Nov. 19.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

And that such special rates shall be annual-recurring rates during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the lst day of January in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years, at the rate of interest of five and a quarter per cent. per annum, together with any additional charge required to provide the necessary sinking fund, or. until the loan is fully paid off.

CAMBELL JOHNSTONE, Chairman.

H. MARSLAND, Clerk.

SOUTH CANTERBURY 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 South Canterbury Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of sixty-seven thousand pounds (£67,000), authorized to be raised by the South Canterbury Electric-power Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for the construction of electric works and such other matters as are provided for by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 88 and 90 of the said Act for the benefit of the combined district of Levels County and Pleasant Point Town District, the said South Canterbury Electric-power Board hereby makes and

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JOHN KENNEDY, Chairman.

C. DASH, Manager.

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