SEPT. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2229

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 22nd September, 1924.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Napier, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

NAPIER BOROUGH COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that on Wednesday, the 10th day of September instant, a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Napier was taken on each of the loan proposals set out hereunder. The numbers of valid votes recorded at the said polls respectively for and against the said proposals respectively and the numbers of informal votes cast at the said polls respectively were as follows :—

Proposal No. 1 : A special loan of £100,000 for the purposes following, videlicet :—

(a.) Providing storm-water drains and extension of storm-water drains in the following localities and streets : Napier South, system of main outfalls and street drains ; Munro Street (from Sale Street to Dickens Street), outfall ; outfall culvert from Hastings Street to Hyderabad Road via Tennyson Street and Carlyle Street, Edwards, Dalton, Sale, and Miller Streets. Port—Lever Street, Battery Road, to West Quay ; from bridge in Bridge Street along unformed road adjacent to railway line to point on Waghorne Street near Port end of Shakespeare Road ; Waghorne Street, connecting drains from Waghorne Street channels to proposed main drain in Bridge Street from junction of Bridge and Waghorne Streets to Outram Street ; Shakespeare Road on Port side of Hill ; Burns Road ; Chaucer Road ; Goldsmith Road ; Seapoint Road ; Milton Road Extension ; Faraday Street ; Colenso Avenue ; extending outfall and constructing storage tank at Browning Street outfall £ 32,400

(b.) Permanent construction of the following streets and paths : Napier South, concrete kerbing and channelling and forming up and tarring paths ; Wellesley Road and Hastings Street South, concrete kerbing and channelling ; Tennyson Street, re-forming and bitumen-surfacing ; Emerson Street paths, Clive Square to Hyderabad Road ; Thackeray Street, Clive Square West, formation and surfacing, kerbing, and channelling ; Dalton Street (from Dickens Street to Raffles Street), formation and bitumen-surfacing ; Market Street, formation and bitumen-surfacing ; Browning Street, bitumen-surfacing ; South Marine Parade (from Sale Street to borough boundary), re-forming and bitumen-surfacing, forming, kerbing, and channelling, and asphalting footpaths from Wellesley Road to borough boundary ; Breakwater Road (from Coote Road to Battery Road), Hardinge Road (from Battery Road to Port), Hyderabad Road (from West of Carlyle Street to tram terminus in Bridge Street), bitumen-surfacing 20 ft. wide, and partial formation ; Waghorne Street and Customs Street, roads and footpaths, bitumen-surfacing ; Faraday Street (from Carlyle Street to Thackeray Street), asphalting paths and bitumen road surfacing ; Faraday Street Extension, formation, metalling, and drainage ; west approach road to railway-station from railway-station to Thackeray Street, asphalting path, kerbing, and channelling, bitumen-surfacing .. .. 37,550

(c.) Bitumen road surfacing in the following hill streets : Shakespeare Road (Port side) ; Coote Road ; Chaucer Road, from Carlyle Street to Spencer Road and north of Napier Terrace to George Street ; Thompson Road, from Seapoint Road to reservoir ; France Road ; Milton Road ; Napier Terrace— £8,400. Concrete kerbing and channelling and storm-water drainage in hill streets— £1,800 .. .. .. .. 10,200

(d.) For the purchase of roadmaking machinery and plant as recommended by the Borough Engineer : Tandem roller ; Bitumen mixing and drying machine ; metal-screen and motor and elevator ; 2 tar-boilers (portable, fitted with sprays, 2 tar-boilers (fixtures) ; 2 motor-trucks ; foundations for machines 6,200

(e.) For filling in and levelling portion of the old recreation-ground for a Corporation yard, metalling roadways, drainage, and buildings for housing plant .. .. .. £ 1,500

(f.) For waterworks pumping-plant, viz : One low-lift pump at McLean Park, two large-capacity high-lift pumps at main station, motors, valves, and pumping building, and installation ; also additions to the Cameron Road reservoir .. .. .. 3,700

(g.) For sewerage pumping-plant, viz. : One 10 in. large-capacity low-lift centrifugal pump, motor, valves, piping, installation, and building ; One 6 in. pump for McLean Park, motor valves, pipes, and fitting-up ; portable 3 in. centrifugal pump and motor for emptying ejector and pump sumps .. 1,450

93,000

Cost of raising the loan, interest and sinking fund for the first year, and contingencies .. 7,000

£100,000

Votes for, 528 ; votes against, 253 ; informal votes, 32.

Proposal No. 2 : A special loan of £42,000 for the following purposes, videlicet :—

To provide additions and extensions to the electric lighting and power works, including such additions and extensions as are necessary to supply any other local authority at the borough boundary ; to make all such alterations and additions to the powerhouse, sub-stations, buildings, machinery, plant, equipment, and appliances and to the reticulation and the transmission, distribution, and service lines and the existing installations and electrical apparatus that may be deemed necessary owing to any change-over of the system of supply or method of distribution of electricity or otherwise howsoever and extensions of the transmission and distribution lines ; in connection with all or any such additions, alterations, and extensions to purchase or otherwise acquire all such freehold or leasehold lands, easements, engines, machinery, poles, lines, plant, equipment, appliances, materials, and other things, and to erect all such buildings, engines, machinery, poles, lines, plant, equipment, and appliances as may be considered necessary ; and any other purposes incidental or in relation to any of the above purposes .. .. .. 38,700

Cost of raising the loan, interest and sinking fund for the first year, and contingencies .. .. 3,300

£42,000

Votes for, 558 ; votes against, 228 ; informal votes, 26.

Proposal No. 3 : A special loan of £2,150 for the purposes following, videlicet :—

For the purpose of erecting a “mother’s rest” building on that part of Clive Square lying between Emerson and Tennyson Streets £ 2,000

Cost of raising the loan, interest and sinking fund for the first year, and contingencies .. .. 150

£2,150

Votes for, 537 ; votes against, 247 ; informal votes, 32.

Proposal No. 4 : A special loan of £3,800 for the purposes following, videlicet :—

For improvements to Nelson and McLean Parks, viz. : Levelling and drainage and general improvements to grounds .. .. .. £ 2,000

For improvements to abattoir, viz. : Roofing sheep and cattle pens and tarring same .. 1,000

For the purchase of machinery for the municipal baths, together with all necessary equipment, also installing same, viz : One 20 h.p. motor for large pump ; One 10 h.p. motor and small pump for pumping into paddling-pools ; and also for providing additional seating-accommodation for the baths.. .. .. .. 500

3,500

Cost for raising the loan, interest and sinking fund for the first year, and contingencies .. .. 300

£3,800

Votes for, 434 ; votes against, 334 ; informal votes, 45.

Inasmuch as of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll on each of the said proposals a majority was recorded in favour or each such proposal, I therefore declare the said proposals numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4 to be carried.

Dated at Napier this 12th day of September, 1924.

J. B. ANDREW, Mayor.