APRIL 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1435

TASMAN PURE FOODS (LIMITED).

A MEETING of the shareholders of the above company will be held at the offices of Messrs. L. D. Nathan & Co. (Ltd.) on Wednesday, 9th May, at 3 p.m.

BUSINESS.—To receive Liquidator’s report and statement of accounts.

286 R. S. H. BISS, Secretary.

HAWKE’S BAY COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTIONS AMENDING THE BY-LAWS OF THE COUNTY OF HAWKE’S BAY AND INTENDED TO OPERATE AS A SPECIAL ORDER.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in it by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling it in this behalf, the Council of the County of Hawke’s Bay doth hereby resolve as follows :—

A. That By-law No. 13 be and the same is hereby amended in manner following, that is to say :—

(1.) By adding to Part I thereof this clause—

“(gl.) Any officer or person thereunto duly authorized by the Council—

“May stop and detain any motor-lorry which in his opinion with the load thereon weighs more than three tons avoirdupois, until the true weight thereof and of the load thereon can be ascertained.

“May require the driver of any such lorry to proceed at once with his lorry to any weighbridge within the Borough of Napier or the Borough of Hastings, and to do all other acts and things which such officer or person may deem necessary or expedient to be done with a view to the immediate weighing of the lorry and the load thereon, and the driver of the lorry shall be bound to comply with all such requirements.

“On or within a reasonable time after the arrival of the lorry at a weighbridge, may cause the lorry and load to be weighed thereat, and may procure from the person in charge of the weighbridge a memorandum in writing of the weight so ascertained, which memorandum (if signed by the person in such charge) shall be conclusive evidence of the correctness of the weight therein stated.”

(2.) By adding at the end of the by-law the following clauses :—

“(j.) This by-law shall not apply to any motor vehicle that is used solely for the carriage of passengers and passengers’ luggage.

“(k.) Every one who commits a breach of this by-law, or fails to comply with any provision thereof, shall for each such breach or failure be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.”

B. That the foregoing amendments do come into force on the 1st day of June, 1917.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Hawke’s Bay was hereunto affixed by order of the said Council this 16th day of April, 1917, in the presence of—

T. E. CROSSE, Chairman.

A. H. FERGUSON, Clerk.

The foregoing resolutions amending By-law No. 13 of the County of Hawke’s Bay, and appointing a day whereon the amendments shall come into force, were duly passed by the Council of the said county at a special meeting thereof duly called and held in the county offices in Browning Street, Napier, on Monday, the 12th day of March, 1917, at the hour of twelve noon, and were duly confirmed as a special order at a subsequent meeting of the said Council, notified in accordance with the provisions of section 97 of the Counties Act, 1908, and helden this day at the hour of twelve noon in the county offices aforesaid.

Dated this 16th day of April, 1917.

287 A. H. FERGUSON, County Clerk.

PUKEATUA ROAD BOARD.

DECLARATION OF POLL.

IN terms of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and the Road Boards Act, 1908, notice is hereby given of the receipt of the following nominations :—

Escott, William.

Foley, Timothy.

And the number of candidates not exceeding the number of vacancies to be filled, I hereby declare the said

Escott, William; and

Foley, Timothy,

duly elected as members of the Pukeatua Road Board.

W. WALLACE BRUCE, Returning Officer.

Auckland, 23rd April, 1917.

288

RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—LOAN OF £1,900.—TOETOE BRIDGE SPECIAL-RATING DISTRICT.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £1,900, authorized to be raised by the Rangitikei County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of erecting a bridge over the Rangitikei River at Toetoe, and acquiring, fencing, and constructing a new road through the Awarua Block 1A No. 2 East, Lot 1, and the cost of raising the loan to be paid out of the loan, the said Rangitikei County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of four-fifths of a penny (4/5d.) in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property of the Toetoe Bridge Special-rating District, comprising—

Part Lot A, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VI, Hautapu S.D. … … … A. R. P. 371 0 26

Part Lot A, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VI, Hautapu S.D. … … … 282 2 0

Lot B, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Blocks VI and VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 217 3 24

Part Lot C, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 118 0 0

Part Lot C, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 99 3 24

Lot D, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 217 3 24

Lot E, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 217 3 24

Lot F, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 217 3 24

Lot G, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 181 2 11

Lot H, No. 1 Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 181 0 15

Lot H, No. 2 Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 181 0 15

Part Lot H, Awarua 1A No. 2 West, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 299 3 33

Lot I, Awarua 1A No. 2 East, Block VII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 637 0 32

Section 5, Block VIII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 600 0 0

Section 8, Block VIII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 1,435 0 0

Section 9, Block VIII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 1,497 0 0

Section 10, Block IX, Ruahine S.D. … … … 1,480 0 0

Section 5A, Block VIII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 15 0 0

Section 10, Block VIII, Hautapu S.D. … … … 2 3 22

Section 17, Block IX, Ruahine S.D. … … … 117 0 0

As the said special-rating district is more particularly shown upon the map attached to the ratepayers’ consent to the said loan, and thereon bordered red.

And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of May in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a half, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I, Bennet Perry Lethbridge, Chairman of the Rangitikei County Council, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed at a special meeting of the Rangitikei County Council held on the 3rd day of April, 1917.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Rangitikei was hereto affixed this 3rd day of April, 1917, in the presence of—

BEN. P. LETHBRIDGE, Chairman.

HAROLD H. RICHARDSON, County Clerk.

289

RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—LOAN OF £1,200.—WHAREROA ROAD.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £1,200, authorized to be raised by the Rangitikei County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of completing the metalling of the Whareroa Road between the Ongo Road and Mr. A. Livingston’s wool-shed, and the cost of raising the loan to be paid out of the loan, the said Rangitikei County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three-elevenths of a penny (3/11d.) in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property of the Whareroa No. 2 Special-rating District, comprising subdivisions of the Ohaumoko Block, Section 1 (1,776 acres) in