STATEMENT showing the Liabilities

and Permanent Debts of the Province of Wellington on the 31st day of March, 1868 :--

Provincial Loans--

Less Sinking Fund accrued and invested by Commissioners ... | 6450 | | 68550 | 0 0 |

Less proportion allocated to Hawke’s Bay Province ... | 118450 | 0 0 | 31250 | 0 0 |

General Government Loans--

| | | | | |
| Loan for Land Purchase, 1856 ... | 27000 | 0 0 | | |
| (Public Debt Apportionment Act, 1858) | | | | |
| Less Sinking Fund paid to General Government ... | 5535 | 0 0 | 21465 | 0 0 |

Loans for Special Purposes--

| | | | | |
| Wanganui Bridge ... | 18000 | 0 0 | | |
| (Secured on Tolls of the Bridge) | | | | |
| Reclamation of Land ... | 33000 | 0 0 | | |
| (On Mortgage of Land reclaimed) | | | | |

Land Purchase Loan--

| | | | | |
| Act 2 Session XIV ... | 30000 | 0 0 | | |
| (Redeemable at not exceeding 5 years from July 1, 1866) |

Deposits at Interest--

| Wellington Savings Bank ... | 8100 | 0 0 | | |
| Sundry ... | 3088 | 1 2 | | |

Total Deposits at Interest ... | | | 11188 | 1 2 |

Deposits Ordinary--

| Immigration, &c. ... | 1598 | 5 0 |

Balances on Contracts--

Total Balances on Contracts ... | 6968 | 6 5 |

Overdraft at the Bank ... | 12400 | 0 9 |

Total Liabilities | £219,819 | 13 2 |

W. Hickson,
Provincial Treasurer.

W. Dorset,
Auditor.

Provincial Treasury,
Wellington, 26th May, 1868.

Boundaries of Makara School District.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor Isaac Earl Featherston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Second Session of the Provincial Council of Wellington, No. 6, intituled “An Act to promote the establishment of Common Schools in the Province of Wellington,” it is enacted that for the purposes of the said Act it should be lawful for the Superintendent by proclamation to divide the Province into Districts, and from time to time to subdivide such Districts and to reunite any subdivisions; and also by proclamation to declare that the said Act should come into operation within such District or subdivision at such times as he might appoint. And whereas it is expedient to proclaim that portion of the Province within the boundaries hereinafter set forth to be a district for the purposes of the said Act. Now therefore I, Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in virtue of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that such portion of the said Province as is comprised within the following boundaries shall form and constitute a District for the purposes of the said Act, to be called “The Makara School District”.

The Boundary commences at the South East corner of Section No. 1, South Makara District, thence Westerly along the Southern Boundary of said Section to its South Western corner, thence Northwardly along the Western Boundaries of Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4; thence Westerly along part of the Southern Boundary of Section No. 5 to its South West corner, thence Northwardly along the Western boundary of said Section to its North West corner, thence Westerly along part of the Southern boundary of Section No. 7 to its South West corner, thence Northwardly along the Western boundaries of Sections Nos. 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, and 21.