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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

Trunk Railway and the northern boundary of the Te Kuiti Borough; thence along the said borough boundary to the north-western boundary of Te Kuiti 2B No. 11 Block; thence along the said north-western boundary to the north-western corner of the said 2B 11; thence along the north-eastern boundaries of Te Kuiti 2B 11, 2B 12B, 2B 6, 2B 5, and 2B 4 Blocks to the north-eastern boundary of the last-mentioned block; thence along the eastern boundary of the aforesaid Te Kuiti No. 4 Block to a point in line with the northern boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua No. 64F; thence to and along that boundary and its production to the Mangarapa Stream; thence up the Mangarapa Stream to the eastern boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua No. 70; thence by a right line to the western boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua 35G 2 No. 1 Block to a point distant 40 chains from the south-western corner of the said 35G 2 No. 1 Block; thence by the southern boundary of the last-mentioned block to the county boundary, and by the county boundary to the southern boundary of Rangitoto A 31B Block; thence south-westerly along that boundary, the southern boundary of a piece of Crown land, and the south-eastern boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua 36A 2 to the Mokau River; thence down that river to the southern boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua 68F 3A; thence along that boundary and the southern boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua 68F 3B, along the eastern boundaries of Sections 4 and 7, Block IV, Mapara Survey District, the eastern and southern boundaries of Section 1, Block VIII, Mapara Survey District, to the Mapara Road; along that road and the northern boundary of Section 4, Block III, Mapara Survey District, to the eastern boundary of Rangitoto-Tuhua 72B 2; along that boundary, the northern boundary of said No. 72B 2, and the western boundaries of Rangitoto-Tuhua Nos. 72B 3B and 72B 3D to the Mapara Stream, and down that stream to Section 4, Block V, Totoro Survey District; thence along the eastern boundaries of Sections 4 and 3, Block V aforesaid, Sections 10, 8, 3, Crown land, and Maraetaua 7B, AA, and BB Blocks, Block II, Totoro Survey District, to the Mokau River; thence across that river and along the western boundaries generally of Pukenui 2L 1B 1, 2F 4, 2F 1, 1B, 7C, and 7D 2 to the northernmost corner of the last-mentioned section; thence along the eastern boundaries of Karu-o-te-Whenua 3D 3E, 3D 3C, 3D 2 to the easternmost corner of the said 3D 2; thence along the southern boundaries of Tapui-Wahine Blocks Nos. 1B and 1C to the Te Kuiti Borough boundary; thence northerly along that boundary to the Main Trunk Railway, the place of commencement: excluding therefrom the Borough of Te Kuiti.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 9th April, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Poverty Bay Electric-power District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.

POVERTY BAY ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Poverty Bay Electric-power Board District taken on the 24th day of March, 1926, on the proposal of the Poverty Bay Electric-power Board to borrow the sum of £280,000 for the electrification of the Poverty Bay Electric-power Board District in such manner as detailed in the voting-paper used at the poll,—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 1,203; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 244.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 29th day of March, 1926.

FRED. R. BALL, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 12th April, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Opunake Town District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.

OPUNAKE TOWN DISTRICT

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, notice is hereby given that the poll taken on the 23rd March, 1926, upon the proposal to borrow £3,350 for the purpose of making and restar-sealing the main highway through the town district, and for reforming parts of Napier Street, Gisborne Terrace, and Havelock Street (including culvert and tar-sprayer and boiler), resulted as follows:—

For the proposal, 30; against the proposal, 27: informal, 2.

I therefore declare the proposal carried.

CHAS. A. TROTTER, Chairman.

24th March, 1926.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 12th April, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Piako, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Irwin’s Hill to Horrell’s Road Special-rating Area in the County of Piako was taken on the 5th day of March, 1926, on the proposal of the Piako County Council to borrow the sum of £1,450 for the purpose of metalling for the first time the Tahuna-Morrinsville Road from the centre of Irwin’s Hill to Horrell’s Bridge.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 6; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 3.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 9th day of April, 1926.

F. W. WALTERS, Chairman.

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 7th April, 1926.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Register of New Zealand 4½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 15th November, 1938, and the Register of New Zealand 5-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 15th November, 1927, will be closed from the 1st May to the 15th May, 1926 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Finance.

Amending Restricted Limits for the Port of Auckland.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 9th April, 1926.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the 22nd day of May, 1925, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 40, of the 28th day of the same month, limits were defined for the Port or Harbour of Auckland within which restricted-limit steamships and ships propelled by mechanical power other than steam, and to which restricted limit certificates are issued, might ply:

And whereas it is desirable that the limits therein defined for the Port or Harbour of Auckland be amended:

Now, therefore, I, George James Anderson, Minister of Marine, in pursuance and exercise of the power conferred upon me by section 189 of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, do hereby revoke the aforesaid Warrant of the 22nd day of May, 1925, and do hereby define the following limits in substitution thereof:—

River Limits.—Inside Rangitoto Reef, Motukoreho Channel, Motuihi Channel, inside a right line drawn from Home Bay Point to the northern point of the entrance to Maiteatea Bay, Tamaki Strait, not beyond Koherunti Point, and inside Waiheke Channel.

Extended River Limits.—All those waters of the Hauraki Gulf inside a right line drawn from the north point of Cabbage (Colville) Bay, on the Coromandel Peninsula, to Shearer Rock, off Tiritiri Island, and thence to Tawharanui Point.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

New Zealand Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 8th April, 1926.

THE Loyal St. Heliers Lodge, No. 9522, situated at St. Helier’s Bay, Auckland, is registered as a branch of The Auckland District of the New Zealand Branch of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 8th day of April, 1926.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.