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said Department shall, in respect of the said town, be deemed
to be a local authority, and that the provisions of any such
Act shall (subject to such modifications or exceptions as the
Governor-General by Order in Council directs) extend and
apply as if the said town were a borough :
And whereas the said Department has become the con-
tributory local authority to the Rotorua Fire Board, con-
stited under the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908 :
And whereas on the 11th day of April, 1908, His Excel-
lency the Governor-General, in exercise of the powers con-
ferred in that behalf by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, did by
Order in Council make certain regulations for the effectual
carrying-out of that Act, which regulations appear in the New
Zealand Gazette of the 16th day of April, 1908 :
And whereas by clause 3 of the said regulations it is pro-
vided that an order or direction in writing, signed by the
General Manager of the said Department, shall be sufficient
in all cases in which (amongst other things) a resolution or
special order of a Council is necessary in a borough :
Now, therefore, I, the undersigned, William Henry Frethey,
acting for the General Manager of the said Department, in
exercise of the powers and authorities given by the Rotorua
Town Act, 1907, and the said regulations, and also by section
24 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, do hereby order, direct,
and declare that a separate rate of eleven-sixteenths of a penny
in the pound on the value of the buildings in the Rotorua
Fire District, exclusive of the value of the sites on which such
buildings are erected, is hereby made and levied for the year
commencing on the 1st day of July, 1919, and ending on the
30th day of June, 1920, and that such rate shall be payable
in one sum on the 15th day of September, 1919.
As witness my hand this 15th day of September, 1919.

W. H. FRETHEY,
Acting for General Manager.

Witness—A. B. SAUNDERS.

Town of Rotorua.—Order levying a Library Rate, 1919-20.

WHEREAS by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, provision
is made for the management of the Town of Rotorua
by the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, and the
said Department is, in respect of the said town, created a
body corporate :
And whereas by section 4 of the said Act it is enacted
that the said Department shall have and may exercise within
the said town all the powers and authorities conferred by
law on Borough Councils to make and levy a library rate :
And whereas by section 5 of the said Act it is enacted
that, for the purposes of any Act relating to local authorities,
the said Department shall, in respect of the said town, be
deemed to be a local authority, and that the provisions of
any such Act shall (subject to such modifications or excep-
tions as the Governor-General by Order in Council directs)
extend and apply as if the said town were a borough :
And whereas on the 11th day of April, 1908, His Excel-
lency the Governor-General, in exercise of the powers con-
ferred in that behalf by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, did
by Order in Council make certain regulations for the effectual
carrying-out of that Act, which regulations appear in the New
Zealand Gazette of the 16th day of April, 1908 :
And whereas by clause 3 of the said regulations it is provided
that an order or direction in writing, signed by the General
Manager of the said Department, shall be sufficient in all
cases in which (amongst other things) a resolution or special
order of a Council is necessary in a borough :
Now, therefore, I, the undersigned, William Henry Frethey,
acting for the General Manager of the said Department, in
exercise of the powers and authorities given by the Rotorua
Town Act, 1907, and the said regulations, and by the Rating
Act, 1908, do hereby order, direct, and declare that a rate of
one-thirtieth of a penny in the pound on the capital value
of all rateable property in the Town of Rotorua is hereby
made and levied as a library rate for the year commencing
on the 1st day of April, 1919, and ending on the 31st day
of March, 1920, and that such rate shall be payable in one sum
on the 15th day of September, 1919.
As witness my hand this 15th day of September, 1919.

W. H. FRETHEY,
Acting for General Manager.

Witness—A. B. SAUNDERS.

Town of Rotorua.—Order levying a Hospital Rate, 1919-20.

WHEREAS by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, provision
is made for the management of the Town of Rotorua
by the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, and the
said Department is, in respect of the said town, created a
body corporate :

And whereas by section 5 of the said Act it is enacted
that for the purposes of any Act relating to local authori-
ties the said Department shall, in respect of the said town,
be deemed to be a local authority, and that the provisions
of any such Act shall (subject to such modifications or ex-
ceptions as the Governor-General by Order in Council directs)
extend and apply as if the said town were a borough :
And whereas by section 80 of the Hospitals and Chari-
table Institutions Act, 1909, and the Sixth Schedule thereto,
it is provided that the said Department shall be deemed to
be a contributory local authority of the Waikato Hospital
District, and that the said Department, for the purpose of
providing funds for the payment of contributions payable
to the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, shall
have the same power of making, levying, and collecting rates
in the Town of Rotorua as if the town were a borough and
the Department were a Council thereof :
And whereas on the 11th day of April, 1908, His Excel-
lency the Governor-General, in exercise of the powers con-
ferred in that behalf by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, did
by Order in Council make certain regulations for the effectual
carrying-out of that Act, which regulations appear in the New
Zealand Gazette of the 16th day of April, 1908 :
And whereas by clause 3 of the said regulations it is pro-
vided that an order or direction in writing, signed by the
General Manager of the said Department, shall be sufficient
in all cases in which (amongst other things) a resolution or
special order of a Council is necessary in a borough :
Now, therefore, I, the undersigned, William Henry Frethey,
acting for the General Manager of the said Department, in
exercise of the powers given to local authorities by the Rating
Act, 1908, and also in exercise of the powers and authorities
given by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, and the said regu-
lations, do hereby order, direct, and declare that a rate of
one-eighth of a penny in the pound on the capital value of
all rateable property in the Town of Rotorua is hereby made
and levied for the year commencing on the 1st day of April,
1919, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1920, and that
such rate shall be payable in one sum on the 15th day of
September, 1919.
As witness my hand this 15th day of September, 1919.

W. H. FRETHEY,
Acting for General Manager.

Witness—A. B. SAUNDERS.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Otago Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th September, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the under-
mentioned land having been declared forfeited by
resolution of the Otago Land Board, the said land has
thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of the
Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Run 121H, Budle. Tenure: Small Grazing-run No. 385.
Formerly held by William Heffernan, jun. Reason for
forfeiture: Non-residence.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Land in the Wellington Land District for Disposal under the
Land Act, 1908.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 12th September, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given, under section 326 of the Land
Act, 1908, that Section 13, Block X, Makotuku Survey
District, containing 1 acre 3 roods 36 perches, will be dis-
posed of under the provisions of the said Act on or after
Wednesday, the 17th day of December, 1919.

G. H. M. McCLURE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.