378
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 21
has deposited at this office a specification of the said
invention, and I have appointed Friday, the 1st day
of July next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at this
office, to hear the said application and all objections
thereto; and I require all persons having an interest
in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave,
on or before the 26th day of June next, at this office,
particulars in writing of their objections to the said
application, otherwise they will be precluded from
urging the same.

W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Travers and Son, Agents for S. Goodbehere, Feild-
ing, Solicitor for the Patentee. 237

APPLICATION FOR PATENT.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1881.

PATENT for a Machine for Stripping or Scraping
and Cleaning all Extraneous Vegetable Matter
from the Fibre contained in New Zealand Flax.

JAMES MUNRO BERTRAM, of Halcombe, in the Pro-
vincial District of Wellington, New Zealand, Settler,
has deposited at this office a specification of the said
invention, and I have appointed Friday, the 1st day
of July next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at this
office, to hear the said application and all objections
thereto; and I require all persons having an interest
in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave,
on or before the 26th day of June next, at this office,
particulars in writing of their objection to the said
application, otherwise they will be precluded from
urging the same.

W. S. REID,
Patent Officer.

Travers and Son, Agents for S. Goodbehere, Feild-
ing, Solicitor to the Patentee. 236

SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—FORT ROSE-WAIKAWA
ROAD.

I hereby give notice that, in pursuance of the
powers granted by "The Public Works Act,
1876," the Southland County Council did, on the 11th
March, 1881, declare the following road to be a
County Road within the meaning of the said Act,
namely,-

The Fortrose-Waikawa Road, from Fortrose Town-
ship to the Tokonui Creek.

ALFRED BALDEY,
County Chairman.

County Council Office,
Invercargill, 22nd March, 1881. 225

THE MANAWATU BOILING-DOWN AND CURING
COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary
Meeting of the Shareholders in the above Com-
pany is hereby convened to be held at the offices of
Messrs. Palmerson and Scott, the Square, Palmers-
ton North, on Thursday, the 14th day of April, 1881,
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, to consider the follow-
ing resolution: "That the Company be wound up
voluntarily."

Dated this 25th day of March, 1881.

H. S. PALMERSON,
Secretary.
226

OXFORD ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Oxford Road
Board purpose taking, for the purpose of a road,
all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement
3 roods 12 perches or thereabouts, being part of the

Rural Section numbered 201 on the Government map
of the Oxford District, commencing at a point on the
northern boundary of the said section distant from
the north-west corner of the said section 968.3 links.
Bounded-Generally Southerly by lines, 329.6 links
with a bearing of 95° 53', 219 links with a bearing
of 94° 17', 543.5 links with a bearing of 62° 3'; thence
along public road (which forms the northern boundary
of said section), 1046.2 links with a bearing of 258°
44' 30", to the commencing point.

A plan showing the said land has been deposited
at the office of the Oxford Road Board.

All persons affected are requested to set forth in
writing any well-grounded objections to the making
of the said road or to the taking of such lands, and
to send such objections in writing on or before the
21st day of April, 1881, to the said Road Board.

242
WILSON FISHER,
Chairman of the Oxford Road Board.

IN THE MATTER OF "THE MUNICIPAL CORPORA-
TIONS ACT, 1876," AND "THE PUBLIC WORKS
ACT, 1876."

To the Owners or Reputed Owners, Occupiers, or
Reputed Occupiers, of the lands hereinafter de-
scribed.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in accordance with
the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts,
the Borough Council of the Borough of Timaru, in
the Provincial District of Canterbury, propose to
take, for the purpose of waterworks for the said
borough, all that parcel of land containing by ad-
measurement 9 acres 1 rood 3 perches, more or
less, situate in the Survey District of Otaio, Provin-
cial District of Canterbury, being portion of Reserve
No. 699, and referred to as Lot No. 2 on Land
Transfer deposit plan, commencing at a point on
the southern boundary of Reserve No. 699, distant
from the north-east corner of Rural Section No.
10702 by a straight line 572 links with a bearing of
314°25'. Bounded-Generally Southerly and Easterly
by lines 50.6 links with a bearing of 7° 43', 328.6 links
with a bearing of 114° 1', 222.5 links with a bear-
ing of 132° 43', 599.3 links with a bearing of 75°
28', 377.6 links with a bearing of 121° 43', 633.1
links with a bearing of 45° 54', 920.5 links with a
bearing of 73° 56', 256 links with a bearing of 356°23',
621.4 links with a bearing of 304° 41', 922.6 links with
a bearing of 261° 36', 34.2 links with a bearing of
285° 9', 811.1 links with a bearing of 58°, 413.7 links
with a bearing of 29° 32', 479 links with a bearing of
352° 50', 1016.2 links with a bearing of 35° 12', 898.2
links with a bearing of 356° 23', 583.8 links with a
bearing of 114° 45', 362.5 links with a bearing of 60°2',
545 links with a bearing of 125° 18', 66.5 links with a
bearing of 81° 16', thence by a public road 680.3
links with a bearing of 305° 31', thence by line 318.7
links with a bearing of 240°2', thence by line 699.9 links
with a bearing of 294° 45', thence generally westerly
and southerly by lines 1030 links with a bearing of
176° 23', 1019.8 links with a bearing of 215° 12', 484.6
links with a bearing of 172° 50', 355.1 links with a
bearing of 209° 32', 1014.9 links with a bearing of
238°, 284.3 links with a bearing of 105° 9', 903.8 links
with a bearing of 81° 36', 521.2 links with a bearing
of 124° 52', 143.8 links with a bearing of 186° 27',
828.4 links with a bearing of 253° 56', 580.2 links
with a bearing of 225° 54', 342.5 links with a bearing
of 301° 43', 587.4 links with a bearing of 255° 23',
184.3 links with a bearing of 312° 43', 478.5 links
with a bearing of 294° 1', 184 links with a bearing of
187° 43', thence by line 100 links with a bearing of
97° 43' to the commencing point. And also all that
parcel of land containing by admeasurement 6 acres
1 rood 22 perches, more or less, situate in the