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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

THE THAMES VALLEY ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it
in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913,
the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and all other Acts and
powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Thames Valley
Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Thames
Valley Electric-power Board’s Loan of £150,000 (1924), autho-
rized to be raised by the Board under the above-mentioned
Acts for the purpose of purchasing and constructing electric
works within the meaning and pursuant to the Electric-power
Boards Act, 1918, the said Board hereby makes and levies
a special rate of one-fourth of a penny in the pound sterling
on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of
all rateable property in the Thames Valley Electric-power
Board’s District as defined in the Proclamation proclaiming
the said district appearing in the New Zealand Gazette on the
8th January, 1920, excepting the area excluded by Procla-
mation appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of 6th Sep-
tember, 1923, at page 2318; and that such special rate shall
be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan,
and be payable yearly on the 1st day of December in each
and every year during the currency of the loan, being a
period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is
fully paid off.

R. SPRAGUE, Manager.

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Bulletin No. 1.—NEW ZEALAND BROWN COALS,
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Manual No. 1.—NEW ZEALAND PLANTS AND
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and picture the wonderful vegetation of those happy islands.—
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narrative as interesting as any romance. It will prove a valuable
and useful book.—Evening Star, Dunedin. N.Z.

Manual No. 3.—GEOMORPHOLOGY OF NEW ZEA-
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