on the rateable unimproved value of all rateable property
within the County of Waitemata, and that such special rate
shall be an annually recurring rate through the currency of
the loan and payable yearly on the 1st day of June each year
during the currency of the loan, being a period of 10 years or
until the loan is fully paid off.

(d) That authority be granted to gazette this resolution.

I hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of
an extract from the minutes passed by the Waitemata County
Council on 28 October 1971.

A. TURNER, County Treasurer.

SOUTHLAND COUNTY COUNCIL
Otama Rural Water Supply Loan Proposal

Notice of Result of Poll

PURSUANT to section 38 of the Local Authorities Loans Act
1956, notice is hereby given that a poll of the ratepayers of the
Otama Rural Water Supply Special Rating Area, taken by
postal vote on 4 November 1971, on the proposal of the above-
named local authority to raise a loan of $47,000 to be known
as the Otama Rural Water Supply Loan for the purpose of
providing high-pressure water for stock watering and domestic
purposes, resulted as follows:

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was ..... 150
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 78
The number of informal votes was 2

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 10th day of November 1971.

C. E. BOWMAR, County Chairman.
P.O. Box 903, corner Clyde and Forth Streets, Invercargill.

THE MINING ACT 1926

Notice of Application

UNDER date 18 February 1970, New Zealand China Clays Ltd.
has applied to the Mining Warden at Whangarei for a licence
for a water race between the Paparata Stream and the plant
situated on Lot 1 and Lot 5, Mahinepua Parish, Block 1, Keri-
keri Survey District.

Address for Service: P.O. Box 14, Kerikeri.

G. MILNE, Plant Manager.

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