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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 August 1916, Page 4

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•— — i'Oii UiQADi STAMP DBTIEB. Agreement or Memoirandun. of Agreement, Is 3d with letters, eto.,-attached, 3b. Aptraibeiucire ok Valuation where the amount does not exceed £20, Is.; .x----ttod £,20, does not exceed £50, 2s 6d, v. touted £100, and docs not exceed £2 >0 104, £%X) and does not exceed £500 I exceeds £500 20b. Award, same as Valuations, except exceeds £500 but not £1000, 30a; ex-ct-oiLj £1000, 3oa. f a's, not exceeding £25 6d, exceeds £io 1 and not exceeding £50 Is, every iCh. Lills oi Exchange. Oon demand 2d; otherwise than on demand, if running singly, lor any amount not exceeding £SU, la; every additional £50 or part oi £50, Ib. ; if drawn in a Bet, such sua upon each bill of the set as to ir&ke up the same duty as it a single till wars drawn for the amount.

Promissory Notes. —fayment on demand 2d, Payable otherwise than on demand: For every sum not exceeding £25, 6d,; exceeding £25 anil t exceeding 1?50, Is.; every additional ££0 or part of £60, la. Duplicate or counterpart of any in struuient chargeable with duty, where bucL duty doea not amount to 3s, the same duties ae the original instrument; in any. other case Ba. Lease, or Agreement to Lease, without any consideration by way of pfenioni: Where rent does, nov exeeed toO 9r for every additional £50 or part of £50 3s. For any l instrument affecting a partition Of lands upon u; consideration exceeding £100. Soldiers' estates are exempt from a» duty up to £5000 in respect to every succession by lineal descendant or sjiuostor. WORKERS' DWELLINGS. Borough Councils are empowered by the Municipal Corporations Act to erect for tha 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 Buitable for the ■ame pitrpraw the letting to be in the hands of tha Council.

ion it made for the repayment oi advances and t>h« payment oi advances and the payment of purchase-money hy inbtiilmenta. THE RULES OF THE «X)AD. The Rule of the Road u a yara-lox quite; If or in driring yoar carriage along, If you baar to the leit you ara dure tQ go right, If yo« turn to the ri#ht you go wrong. But in walking the street* 'tis a'different com; To the right it is right wou ahoald steer, On the left should be left enough of elear apace l'oi the people who wish to wali there. THE FENCING ACT. £REOTION OF FENCES. A fence of any of the kinds mentioned in the Second Schedule is a *affioient fenoe within the meaning of &e Fencing Act (a.7). The occupiers of adjoining lands not divided by a sufficient fence are liable to join in vi contribute in equal proportions to the erection of a fence Between suoh lands, although such fence may not extend along the whole boundary line. But no occupier is liable' to contribute to any fence which is not, m far m praetiaaMa, wmtinian 0 throughout it© length-