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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 16th November, 1921.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Council of the Borough of New Plymouth, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

Result of Poll 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 Borough of New Plymouth was taken on the 2nd day of November, 1921, upon a proposal to raise a special loan of £10,000 for the following purposes:—

The particular purposes for which the loan is required are—

(a.) £10,000 for providing additions and extensions to the borough waterworks as defined by section 238 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920; for purchasing, taking, or otherwise acquiring necessary land, buildings, machinery, plant, and material therefor; for payment of compensation to persons injuriously affected thereby; and for any other purposes incidental or in relation to any of the above-mentioned purposes.

(b.) The sum to be borrowed for all such purposes is £10,000.

(c.) The proposed security for the said loan of £10,000 and the instalments thereon is an annually recurring special rate of one-seventh (1/7th) of a penny in the pound on the rateable value of all rateable property in the said Borough of New Plymouth, and provision is made for repayment by means of half-yearly instalments, in thirty-six years and a half, under section 68 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

(d.) It is proposed to pay out of the said loan the cost of raising the said loan, and the instalments in respect of interest and principal thereon for the first year.

The number of valid votes recorded for the proposal was 592; and the number of valid votes recorded against the proposal was 114; the total number of valid votes recorded was 706.

I therefore declare the said proposal carried.

Dated at New Plymouth this 9th day of November, 1921.

FRANK E. WILSON,
Mayor and Chairman of the New Plymouth Borough Council.

Notice respecting Proposed Omarunui Drainage District, County of Hawke’s Bay.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th November, 1921.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a drainage district under Part I of the said Act, by name the Omarunui Drainage District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said drainage district which they desire to lodge, within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED OMARUNUI DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the County and Land District of Hawke’s Bay bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the Napier-Fernhill Road at its intersection with the Paherumanihi Stream; thence bounded on the south by the said Napier-Fernhill Road a distance of 100 links in a north-easterly direction; thence generally on the north and east by lines 100 links to the north and east of the Paherumanihi and Repokai te Rotoroa Streams, to the north-west boundary of Lot 15, part of Section 9, Omarunui Block; thence again on the east by the west side of the closed road, and lines along the foot of the hills through part Lot 10, Omarunui Block; thence again on the east by the west side of closed road through Lots 10, 13, 12, 11, 9, and 8, part Omarunui Block, to the Omahu-Puketapu Road; thence again on the east by the Omahu-Puketapu Road to the south boundary of Section 12, Omarunui Block; again on the east by west side of closed road through Section 12, Omarunui Block, to the intersection with foot of hills; thence again on the east by lines along the foot of the hills through Lot 1, part Section 12, and Lot 1, Section A, part Omarunui Block, to the Napier-Moteo Road; thence on the north by the Napier-Moteo Road to the eastern boundary of Subdivision 1c 5, Moteo-Hapua-Te Pirau Block; thence on the west and north by the east and south boundaries of Subdivision 1c 5, Moteo-Hapua-Te Pirau Block; thence again on the west by the east side of a public road, 4236 links, to the foot of the hills; thence on the west, north, and east by lines along the foot of the hills through Lot 21, part Pirau No. 1 Block, to their intersection with the public road; thence on the north by public road, 2671 links, to the east boundary of Lot 20, part Pirau No. 1 Block; thence again on the west by the east and north-east boundaries of said Lot 20 to its intersection with foot of the hills; thence again on the west by lines along the foot of the hills through Lots 20 and 22, part Pirau Nos. 1 and 3 Blocks; thence again on the west by the east side of public road through Lots 21, 20, 19, and 18, part Omahu 3B Block; thence again on the west by lines along the foot of the hills through Lots 17, 16, and 15, part of Omahu 3A, 3B, and 2V Blocks to a point 100 links north of the outlet drain of the Oingo Lake; thence on the south and east by lines 100 links to the north and west of the said outlet drain, and the stream connecting the outlet drain of the Oingo Lake with the Paherumanihi Stream; thence on the south by lines 100 links south of the Paherumanihi Stream to their intersection with the Napier-Fernhill Road; thence on the south-east by Napier-Fernhill Road, 100 links, to the starting-point.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

German Debts under the Peace Treaty.—Belgian and French Claimants in New Zealand.

New Zealand Clearing Office,
Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 9th November, 1921.

IN view of the agreements between the British Government and the Belgian and French Governments which are now awaiting ratification, and which apply the procedure under Article 296 of the Treaty of Versailles relating to pre-war debts to the claims of French and Belgian nationals resident in New Zealand on the 10th January, 1920, the Controller of the New Zealand Clearing Office (Enemy Debts) desires to receive at the earliest possible moment the names and addresses of such claimants, together with the amounts of their claims. These claims must be confined to debts against German nationals as defined by Article 296 of the treaty.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee,
As Controller, New Zealand Clearing Office.

Unclaimed Property.

In the matter of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, Part III, and its amendments; and in the matter of the estate of Peter Clark, formerly of Wairoa, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, in the Dominion of New Zealand, Labourer, but whose present whereabouts are unknown.

WHEREAS it has been reported to the Public Trustee that the said Peter Clark is entitled to certain property—namely, a sum of approximately £128; the said moneys being in the Post Office Savings-bank, and that it is not known where the said Peter Clark is, or whether he is alive or dead:

And whereas the Public Trustee recently applied to the Supreme Court for an order under Part III of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its amendments, in respect of such property; and by an order made in the Supreme Court at Wellington, pursuant to the said application under section 87 of the said Act, the Public Trustee was authorized to take possession of the said property:

Now, the Public Trustee hereby gives notice that he proposes to exercise in respect of such property the powers conferred upon him by the said order and by Part III of the said Act.

Dated at Wellington this 9th day of November, 1921.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Dismissal from the Defence Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 8th November, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the dismissal of the undermentioned from the Defence Forces, under section 6 (b), Defence Act, 1909, he having been convicted by the Civil power. Dated 31st October, 1921:—

No. 33/5738. Private Donald Pugh, New Zealand Army Service Corps.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.