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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913,
I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Awhitu
Riding of Franklin County was taken on the 21st day of
February, 1920, on the proposal of the Franklin County
Council to borrow the sum of £10,000 for the purpose of con-
struction of roads in the Awhitu Riding of Franklin County
(including the payment of compensation for land required
to be taken for any deviation or deviations found to be neces-
sary on such roads, the purchase or hire of any horses, plant,
and machinery required to carry out such work, and such
other costs, charges, and expenses as the Franklin County
Council may determine to have been actually incurred in
connection with such work), the said sum of £10,000 to be
allocated for construction of roads in the various districts
throughout the riding as follows :—

(a.) Roads in late Awhitu Road District .. 4,420
(b.) Roads in Pollok Settlement Road District .. 1,190
(c.) Roads in No. 5 Subdivision of late Waipipi Road
District .. .. .. .. 1,920
(d.) Roads in No. 4 Subdivision of late Waipipi Road
District .. .. .. .. 2,470
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£10,000

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 150,
and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was
38 ; informal, 1.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated at Pukekohe this 26th day of February, 1920.

W. CLAUD MOTION, County Chairman.

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Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 2nd March, 1920.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Board of the Palmerston North - Kairanga River Dis-
trict, is published in accordance with the provisions of the
Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY,
Acting Minister of Finance.

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PALMERSTON NORTH - KAIRANGA RIVER BOARD.

Loan Proposal.

In pursuance of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1913, and a poll of ratepayers taken on the 21st day of
January, 1920, for the purpose of obtaining the consent of
the ratepayers to raise a loan of £7,000—viz., for the con-
struction of protective works at Fitzroy Bend and Ander-
son’s Bend, on the Manawatu River—the voting for the
proposal resulted as follows : For the proposal, 127 ; against
the proposal, 179.
I therefore declare the proposal rejected.

HUGH AKERS, Chairman.

Palmerston North, 22nd January, 1920.

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Notification of the Number of Valid Votes recorded in
respect of National Prohibition at the Licensing Poll
taken on the 17th Day of December, 1919, and of the
Result thereof.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1920.

IN pursuance of the provisions of section 16 of the
Licensing Amendment Act, 1910, as modified by section
58 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, I, Joseph Gordon
Coates, Minister of Justice, do hereby notify that the total
number of valid votes recorded at the poll throughout New
Zealand, taken in accordance with Part II of the Licensing
Amendment Act, 1918, was 543,762.

And I do further notify that the total number of valid
votes recorded throughout New Zealand in respect of the
proposals submitted under section 56 of the Licensing
Amendment Act, 1918, was as under, viz. :—

For national continuance .. .. 241,251
For State purchase and control .. 32,261
For national prohibition .. .. 270,250

As the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of
either of the proposals for State purchase and control or
for national prohibition without compensation does not
amount to more than one-half of all the valid votes recorded
at the poll, I hereby notify, under section 59 of the
Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, that the result of the poll
is that national continuance is deemed to have been carried.

J. G. COATES,
Minister of Justice.

Returning Officers for certain Licensing Districts appointed.

Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of the powers vested in him by the Legislature Act,
1908, and the Licensing Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint the
undermentioned persons to be Returning Officers for the
licensing districts set opposite their names respectively :—

Name of Returning Officer. Name of Licensing District.
Harry Clough Blundell Bay of Islands.
Frank Bird, jun. Marsden.
Arthur Frood Kaipara.
John Joseph Kearney Waitemata.
Thomas Culpan Auckland.
Henry Bernard Massey.. Parnell.
Sydney John Brookfield Manukau.
John Patterson Franklin.
George Haymes Morrish Raglan.
Henry Robertson Bush Thames.
William Churchill Tauranga.
Henry James Dixon Waikato.
Leo Cyril Ryan Rotorua.
John Tom Merry Bay of Plenty.
John Lodewyk Crowther Waitomo.
Henry Ewart Hill Gisborne.
Henry Gilmore Smith Hawke’s Bay.
Wybert Marmion Moore Napier.
Ralph Cox Waipawa.
George William Woods.. Pahiatua.
Ralph Robert Armstrong Wairarapa.
Thomas Purcell Stratford.
James Jordan Taranaki.
Albert James Ching Egmont.
William Henry Freeman Patea.
Frederick William Hart Wanganui.
Arthur Wolleston Pym Hewitt Waimarino.
Thomas Watson Oroua.
Frederick Charles Wilson Rangitikei.
Arthur Hawke Manawatu.
Charles Edward Shortt Palmerston.
Richard William Percy.. Otaki.
Francis Walter London Hutt.
Robert Clark O’Connor Wellington.
Henry Morgan Nelson.
Gordon James Waters Boundy Motueka.
William Dryburgh Wallace Buller.
John Nelson Nalder Westland.
Richard Wanden Wairau.
Victor Joseph Rhodes Hurunui.
Charles Henry Wright Kaipoi.
Thomas William Reese Christchurch.
Albert Freeman Riccarton.
Herbert Bloomfield Magrath Avon.
John Young Cameron Lyttelton.
Patrick John Eccleton Ellesmere.
Thomas William Tayler Timaru.
Ernest Booth .. Temuka.
William Harte Waitaki.
Henry Maxwell Dunedin.
Robert Mercer Dunedin South.
Thomas Scollay Chalmers.
Alfred Ernest Reynolds Wakatipu.
John Carroll .. Wallace.
John Alexander Broom Awarua.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

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Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks II, III, and IV,
Russell Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

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 Blocks II, III, and IV, Russell 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
Manawaora, and is there open for inspection; and that all
persons affected by the execution of the said public work or
by the taking of the said land should, if they have any
well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public
work or 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.