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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1917, Page 1

PUBLIC NOTICES. REQUISITION OP NEW ZEALAND WOOL. REQUIREMENTS AS TO BRANDING BY GROWERS. JT is notified for the information of all wool-growers throughout New Zealand, that in accordance with instructions received from the Imperial Army Contracts Wool Department, London, all wool sent by growers to Government woolbrokers for valuation and purchase must be ( branded with the grower's mark on one end and on one side of each bale. The side on which the brand must be placed is one of the flat sides—in other words, either of the sides of the bale not exposed when the doors of the press are open. Letters and figures appearing in the brand must not be less than three inches in height. In any case where the branding of the wool has not been effected by the owner strictly in accordance with these requirements, the Government woolbroker to whim the wool is forwarded will correct the faulty branding at the expense of the grower i R.TRIGGS, Controller, Dept. of Imperial Government Supplies, Wellington, Ist October, 1917. SECOND DIVISION i-JiAUUE. THE PENSIONS BILL. MEETING of members of the Second ' Division League and of all Second Division Reservists, will be held at the Soldiers' Club, New Plymouth, to-mor-row (Tuesday, 9th instant), when reports will be received from the delegates to the Wellington Conference, and explanations given of the various provisions of the Pensions Bill now before (Parliament. M. J. ARMSTRONG, Hon. Secretary NErf ZEALAND MILITARY SUPPLIES. (Invitation to Tender No. 179).

'THE Minister in Charge of Munitions . . and Supplies will be pleased to consider sealed tenders for the supply and delivery of foodstuffs, forage and fuel required for Trentham and Featherston Camps during November to February neat provided such tenders are received at the Munitions and, Supplies Department, Room 8, Second Floor, Union S.S. Company's Building, Wellington, on or before 2.15 p.m., on Thursday, the 18th Instant. Full particulars, specifications find conditions of contract may be obtained from this office, or from the Defence Departments at Auckland. Christchurch, Dunedin or Palmerston North. A. M. ADAMS. Chief Executive Officer, Munitions and Supplies Dept. Wellington, 3rd October, 1917. EGMONT COUNTY COUNCIL. In the matter of The Counties Act, 1908, and of The Local Bodies'- Loans Act, 1913, and any amendment of the said Acta and each of them respectively: fTDE Egmont County Council hereby gives Public Notice that such Council proposes to raise a special loan of £16,000 for the purpose of re-erecting in reinforced concrete the whole of the bridges and culverts (as the case may require) as enumerated in the schedule hereunder, the said loan together with interest thereon at a rate not exceeding five and one quarter per centum per annum is to be repayable in 36% years by half-yearly instalments in the manner provided by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and; the security for the said loan shall be an annually recurring special rate during the currency of such loan, of seven fifty-ninths (7-69) of one penny in the £ on the capital value of all the rateable property within Egmont County. It is further proposed to pay out of the said loan the cost of raising the loan, together with the first year's interest thereon, and any preliminary expenses incurred in connection with the purpose for which the said loan is raised.

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