Local Government Special Rates




JUNE 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2047

purchased, acquired, or appropriated by it for the purpose,
either within the Borough of Palmerston North or adjacent
thereto, for occupation by workers employed or resident in
the said borough, as published in detail in a local paper
circulating in the district, the said Council hereby makes and
levies a special rate of 3/31sts of a penny in the pound
sterling (on the basis of the unimproved value) on all rateable
property in the Borough of Palmerston North, comprising
the whole of the said borough as defined in the New Zealand
Gazette
dated the 20th day of January, 1882: and that
such special rate be an annual-recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first
day of June 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.

J. R. HARDIE, Town Clerk.

Palmerston North, 16th June, 1920. 589

WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the
Waipa County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £8,000, authorized to be raised by the
Waipa County Council, under the above-mentioned Act,
for the purpose of erecting workers’ dwellings, the said Waipa
County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of
one thirty-sixth (1/36th) of a penny in the pound on the
rateable value of all rateable property in the County of
Waipa; and that such special rate shall be an annual-
recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be
payable yearly on the 1st day of August in each and every
year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½
years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

590 ROBERT FISHER, Chairman.

WANGANUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the
Wanganui Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £2,500, authorized to be raised by the
Wanganui Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act,
for the purpose of completing an undertaking for which the
sum of £25,000 has been already raised by the said Council
for the following purposes, namely,—
(1.) Providing drainage in extension of existing drainage
in the Borough of Wanganui, and providing new sewers,
replacing old sewers, extending existing sewers, providing
street-sumps and drainage-pipes, and laying drainage-pipes
in the streets of the borough, and all appliances, plant, and
things necessary or convenient therefor:
(2.) Providing and laying water-mains in the streets of
the said borough, and extending and replacing existing
water-mains in the said streets, and providing all machinery,
appliances, plant, apparatus, appurtenances, and things
necessary or convenient therefor in connection with the
present waterworks (as defined in section 229 of the
Municipal Corporations Act, 1908) of the borough, and
extending, enlarging, and augmenting the waterworks or
water-service in the said borough:
(3.) Providing, constructing, and completing a tunnel
at Okehu connecting the Mangahoropito Stream within
the catchment area of the borough with the Okehu Stream
or the Okehu Waterworks Dam within the said catchment
area, and the supplying or laying water-mains in the said
tunnel for the purpose of carrying water from the said
Mangahoropito Stream to the said Okehu Stream or Okehu
Waterworks Dam, and for enlarging and extending the
waterworks at Okehu aforesaid, and for all matters and
things incident or relating to the purposes aforesaid:
(4.) Providing, constructing, and supplying public
urinals or conveniences, and all works and things necessary
or incidental thereto:
(5.) For matters incidental or relating to all or to any
one or more of the foregoing purposes:
the said Wanganui Borough Council hereby makes and levies
a special rate of one farthing in the pound upon the rateable
value (on the basis of the annual value) of all rateable property
of the Borough of Wanganui, comprising the whole of the
Borough of Wanganui, the boundaries whereof are defined in
the New Zealand Gazette of the nineteenth day of December,
1912, No. 92, at page 3618.
And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate
during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on
the first day of May and the first day of November in each and
every year during the currency of such loan, being a period
of sixteen (16) years and eight (8) calendar months from the
first day of April, 1920.

