Amount of debts owing by company: £2,073 4s. 10d
Amount of contingent liabilities of company: £45.

I, Thomas Hubert Lee, the Secretary of the New Big River Gold-mining Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company on the 31st December, 1922; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

T. H. LEE.

Declared at Reefton this 14th day of March, 1923, before me—W. B. Auld, J.P.

KAITIEKE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Kaitieke County Council hereby resolves as follows :—
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Kaitieke County Council Fitzgerald Rating Area Loan of £200, 1923, authorized to be raised by the Kaitieke County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of reforming and metalling portion of the Wanganui River Road, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny and one farthing (1¼d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Fitzgerald Special Rating Area of the County of Kaitieke described as follows: Being Sections 1 and 2, Block I, Hunua S.D.; Sections 3, 4, and 5, Tapui Village Settlement, Block I, Hunua S.D.; and Section 4, Block II, Hunua S.D.; and being the rateable properties comprised within the following boundaries—commencing on the boundary of the Wanganui River Road at the “Victory Bridge” approach, and following such northern boundary in an easterly direction to a point opposite the north-eastern corner of Section 6, Block II, Hunua S.D.; thence by a straight line to such north-eastern corner of said Section 6 ; thence by the eastern and southern boundaries of said Section 6 and the southern boundaries of Sections 1 and 2, Block I, Hunua S.D., and the western boundary of said Section 2 to the southern boundary of the said Wanganui River Road; thence in a westerly direction by the southern boundary of such road to a point opposite the commencing-point; thence by a straight line to such commencing-point.
And that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

THOS. CROCKER, Chairman.

E. T. BEAVEN, Clerk.

WHANGAREI COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR A ROAD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Whangarei County Council proposes, in exercise of the powers in that behalf vested in it by the Public Works Act, 1908, and any amendments thereof, to take the lands described in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of a public work—namely, for the construction of a public road; and that a plan of the land so proposed to be taken is open for inspection at the County Office, Whangarei, during ordinary office hours.
All persons affected by the said public work, and having any well-grounded objection thereto or to the taking of the said land, are hereby called upon to set forth such objection in writing to the Whangarei County Council, within forty days from the 15th day of March, 1923, being the date of the first publication of this notice.

THE SCHEDULE.

AREA of each of the parcels of land required to be taken :-
A. R. P.
Being Portion of
5 0 20 Sections 89 and N.W. 88; coloured yellow.
3 1 4 Section 85; coloured blue.
0 2 18 ,, S. 84; coloured red.
1 2 0 ,, M. 84; coloured purple.

Situated in Block XVI, Tangihua Survey District. (Plan No. 22023).

Dated this 15th day of March, 1923.

H. C. HEMPHILL, County Clerk.

WAITOTARA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING A SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Waitotara County Council hereby resolves as follows :—
That,for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of one thousand pounds (£1,000), authorized to be raised by the Waitotara County Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of regrading and metalling the Tokomaru East Road, the said Waitotara County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one farthing (¼d.) in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Tokomaru East Road Special Rating District (No. 2), comprising Kauarapaoa Block, Block I, Waipakura S.D.; Tauwhare Block, Blocks IX and X, Waipakura S.D.; S.G.R. 28; Lots 1 and 2, Blocks I and V, Waipakura S.D.; Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and part 17, Blocks V and IX, Waipakura S.D.; S.G.R. 29, Block V, Waipakura S.D.; S.G.R. 30, Block V, Waipakura S.D.; Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Block IX, Waipakura S.D.; part Section 17, Block IX, Waipakura S.D.; Section 18, Block IX, Waipakura S.D.; part Tunahaere Block, Block IX, Waipakura S.D. (39 acres 1 rood 4 perches). And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable yearly on the first day of September 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.

A. S. DYMOCK, County Clerk.

HAWKE'S BAY COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—LOAN OF £800.—TE MATA WATER-SUPPLY.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by section 16 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and with the consent of the ratepayers of the special area of the water-supply district in the Te Mata Settlement, in the Hawke’s Bay County, hereinafter described, testified by a petition signed by not less than three-fourths of the ratepayers in the said special rating area the capital value of whose properties as appearing on the valuation roll of the said special rating area is collectively greater than the capital values of the properties of the ratepayers who did not so consent, the Hawke’s Bay County Council hereby resolves by way of special order as follows :—
That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of eight hundred pounds (£800), authorized to be raised by the Hawke's Bay County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the supply of water for domestic and industrial purposes, the said Hawke’s Bay County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny halfpenny (1½d.) in the pound (£) upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the special rating area, comprising all those pieces or parcels of land containing by admeasurement 248 acres 3 roods 19.9 perches, more or less, situate in Block IV, Te Mata Survey District, and being portion of Block IX, Te Mata Crown-grant District, and comprising the following lots : Sections 1–8 and 13–17, Block IV, Te Mata Survey District; Sections 9s, 10s, 11s, 12s, and 13s, Te Mata Settlement; Lots 1 and 2, D.P. 2315; Lot 1, D.P. 1836 and 2530; Lots 1–7, D.P. 2336; Lot 3, D.P. 1558 and part Lot 1, D.P. 1861; Lot 1, D.P. 1706; Lots 2 and 3, D.P. 2299; Lot 1, D.P. 1750; and Lot 2, D.P. 3752. All the abovementioned lots being portion of Block IX, Te Mata Crown-grant District, and bounded as follows,—
Commencing at the south-west corner of the Te Mata Settlement at its intersection with the Arataki Farm Road; thence bounded on the south by other part of said Block IX, Te Mata Crown-grant District, 1590.4; on the north-east by said Block IX, Te Mata Crown-grant District, 6921.15, to the main drain; thence on the north by lines along centre of main drain to its intersection with the north-east boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 1558; thence generally on the west and south by other part of said Block IX, Te Mata Crown-grant District, lines 1873.2, 100.6, 1143.3, 393.8, 930, and 983.7 links respectively to stream; thence along centre of stream to south-west boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 1861; thence on the south and east by other portions of said Block IX, Te Mata Crown-grant District, lines 1285.6, 396.2, and 847.2 links respectively to the south-west boundary of the Te Mata Settlement; thence on the south-west by the south-west boundary of the Te Mata Settlement, 2751.75 links, to the commencing-point at the Arataki Farm Road.

And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half