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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

County Council Tapairu No. 2 Supplementary Loan of £150, 1923, being 10 per cent. additional of the Waitomo County Council Tapairu Loan No. 2, 1920, authorized to be raised by the Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of metalling the Tapairu Road from the end of the road as far as the money will permit, such latter amount being insufficient to complete the works for which such loan was raised, the said Waitomo County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three-sixteenths of a penny (3/16d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Tapairu Special Rating Area, comprising Sections 3 and 4, Block I, Pakaumanu Survey District, Rangitoto-Tuhua 35E (south part), Rangitoto-Tuhua 35E (northern part), Rangitoto-Tuhua 35F and 35G 2, Rangitoto-Tuhua 35G Section 2A, Rangitoto-Tuhua 35G Section 2B and part 2C, Rangitoto-Tuhua 68A Number 1, Rangitoto-Tuhua 26F Number 2D, and Rangitoto-Tuhua 70B Number 1A and 1B; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable 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.

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GEO. BROWN, County Clerk.

MOUNT ALBERT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

1922 WATER-SUPPLY EXTENSION LOAN, £22,000.—RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Mount Albert Borough Council hereby resolved as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £22,000, authorized to be raised by the Mount Albert Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for reticulation and extension of the water-supply system, the said Mount Albert Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of seventeen one-hundredths of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Mount Albert Borough, comprising the whole of the Borough of Mount Albert; 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 July 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.

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H. UTTING, Town Clerk.

BOROUGH OF THAMES.

RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.

WHEREAS on or about the 30th day of November, 1920, the Council of the Borough of Thames, pursuant to the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, took a poll of the ratepayers of the said borough on a proposal to borrow a sum of £70,350 for the following purposes:—
(1.) Reconstructing, regrading, surfacing, kerbing, channelling, draining, and other improvement of portions of the following streets, namely: Pollen Street, Rolleston Street, Mackay Street, Baillie Street, Queen Street, Grey Street, Willoughby Street, Richmond Street, Mary Street, Pahau Street, Cochrane Street, Bella Street, Broad Street, Campbell Street, Davy Street, Beach Road, Albert Street, Upper Pollen Street, Irishtown Road, Bird-in-Hand Hill, Clarence Street, Franklyn Street, St. Patrick’s Row, Sandes Street, The Terrace, Hill Street, Augustus Street, Parawai Road, Banks Street, Bowen Street, Heale Street, Fenton Street, Alfred Street, Waikiekie Road, Hape Road, Karaka Creek Road, Karaka Road, Tararu Road, Thames-Paeroa Main Road;
(2.) Bridges and culverts over and along the following creeks, namely: Waikiekie, Kakarimata, Hape, Waiotahi, Kuranui, Shellback, Opitomoko, Tararu, Rocky Point;
(3.) Renewal of Kauaeranga Traffic-bridge at Parawai;
(4.) Relining Karaka Creek conduit;
(5.) Construction of Karaka Creek conduit from Bull’s Battery site to Baillie Street;
(6.) Water-main along west side of Pollen Street;
(7.) Purchase of land required for straightening Upper Pollen Street and at corner of Williamson and Brown Streets;
(8.) Expenditure upon Governor Bowen Hotel site;
(9.) Purchase of road and pipe making plant and machinery;
(10.) Refund to District Fund Account of moneys expended for the following, namely,—
(a.) Fenton and Bowen Streets—tile drains;
(b.) Tararu Road—channelling, kerbing, and footpath;
(c.) Purchase of Reitmann’s property, Berry’s property, Pacific Hotel site, Bull’s Battery site, Rocky Point quarry;
(d.) Removal and re-erection of cottage for fire-brigade station site;
(11.) Town beautifying;
(12.) Engineer’s charges for reports, plans, estimates, specifications, supervising, and general charges in connection with above works;
and the result of the said poll was duly gazetted in accordance with law, which result appears in the New Zealand Gazette for the year 1921 at page 34 thereof:
And whereas the said loan by its terms is made repayable over a period of not less than 36 years, and the rate of interest thereon authorized by the said poll was a rate not to exceed £5 10s. per centum per annum, with a sinking fund of not less than 1 per cent. on the amount of the said loan: And whereas no part of the said loan has been raised:
And whereas, there being doubts as to the validity of the said poll, it was provided by section 125 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1921, that the said poll should be deemed to have been lawfully taken, and the said Council of the said borough was by the said section empowered to borrow by way of such special loan under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the said sum of £70,350, or such part thereof as it thought fit, at such rate of interest as might be approved by the Governor-General in Council, and to refund to its District Fund Account the moneys expended thereout on the works set forth in Proposal Number 10 on the said poll:
Now, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and section 125 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1921, the Council of the Borough of Thames hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on the said loan of £70,350 authorized as aforesaid, the said Council of the Borough of Thames hereby makes and levies a special rate of fivepence and three-fifths of a penny in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (being the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Thames, comprising the whole of the lands in the said borough; and that such special rate be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of June 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.

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A. CHAPMAN, Town Clerk.

ELTHAM COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESULT OF POLL ON A PROPOSAL TO ADOPT THE SYSTEM OF RATING ON THE UNIMPROVED VALUE OF LAND WITHIN THE COUNTY OF ELTHAM.

PURSUANT to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that at a poll taken on the above proposal on Wednesday, the 9th May, 1923, the following votes were recorded: For the proposal, 361; against the proposal, 274; informal, 9; majority for the proposal, 87.
I therefore declare the proposal carried.
Dated at Eltham this 17th day of May, 1923.

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A. TIPLADY, Returning Officer.

WE hereby give notice that the Partnership hitherto existing between us of Aerated-water Manufacturers, and carried on at Victoria Street, Rangiora, under the style of “John Frazer,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. And further that the said business of “John Frazer” will in future be carried on by ROBERT WILLIAM BORLAND on his own account, and he will pay all debts and liabilities of the late firm and receive all accounts owing to the firm.
Dated this 24th day of March, 1923.

E. F. SANDFORD.
R. W. BORLAND.

Witness to both signatures—T. S. Dacre, Solicitor, Christchurch.

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RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members of the Christchurch Hunt Club at a meeting held on the 14th day of February, 1923, at Christchurch, with a