NORTH AUCKLAND ELECTRIC POWER BOARD

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the North Auckland Electric Power Board held on the 8th day of April 1971, the following resolution was passed:

Pursuant to the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956 the North Auckland Electric Power Board hereby resolves as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing the annual charges on a loan of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) authorised to be raised by the North Auckland Electric Power Board under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of improving and extending the electricity supply in the Board's district, the said North Auckland Electric Power Board hereby makes a special rate of decimal nought nine three of a cent (0.093 cents) in the dollar ($1) on the unimproved value of all rateable property in the North Auckland Electric Power District, and that the special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of the loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of April in each and every year during the currency of the loan, being a period of twenty (20) years or until the loan is fully paid off.

R. G. SOMMERVILLE, Secretary.
903

LOWER HUTT CITY COUNCIL

RESOLUTION TO MAKE SPECIAL RATE

Waterworks Loan 1970, $285,000

THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it, in that behalf, by the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, the Lower Hutt City Council hereby resolves as follows:

"That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars ($285,000), authorised to be raised by the Lower Hutt City Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of replacing water mains, constructing a pumping station in Pharazyn Street, and extending facilities at the Hutt Park Pumping Station; the said Lower Hutt City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 0.187 of a cent in the dollar on the rateable value (on the basis of the annual value) on all rateable property in the City of Lower Hutt, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on or about the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 25 years, or until such time as the loan is repaid."

I hereby certify that the above resolution was duly passed at the meeting of the Lower Hutt City Council on 22 March 1971.

E. C. PERRY, Town Clerk.
Lower Hutt, 22 March 1971.
921

NOTICE OF PRIVATE BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHRISTCHURCH GAS ACT 1870

NOTICE is hereby given that THE CHRISTCHURCH GAS, COAL AND COKE COMPANY LIMITED (hereinafter called "the company") intends to apply for leave to bring into the House of Representatives during the present session of Parliament a Private Bill the short title of which is "The Christchurch Gas Amendment Act 1971". The objects of the proposed Bill are to extend the limits of the principal Act which now extend to an area lying within a radius of 5 miles from the centre of the market-place in the City of Christchurch so as to include all lands extending to and lying within a radius of 25 miles from the Chief Post Office, Cathedral Square in the City of Christchurch; and to define the expression "natural gas"; and to replace the term "Resident Magistrate" by the term "Stipendiary Magistrate"; and to make provision for penalties more in accord with present circumstances and to provide that the value of gas wasted through wilful or negligent acts may be recovered by the company; and to provide the company with power to inspect places and buildings supplied with gas; and to provide that bylaws made under the provisions of section 31 of the principal Act shall not be repugnant to the principal Act or to the Municipal Corporations Act 1954 or to the Counties Act 1956; and to repeal section 37 of, and the Schedule to, the principal Act as they are no longer appropriate. The Bill is promoted by the company whose address to which communications or notices may be sent is at the offices of Messrs Ralph Thomson Shaw Atkinson & Rea, Solicitors, 168–170 Hereford Street, Christchurch. A copy of the proposed Bill may be inspected at the above-mentioned address.

Dated this 5th day of April 1971.

THE CHRISTCHURCH GAS, COAL AND COKE COMPANY LIMITED

by its solicitors Ralph Thomson Shaw Atkinson & Rea.
866

THE CHARITABLE TRUSTS ACT 1957

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF SCHEME

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee as trustee of the will of James Cumming, late of Arthurton, farmer, who died on 2 September 1946, and the board known as "The James Cumming Trust", intend making application to the Supreme Court at Invercargill for approval of a scheme for disposing of the whole of the residuary estate of the said James Cumming.

By his said will, James Cumming bequeathed to his trustee his residuary estate and directed (inter alia) that the income from such residuary estate and authorised that up to one-third of the capital thereof be paid to a board to be incorporated under the name of "The James Cumming Trust" to be used by the board for the purpose of acquiring or building a hall and rooms and offices suitable in the opinion of the board for the purposes of the trusts in the said will.

It has not been possible to find a means of satisfying the terms of the trusts and it is proposed that they be varied in accordance with the scheme which includes the following provisions:

1. The whole of the residuary estate of the above-named testator, both capital and income, in the hands of the Public Trustee (after payment of costs and disbursements), shall be paid or transferred by the Public Trustee to the Gore Borough Council for the purpose of erecting in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Public Trustee and the James Cumming Trust Board, a building which shall form part of the Gore Civic Centre and shall be known as "The James Cumming Wing".

2. The proposed building shall be used by the Gore Borough Council for the purpose of providing or assisting in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure-time occupation in the interests of social welfare within the meaning of subsection 2 of section 61A of the Charitable Trusts Act 1957, and shall, when completed according to the said plans and specifications comprise the following amenities and facilities:

A major hall; a lounge (reading) writing room; a supper room; meeting rooms; a theatrette; a locker room and a kitchen.

Copies of the scheme may be inspected at the offices of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, Invercargill. The date proposed for the hearing of the application is 30 April 1971. Any person desiring to oppose the scheme is hereby required to give written notice of his intention to do so to the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Invercargill and to the Public Trustee and the James Cumming Trust Board at the offices of Messrs Hanan, Arthur and Co., Solicitors, Cargill Chambers, corner Spey and Kelvin Streets, Invercargill, and to the Attorney-General, not less than 7 clear days before the 30th day of April 1971.

The Public Trustee.
The James Cumming Trust Board.
896

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