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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 78
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was ... 158
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 24
The number of informal votes recorded was .... 1
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated this 13th day of October 1971.
R. S. DICKINSON, Returning Officer.
COUNTY OF BULLER
DECLARATION OF RESULT OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO CHANGE
RATING SYSTEM
PURSUANT to section 42 (5) (b) of the Local Elections and
Polls Act 1966, I hereby declare the result of the poll, taken
on the 9th day of October 1971 on a proposal to change from
the existing land value rating system to the proposed capital
value rating system, to be as follows:
Votes Received
For the proposal
Against the proposal
Informal
I therefore declare the proposal to be rejected.
Dated at Westport this 18th day of October 1971.
R. M. ELLEY, Returning Officer.
CHRISTCHURCH TRANSPORT BOARD
SPECIAL ORDER
Christchurch Transport Board No. 54 Development and
Improvement Additional Loan 1971, $490,000
In pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on it by
the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, and all other powers
it enabling, the Christchurch Transport Board hereby resolves
by way of special order:

1. That the said Board authorises the raising of a loan of
   $490,000 (four hundred and ninety thousand dollars) for the
   purpose of meeting the additional costs of constructing admini-
   stration offices and office space for letting.
2. That the term for which the said loan or any part thereof
   may be borrowed shall be 30 years.
3. That the rate of interest that may be paid in respect of the
   said loan or any part thereof shall be such as shall not produce
   to the lender or lenders a rate or rates exceeding 6 percent per
   annum.
4. That the said loan or any part thereof, together with
   interest thereon, shall be repaid by equal aggregate annual or
   half-yearly instalments extending over the term of 30 years.
5. That the payment of all such instalments shall be made in
   New Zealand and no such instalment shall be paid out of
   loan money.
6. That the security for the repayment of the said loan and
   the interest thereon shall be a special rate.
7. That for the purpose of providing the annual charges on
   a loan of $490,000, authorised to be raised by the Christchurch
   Transport Board, under the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956,
   for the purpose of meeting the additional costs of constructing
   administration offices and office space for letting, the said
   Christchurch Transport Board hereby makes a special rate of
   0.00533 of a cent in the dollar upon the capital value of all
   rateable property in the Christchurch transport district as
   defined by the Christchurch Tramway District Act 1920, as
   amended by the Christchurch Tramway District Amendment
   Act 1932-33, the Christchurch Tramway District Amendment
   Act 1960, and the Christchurch Tramway District
   Amendment Act 1966, and that such special rate shall be an
   annual-recurring rate during the currency of the loan, being a
   period of 30 years or until the loan is fully paid off.
8. That the said Board hereby directs that the said special
   rate be levied and collected by the Christchurch City Council,
   the Riccarton Borough Council, and the Waimairi, Heathcote,
   and Paparua County Councils respectively within their respec-
   tive districts and that the said rate be payable in one sum or
   by instalments on the days respectively appointed by the said
   local authorities for the payment of rates for their respective
   districts.
9. That the Christchurch Transport Board hereby resolves
   to appropriate and pledge the said special rate of 0.00533 of a
   cent in the dollar to secure the repayment of the said loan and
   interest thereon until the loan is fully repaid.
   I hereby certify that the foregoing resolutions were passed
   at a special meeting of the Board held on 23 August 1971 and
   were confirmed as special orders at a meeting of the Board
   held on 20 September 1971.
   J. F. FARDELL, General Manager.
   R. O. BRADLEY ESTATE BILL
   NOTICE TO INTRODUCE BILL
   NOTICE is hereby given of the intention of the trustees of the
   will and estate of Reginald Orton Bradley, late of Charteris
   Bay, in Canterbury, farmer, to apply for leave to introduce
   into Parliament a Private Bill to be named the R. O. Bradley
   Estate Bill.
   The objects of the Bill are as follows:
10. To incorporate the Board of Control of the Bradley
    National Park of Canterbury as a body corporate with
    perpetual succession.
11. Within 1 year of the death of the last surviving life tenant
    under the will to vest in the said Board all real and personal
    property forming the said estate and including 1,615 acres and
    3.2 perches being the land comprised in Certificates of Title
    9B/871, 446/112, 499/209, and 514/247 (Canterbury Registry),
    situate at Charteris Bay, subject to all liabilities to the intent
    that such property shall be held for the purposes of a national
    park for the use, benefit, and enjoyment of the people of New
    Zealand.
12. No gift duty, stamp duty, land tax, or income tax shall be
    payable in respect of the transfer of assets to or operation of
    the Bradley National Park of Canterbury by the Board of
    Control.
    The promoters of this Bill are Lionel Denis Cotterill, of
    Christchurch, solicitor, and Edward James Bradshaw, of
    Christchurch, accountant, being the trustees in the said will,
    whose address for service is at the offices of Messrs Duncan,
    Cotterill, and Co., Third Floor, B.N.Z. House, Cathedral
    Square, Christchurch, where a copy of the Bill may be
    inspected.
    Dated the 5th day of October 1971.
    L. D. COTTERILL Trustees.
    E. J. BRADSHAW
    Duncan, Cotterill, and Co., solicitors to the trustees, Christ-
    church.
    This is the second publication of this notice.
    THOMAS GEORGE MACARTHY TRUST AMENDMENT
    ACT 1971
    Notice is hereby given that the Public Trustee of New Zealand
    proposes to apply for leave to bring into the General Assembly
    of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, during its present
    session, a Private Bill, the objects of which are to redesignate
    the special "Buildings Replacement Fund", established under
    section 3 of the Thomas George Macarthy Trust Act 1936, as
    the "Buildings Redevelopment and Replacement Fund"; and
    to substitute a new section for section 4 of the 1936 Act so as
    to allow moneys from time to time standing in the special
    Buildings Redevelopment and Replacement Fund to be applied
    in the replacement or redevelopment of estate buildings, or in
    or towards the purchase of land adjoining or adjacent to estate
    buildings necessary or desirable for the adequate and economic
    replacement or redevelopment of estate buildings, or in effect-
    ing improvements to estate buildings as cannot properly be
    charged to income.
    The promoter of the Private Bill is the Public Trustee of
    New Zealand.
    Communications or notices to the promoter may be sent to,
    and a copy of the Bill may be inspected at, the office of the
    Public Trustee, 131-135 Lambton Quay, Wellington.