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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

1923, on the proposal of the Otahuhu Borough Council to borrow the sum of £4,250 for the following purposes: (a) The sum of £2,710 for the purchase and erection of crushing-plant and equipment for a quarry on the borough quarry-site, Lot 6A, of Section 17, Suburbs of Auckland; (b) the sum of £180 for the purchase of a road-grader; (c) the sum of £1,360 for the purchase and equipment of a motor-lorry.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 413; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 67; the number of informal votes was 11.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 5th day of October, 1923.

R. B. TODD, Mayor.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 16th October, 1923.

THE following notices, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Rodney, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Finance.

RODNEY COUNTY COUNCIL.

Results of Polls on Proposals to raise Loans.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Big Omaha Wharf Special-rating District of the County of Rodney was taken on the 31st day of August, 1923, on the proposal of the Rodney County Council to borrow the sum of seven hundred (£700) for rebuilding the Big Omaha Wharf in permanent materials. The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 16; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Mata-kana Wharf Special-rating District of the County of Rodney was taken on the 31st day of August, 1923, on the proposal of the Rodney County Council to borrow a sum of fifteen hundred pounds (£1,500) for extending the Matakana Wharf in permanent materials. The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 51; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 5th day of September, 1923.

F. HODGSON, Chairman.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 17th October, 1923.

THE following notices, received from the Mayor of the Council of the Borough of New Plymouth, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

Results of Polls to raise Loans.

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 10th day of October, 1923, upon a proposal to raise, under the above-mentioned Act, a special loan of twenty-three thousand pounds (£23,000), particulars of which are as follows: (a) The particular purposes for which the loan is required are—To provide additions and extensions to the Council’s electric lighting and power works, either within or without the Borough of New Plymouth, and to supply electricity, to acquire or provide in connection with such additions and extensions lands, easements, and appurtenances and buildings, tunnels, weirs, plant, machinery, materials, and other things, to pay compensation to any person injuriously affected, for any other purpose incidental to or in relation to any of the above purposes; (b) the sum to be borrowed for all such purposes is £23,000 at a rate of interest not exceeding £5 10s. per centum per annum, with a sinking fund of one and a half per centum per annum additional; (c) the proposed security for the said loan of £23,000 and the interest and sinking fund thereon is an annually recurring special rate of two-fifths (2/5ths) of a penny in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the said Borough of New Plymouth, and it is proposed to repay the said loan on the 1st day of April, 1933; (d) it is proposed to pay out of the said loan the cost of raising the said loan and the interest and sinking fund thereon for the first year: and that the number of valid votes recorded for the proposal was 819, and that the number of valid votes recorded against the proposal was 58; the total number of valid votes recorded was 877.

I therefore declare the said proposal carried.

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 10th day of October, 1923, upon a proposal to raise, under the above-mentioned Act, a special loan of thirty-one thousand five hundred pounds (£31,500), particulars of which are as follows: (a) The particular purposes for which the loan is required are to provide additions and extensions to the Council’s electric lighting and power works, either within or without the Borough of New Plymouth, and to supply electricity, to acquire or provide in connection with such additions and extensions lands, easements, and appurtenances, and buildings, plant, machinery, materials, and other things, to pay compensation to any person injuriously affected, for any other purpose incidental to or in relation to any of the above purposes; (b) the sum to be borrowed for all such purposes is £31,500 at a rate of interest not exceeding £5 10s. per centum per annum, with a sinking fund of one and a half per centum per annum additional; (c) the proposed security for the said loan of £31,500 and the interest and sinking fund thereon is an annually recurring special rate of one-half penny (½d.) in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the said Borough of New Plymouth, and it is proposed to repay the said loan on the 1st day of April, 1933; (d) it is proposed to pay out of the said loan the cost of raising the said loan and the interest and sinking fund thereon for the first year: and that the number of valid votes recorded for the proposal was 735, and that the number of valid votes recorded against the proposal was 140; the total number of valid votes recorded was 875.

I therefore declare the said proposal carried.

Dated at New Plymouth this 12th day of October, 1923.

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

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 17th October, 1923.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Whakatane is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Finance.

WHAKATANE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.—Manawahe Hall Loan, £500.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers interested of the County of Whakatane, taken on the 26th day of September, 1923, on the proposal of the Whakatane County Council to borrow the sum of five hundred pounds for the erection of the Manawahe Public Hall, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 26; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 5th day of October, 1923.

WALTER REID, Chairman of the County.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 17th October, 1923.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Hauraki Plains, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Finance.

COUNTY OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Turua District Roads Loan Special-rating Area, taken on