May 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1533

OTOROHANGA COUNTY.

RESULT OF POLL ON THE PROPOSAL TO ADOPT SYSTEM OF RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE.

Pursuant to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Otorohanga taken on the 9th day of May, 1923, on the proposal that the system of rating in the said county be on the unimproved value, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 321, and against the proposal was 42.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 15th day of May, 1923.

562 H. A. LURMAN, Chairman of the County.

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HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—THE HASTINGS BOROUGH £4,000 10 PER CENT. RENEWAL LOAN, 1923.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Hastings Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of £4,000, called the Hastings Borough £4,000 10 per cent. Renewal Loan, 1923, being a renewal of the sums of £3,000, 10 per cent. on the sewerage, and £1,000, part 10 per cent. on the construction, channelling, and kerbing, portions respectively of the £85,000 loan authorized to be raised by the Hastings Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, the said Hastings Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/20th of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Borough of Hastings, comprising the whole of the Borough of Hastings; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of five years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

G. A. MADDISON, Mayor.

PERCY R. PURSER, Town Clerk.

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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

Notice is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between Francis Rigby Hill, Oscar Valentine Russell, and David Mills, carrying on business at Gisborne as Butchers under the style or firm of “Hill and Russell,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 30th day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two (1922).

Dated at Gisborne this 16th day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

FRANCIS RIGBY HILL.

Signed by the said Francis Rigby Hill in the presence of—
N. H. Bull, Solicitor, Gisborne.

O. V. RUSSELL.

Signed by the said Oscar Valentine Russell in the presence of—
N. H. Bull, Solicitor, Gisborne.

DAVID MILLS.

Signed by the said David Mills in the presence of—
Reginald B. Hill, Solicitor, Gisborne.

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Under the Mining Act, 1908.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A WATER-RACE.

To the Warden of the Otago Mining District at Arrowtown.

Pursuant to the Mining Act, 1908, the undersigned, Douglas Robert Barron, of Arrowtown, Farmer, hereby applies for a license for a water-race as specified in the Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.

Precise time of marking out privilege applied for: 11.30 a.m., 20th February, 1923.

Date and number of miner’s right: 15/2/23; 128869.

Address for service: Office of Robert Gilkison, Jun., Solicitor, Queenstown.

Dated at Queenstown this 21st day of February, 1923.

SCHEDULE.

Locality of the race and of its starting and terminal points: Royal Burn, commencing in the mining reserve about 25 yards from applicant’s freehold in Block VIII, Shotover, and terminating at said freehold. In lieu of license 1976, expired.

Length and intended course of race: 280 yards; north and south.

Points of intake: Royal Burn.

Estimated time and cost of construction: Already constructed.

Mean depth and breadth: Pipes, 7 in. diameter. Permission to carry the water in said pipes along with water (½ head) granted by license No. 912 is also applied for.

Number of heads to be diverted: Three heads.

Purpose for which water is to be used: Irrigation, domestic use, and machinery purposes.

Proposed term of license: Forty-two years.

D. R. BARRON, Applicant.

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Precise time for filing the foregoing application: 10 a.m., 22nd February, 1923.

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application and all objections thereto: Thursday, 12th April, 1923, at 2 p.m., at Warden’s Court at Arrowtown.

Objections must be filed in the Registrar’s office and notified to applicant at least three days before the time so appointed.

C. O. PRATT, Mining Registrar.

Note.—This application at present stands adjourned to the 8th June, 1923, at 10.30 a.m.

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KAITIEKE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING A SPECIAL RATE.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by virtue of sections 192 to 195 of the Counties Act, 1920, and of section 16 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and by any amendment or amendments of such Acts, the Kaitieke County 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 Kaitieke County Council, under sections 192 to 195 of the Counties Act, 1920, and of section 16 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of purchasing or otherwise acquiring buildings (with or without lands) for the purpose of workers’ dwellings, the Kaitieke County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixteenth of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (being the unimproved value) of all rateable property comprising the County of Kaitieke; and that such special rate shall be an annual-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 36½ years, or until such loan is fully paid off.

THOS. CROCKER, Chairman.

E. T. BEAVEN, County Clerk.

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THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE DISTRICT OF OTAGO.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LANDS.

Notice is hereby given that the Education Board of the District of Otago has resolved and proposes to take, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the amendments thereof, the lands specified in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of a public school.

And notice is hereby further given that a plan showing the lands required to be taken, and the name of the owner and occupier of such lands, is deposited at the office of the Clutha County Council, Balclutha, and is open for inspection by all persons at all reasonable times; and the Board calls upon all persons affected to set forth in writing any well-grounded objections to the taking of such lands, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Board addressed to the Secretary thereof.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing two roods twenty-nine poles and eight-tenths of a pole, more or less, situated in the Rosebank Estate, being part of Allotment Twenty-six on plan of the said estate deposited in the Lands Registry Office at Dunedin as Number 397 (coloured red on the said plan deposited in the office of the Clutha County Council), and being the balance of the land comprised in certificate of title, Register-book, Volume 148, folio 145.

Dated this seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

S. M. PARK,
Secretary, Education Board of the District of Otago.

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