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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1816, 20 April 1918, Page 3

POXTON PATRIOTIC SOCIETY. Applications, to be received by WEDNESDAY NEXT, are invited for the position of Secretary to the Poxton Patriotic Society, at a salary of £1 per week. JOHN CHRYSTALL, President. TO LET. —Large unfurnished front room. Apply this office, HIMATANGI STOCK SALE. MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1918. The new Zealand loan and MERCANTILE AGENCY CO., LTD,, Avill sell as above — 40 weaners 2 cows 1 fat cow 1 fat cow FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD. PROPOSAL to raise a Special Loan under the provisions of “The Poxton Harbour Board Amendment Act, 1917” and “The Local Bodies Loans Act, 1913,” upon Avhich a poll Avill be taken on TUESDAY, the 21st day of May, 1918. The poxton harbour board hereby gives public notice that such Board proposes to raise a Special Loan under the authority and subject to the provisions of the above-named Acts for the purposes and under the conditions folloAving: The particular purposes for Avhich the said special loan is required are: The payment, by the Board to His Majesty the King of the sum of £5,000 for the transfer of the lands and assets mentioned in Section 8 of “The Poxton Harbour Board Amendment Act, 1917,” and more particularly described in the Second Schedule to the said Act. The construction and purchase of a dredge and the construction and performance of the Avorks or any of them authorised by Section 9 of “The Poxton Harbour Board Amendment Act, 1917.” The sum proposed to be borroAved for such purposes is £1(5,000, and the rate of interest is £s.| per centum per annum. The security proposed to be pledged for such special loan is an annually recurring differential special rate on the capital A'alue of all rateable property Avilhin the lolloaving areas comprising the Poxton Harbour District of the fractional part of a penny in the pound sterling set opposite the name of each of such areas respectively, viz.— Manawatn County . . 3/801 lis. Kairanga County . . l/SOlli. Palmerston North Borough 3/100(bs Peilding Borojigh . . 3/200ths, Levin Borough . . .. l/4fl(h. Poxton Borough .. .. 21/801 hs. The provision for the repayment of the said loan Avill be: — An annual sinking fund of £1 per centum on the amount of such loan, and the balance of the said loan Avhich has not been provided for by such sinking fund at the maturity of the said loan Avhich Avill hat'e a currency of 3(5 years, Avill be provided by a fresh special loan, nr as the Poxton Harbour Board may at such maturity decide. It is proposed to pay out of the loan the cost of raising the loan and the interest and sinking fund for the first year. ft is the intention of the Foxton Harbour Board under and in pursuance of Section 21 of “The Local Bodies Loans Act, 1913,” to pay the interest and sinking fund out of the general fund of the Board so far as the same may be available for that purpose in any particular year. Dated at Poxton this 11th day of April, 1918. W. BOCK, Secretary to the Poxton Harbour Board. a1(j,23,30,m7 by young man, position on farm or sheep station. One year’s experience. “Willing,” c/o “Herald” Office. WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD. ANNUAL MEETINGS OP HOUSEHOLDERS. The Annual Meetings of Householders for the election of School Committees for the ensuing year will he held in the respective schools on MONDAY, April 22nd, at 8 p.m. Nominations, signed hy the proposers and the candidates, are to ho delivered to the Chairmen of (he School Committees hy 8 p.m. on MONDAA, 15th April. Nominations may also he made at the Annual Meetings. Immediately after the Annual Meetings the newly elected Committees shall meet and elect Chairmen. W. H. SWANGER, Secretary. Wanganui, sth April, 1918. . ul3, IG, 18, 20 J?OR SALE. Two five-roomed cottages, with every convenience, including hot and cold Avater. Apply Miss J. A. Ross, Whirokino Road, Poxton, SOMEWHERE IN PRANCE. Private P. W. Stratford, Bth A.D.U.S., A.1.P., in a recent letter, states:; —“The most valuable thing I took-away in my kit when embarking for the front Avas Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. It has eased many a pain for me as well as for my comrades, and I certainly think that every soldier leaving for the front should take a bottle with him.” For sale everywhere, Advt.