property of the Otorohanga Town District; and that such
special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the
31st day of March and the 30th day of September, in each
and every year, during the currency of such loan, being a
period of thirty-six years and a half, or until such loan is
fully paid off.
We hereby certify that the above resolution is a true copy
of and extract from the minutes of the proceedings. of the
Otorohanga Town Board as passed at a meeting of the said
Board at Otorohanga on the 21st day of April, 1919.
HENRY BENNER, J.P., Chairman.
CHAS..J. JOHNSON, Town Clerk.
WAITOA DRAINAGE AREA.
RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATES.-TE PUNINGA SPECIAL
RATING AREA.-SPECIAL DRAINAGE-WORKS LOAN OF £500.
TN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the
Waitoa Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £500, authorized to be raised by the
Waitoa Drainage Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for
the purpose of constructing drainage-works in the Te Puninga
Special Rating Area of the Waitoa Drainage District, the
said Waitoa Drainage Board hereby makes and levies special
rates, on a graduated scale according to the classification list
of lands within the said special rating area, of one and three-
sixteenths of one penny in the pound on the rateable value
of all lands in Class "A," one penny in the pound on the
rateable value of all lands in Class "B," and thirteen-six-
teenths of one penny in the pound on the rateable value of
all lands in Class "C," all of which classes and the lands
therein together with their rateable values as appearing on
the special roll of the special rating area, are set out in the
classification list marked "A" of the Te Puninga Special
Rating Area of the Waitoa Drainage District, the boundaries
of which are as follows,
All that area of land in the Auckland Land District bounded
by a line commencing at the north-east corner of Lot 7 on
the western side of the No. 8 Road, and following along that
road forming the boundaries of Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12
of Sections 96/7 of the Waitoa Estate Subdivision, and also
Section 98 of the Waitoa Estate Subdivision; to the south-
east corner of that section ; thence along the south and the
south-western boundary of Section 98 aforesaid to its north-
western corner, being also the southern boundary of Lot 12,
which along to the Waiharakeke Stream on its eastern side,
and along that stream to the north-western corner of Lot 7
of Sections 96/7 of the Waitoa Estate Subdivision, and
along the northern boundary of that allotment to the No. 8
Road, the point of commencement.
Such rates shall be annually recurring rates during the
currency of the loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first
day of March and the first day of September in each and
every year during the currency of such loan, being a period
of 36 years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
We hereby certify that the above resolution was passed
at a meeting of the Waitoa Drainage Board properly consti-
tuted and held at Waihou on Saturday, 3rd May, 1919. In
testimony whereof the common seal of the Waitoa Drainage
Board is hereto affixed, set, and impressed.
F. W. WALTER, Chairman.
W. R. JOHNSON, Treasurer.
WHAKATANE BOROUGH COUNCIL.
DECLARATION OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT SYSTEM OF
RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE.
PURSUANT to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, I
hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of
the Borough of Whakatane taken on the 30th day of April,
1919, on the proposal that the system of rating in the said
borough be on the unimproved value, the number of votes
recorded for the proposal was 163, and the number of votes
recorded against the proposal was 92 ; the number of votes
informal was 10.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
G. A. BRABANT, Mayor.
1st May, 1919.
BOROUGH OF PAEROA.
DECLARATION OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT SYSTEM OF
RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUES.
PURSUANT to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, I
hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of
the Borough of Paeroa taken on the 30th day of April, 1919,
on the proposal that the system of rating in the said borough
be on the unimproved value, the number of votes recorded
for the proposal was 155, and the number of votes recorded
against the proposal was 71.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated this 2nd day of May, 1919.
W. J. TOWERS, Mayor.
I HEREBY qertify that the Reverend SAMUEL LAWRY has
been appointed by the Conference of the Methodist
Church of New Zealand to be the Authorized Representa-
tive for the year 1919-20, under the provisions of the Wes-
leyan Methodist Church Trust Act, 1887.
H. E. BELLHOUSE,
President of the Conference;
Gisborne, 15th April, 1919.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto
subsisting between PETER ELDER RAMSAY and JOHN
SOMERTON, carrying on business at Gisborne as Bakers, is
hereby dissolved as from the 28th day of February, 1919.
The business will in future be carried on by the said PETER
ELDER RAMSAY solely.
P. E. RAMSAY,
J. SOMERTON.
Witness-F. W. Nolan, Solicitor, Gisborne.
CONTENTS.
ADVERTISEMENTS
APPOINTMENTS, ETC.
BANKRUPTCY NOTICES
CROWN LANDS NOTICES
DEFENCE FORCES
LAND-
Boundaries, Alteration of
Crown Land proclaimed
Foreshore, Licensing Use and Occupation of
Game, Declaring a Sanctuary for Imported and
Native
Native Land, Extending Prohibition of Alienation
of certain
Native Land. Partial Revocation of Order in
Council respecting
Public Works Shops and Store Site, Taken for
Railway, Defining Middle-line of
Reserved temporarily
Reserve, Notice of Change of Purpose of
Road, Allocating Land taken for Railway to the
Purposes of
Road declared to be District Road
Road declared to be Government Road
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of the Public Works Act
Road, Taken for
Roads declared to be County Roads
Roads proclaimed
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Scenic Purposes, Intention to take Land for
Selection, Set apart for
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Street proclaimed
Streets, Authorizing Laying-off of
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MISCELLANEOUS-
Belgian Consulate for the States of New South
Wales, &c., to be in Charge of Hon. Consul
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Customs and Excise Duties
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Empire Day, Observance of
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regarding Permitted
Exports
Fire Board, First Meeting of
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Immigration and Emigration Returns
Loan, Validating Proceedings in re
Officiating Ministers for 1919
Poll, Validating
Polls for Proposed Loans, Results of
Population of the Dominion
Postal Correspondence, Revoking Prohibition of
Public Accounts, Quarterly, to 31st March
Public Accounts, Yearly, to 31st March..
Public Service.: Scale of Salaries
Public Trustee, Estates administered by
Regulations under the Education Act
River and Extended-river Limits defined
Scenic Reserves Inspector appointed
Soldiers' Property Board of Trustees cancelled
Stoats and Weasels protected
Teal, Black and Brown, protected
Tenders
Toll-gate, Consenting to the Establishment of
Vice-Consuls, Appointment of, recognized
Water-power, Authorizing the Erection of Works,
&c., in connection with the Utilization of
NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES