May 7.]

First, to raise a loan of £12,000 for the following purposes :—
(a.) Part cost of new bridge over the Avon River at New
Brighton and track-work in connection therewith : £3,500.
(6.) Development of Board's quarry at McCormack's Bay,
including purchase of land : £4,500.
(c.) Additions to repair shop and extension of fire-
extinguishing system, extension to overhead-feeder
system and other incidentals necessary to the
development and improvement of the Board's
existing tramway system : £4,000.
Second, that the said sum of £12,000 shall be repayable on
the first day of April, 1934, or such earlier date as may be
determined by the Board.
Third, that for the purpose of providing interest and
sinking fund on the said loan of £12,000 the Board hereby
makes and levies a special rate of 0·009d. in the £1 upon the
capital value of all rateable property in the Christchurch
Tramway District ; and that such special rate shall be an
annual-recurring rate during the currency of the loan, and
be payable on the first day of April in each year during the
currency of the loan, being a period of ten years, or such
shorter period as may be determined by the Board, or until
the loan is fully paid off. It is not proposed to pay out of
the loan the cost of raising the loan nor the interest and
sinking fund for the first year.

HERBERT PEARCE,
Chairman, Christchurch Tramway Board.
15th April, 1925.

WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the
Waipa County Council hereby resolves as follows :
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of four hundred pounds, authorized to be
raised by the Waipa County Council under the above-
mentioned Act for making, enlarging, altering, extending, and
repairing drains in the Pirongia Drainage District, the Waipa
County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of
one penny and one-fifth of a penny in the pound on lands
classified “ A,” three-fifths of a penny in the pound on lands
classified “ B,” and one-tenth of a penny in the pound on
lands classified “ C,” upon the rateable value of all rateable
property of the Pirongia Drainage District as described in
the Schedule hereto; and that such special rate shall be an
annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and
shall be payable yearly on the first day of August in each and
every year during the currency of such loan, being a period
of thirty-six and a half years, or until the loan is fully paid
off.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the County of Waipa and Parish of
Mangapiko bounded, commencing at the southern corner of
Allotment 156, by Allotments 156 and 157 to the eastern
corner of the last-mentioned allotment ; thence by a line
across a road to the southern boundary of Allotment 290;
thence by Allotments 290, 285, 286, 284, 282, 280, 278, a
line across a road, and Allotment 268 to the southern corner
of the last-mentioned allotment ; thence by a line across
a road to the north-western corner of Allotment 193A ; thence
by Allotment 193A, 191, 189, and 188 to the south-western
corner of the last-mentioned allotment; thence by a line
across a road to the northern boundary of Allotment 182;
thence by Allotments 182, 185, a line across a road, Allot-
ments 180, 179, 178, 177, and 176, to the northern corner of
the last-mentioned allotment ; thence by a road bounding
Allotment 173 to the commencing-point.

STEWART REID, Chairman.
THOS. GRANT, Clerk.

NOTICE is hereby given that the final meeting of share-
holders of THE GOLDEN TREASURE SLUICING (LIMITED)
will be held in my office, National Bank Chambers, Shortland
Street, Auckland, on Monday, 25th May, at 12 noon, to
receive Liquidator's report and statement of accounts.

G. O'HALLORAN, Liquidator.
Auckland, 4th May, 1925.

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