Aug. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2565

County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of purchasing land, fencing, surveying, legalization, draining, and constructing roads and footpaths to give access from the Great South Road and the Valley Road to the proposed Tironui Railway-station in the Papakura Riding of the County of Manukau the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one half-penny (½d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Tironui Railway-station Access Roads Loan Special-rating Area, being more particularly described in the Schedule at the foot hereof; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of August 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.

SCHEDULE.

All that area of land in the North Auckland Land District and County of Manukau situated in Blocks 14 and 16 of the Otahuhu Survey District and Parish of Papakura, and bounded, commencing at the south-western corner of Section 4 of Allotment 6, Papakura Village, and thence towards the south-west generally by the foreshore of the Manukau Harbour to the northern corner of Lot part 12, Takanini’s Grant, at the Great South Road; thence towards the north-west generally by the said Great South Road to its intersection with Glenora Road; by the said Glenora Road to the Main Trunk Railway, the crossing of the said railway to the north-western corner of Lot 2 of Allotment 33, Papakura Parish, and by the north-western boundary of the said Lot 2 to the Alfriston–Papakura Road, the crossing of the said road to the south-western boundary of Lot 6 of Allotment 34, Papakura Parish, at a point 1625 links from a road intersection at the south-western corner of Lot 34; thence by a right line parallel to and 1625 links from a public road bounding Allotment 34 on the south-east to the north-east boundary of Lot 5 of Allotment 34, by the north-eastern boundary of Lot 5 of Allotment 34 on the south-east; thence by the said public road bounding Allotment 34 on the south-east; thence by the said road to its intersection with another public road at the north-eastern corner of part Allotments 41 and 42, containing 97 acres 2 roods 15·6 perches; thence to the north-east generally by the last-named road through Allotment 42 to its intersection with the Papakura Town District boundary; thence towards the south-east generally by the northern boundary of the Papakura Town District to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid area and linkages more or less.

Loan of £17,700.

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Manukau County Papatoetoe Riding Loan of £17,700, 1926, authorized to be raised by the Manukau County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of re-grading, culverting, draining, and providing foundations and shoulders, constructing and paving with cement concrete, and completing of those portions of the Great South Road Main Highway situated within the boundaries of the Papatoetoe Riding of the County of Manukau, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of five-sixteenths (5/16ths) of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Papatoetoe Riding of the County of Manukau; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half (36½) years ot until the loan is fully paid off.

FRANK M. WATERS, Chairman.
EDGAR ASHCROFT, County Clerk.
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CHRISTCHURCH DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

RESOLUTION TO REMIT RATES IN SPECIAL AREA.

In the matter of the Christchurch District Drainage Amendment Act, 1922; and in the matter of a special loan of £700,000 authorized to be raised for the purposes of constructing drainage and sewerage works and to extend the sewerage system for the benefit of a special area (of the Christchurch Drainage Board District).

WHEREAS the drainage-works proposed to be constructed out of the above-mentioned loan of £700,000 will confer varying degrees of benefit upon the lands in the special area defined and created by resolution of the Christchurch Drainage Board on the 17th day of April, 1923, which special area and the subdivisions thereof are more particularly described, defined, and set forth in the New Zealand Gazette No. 37, dated the 26th day of April, 1923:

And whereas the Christchurch Drainage Board has before entering upon the construction of the said works and before depositing the special roll for public inspection as required by paragraph (d) of section 3 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, divided the said special area into two subdivisions, viz.:

(b.) Land receiving or likely to receive direct benefit from the construction of the drainage-works:

(c.) Land receiving or likely to receive only an indirect benefit therefrom:

And whereas the rates levied by the Board to provide interest and sinking fund and other charges as security for the above-mentioned loan of £700,000 have been made and levied upon the said classes of land as aforesaid in the proportions as follows:

An annually recurring special rate of one penny halfpenny in the pound to be levied on the capital value of all rateable property in that part of the said special area described in Schedule “B” in the said resolution of the 17th day of April, 1923 (being the land which is to be sewered), and an annually recurring special rate of one farthing in the pound to be levied on the capital value of all rateable property in that part of the said special area described in Schedule “C” in the said resolution of the 17th day of April, 1923 (being the land which is already sewered):

And whereas the scheme of drainage-works undertaken by the Board in connection with the above loan is intended to be carried out in such a way that all that portion of the special area described in the said Schedule “C” of the special area will not receive benefit until a later date than the other portion of the said special area:

The Christchurch Drainage Board hereby resolves to remit for the period from the 1st day of April, 1926, until the 31st day of March, 1927, the whole of the special rate of one farthing in the pound made and levied (in connection with the said scheme and loan of £700,000) on the capital value of all rateable peoperty so far as regards that part of the said special area which is described in the Schedule “C” of the special area, and to remit for the same period, viz.—from the 1st day of April, 1926, until the 31st day of March, 1927—forty-seven sixty-fourths (47/64ths) of a penny in the pound of the special rate of one penny halfpenny (1½d.) in the pound made and levied on the capital rateable value of all rateable property so far as regards that part of the said special area which is described in the said Schedule “B” of the special area.

WALTER HILL,
Chairman.
15th June, 1926. 808

MALVERN ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Malvern Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on the loan of £4,000 authorized to be raised by the Malvern Electric-power Board under the above-mentioned Act and for the following purposes, namely:—

1. The construction of electric works as defined by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, and any amendments by the Board within the district pursuant to the powers vested in the Board by the said Act:

2. The acquisition by the Board of certain rights over or in connection with existing electrical works within the Power Board District as incidental to the purpose or purposes enumerated in paragraph 1 above:

3. The payment of all expenses and debts which the Board is authorized to pay by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925:

4. The installation and carrying-out of works authorized by section 118 of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, and other authorized assistance to proposed consumers,—

the said Malvern Electric-power Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fortieth of a penny in the pound sterling upon the rateable value on all rateable property of the said Malvern Electric-power Board District, comprising all those parts of the Counties of Selwyn, Malvern, and Tawera specified in the New Zealand Gazette of the 28th June, 1923, as constituting the Malvern Electric-Power District; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 8th day of September 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. 809