Jan. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 129

WHANGAREI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Whangarei Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £2,400, authorized to be raised by the Whangarei Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of erecting a building to house the Ladies’ Rest-room, the Plunket Nurse, &c., the said Whangarei Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixteenth of a penny (1/16d.) in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the Borough of Whangarei, comprising the whole of the Borough of Whangarei; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of June in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

JAMES E. HOLMES, Mayor.
A. MAIN, Town Clerk.

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BOROUGH OF TAKAPUNA.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908, and its amendments, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that the body corporate called the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Takapuna proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the construction of drains at Milford, Takapuna, in connection with its drainage scheme, and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the office of the Borough Council, situate in Lake Road, Takapuna, and is open for inspection without fee by all persons during office hours.

All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of such lands who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said lands must state their objections in writing, and send the same within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Town Clerk of the said Council at the said office.

SCHEDULE.

• Deeds Office.

All the above-mentioned lands are situate in the Parish and Borough of Takapuna.
Dated at Takapuna, this 15th day of December, 1926.

J. D. MORISON, Mayor.

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BOROUGH OF NEWMARKET.

RESOLUTIONS MAKING SPECIAL RATES.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and amendments thereto, the Newmarket Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

Loan of £1,550.

That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of £1,550 authorized to be raised by the Newmarket Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act, for street-improvement purposes, the Newmarket Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three-farthings (¾d.) in the pound sterling on the annual rateable value of all the rateable property in the Borough of Newmarket, and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being for a period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

Loan of £12,000.

That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of £12,000 authorized to be raised by the Newmarket Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act, for street-improvement purposes, the Newmarket Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of threepence (3d.) in the pound sterling on the annual rateable value of all the rateable property in the Borough of Newmarket, and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable in the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being for a period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

H. WILSON, Town Clerk.

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ELSTOW DRAINAGE BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

Loan of £1,480.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Elstow Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the principal and interest and other charges on a loan of £1,480 authorized to be raised by the Elstow Drainage Board under the above-mentioned Act for and in connection with the constructing, providing, and establishing drainage-works within the meaning of and pursuant to the Land Drainage Act, 1908, for the benefit of the Otway Special-rating Area of the Board’s district, the Elstow Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate on a graduated scale according to the Board’s classification of the rateable property within the said area upon the rateable value (upon the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the Otway Special-rating Area of the Elstow Drainage District, upon Class “A” of threepence three-farthings in the pound, upon Class “B” threepence farthing in the pound, and upon Class “C” twopence three-farthings in the pound, such special-rating area comprising all that area in the Elstow Drainage District, being part of the Western Subdivision, within the County of Piako, of the Auckland District, bounded by a line commencing at the northern corner of the Western Subdivision and following the boundary between the Western and Central Subdivisions to a point on the south-western boundary-line of Section 3 of Hoururangi Block about 20 chains east of the Ngutumanga Road; thence following the boundary of that section to and across the road to the south-east boundary of Section 2, Hoururangi Block; thence following the boundary of that section to the east corner of Section part Koromatua No. 1, containing 30 acres; thence by the southern boundary of that section to the Waitoa River on its eastern bank; thence by that river in a westerly direction to the crossing of the Paeroa–Tahuna Road and the boundary of the Elstow Drainage District; thence along that road in an easterly direction and then a northerly direction to the northern corner of the Western Subdivision of the Elstow Drainage District, the point of commencement: and that such graduated special rates shall be annual-recurring rates during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is fully paid.

W. J. ANDREWS, Chairman.

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