Otahuhu, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, Newmarket, and
Avondale, the Road Districts of One Tree Hill, Mount Roskill,
and Panmure, the Town Districts of Ellerslie, Papakura,
Papatoetoe, and Manurewa, and the County of Manukau;
and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate
during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on
the 31st day of March in each and every year during the
currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-one years,
or until the loan is fully paid off.

AVONDALE BOROUGH 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 of all
other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Avondale
Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Avondale
Borough Streets-improvement Loan of £3,500, authorized to
be raised by the Avondale Borough Council under the above-
mentioned Act, for the purpose of the improvements of the
following streets by laying down the surface in bitumen :
New North Road (from Oakley Creek to Manukau Road),
Manukau Road (from New North Road to Overhead Bridge),
Station Road (from Overhead Bridge to top of Brown Street),
Brown Street (completion of bitumen surface), Great North
Road (from Brown Street to post-office), two strips bitumen
each 12ft. wide, the said Council hereby makes and levies a
special rate of fifteen one-hundredths (15/100ths) of a penny
in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of
the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the whole
of the Borough of Avondale ; and that such special rate shall be
an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan,
and be payable yearly on the fifteenth day of July in each and
every year during the currency of such loan, being a period
of thirty-six and a half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully
paid off.

WM. JOHN TAIT, Mayor.
ARTHUR NUNNS, Town Clerk.

MANUREWA TOWN BOARD.

DECLARATION OF POLL.

PURSUANT to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, I
hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of
the Manurewa Town District taken of the 26th day of No-
vember, 1925, on the proposal that the system of rating in
the said Town District be on the unimproved value,—
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 151;
the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 190;
informal, 2.
I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.
Dated this 14th day of December, 1925.

A. C. A. SEXTON, Chairman.

QUEENSTOWN BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it
in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913,
and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the
Queenstown Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Queenstown
Borough Hydro-electric Works Loan of £1,200, 1925, autho-
rized to be raised by the Queenstown Borough Council under
the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of paying the
balances of accounts still outstanding which were incurred in
connection with the Queenstown Borough Water-supply and
Hydro-electric Power Loan of £7,000, 1923, the said Queens-
town Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate
of fourpence (4d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value
(on the basis of the annual value) of all rateable property in
the whole of the Borough of Queenstown : and that such
special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half
(36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

ANDREW SIMSON, Mayor.
THOMAS J. MELVILLE, Town Clerk.

TARARUA ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

RESOLUTION INCREASING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it
in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1918, and
all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Tararua
Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of two
hundred thousand pounds (£200,000), authorized to be raised
by the Tararua Electric - power Board under the above-
mentioned Acts for the purpose of distributing electrical
energy throughout the Tararua Electric-power Board District
by the erection of transmission-lines and services, the con-
struction of generating station or stations, the purchase of
all necessary material, goods, equipment, and plant, acquir-
ing land and erecting buildings, advances to consumers for
instalment, all engineering, legal, and clerical charges, and
contingencies, and generally carrying such works or under-
takings as are authorized by the Electric-power Boards Act,
1918, and its amendments, the said Board, pursuant to sec-
tion 22 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, hereby increases
to one (1) penny and one-third (⅓) of a penny in the pound
sterling the special rate of one penny and one farthing (1¼d.)
in the pound sterling made and levied by resolution passed
by the said Board on the 21st day of March, 1923, and
gazetted on page 1219 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1923,
on the rateable value (on the basis of unimproved value)
of all rateable property in the Tararua Electric - power
Board District as defined in the Second Schedule to the
Proclamation proclaiming the said district appearing in the
New Zealand Gazette, 1922, at page 716, such rate of one
penny and one farthing (1¼d.) in the pound sterling being
insufficient to provide for payment of interest, sinking fund,
and other charges on such loan; and that such special
rate as increased shall be an annually recurring rate during
the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the
first day of April in each and every year during the cur-
rency of such loan, being a period of thirty-three (33) years,
or until the loan is fully paid off.

J. D. WILSON, Chairman.
W. F. TAYLOR, Secretary.

KAITIEKE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it
in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913,
and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the
Kaitieke County Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Kaitieke
County Kawautahi South Special-rating Area Loan of £250,
1925, authorized to be raised by the Kaitieke County Council
under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of forming,
widening, culverting, and improving portion of the Kawau-
tahi Road, the said Kaitieke County Council hereby makes
and levies a special rate of one (1) penny and seven-eighths
(7/8ths) of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable
value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable
property in the Kawautahi South Special-rating Area--
bounded, commencing at the southern corner of Retaruke
Block 4c, and thence running along the south-eastern bound-
aries of Retaruke Block 4c and Retaruke Block 4a, between
Sections 9, 5, and 8, Block VI, Kaitieke Survey District, to
the eastern corner of said Retaruke Block 4A; thence by
the north-eastern boundary of said Retaruke Block 4A to its
northern corner; thence by the north-western boundaries of
said Retaruke Blocks 4A and 4c (and including the Kawau-
tahi Road opposite thereof) to the western corner of said
Retaruke Block 4c; thence by the south-western boundary
of Retaruke Block 4c to the southern corner thereof, being
the point of commencement,--and that such special rate
shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of
such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of October
in each and every year during the currency of such loan,
being a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan is fully
paid off.

THOS. H. CROCKER, Chairman.
E. T. BEAVEN, Clerk.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

DAVID McKEE DICKSON, M.B., Ch.B. N.Z., 1925,
now residing in Christchurch, hereby give notice that
I intend applying on the 14th January, 1926, next to have
my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of