JULY 5.]

NEW ZEALAND.—“THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES
ACT, 1882.”—ADVERTISEMENT OF DISSOLUTION
BY INSTRUMENT.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 29th June, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Widow and Orphans'
Society of the Ancient Order of Foresters, Canterbury District, Register No. 139, held at Christchurch, is
dissolved by instrument, registered at this office the 29th
day of June, 1900, unless within three months from the date
of the Gazette in which this advertisement appears proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having any claim on the funds of the society
to set aside such dissolution, and the same is set aside
accordingly.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

TAI TAPU ROAD BOARD.

MR. JOSEPH WOODCOCK has been duly appointed
Poundkeeper at Tai Tapu by the above Board.

T. QUEALY,
Clerk to the Board.

THE DETERGENTINE CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY (LIMITED).

SIR or MADAM,—Notice is hereby given that an Extra-
ordinary General Meeting of the Detergentine Chemical
Manufacturing Company (Limited) will be held at the office
of Messrs. J. J. Ramsay and Co., Dunedin, on Monday, the
9th day of July, 1900, at 4 o'clock p.m. Business:—To
consider and, if thought desirable, to pass the following resolution: “That the company be wound up voluntarily, and
that Robert Arthur Mathewson, of Dunedin, Sharebroker,
be appointed Liquidator of the said company.”

Dated this 28th day of June, 1900.

By order of the Directors.

A. M. LOASBY,
Chairman of Directors, Dunedin.

AT the poll taken on the 2nd day of June, 1900, upon the
proposal that “The Rating on Unimproved Value
Act, 1896,” be adopted in the Maraetai Road District, and
that henceforth property be rated upon the basis of the
unimproved value thereof, sixteen (16) votes were recorded
for the proposal, and none against it.

I therefore declare the above proposal carried.

Signed this 2nd day of June, 1900.

WILLIAM DUDER,
Chairman,
Maraetai Road Board.

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