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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 3, 2 August 1916, Page 8

STHATFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL. IN THE MATTER OF "THE MUNI- ' CI PAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 190 S" AX!) THE AMENDMENTS THEREOF; AND OF "THE LOCAL BODIES' LOANS ACT, 1913." 'PROPOSED STRATFORD BOROUGH ELECTRIC LIGHTING LOAN OF £16,000. rpHE STRATFORD BOROUGH 1- COUNCIL hereby gives public notice that it proposes to borrow by way of Special Loan, under the provisions of "The Local Bodies Loans Act, 1913," the sum of Sixteen Thousand Rounds (£16,000). The particular, purposes for which the loan is required, and the sum proposed to be borrowed for each such purpose are as follows: (a). For the purpose of lighting the streets and public places of the Borough of Stratford, and supplying electricity to the inhabitants thereof, to acquire by purchase the whole of the business and undertaking of the Stratford Electrical Supply Company, Limited, and the entire goodwill thereof, and all the freehold and leasehold lands, corporeal and incorporeal rights, easements and appurtenances, buildings, engines, machinery, poles, lines, plant, stock-in-trade, materials and other property of the said Company (excepting moneys, securities and hook debts). £15,000. (I)). To purchase or otherwise acquire all such other freehold or leasehold lands, rights, easements, property* machinery, plant, and materials, and to erect all such further buildings and other erections as the Council may consider necessary for the purpose of lighting the streets and public places of the Borough with electricity and supplying electricity to the inhabitants thereof £IOO Total £16,000 The Council proposes to pledge as security for the said Loan of £16,000 and the interest and sinking fund thereon, an annually recurring Special Rate of one penny and one farthing (l.',d) in tin- £ on the unimproved valued of all rateable property within the said Borough of Stratford during the currency of such Loan, such Special Rate to be payable half yearly on the First day of April and the First day of October in each and every year during the currency of such Loan, being a period of Thirtysix years, or until the said Loan is fully paid off. Jt is proposed that such Loan shall be for a period of Thirty-six years from the Ist day of October, 1916, at five pounds five shillings £o os) per centum per annum interest, with the addition of a Sinking Fund of One pound (£1) per centum per annum, and the whole of the Loan is to be repayable on the Ist day of October, 1952, by means of the Sinking Fund and otherwise.

It is proposed to pay out of the Loan the cost of raising the Loan, and all preliminary expenses in connection with tlie scheme for which the Loan is proposed to bo raised; but it is not proposed to pay out of the Loan the first year's interest and sinking fund of the Loan during the construction of the said works. Dated at Stratford this 26th day of Julv, 1916. PHILIP SKOGLUND, Town Clerk. NOTICE OF POLL. NOTICE is hereby given Chat a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Stratford will lie taken on the proposals described in the above notice at the Borough Council Chambers, Broadway, in the Borough of Stratford, on Friday, the Twenty-fifth day of August, 1916, between the hours of Nine o'clock in the forenoon and Seven o'clock in the afternoon. JOS W. BOON, Mayor. AT THE HOMESTEAD. MANAIA ROAD, ROWAN. FRIDAY, AUGUST i, 1916 At 11.30 a.m. THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AN!) MERCANTILE AGI'JNCY CO., LTD., have received instructions from F. J. Curry Esq., to sell by public auction as above, WITHOUT RESERVE,— 35 cows, mostly Jersey, 3rd cal--2 yearling Jersey heifers 1 sow to farrow, August ] s.f. plough 5 20-gallon Ideal milk cans 1 3U-gallon iron boiler 1 dog cart, etc. LUNCHEON PROVIDED. Cars will leave office at 9.30 on morning of sale. ! Mr. Oliver Peacock, the popular tenor of the Bed Dandies, writes:— "I i"am really grateful to Fluenzol and al-"wiu-3 keep a bottle at the theatre, ft "seems to clear away the hoarseness "which we, coming from Australia to "New Zealand, suffer from." Gargle for throats, swallow for influenza, and to cure catarrh and colds Biiiff up liquid Fluenzol.