COUNTY OF WAIROA

DECLARATION OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT SYSTEM OF
RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE

PURSUANT to section 42 of the Rating Act 1925, I hereby give
notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the County of Wairoa,
taken on the 9th day of September 1961, on the proposal that
the system of rating in the said county be on the unimproved
value:

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was ..... 1,093
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 313
Informal ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 11
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated at Wairoa this 15th day of September 1961.

1368 W. G. NOLAN, Chairman of the Wairoa County.

TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANKS ACT 1948

GRANT BY TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK

THE following grant has been approved by the Minister of
Finance in terms of the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1948:
AUCKLAND SAVINGS BANK
Mater Misericordiae Hospital ..... £1,500
1370 R. J. LEATHWICK, for Secretary to the Treasury.

THE MINING ACT 1926

NOTICE is hereby given that, by application No. 41 of 1961,
Stanley Allan Kane, of Luggate, farmer, will apply to the
Warden's Court at Cromwell, at 10 a.m., on the 18th day of
October 1961, for a water race commencing in the Clutha
River at the block line between Tarras and Lower Hawea
Survey Districts and going east to south-east 150 chains to
terminate in part Section 4, Block VII, Tarras Survey District.
The said application may be inspected at the office of the
Mining Registrar at the Warden's Court, Cromwell.
Objections must be filed in the Registrar's Office, Cromwell,
and notified to applicant at least three days before the date of
hearing.
Dated the 11th day of September 1961.
STANLEY ALLAN KANE.
By his Solicitor, JAS C. PARCELL.
1362 W. E. OSMAND, Mining Registrar.

NOTICE OF PRIVATE BILL

In the matter of the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives relating to private Bills, and in the matter of a
private Bill intituled "An Act to discharge an adoption order made on the 17th day of December 1953 in favour of Charles Frank Thomas, formerly of Havelock North, company manager, now deceased, and Aileen Maud Thomas, his wife, as adopting parents of Heather Colleen Thomas".
NOTICE is hereby given that Aileen Maud Thomas, of Hamilton, widow, and Heather Colleen Thomas, of Hamilton, clerk, intend to apply for leave to bring into the House of Representatives at the present session a private Bill intituled as above.
The objects of the said Bill are to effect a legal discharge of an adoption order made by the Magistrate's Court, Hastings, on the 17th day of December 1953, whereby the said Heather Colleen Thomas was adopted by the said Charles Frank Thomas, now deceased, and Aileen Maud Thomas.
The promoters of the Bill are the said Aileen Maud Thomas and Heather Colleen Thomas, whose address is care of Messrs Stace, Hammond, McMullin, Grace, and Bishop, 116 Victoria Street, Hamilton, to which address all communications and notices may be sent and at which address a copy of the Bill may be inspected.
Dated this 6th day of September 1961.
STACE, HAMMOND, McMULLIN, GRACE, AND BISHOP, Solicitors for the Promoters.
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