Aug. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1813

EVIDENCE of the loss of certificates of title, Vol. xxxv., folios 210, 211, and 212, for part of Allotment 31, Town of Newcastle, and Lot 2 of Allotment 163, Suburbs of Newcastle, in favour of MATTHEW FRIAR, THOMAS WOODWALL DAVIES, and EDMUND FITZPATRICK respectively, having been lodged with me, and application made to issue provisional certificates of title, notice is hereby given of my intention to issue provisional certificates of title accordingly at the expiration of fourteen days after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 19th day of August, 1902, at the Lands Registry Office, Auckland.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.

978

EVIDENCE of the loss of Crown grant for Section 28, Block VIII., of the Katikati Survey District, in favour of THOMAS HENRY STODDARD, being Vol. xxiv., folio 28, of the register-book, having been lodged with me, and application made to issue a provisional Crown grant, notice is hereby given of my intention to issue a provisional Crown grant accordingly at the expiration of fourteen days after the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated this 21st day of August, 1902, at the Lands Registry Office, Auckland.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
District Land Registrar.

979

APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of a provisional certificate of title in the name of TAARE WAITARA, an aboriginal native of New Zealand, for that piece of land known as “Ngahauranga Native Reserve,” being part of Sections 8 and 9, Harbour District, and being the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. lvii., folio 195, and evidence having been lodged of the loss of the said certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I will issue the provisional certificate of title as requested unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 11th day of September, 1902.

Dated this 27th day of August, 1902, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

W. STUART,
District Land Registrar.

984

APPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of provisional certificates of title in the name of LOUISA SCHLIERIKE, of Palmerston North, Widow, for Lots 12, 13, 15, and 16 on deposited plan No. 95, being parts of Section 996, Palmerston North, and being the land comprised in certificates of title, Vol. lxviii., folio 155, and Vol. liv., folio 187, and evidence having been lodged of the loss of the said certificates of title, I hereby give notice that I will issue the provisional certificates of title as requested unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 11th day of September, 1902.

Dated this 27th day of August, 1902, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

W. STUART,
District Land Registrar.

985

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

In the matter of “The Foreign Companies Act, 1884.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Office of McDonald, Parkes, and Currie (Limited) is situated in Custom-house Quay, Wellington.

McDONALD, PARKES, AND CURRIE (LTD.).
Manager, THOMAS TURNBULL.

970

THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE DISTRICT OF WANGANUI.

IT is hereby publicly notified that the following is the result of the election of one member to fill an extraordinary vacancy:—

Names. Votes.
Wood, William Thomas .. .. .. 260
Bridges, Clifford Lawrence .. .. 200

The total number of valid votes recorded was 460. The number of votes rejected as informal was 63.

I therefore declare Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS WOOD duly elected.

W. J. CARSON,
Returning Officer.

Wanganui, 19th August, 1902.

973

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership formerly subsisting between JAMES EBENEZER BAKER, CHARLES ALEXANDER BAKER, HORACE DANVERS BAKER, WILLIAM WARD BAKER, and THOMAS NORRIS BAKER, under the name, style, or firm of “Baker Bros.,” in the business of Land and Estate Agents at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, was dissolved as from the 31st day of March, 1902, by the purchase of the shares of the said James Ebenezer Baker and Thomas Norris Baker therein by the remaining partners, Charles Alexander Baker, Horace Danvers Baker, and William Ward Baker.

And notice is hereby given that the said business as from the said date has been and will henceforth continue to be carried on by the said Charles Alexander Baker, Horace Danvers Baker, and William Ward Baker, under the said name, style, or firm of “Baker Bros.,” at Auckland and Wellington, and in the respective Provincial Districts of Auckland and Wellington.—Dated this 15th day of August, 1902.

C. A. BAKER.
H. D. BAKER.
W. WARD BAKER.

976

RESULT OF POLL FOR PROPOSED LOAN, BOROUGH OF NEW BRIGHTON.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 26th August, 1902.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of New Brighton, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

J. G. WARD,
Acting Colonial Treasurer.

BOROUGH OF NEW BRIGHTON.

Result of a Poll.

In pursuance of the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” I hereby give notice—

1. That a poll of the ratepayers within the loan area of the Borough of New Brighton was held and taken on the 21st August, 1902, to determine whether or not a sum of £3,000, apportioned as follows—(1) Concrete channelling and kerbing, £2,000; (2) wells and tanks, £125; (3) purchase of land for road from Sea View Road to Hawker Street, £280; (4) forming and channelling same, £60; (5) forming Bowhill Street, £200; (6) contingencies, £335: such loan to be secured on an annually recurring rate of 5d. in the pound on the annual value of the rateable lands in the said loan area—should be borrowed in terms of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for a period of forty-one years, at 3½ per cent. per annum: the interest for the first year to be paid out of moneys to be borrowed.

2. That at such poll the votes recorded were: For the proposal, 75; against the proposal, 19; informal, 5; majority in favour of the proposal, 56.

3. That I hereby declare the proposal to be carried.

GEO. McINTYRE,
Mayor.

New Brighton, 22nd August, 1902.

The Hon. the Colonial Treasurer,
Wellington.

980

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THE NEW ZEALAND OFFICIAL YEAR-BOOK, 1901.

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