T. BOSWALL WILLIAMS, Mayor.
G. MURCH, Town Clerk.

591

WANGANUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913,
the Wanganui Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund,
and other charges on a loan of £140,000, authorized to be
raised by the Wanganui Borough Council, under the above-
mentioned Act, for the following purposes, namely:—
(a.) The construction under the Tramways Act, 1908,
and the amendments thereof, and of all other Acts enabling
it in that behalf, of an electric tramway in extension of
the existing electric tramway in the Borough of Wanganui
along certain streets in the Borough of Wanganui, com-
mencing at the junction or intersection of Victoria Avenue
and Glasgow Street, along Victoria Avenue to the junction
or intersection of Victoria Avenue and the Great North-
western Road; thence along an overhead bridge on the
Great North-western Road to be erected across the New
Zealand Government line of railway; thence along the
Great North-western Road to a point in such road distant
seventy-one (71) chains from the point of commencement:
£9,725
(b.) The construction under the Tramways Act, 1908,
and the amendments thereof, and of all other Acts enabling
it in that behalf, of an electric tramway in extension of
the existing electric tramway in the Borough of Wanganui
along certain streets in the Borough of Wanganui, com-
mencing at the present terminus of the electric tramway
of the Borough of Wanganui two and one-half (2½) chains
north-east of Quick Avenue; thence along Somme Parade
to the boundary of the said borough; thence along the
River Bank Road in the Waitotara County to the Wanganui
General Cemetery; thence along McNeil Street to the
junction of McNeil Street and the River Bank Road;
thence along the River Bank Road a distance of 79·6
chains from the point of commencement: £9,293
(c.) The construction under the Tramways Act, 1908,
and the amendments thereof, and of all other Acts en-
ableing it in that behalf, of an electric tramway in extension
of the existing electric tramway in the Borough of Wanga-
nui along certain streets in the said borough, commencing
at a point on Ridgway Street in the said borough 1·5 chains
north-east of the junction or intersection of Ridgway
Street and St. Hill Street, along Ridgway Street to St.
Hill Street; thence along St. Hill Street to the intersection
or junction of St. Hill Street and Maria Place; thence
along Maria Place to Victoria Avenue to a point 1·15
chains north-west of Maria Place a distance of 18·18 chains
from the point of commencement: £2,696
(d.) The construction under the Tramways Act, 1908,
and the amendments thereof, and of all other Acts en-
ableing it in that behalf, of an electric tramway in extension
of the existing electric tramway in the Borough of Wanga-
nui in Victoria Avenue (a duplicate line), commencing at
a point 1·7 chains south-east of Guyton Street along
Victoria Avenue to a point 5·5 chains north-west of Liver-
pool Street, a distance of 52·5 chains from the point of
commencement.
The construction under the Tramways Act, 1908, and
the amendments thereof, and of all other Acts enabling
it in that behalf, of an electric tramway in extension of
the existing electric tramway in the Borough of Wanganui,
at the junction or intersection of Ridgway Street and St.
Hill Street, along Ridgway Street in a south-westerly
direction to a point in Ridgway Street 3·9 chains from the
point of commencement: £11,496
(e.) The construction under the Tramways Act, 1908,
and the amendments thereof, and of all other Acts en-
ableing it in that behalf, of an electric tramway in extension
of the existing electric tramway in the Borough of Wanganui,
commencing at a point at the junction or intersection of
Guyton Street and Campbell Street, along Guyton Street
in a north-easterly direction to the junction or inter-
section of Guyton Street and Bell Street; thence along
Bell Street in a north-westerly direction to a point in the
existing tramline at the junction or intersection of Bell
Street and Ingestre Street, a distance of 18·56 chains from
the point of commencement: £3,100
(f.) The construction, erection, and finishing of buildings
and sheds in connection with the said tramway, the making
and completing of alterations, additions, and improvements
to existing buildings and sheds, the constructing, making,
and supplying of machinery, plant, tools, apparatus, and
appliances for generating power by steam, hydro-electric
gas, or other approved motive power in connection with
the tramways, and the supply of electric light and power to
private consumers, and of all things necessary, expedient,
or convenient for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and
all things incidental thereto or used in connection there-
with: £56,053
(g.) The constructing, providing, and supplying of electric
tramcars, trailer-cars, trucks, motors, equipment, appliances,
and all other matters and things necessary, convenient, or
expedient for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, and all
things incidental thereto or used in connection therewith:
£19,551



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