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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 25th February, 1930.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Piako County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

JOSEPH WARD, Minister of Finance.

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of Te Aroha Riding was taken on the 31st day of January, 1930, on the proposal of the Piako County Council to borrow the sum of £1,600 for the purpose of providing the Te Aroha Riding’s share of the cost of reconstructing Wairakau and Shaftesbury Bridges.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 10; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 3.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 3rd day of February, 1930.

Wm. R. LOWRY, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 25th February, 1930.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Piako County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

JOSEPH WARD, Minister of Finance.

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of Valley Road Special-rating Area was taken on the 31st day of January, 1930, on the proposal of the Piako County Council to borrow the sum of £3,000 for the purpose of metalling the Waiorongomai–Maungakawa Road from Williams corner to the end of the present metalling, also Valley Road to Buchanan’s gate, a total distance of about 360 chains.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 20; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 11.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 3rd day of February, 1930.

Wm. R. LOWRY, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 24th February, 1930.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Hauraki Plains County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

JOSEPH WARD, Minister of Finance.

COUNTY OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

PURSUANT to section thirteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that a poll of ratepayers of the Kerepeehi Town Special-rating District was taken on the 25th day of January, 1930, on the proposal to raise a loan of £600 for the metalling of streets in the said special district.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 14; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 2; the number of informal votes was 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Ngatea, this 13th day of February, 1930.

CHAS. WATSON HARRIS, Chairman.

Notice making and levying Rates under the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and Amendments.

I, GEORGE WILLIAM FORBES, Minister of Lands, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, do hereby make and levy a rate of thirty-five one-hundredths of a penny (0·35d.) in the pound to meet maintenance costs upon the unimproved value of the land comprising the Kaitaia Town District, in the Kaitaia Drainage District, liable to be rated in pursuance of that Act.

The said rates will be payable in one sum on the 1st March, 1930, to the Collector of Rates at the Chief Drainage Engineer’s Office, 5 Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, at which office the rate-book will be open for inspection. A copy of the rate-book will be available for inspection at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer at Kaitaia.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of February, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Notice making and levying Rates under the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its Amendments.

I, GEORGE WILLIAM FORBES, Minister of Lands, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, do hereby make and levy a rate to meet maintenance costs upon the unimproved value of all land in the Kaitaia Drainage District, other than the land comprising the Kaitaia Town District, liable to be rated in pursuance of that Act on a graduated scale, as specified in the Schedule hereto, according to the classification of the land.

The said rates will be payable in one sum on the 1st March, 1930, to the Collector of Rates at the Chief Drainage Engineer’s Office, 5 Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, at which office the rate-book will be open for inspection. A copy of the rate-book will be available for inspection at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer at Kaitaia.

SCHEDULE.

Class A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, threepence and eighty-seven one-hundredths of a penny (3·87d.) in the pound.

Class B: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class B by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, one penny and thirty-six one-hundredths of a penny (1·36d.) in the pound.

Class C: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class C by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, fifty-eight one-hundredths of a penny (0·58d.) in the pound.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of February, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Kaitaia Drainage Area.

NOTICE OF INTENTION IN RESPECT OF RATES TO BE LEVIED UNDER THE SWAMP DRAINAGE ACT, 1915, AND AMENDMENTS.

WHEREAS I, George William Forbes, Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, have this day made and levied on the unimproved value of all land within the Town Subdivision of the Kaitaia Drainage Area a special rate as set out in the First Schedule hereto, and on the unimproved value of all lands in the Rural Subdivision of the Kaitaia Drainage Area a special rate on the graduated scale set out in the Second Schedule hereto, such rates to be annually recurring rates, and to be levied year by year until the moneys in respect of which they were made are paid off :

And whereas in respect of the current financial year ending on the 31st day of March, 1930, certain subsidy moneys are available from the Consolidated Fund for the purpose of meeting, so far as the Rural Subdivision is concerned, the annual charges for that year for the payment of which the said rate has been made and levied, and the full amount of the said rate will therefore not be required for the said current financial year.

Now, therefore, it is hereby notified that for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1930, it is intended to demand from ratepayers in the Rural Subdivision rates on the graduated scale as set out in the Third Schedule hereto only. In respect of the financial year ending on the 31st day of March, 1930, the rates set out in the First and Third Schedules hereto will be payable on the 1st day of March, 1930, and in respect of every future financial year rates levied will be payable on the 30th day of August in such year. Notice is also given that the respective special rates are payable at the office of the Collector of Rates, Chief Drainage Engineer’s Office, 5 Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, and that the rate-book is kept at the office of the Collector of Rates aforesaid, where it is available for inspection at all times at which that office is open for the transaction of public business. A copy of the rate-book will, for the convenience of ratepayers, be available for inspection at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer at Kaitaia.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of February, 1930.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

TOWN SUBDIVISION.

On the unimproved value of all lands within the Kaitaia Town District, two pence and eighty-five one-hundredths of a penny (2·85d.) in the pound.