WAITOMO COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and the Local Bodies' Finance Act, 1921–22, the Waitomo County Council hereby resolves as follows :

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £17,800, authorized to be raised by the Waitomo County Council under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of paying off part of the antecedent liability of that portion of the new Waitomo County which was originally part of the old Waitomo County, the said Waitomo

County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fifth of a penny in the pound upon the unimproved rateable value of all rateable property of the Antecedent Liability Special-rating District, comprising the following ridings of the County of Waitomo—Aria, Hangatiki, Mairoa, Paemako, Tangitu, and Te Kuiti, which ridings form that portion of the old Waitomo County now included in the new Waitomo County; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of July in each and every year during a period equal to the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

ROBT. WERE, Chairman.

F. CHAS. PERRY, Clerk.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS.

NEW ZEALAND BOARD OF SCIENCE AND ART.

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Bulletin No. 1.—NEW ZEALAND BROWN COALS, with Special Reference to their Use in Gas-producers. By H. RAND, M.A., B.Sc., and W. O. R. GILLING, M.A., B.Sc., National Research Scholars, Education Department. Price, 2s. Postage, 2d.

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Manual No. 1.—NEW ZEALAND PLANTS AND THEIR STORY. By L. COCKAYNE, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.R.S., F.N.Z.Inst. Second edition, rewritten and enlarged. Illustrated with 99 photographs and 14 text-figures. Price : Paper, 5s. Postage extra (inland, 8d.; abroad, 5d.).

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Bulletin No. 2.—FISHING AND SEA-FOODS OF THE ANCIENT MAORI. Mythological and historical tales ; notes on matters connected with the art of fishing as practised in former times. By A. HAMILTON. 1908, 73 pages, 79 half-tone illustrations. Price, 10s. 6d., post free.

Bulletin No. 5.—MAORI STOREHOUSES AND KINDRED STRUCTURES: Houses, Platforms, Racks, and Pits used for storing Food, &c. By ELSDON BEST. 1916. 108 pages, 46 illustrations. Price, 10s. 6d., post free.

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