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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 30 April 1913, Page 7

PUBLIC NOTICES. NEW ZEALAND TO WIT. "Vj"OTICE is hereby given that at xs !JL\ intended to prese.nt to the General Assembly of New* Zealand at the next ensuing sitting thereof a Bill to be entitled " The Warigacui Harbour Dilitrict and Empowering Act 1913/' Tho object which the said Bill is intended to. effect is to constitute the Wan&anui Harbour District, being all the area comprised in the lands described in the Schedule hereto and to empower the Wanganui Harbour Board to construct certain works ■within the Harbour or Port of Wanganui and adjacent thereto and to borrow a sum of One hundred ■and twonty-five thousand pounds (£125,----000) for that purpose and for the pur. poses of paying the costs of the said Act and for raising such loan and th» first year's interest thereon and the amotint owing by .the Board on banx overdraft at the time when such loan is raised and also if and when One hundred thousand pounds (£100,000) oc such loan has been raised and expended to empower the said Board to borrow a further One Hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds-(£125,000) for the like purposes, the interest on such loans not to produce to the lender a higher rate of jnteiest -than Five pounds (£5) per centum per annum, and no money to be borrowed except with^ the consent of the ratepayers within the Harbour District ascertained separately as to each such loan in manner prescribed by the Local Bodies Loanj Act 1908 all the provisions of ■Part I. of which Act shall" extend and apply to such loans and that at tha polls taken in respect of such loans the . district electors' rolis in fore© for tfe time being in the several Borbug'is. Towr. Districts and Counties and parts thereof comprised within the Harbonr District shall taken together be the roll on which such poll shall be taken provided that no person shall' have more than on© vote at such poll and no wife shall vote in respect of her husband's qualification or vice vevsu aho that if a majority of the val?d votes recorded at such poll are ,in favour „of the proposal the • proposal shall be q«em<!!l to be carried. If such proposal is carried it ds ; further proposed that the Waneanui Harbour Board be empowered to levy a rate on 'all rateable property in the Harbout District according to its capital value .as appearing in the District"Valuation 1 Rolls under the Valuation of > Lan'i Act. 1908 for,th^;purposeC^p:iasping'-thc .'■■annjjfil "ch^ges^nd'- sinking fund' of ,: i*n;,jsh|]ling&: (10s.) per ieeniunr pbr Him. ■ mim in respec| of-siich loan the rat© jn the combined district consisting of the said Borough "of "Wangjanui arid the Town Districts of Gonville and Castlecliff to be always double the rate levied •m the rest of the said District, tho amount of such rate to be levied in any year to be determined according to the deficiency of estimated reyenue required to meet the estimated expenditure of tho Board in any year. It is also provided by the said Bill that the said Wanganui Harbour Board may levy differential dues an respect of goods produced or manufactured without tho District or despatched from the port <of Wanganui to a point outside such dus trict as their final destination without being warehoused in the District as against goods produced or manufactured within the District or despatched to a point within the District as their final destination or warehoused within the District and requiring statutory declarations from shippers and importers to assist in the collection of such, dues. It is also provided by the said. Bill that in lieu of the two members' of tho Wangariui Harbour Board at present elected by the electors of Wanganui County two members ■ Shall bo elected by the electors of those parts of the counties, of Wanga nui, Waimarino and Rangitiked included in the District and that in lieu of the two members at present elected by the electors of the County of Waitotara two members Bhali m future be elected by the electors of those parts of the Counties of Waitotara and Patea included in tho Bis. trict and provision is alfio made for fiueh elections. A copy of the said Bill together with ft statement of the financial position ot the Wanganui Harbour Board a copy of the Balance-Sheet of the Board for the year ending the thirtyfirst day of December 1912 a statement showing th<s Board's revenue from wharfage, pilotage and ship''dues during the current year and the estimate! increase of revenue from those sources to bo derived from tho proposed workts, and a copy of the estimate by Mr. Leslie Reynolds of the cost of construction, of the proposed works .in ! their entirety and a plan * indicating the nature of the proposed works a copy of the estimate by Mr. Howarth of the cost of construction of the extension of the present works and <a_ plan of the proposed Wanganui Harbour district, are deposited in the Magistrate's Courts at Wanganui Harbour District, are deposit®! in the Magistrate's Court at Wanganui, and are open at that place to public inspection. THE SCHEDULE HERETO. All that area bounded as follow*! -Commencing at the mouth of tho Tunakina River on the Tasman Sea proceeding thence along the centra of the eaid river to a point about 33.miles in a straight line from the mouth being the intersection with the said river of the South Boundary of Block XIII. of the Maunga fearetu Survey District, tbtenco west by the said South Boundary sind the South Boundary df 'Block XVI. of the Ngamatea Survey District to the centre of the "Wajv gaehu River, thence un the centre ©f the Wangaehu River to the intersection therewith of the South Boundary of Blocks VII. and VI. of the Ngamatea Survey District, thence w!est by tbia said iSotuth Boundary to tho Okura Stream thence up the Okura Stream to the Boundary dividing Blocks I. and 11. of the Ngamat«a Survey District, thence north by tho said dividing boundary to the south boundary .of Block XV. QVlakotuko Survey District, thenoe west by the 6aid South Boundary to th; centre of the Mangawhero River' thence up the centre of the Man gawhero River to the North Bound nry of Blocks XIII. and XIV. oi the Makotuku Survey Distrid thence west along the "said Nortli Boundary to tho east boundary oi Block XII. of the Parete Surve-, District, thence north by tho eaid Bast boundary to the north bound cry of Blocks XII. XI. .and X. oi the Parete Survey District ihencx west along the said North Bound Zity to tho centre of the Wanganu River, thence.down the Wanganu River to the intersection with th< eaid River of the line dividing th< Wellington and Taranaki Lam Districts, thence by the said divid ing line to the centra of the Wai totara River, thence down th< Waitotara River to its mouth on > the Tasman Sea, thence by th« ; shore of the Tasman Sea to <th« point of commencement. s D.-.tied at Wanpjanui thip 30tl day of April 1913. MARSHALL AND BUTTON. I. Solicitors to tho Wanganui Harboir Board the promoters of the said Bill