970

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 27

The North Auckland Mounted Rifles.

Captain C. V. Bigg-Wither is posted to the Retired List,
with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed
uniform. Dated 26th February, 1931.

The Hauraki Regiment.

Lieutenant V. J. Cooke is retired. Dated 10th March, 1931.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants are posted to the
Retired List, with permission to retain their rank and wear
the prescribed uniform. Dated 10th March, 1931:-

E. Butt.
Z. N. Mitchell.

RETIRED LIST.

J. G. W. Salt (late Captain, Retired List) is granted the rank
of Captain on discharge from the ranks. Dated 1st April,
1931.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 8th April, 1931.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor, Richmond
Borough Council, is published in accordance with the
provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/131/2.)

RICHMOND BOROUGH COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1926, I hereby give notice that the following is the result of
a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Richmond taken on
the 11th day of March, 1931, on the proposal to raise a loan
of £1,970 for the purpose of three-coat sealing with bitumen
Salisbury and Gladstone Roads: The number of votes recorded
for the proposal was 151; the number of votes recorded
against the proposal was 13; informal, 1.

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

Dated this 30th day of March, 1931.

H. WARREN KELLY, Mayor.

Oxford County Council.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan
Authority.

In the matter of Section 118 of the Local Bodies' Loans
Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Oxford County Council has been duly
authorized to borrow by way of loan the sum of
one thousand four hundred and eighty pounds (£1,480) for
the erection of two houses, and the consent of the Governor-
General in Council thereto was given by Order in Council
made on the seventeenth day of December, 1928, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 96, of 20th December,
1928, at page 3599:

And whereas in respect of the said sum of one thousand
four hundred and eighty pounds (£1,480) there has been
raised and borrowed for the purpose aforesaid the sum of
thirteen hundred pounds (£1,300):

And whereas the undertaking in respect of which the said
loan was authorized has been completed, and it has not been
found necessary to borrow the whole of the amount so
authorized:

And whereas the Minister of Finance has duly notified the
Oxford County Council in writing of his intention to cancel
the loan authority in so far as it has not been exercised:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf
conferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies' Loans
Act, 1926, and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling,
I, George William Forbes, Minister of Finance, do hereby
cancel the authority of the Oxford County Council to borrow
under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the sum of
one hundred and eighty pounds (£180), being the amount in
respect of which the said loan authority has not been exer-
cised : Provided always that this cancellation is without
prejudice to the validity in all respects of the loan of thirteen
hundred pounds (£1,300) already borrowed pursuant to the
said loan authority.

Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of April, 1931.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/411.)

Classification of Roads in Ellesmere County.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me
by the Transport Department Act, 1929, and the Motor-
lorry Regulations, 1927, and their amendments, I, William
Burgoyne Taverner, Minister of Transport, do hereby approve
of the Ellesmere County Council's proposed classification of
the roads described in the Schedule hereto, and situated in the
Ellesmere County.

SCHEDULE.

ELLESMERE COUNTY.

ROADS classified in the Second Class: Available for the use
thereon of any motor-lorry (other than a multi-axled motor-
lorry) which with the load it is carrying weighs not more
than 8 tons, or any multi-axled motor-lorry which with the
load it is carrying weighs not more than 10 tons:-

Ellesmere-Southbridge Road, from Selwyn River to
Southbridge Town Board District.
Feredays Road, part Leeston-Rakaia Secondary Highway
from Leeston to Carroll's corner.
Main South Road, from Selwyn River to Selwyn Railway-
crossing.
Selwyn and Lake Road, Boundary Creek Road from
Irwell School to Yankee Crossing Secondary Highway.

Roads classified in the Third Class: Available for the use
thereon of any motor-lorry (other than a multi-axled motor-
lorry) which with the load it is carrying weighs not more
than 6½ tons or any multi-axled motor-lorry which with the
load it is carrying weighs not more than 8 tons:-

Anderson's Road, from junction of Harman's Road to
Main Dunsandel Road (Poole's Road).
Beetham Road, from Drain Road to Hills Road.
Boundary Creek Road, from Selwyn-Rakaia Road to
Brookside and Burnham Road.
Branch Drain Road, from Drain Road to Junction with
Buckley's and Rakaia-Irwell Road.
Brookside-Burnham Road, from junction of Boundary
Creek Road to Selwyn River.
Brookside-Irwell Road, from Ellesmere-Southbridge
Highway to junction of Brookside-Burnham Road.
Cant's Road, from Harts Road to McPherson's Road.
Clark's Road, from Leeston-Lake Road to Taumutu and
Bridges Road.
Cowan's Road, from Junction of Tramway Reserve Road,
Feredays Road to Ellesmere-Southbridge Highway.
Creamery Road, from Clark's Road to Hart's Road.
Cryer's Road from North Rakaia Road to Willis's Road.
Cryer's and Jollies Junction Road, from Cryer's Road to
Jollie's Road.
Drain Road, from the Lake Road to the Lower Killinchy
Road.
Dunsandel-Brookside Road and Buckley's Road, from
Brookside-Irwell Road to Dundandel-Southbridge
Road.
Graham's Road, from Coldwell's Road to Branch Drain
Road.
Hanmer Road from Brookside-Irwell Road to Lake Road.
Harman's Road and Coldwell's Road, from Hanmer Road
to Feredays Road (Leeston-Rakaia Highway).
Harts Road, from Taumutu and Bridges Road to Lake
Road.
Hills Road and Bluett's Road, from Ellesmere-South-
bridge Highway to Clark's Road.
Inwood's Road, from Taumutu and Bridges Road to
McEvedy's Road.
Jollies Road, from Southbridge Town District to North
Rakaia Road.
Junction Road, from Southbridge Town District to Tau-
mutu and Bridges Road.
King's Road, from Lower Killinchy Road to Tramway
Reserve Road.
Leeston and Lake Road, from Leeston to Harts Road.
Lochheads Road, from Drain Road to Leeston and Lake
Road.
Lower Killinchy Road, from Main Dunsandel Road to
Feredays Road (Leeston-Rakaia Highway).
McPherson's Road, from Harts Road to Murray's Road.
Main Dunsandel-Southbridge Road and Nixon's and
Willis's Road, from Dunsandel Railway-crossing to
Southbridge Town District and to Hills Road.
Main Rakaia Road, from N. Rakaia and Taumutu Road
to Fereday's Road.
Millton Road, from Taumutu and Bridges Road to Jollies
Road.
Murray's Road, from McPherson's Road to Taumutu
and Bridges Road.
North Rakaia Road and Taumutu Road, from South-
bridge Town District to R.S. 10777.