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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1916, Page 4

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1 FOll READ i SJfiFERENOE. STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandun. of Agreowent, Is 3d with letters, etc., attached, 3d. Appraisement ok Valuation where the amuunt does not exceed £20, Is.; .x----cccJ £20, docii not exceed £50, 2s 6d, exccod £100, and does not exceed £2 )1 10s, £2/J0 and does not exceed £oOC 15s, exceeds £500 20s. Award, same a* Valuations, except exceeds £500 but not £1000, 20s; exceeds £1000, 355, P.n'e. not exceeding £25 6d, exceeds £25, and not exceeding £50 Is, everj 1%. Bills ox .Exchange. Oon demand 21. otherwise thaD on demand, if running singly, for any amount not exceeding £60, Is; every additional £50 or part of £30. I°.; if drawn in a set, such Bom upon ei'.oh hill of the Bet as to cake up tin? same duty te it a single L-ill ware drawn for the amount. Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale: •For every £50 ox part of £50 of the amount of the consideration for sale ?« «d. Any instrument whereny any property is legally or equitably transferred V.) or Tested in any person tor a nominal coitflideration or where no consideration passes, for ewery £60 or part of £50 of the amount or value of the property oor.fpyed or transferred or assessed -index ,! The Property Assessment \ot, 1385," or any Act amending the 'ame at tfta date when such instrument takes effoot. 10s.

Promissory Notes.—Payment on demand 2d. Payable otherwise than on demand: For every sum not exceeding £25, 6d,; exceeding £25 and c exceeding £50, 1».; every addition *1 or part of £50, Ib. .Duplicate or counterpart of any in struuient chargeable with duty, where sucL duty does not amount to Ss, tho same duties as the original instrnmeat; in any other case 3s. Land Transfers.—Generally speaking, tha same dutiei aa would have been payable on a conveyance. Lease, or Agreement to Lmso, without any consideration by way of preniurc : Wihere rent does not exceed £oCI &: for every additional £50 or pari of £50 3«. For any instrument affecting a partition of lands upon any consideration exceeding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt from all duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal deecen<Lant or ancestor. WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Borough Councils are empowered by the Municipal Corporations Act to erect fox the occupation of workers employed or resident in boroughs any buildings suitable for workers' dwellings, or may acquire buildings by purchase or otherwise, and render them suitable for the • same purpose, the letting to be in the hands of the Council. By section 62 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Aot, 1913, Council* aire further empowered in regard to workers' dwellings. The section provides that a Council may (1) let land to a worker for the purpose of erecting a worker's dwelling; (2) advance money to a worker to enable him to aoquire land and build a worker's dwelling thereon; (8) sell to a worker ■ny separate worker's dwelling:. Provis-

ion ii made for. the repayment of advances and the payment of advances and the payment of purchase-money by instalments. TELE RULES OP THE jtyOAD, The Rule of the Road is » paradox quite; For in driving your carriage along, If you bear to the left you tr® iu re to go right, If you turn to the ri>rht you %o wrong. But in walking the streets 'tis a different case; To the right it is right wou should •teer, On the left should bo left enough of clear space Foi the people nho wish to walk there. THE FENCING ACT. £ RECTI ON OF FENCES. A fence of any of the kinds mentioned in the Second Schedule is a ficient fence within the meaning of the Fencing Act (5.7). The occupiers of adjoining lands not divided by a sufficient fence are liable to join in 0/ contribute in equal proportions to the erection' of a fence between such lands, although such foaoe may not extend along the w"hole boundary line. But no occupier is liable to contribute to any fence which if not, u far u praotioaM*, eoflriinßoa? throughout its length.