the Makerua Drainage District taken on the 4th day of March, 1926, on the proposal of the Makerua Drainage Board to borrow the sum of £15,000 for the following purposes: Completing the erecting of river-protection works on the banks of the Manawatu and Tokomaru Rivers and adjacent thereto, and for the purchase of land upon which such works may have already been erected or may hereafter be erected, and for the construction of drains in the Board's district, and for the purchase of necessary machinery, plant, and land, The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 38; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried. Dated this 4th day of March, 1926. JOSEPH LIGGINS, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan. Wellington, 17th March, 1926.T HE following notices, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Otorohanga, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913. W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.

OTOROHANGA COUNTY COUNCIL. Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan, Kopua Special-rating Area.PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Otorohanga was taken on the 26th day of February, 1926, on the proposal of the Otorohanga County Council to borrow a sum of £1,000 (£900 for forming, culverting, and metalling the Otorohanga-Pirongia Road from its junction with the Ngutunui Road to a point about 20 chains along frontage of Section Parihoro 3E 4A, Block XI, Pirongia Survey District, a distance of two miles and a half approximately; £100 for forming, culverting, and metalling portion of Cannon's Road between its junction with the Otorohanga-Pirongia Road to the north-east corner of Section 15, Block XII, Pirongia Survey District). The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 9; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan, Te Kawa-Ngaroma Special-rating Area.Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Otorohanga was taken on the 26th day of February, 1926, on the proposal of the Otorohanga County Council to borrow the sum of £1,500 for forming, culverting, and metalling the Te Kawa - Ngaroma Road a distance of five miles and a half. The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 47; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.Result of 'Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan, Moakuraru Bridge Special-rating Area.Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Otorohanga County was taken on the 19th day of February, 1926, on the proposal of the Otorohanga County Council to borrow the sum of £400 for constructing a bridge over the Moakuraru Stream on the Hauturu-Otorohanga Road. The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 11; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan, Upper Mangawhero Special-rating Area.Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of ratepayers of the Otorohanga County was taken on the 26th day of February, 1926, on the proposal of the Otorohanga County Council to borrow a sum of £1,500 for forming, culverting, and metalling the Mangawhero Road along frontages of Tahaia B, B 2A, and B 2c 3, and also to erect a bridge over the Mangawhero Stream on the same road. The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 15; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried. Dated this 10th day of March, 1926.F. POTTS, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan. Wellington, 18th March, 1926.T HE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Waikato, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.WAIKATO COUNTY COUNCIL. Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Tauhei Special-rating District, Taupiri Riding, County of Waikato, taken on the 11th day of March, 1926, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £4,000 to construct and metal certain roads within the said Tauhei Special-rating District, The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 40; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil. I therefore declare the proposal to be carried. Dated at Hamilton this 15th day of March, 1926.J. P. BAILEY, Chairman.Authorizing the Laying-off of a Road of Less Width than 66 ft.W HEREAS in the opinion of the Minister of Lands it is inexpedient, by reason of the fact that the land shown upon the plan of Town of Belmont Extension No. 3, affecting part Section 48, Hutt Registration District, prepared by Messrs. Martin and Dyett, Licensed Surveyors, is intended to be used wholly for residential purposes, that the road shown therein should be of the width of 66 ft.Now, therefore, I, Alexander Donald McLeod, Minister of Lands, do hereby, in pursuance of the power conferred upon me by section 17, subsection (1), of the Land Act, 1924, and of every other power me thereunto enabling, authorize the laying-off of such road of a width of 40 ft.: Provided always that it shall not be lawful for any person to erect or cause to be erected any building at a less distance than 33 ft. from the middle of such road.Given under my hand this 17th day of March, 1926.A. D. McLEOD, Minister ot Lands.Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Long-service Medal.Department of Defence. Wellington, 17th March, 1926.H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Long-service Medal to Major G. C. Wells, 2nd New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Queen Alexandra’s Wellington West Coast).F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand in connection with Duggan's Dublin Sweeps.T HE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable grounds for supposing that the person and institutions whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said person or any of the said institutions shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person or any of the said institutions (either by his or its own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to any of the addresses in the Schedule herunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.SCHEDULE.R. J. Duggan, Dublin.Duggan's Dublin Sweeps, Dublin.Imperiale Express Continentale, Postfach Hottingen, Zurich, Switzerland.Varsity Continentale Travel Bureau, Postfach Basel 12, Switzerland.Voyages Coloniaux, Case Postale Mont Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland.Dated this 13th day of March, 1926.C. J. PARR, Postmaster-General.