrow the above sum to be carried.

Dated this 23rd day of March, 1917.

JERARD J. RIDDELL, Mayor.

Result of Election of a Member of the Tauranga Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1917.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Tauranga Fire Board by fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules made under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Tauranga Fire Board—
Norman Simpson Perry, vice Clinton Irving McKean, resigned.

Funds approved under Section 40 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th March, 1917.

PURSUANT to section 40 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916, I hereby notify, for public information, that I have this day approved, for the purposes of the said section, the war funds controlled by the societies named in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Society. Address.
Onehunga Branch of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Association Onehunga.
Tuakau Patriotic League Tuakau.
Kaponga Wounded Soldiers Fund. Kaponga.
The Maori Patriotic Society Levin.
Palmerston North Overseas Club Tobacco Fund Palmerston N.
The Wellington Publishing Company (Limited), (“The Dominion”) Wellington.
Reefton Ladies’ Patriotic Guild Reefton.
Soldiers Comforts and Tobacco Fund Greymouth.
Banks Peninsula Patriotic Association Akaroa.
Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspaper Company Dunedin.
Taieri Women’s Patriotic Association Mosgiel.
Women’s Patriotic League Queenstown.
Mataura Branch, Southland War Funds Association Mataura.
The Maori Soldiers Fund Council Gisborne.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Revoking Notice under War Regulations declaring a certain Company to be an Enemy.

IN pursuance of clause 20 of the War Regulations of the 3rd day of April, 1916, I, Alexander Lawrence Herdman, His Majesty’s Attorney-General for the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the notice under the said regulations dated the 6th July, 1916, and published in the Gazette of the 10th July, 1916, declaring Aktie Bolaget Lux (Lux Light Company), Stockholm, to be an enemy.

Dated this 21st day of March, 1917.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Attorney-General.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IV, Matakana Survey District, as a Sanctuary for Native Game.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Animals Protection Act, 1914, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto as a sanctuary for native game:

And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Tauranga, 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: 5 acres 0 roods 3 perches.

Being Karewa West (plan 5619 red, Karewa Island), Block IV, Matakana Survey District (S.O. 19411).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41716, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 24th day of March, 1917.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block II, Waoku Survey District, for Road Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Block II, Waoku Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Rawene, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking