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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

payers of the Borough of Oamaru was taken on the 3rd day
of September, 1924, to determine the proposal of the Oamaru
Borough Council to raise a special loan of £3,500, to be called
“ The Oamaru Borough North End Recreation Loan,” for
the purpose of purchasing an area of land for recreation
purposes.

The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the
proposal was 375, and the total number of valid votes re-
corded against the proposal was 430.

I hereby declare the said proposal to be rejected.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies’
Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the rate-
payers of the Borough of Oamaru was taken on the 3rd day
of September, 1924, to determine the proposal of the Oamaru
Borough Council to raise a special loan of £7,260, to be called
“ The Oamaru Borough Plant and Machinery Loan, 1924,”
for the purposes set out in advertisements appearing in the
Oamaru Mail newspaper prior to the date of the poll on such
proposal.

The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the
proposal was 585 ; and the number of votes recorded against
the proposal was 225.

I therefore declare the said proposal to be carried.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies’
Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the rate-
payers of the Borough of Oamaru was taken on the 3rd day
of September, 1924, to determine the proposal of the Oamaru
Borough Council to raise a special loan of £21,828, to be
called “ The Oamaru Borough Gasworks Supplementary Loan,
1924,” for the purposes set out in advertisements appearing
in the Oamaru Mail newspaper prior to the date of the poll
on such proposal.

The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the
proposal was 676 ; and the total number of valid votes
recorded against the proposal was 131.

I hereby declare the said proposal to be carried.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12, of the Local Bodies’
Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the rate-
payers within that part of the Borough of Oamaru which is
defined in a certain Order in Council dated the 8th day of
October, 1923, was taken on the 3rd day of September, 1924,
to determine the proposals of the Oamaru Borough Council
to raise a special loan of £2,000, to be called “ The Oamaru
North End Street-improvement Loan,” for the purposes set
out in advertisements appearing in the Oamaru Mail news-
paper prior to the date of the poll.

The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the
proposal was 126 ; and the total number of valid votes re-
corded against the proposal was 27.

I hereby declare the said proposal to be carried.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies’
Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the rate-
payers of the Borough of Oamaru was taken on the 3rd day
of September, 1924, to determine the proposal of the Oamaru
Borough Council to raise a special loan of £96,728, to be called
“ The Oamaru Borough Drainage and Waterworks Loan,”
for the purposes set out in advertisements appearing in the
Oamaru Mail newspaper prior to the date of the poll on such
proposal.

The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the
proposal was 669 ; and the number of votes recorded against
the proposal was 146.

I hereby declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated at Oamaru this 5th day of September, 1924.

JAMES McDIARMID, Mayor.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 10th September, 1924.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Board of the Tauranga Electric-Power District, is
published in accordance with the provisions of the Local
Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

TAURANGA ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

Proposal to raise a Loan of £100,000.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1913, I hereby give public notice that at the poll of rate-
payers of the Tauranga Electric-power District, taken on
the 30th day of August, 1924, on the proposal of the Tauranga
Electric-power Board to raise a loan of £100,000 for electric
works, the number of votes cast was as follows :—

For the proposal, 421 ; against the proposal, 277 ; informal,
5.

As the number of votes cast for the proposal was more
than three-fifths of the valid votes cast at the poll, I there-
fore declare the proposal carried.

Dated this 4th day of September, 1924.

THOS. LOCKHEAD, Chairman.

R. L. THOMAS, Returning Officer.

Special Order made by the Orton Drainage Board subdividing
District and fixing Representation.

Department of Internal Affairs,†

Wellington, 3rd September, 1924.

THE following special order, made by the Orton Drainage
Board, subdividing the district and fixing representa-
tion for subdivisions, is published in accordance with the
provisions of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1920.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

ORTON DRAINAGE BOARD.

SPECIAL resolution passed at Board meeting of the Orton
Drainage Board, on 21st July, 1924 :—

That the Orton Drainage Board, in pursuance of section
16 of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, its amendments, and of
all other Acts, powers, and authorities thereunto enabling,
doth hereby, by special resolution intended to operate as a
special order, resolves,—

Firstly, to divide the Orton Drainage District as at present
constituted into two subdivisions, to be defined by name
and boundaries as follows :—

(a.) The Orton Subdivision, being all those lands in the
Orton Drainage District situated in all that part
of the said district, commencing at the junction
of the southern boundary of the said district and
the Waikato River, thence in a north and north-
westerly direction by the banks of the said Waikato
River to a point where the said northern boundary
of the said district leaves the said river ; thence in
a westerly direction by the north-western boundary
of Opuatia part 10c No. 2 to its junction with the
eastern boundary of Opuatia part 7c ; thence in a
south and south-easterly direction by a straight line
and the leading spur through said Opuatia 7c and
part Opuatia 7d to the centre of the Government
Road leading to the Orton Landing ; thence in a
south-westerly direction by the centre of the said
road passing through Opuatia No. 7d and past the
boundaries of Sections 7 and 8 of Block XIII,
Maramarua Survey District, to its junction with the
south-westerly boundary of the said Section 8 ;
thence south-easterly along the south-westerly
boundary of said Section 8 to the southernmost
point of said Section 8 at a point on the main
Pukekawa—Glen Murray Road ; thence north-
easterly along the said road to the junction of same
with the south-easterly boundary of said Section 8 ;
thence north-easterly along the south-easterly
boundary of said Section 8 and Section 7 to the
junction of the said south-easterly boundary of
Section 7 with the southerly boundary of Lot 5 on
the plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at
Auckland under Number 14623 ; thence easterly
along the southern boundaries of Lots 5 and 4 on
the said plan 14623 to the southerly and westerly
boundary of part Allotment 6, Parish of Opuatia ;
thence generally in an easterly and southerly direc-
tion along the said southerly and westerly bound-
ary of aforesaid part Allotment 6 to the point
of commencement ; as the said subdivision is
delineated on the plan deposited in the office of
the Minister of Internal Affairs at Wellington, the
boundaries being coloured green.

(b.) The Punga Subdivision, being all those lands in the
Orton Drainage District situated in all that part of
the said district commencing at a point where the
south-westerly boundary of Section 8 of Block XIII,
Maramarua Survey District, meets a road at the
northernmost point of said south-westerly boundary ;
thence south-westerly and thence north-westerly
along the said road to the south-western corner of
Lot 2 of Section 3, Block XIII, Maramarua Survey
District ; thence northerly along the western bound-
aries of said Lot 2 and of Lot 1 of said Section 3
to the north-west corner of said Lot 1 ; thence by
a right line to the south-western corner of Opuatia
No. 7d ; thence northerly and easterly along the
western and northern boundaries of said Opuatia