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Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 July 1916, Page 4

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9 BOH READ* JU2FERENOE. fiTAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandun. of Agree niautj la 3d with 1 otters, etc., attached 3s. Appraisement ol Valuation where the 11 • nouiit does uoi exceed £20, Is.; . v teed £520, does not exceed £50, 2e. Ud, exceed £100, and does not exceed £2 )0 10s, £a''M and does not exceed £500 1&B, exceeds £500 20s. Award, eatue as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but not £1000, 20s: exceeds £1000, 35a. P.a s. not exceeding £25 6d, exceeds and not exceeding £50 Ib, every 10s. Bills oi' ffixchange. Oon demand 2.1, otherwise than on demand, if running singly, for any amount not exceeding £60, Is; every additional £50 or part of £60, Is.; if drawn in a set, such ■am upon each bill of the set as to make up the same duty aa ir a single L'ill were drawn for the amount. Conveyance.— Conveyance on sale: Far every £50 or part of £50 of the amount of the consideration for sale 7a «d. Aoy instrument whereoy any property is legally or equitably transferred to or Tested in any person tor a nominal oosnderation or whore no oonsiderat-, ion passes, for ewery £50 or part of £50 of the amount or value oi the property conveyed or transferred or assessed -ander "The Property Assessment 4.0t, j 1884,*' Oil* any Act amending the 'ame < at the data when such instrument takes i elfeoi, 10b. , ii ijLHju.l ™"B!b j ,Am antra as water qaenohes ire, su iriii r "NAZOIi" afford relief from ke&vy q ooltiß, troublesome eougha. sore throats i «cd Erlmom. IW it. a. l sc

Promissory Notes.—Payment on de itn\ ;ui 2d. Payable ctiierwi&e than on demand: For ©very gum not exceet ■ iug £25, (3d,; exceeding £26 and d e-ceeding £50, is.; every additional ' or part of £50, lis. I 1 u plicate or counterpart of any id strument chargeable wiLli duty, where sacL duty doea not amount to $s, fho same duties aa the original iostror men c; in any other case ite. L:ind Transfers.—Uenerally speaking, thy same duties as would have been payable on a conveyance. L«sae, or Agreement to L*aee, *ithoul any consideration by way of pre"aijpJTi: Where rent doea not exceed JfcSoO 3r: for every additional £50 or part of ££0 Ba. Far any imitrument affecting a parti Hon ot lands upon my consideration oxoeoding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt from all duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal descendant or »iisesfcor. WQBKERfI' DWELLINGS. Borough Councils are empowered by he Municipal Corporations Act to erect oir the occupation of workers employed >r resident in boroughs any buildings uitable for workers' dwellings, or may .cquiie buildings by purchase or otherrise, and render them suitable for the aine purpose, the letting to be in the lands of the Council. IJ„ .. j.: JI- ii. « . . ,

Uy section 62 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, Council* are further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The section provides that a Council may (1) let 'and to » worker for the purpose of erecting a worker's dwelling; (2) advnorn money to a warier to enable him to acquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon; (8) sell to a worker ny separate worker's dwelling. Provis-

ioii ig made for the repayment of advances and th# payment of advances and the payment of purchase-money by instalments. THE RULES OF THE toOAD. Ihe Rule of the Road is a paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you bear to the left you ere iuro to go right, If jou turn to the ri>rht you go wrong. But in walking the streets *fcis a different case; io the right it is right won aho.ild su>er, On ihe left should be left enough of clear space Foi the people viio wish to wal* there. THE FENCING ACT. fiREOTION OF FENCES. .4 fence of any of the kinds mentioned in the Second Schedule is a t efficient fence within the meaning of 'be Fencing Act (5.7). 'Ihe occupiers of adjoining lands not divided by a sufficient fence are liaole to join in or contribute in equal proportions to the erection of a fence he tween such lands, although such fence "tnay not extend along the tvTnole boundary line. But no occupier is liable to contribute to any fence which is not, m far as praotitabJ#, eoxiinnom" throughout its length.