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the following amounts by way of special loan, the voting on:
the several proposals was as follows :-
(a.) £16,000 for reconstructing and tar-sealing roads:
Number of votes recorded for the proposal, 310; number of
votes recorded against the proposal, 169; informal, 8.
(b.) £4,000 for purchase of roadmaking machinery:
Number of votes recorded for the proposal, 302; number of
votes recorded against the proposal, 174; informal, 11.
(c.) £3,500 for building rest-room and conveniences:
Number of votes recorded for the proposal, 340; number of
votes recorded against the proposal, 135; informal, 12.
(d.) £2,000 for erection of bridge, Derby Street: Number
of votes recorded for the proposal, 343; number of votes
recorded against the proposal, 134; informal, 10.
(e.) £2,000 for erection of bridge, South Street: Number
of votes recorded for the proposal, 277; number of votes
recorded against the proposal, 197; informal, 13.
I therefore declare that the above proposals were carried.
Dated at Feilding this 16th day of August, 1923.
J. S. TINGEY, Mayor.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.
Wellington, 22nd August, 1923.
THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Council of the County of Waipa, is published in
accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans
Act, 1913.
W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.
WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL.
PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1913, I hereby given notice that at a poll of the ratepayers
of the Kakepuku Riding of Waipa County taken on the
27th day of June, 1923, on the proposal of the Waipa County
Council to borrow the sum of £9,500 for the purpose of
forming and metalling roads in the Kakepuku Riding for the
first time, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was
101, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal
was 6.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated this 28th day of June, 1923.
STEWART REID, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.
Wellington, 22nd August, 1923.
THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Council of the County of Raglan, is published in
accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans
Act, 1913.
W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.
RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.
Loan of £20,000 for the Purpose of forming, draining, and
metalling Various Roads in the Pukemiro Riding.
PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies'
Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that the following is the
result of a poll of the ratepayers of the Pukemiro Riding of
the County of Raglan taken on the 16th day of August, 1923,
on the proposal to borrow the sum of £20,000 for the purpose
of forming, draining; and metalling various roads in the
Pukemiro Riding of the said county.
Total number of valid votes recorded, 124. For the pro-
posa, 94; against the proposal, 30.
The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the
proposal being more than three-fifths of the total number of
valid votes recorded, I hereby declare the proposal to be
carried.
CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE,
Chairman, Raglan County Council.
Ngaruawahia, 18th August, 1923.

Special Order made by the Oamaru Borough Council declaring
Plants to be Noxious Weeds.--Notice No, Ag. 2287.
Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 2lst August, 1923.
THE following special order, made by the Oamaru Borough
Council on the 12th day of July, 1923, and confirmed
on the 9th day of August, 1923, is published in accordance
with the provisions of section 2 of the Noxious Weeds
Amendment Act, 1910.
W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.
THAT, in the exercise of the powers conferred on it by the
Noxious Weeds Act, 1910, the Oamaru Borough Council
hereby resolves and declares, by way of special order, that
the plants mentioned in the Third Schedule of the said Act
or its amendments, as extended from time to time by the
Governor-General in Council, are noxious weeds within the
Borough of Oamaru:-
African boxthorn. Pennycress or Canadian
Barberry. stinkweed.
Bathurst burr. Pennyroyal.
Broom. Periwinkle.
Burdock. Prickly pear.
Cape honeyflower. Spiderwort.
Capeweed or Cape daisy. St. John's wort.
Cut-leaved psoralea. Tauhinu, or New Zealand
cottonwood.
Dock.
Elderberry. Thistles: Any species of
Fennel. Carlina (stemless thistle),
Foxglove. Carduus (common plume
Giant burdock. or Scotch thistle), Cnicus
Goat's rue. (woolly-headed thistle),
Gorse. Centaurea (star thistle),
Hakea. Silybum (milk-thistle).
Hemlock. Tutsan.
Japanese wineberry. Viper's bugloss.
Kangaroo acacia. Wild borage.
Lantana. Wild turnip.
Lupin. Winged thistle.
Ox-eye daisy.
The foregoing is a true copy of the minutes of the Oamaru
Borough Council.
C. W. KENT, Town Clerk.

Notice respecting Proposed Mangawhero Drainage District,
County of Otorohanga.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th August, 1923.
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 l of the said Act, by name the Mangawhero Drainage
District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to
lodge any written objections to or petitions against the con-
stitution 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 MANGAWHERO
DRAINAGE DISTRICT.
All that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a
line commencing at the confluence of the Mangawhero Stream
and Waipa River, and proceeding thence down that river to
the Otorohanga - Te Kuiti Road; thence southerly along
that road passing through or fronting Orahiri No. 1 Block,
Sections 3 and 2, Block VIII, Orahiri Survey District, Sec-
tions 5s, 8s, 9s, and lls, Tahaia Settlement, to the southern
boundary of the last-named section ; thence along the
southern boundaries of Sections lls and 10s, Tahaia Settle-
ment, and the south-western boundary of Tahaia B Block
to the Mangamutu Stream, along the middle of that stream
to the north-western boundary of Section 4, Block IX,
Mangaorongo Survey District ; thence along that boundary
to a public road, easterly along the middle of that road to
the western boundary of Section 5; thence along the western
and southern boundaries of said Section 5 and the south-
western boundary of Section 7 to the Mangawhero Stream,
up the middle of that stream to the southern boundary of
Section 15, along the southern and eastern boundaries of said
Section 15, the eastern boundary of Section 14, and the
southern boundary of Section 19 to a public road; thence
northerly along the eastern boundaries of Blocks IX and V,
Mangaorongo Survey District, to the easternmost corner of
Section 4, Block V, Mangaorongo Survey District; along the
eastern boundary of that section to a public road, easterly
along the middle of that road to the north-eastern boundary
of Section 2, and along the north-eastern boundaries of said
Section 2, Section 3, and Rangitoto-Tuhua No. 24c Block to
the eastern boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua 28b 2c Block;