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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1817, 23 April 1918, Page 3

ANZAC DAY. A.T the request of the Prime Minister, I respectfully invite the citizens to observe Anzne Day as a public holiday. Citizens are. also requested to attend an united service in the Town Hall, at 3 p.m. Special welcome will be extended to all returned soldiers. J. CHRYSTALL, Mayor. Town hall - foxton. THURSDAY NIGHT SKATING. FRIDAY, APRIL 26th—A DANCE 1\ ILL BE HELD. Good Music. Long Night’s Fu*. ' Refreshments. Gents 2/6, Ladies 2/-. A. SMITH, Secretary. FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD. TENDERS are invited up to Ist May for grazing rights on Signal Station Reserve (Round Bush), about 400 acres, for twelve months. Conditions may he seen at the office of the Board. W. BOCK, Secretary, Foxton, April 23rd, 1018. WILT, the person who was seen taking rug from motor ear in Russell Street on Sunday night return same to Mrs Woodham and save further trouble. FOXTON PATRIOTIC SOCIETY. Applications, to he received - by WEDNESDAY NEXT, are invited for the position of Secretary to the Foxton Patriotic Society, at a salary of £1 per week. JOHN CHRYSTALL, President. TO LET, —Large unfurnished front room. Apply this office. FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD. PROPOSAL to raise a Special Loan under the provisions of “The Foxton Harbour Board Amendment Act, 1917” and “The Local Bodies Loans Act, 1013,” upon which a poll will he taken on TUESDAY, the 21s( day of May, 1018. THE FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD hereby gives public notice that such Boai-d 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 following: The particular purposes for which the said special loan is required are; The payment by the Board to His Majesty the King of the sum of ITS,OOO for the transfer of (he lands and assets mentioned in Section 8 of “The Foxton Harbour Board Amendment Act, 1017,” 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 works or any of them authorised by Section 9 of “The Foxton Harbour Board Amendment Act, 1017.” The sum proposed to be borrowed for such purposes is £16,000, and the rate of interest is £5.1 per centum per annum. The security proposed to be pledged for such special loan is an annually recurring differential special rate on the capital value of all rateable property within the following areas comprising the Foxton Harbour District of the -fractional part of a penny in the pound sterling set opposite the name of each of such areas respectively, viz.— Maim wain County . .. 3/80ths. Kairanga County .. l/80th. Palmerston North Borough 3/100ths Feilding Borough .. 3/2001 hs. Levin Borough .. l/401:]i. Foxton Borough .. .. 21/80ths. The provision for the repayment; of the said loan will be: — An annual sinking fund of £1 per centum on the amount of such loan, and the balance, of the said loan which has not been provided for by such sinking fund at the maturity of the said loan which will have a currency of 36 years, will be provided by a fresh special loan, or as the Foxton 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. It: 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 Foxton this 11th day of April, 1018. W. BOCK, Secretary to the Foxton Harbour Board. a1C,23,30,m7 SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. Private P. W. Stratford, Bth A.D.U.S., A.1.F., in a recent letter, states: —“The most valuable thing I took away in ray kit when embarking for the front was Chamberlain’s Colie and Diarrhoea Remedy. It hqs 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 There is a coupon m every tin of Hudson’s Balloon Brand Baking Powd'er that entitles you to receive a free copy of the famous “Balloon” Baking Book. Buy a tin tocmy.—W. Bautkh.aio, Fostoib*