Mar. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 783

PUBLIC NOTICE.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between JAMES ROBERTSON and CHRISTIAN ROBERTSON, trading together at Hikurangi, in the Provincial District of Auckland, as General Storekeepers, has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 9th day of February, 1903.

All debts due by the late firm will be paid by the said James Robertson, and all debts owing to the firm will be payable to the said James Robertson, whose receipt alone will be a sufficient discharge.

Dated the 9th day of February, 1903.

JAMES ROBERTSON.
CHRISTIAN ROBERTSON.

Witness to signatures—W. A. Carruth, Solicitor, Whangarei.
423

THE MIDHIRST PUBLIC HALL COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 202 of “The Companies Act, 1882,” that a General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed company will be held at the Public Hall, Midhirst, on Wednesday, the 27th day of May, 1903, at 7.30 o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of having an account laid before them showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator, and also of determining by extraordinary resolution the manner in which the books, accounts, and documents of the company, and of the Liquidator thereof, shall be disposed of.

Dated the 7th day of March, 1903.

STEWART SERJEANT,
Liquidator.
422

NOTICE* OF TAKING LAND UNDER “THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1894,” AND AMENDMENTS THEREOF.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that the Whangarei County Council intend to take for a public work, to wit, the construction and deviation of a new portion of road, all that portion of land, containing 3 acres 3 roods 14 perches, more or less, being parts of Allotment 50 of the Parish of Whangarei, and known as Meldrum’s Hill; as coloured red on the plans deposited in the Post-office at Kamo and in the County Office, Whangarei. And further notice is hereby given that the plans of the said land required to be taken are open for inspection where deposited as aforesaid at all reasonable hours; and all persons affected by such work are called upon within forty days from the first publication of this notice to set forth in writing to the said Council any well-grounded objections they may have to such work, or the taking of such lands within the meaning of section 17 of “The Public Works Act, 1894.”

Dated at Whangarei, this 27th day of February, 1903.

J. McKINNON,
County Clerk.
390

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THE NEW ZEALAND OFFICIAL YEAR-BOOK, 1902.

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