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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SURNAME.

I, WILLIAM JOHN SIMPSON, heretofore called and known by the name of “William John Mitchell,” of Napier, Bootmaker, hereby give notice that by a deed-poll dated the 11th day of April, 1908, duly executed, and attested and filed in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Napier, on the 14th day of April, 1908, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of “Mitchell,” and declared that I had assumed and adopted, and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe, the name of “William John Simpson” instead of “William John Mitchell,” and so as to be at all times hereafter called, known, and described by the name of “William John Simpson” exclusively.

Dated this 14th day of April, 1908.

WILLIAM JOHN SIMPSON,
Late William John Mitchell.
Witness—E. H. Williams, Solicitor, Napier.
465

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that George Frederick Hopkins Dee has retired from the Partnership which has for some time past been carried on by the said George Frederick Hopkins Dee and Edward Albert Ernest Dee and William Arthur Dee, under the style of “E. W. Dee and Sons,” in the City of Nelson, in the trade or business of Tailors, Clothiers, and Mercers; and that the business will in future be carried on by the said Edward Albert Ernest Dee and William Arthur Dee under the same style.

As witness our hands; this 13th day of April, 1908.

G. F. H. DEE.
E. A. E. DEE.
W. A. DEE.

Witness—E. B. Moore, Solicitor, Nelson.
466

SEFTON-ASHLEY DRAINAGE BOARD.

ELECTION TO FILL EXTRAORDINARY VACANCY.

MR. DAVID BOYCE, of Sefton, being the only candidate nominated to fill the above-named vacancy on the Board of Trustees, I therefore hereby declare him to be duly elected to fill the said vacancy.

J. H. BAIRD,
Returning Officer.

Sefton, 6th April, 1908.
467

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between Arthur Henry Steed and Frederick Steed, carrying on business as Storekeepers at Frasertown, under the style or firm of “A. Steed and Co.,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 10th day of February, 1908. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said Arthur Henry Steed, who will continue to carry on the said business under the said style or firm of “A. Steed and Co.”

Dated the day of April, 1908.

ARTHUR H. STEED.
FREDERICK STEED.

Witness to signatures—Edwin Sandeman, Solicitor, Wairoa, H.B.
468

ELLESMERE LANDS DRAINAGE BOARD.

SPECIAL ORDER.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Ellesmere Lands Drainage Act, 1905,” and by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and its amendments, the Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £10,000, authorised to be raised by the said Board, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of repaying to the Selwyn County Council (a) the sum of two thousand two hundred and eighty-nine pounds ten shillings and threepence (£2,289 10s. 3d.), being the amount of the principal moneys which the said Council has lawfully expended in respect of drainage-works before the coming into operation of “The Ellesmere Lands Drainage Act, 1905,” together with such further sum for interest as may be found due to the Council up to the date of payment of the said sum; and (b) to construct works necessary to provide an outlet to the sea of the waters at Lake Ellesmere; such loan to be at four and a half pounds per centum per annum for a period of thirty years. And, for the purpose of providing a fund to defray the cost of such payment and construction and execution of the said works, the said Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of two twenty-sevenths of one penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property within the Ellesmere Lands Drainage District, comprising all that area of land as described in the First Schedule of “The Ellesmere Lands Drainage Act, 1905”; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the thirty-first day of March and the thirtieth day of September in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty years, or until the said loan is fully paid off.

We hereby certify that the foregoing special order was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board held at the office of R. H. Rhodes, Esq., Hereford Street, Christchurch, on the 15th day of February, 1908, and duly confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the said Board held at the office of R. H. Rhodes, Esq., Hereford Street, Christchurch, on the 21st day of March, 1908.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Chairman.
HENRY NEALE,
Secretary to the Board.
Christchurch.
469

THE DUNEDIN SUBURBAN GAS COMPANY (LIMITED), (IN LIQUIDATION).

NOTICE is hereby given that the creditors of the above-named company are required, on or before the 16th day of May, 1908, to send their names and addresses and the particulars of their debts or claims to the undersigned, and, if so required by notice in writing from the undersigned, are to come in and prove their said debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice, and in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.

Dated this 16th day of April, 1908.

KENYON AND HOSKING,
Crawford Street, Dunedin,
Solicitors for the Liquidators.
470

I, EDWIN ANDERSON, of Auckland, New Zealand, Settler, do hereby give notice that on and after the 15th day of April, 1908, the surname of “Moore” will be assumed, taken, and adopted by me for myself and children in addition to my previous family surname of “Anderson,” and that at all times hereafter the surname of “Moore” will be used and adopted by me and my children in all transactions, documents, and writings, and all legal and other proceedings. And I further give notice that a duplicate of this notice has been filed in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Northern District, at Auckland, New Zealand.

Dated at Auckland, this fourteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

EDWIN ANDERSON.

Witness—
A. Devore, Solicitor, Auckland.
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CONTENTS.

APPOINTMENTS .. .. .. .. 1219
BANKRUPTCY NOTICES .. .. .. 1235
CROWN LANDS NOTICES .. .. .. 1234
LAND—
National Endowment, for Selection .. .. 1218
Native, taken for Public Buildings .. .. 1217
Notifying, subject to the Land for Settlements Consolidation Act .. .. .. 1221
LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES .. .. .. 1235
MISCELLANEOUS—
Arrangements for First Election, &c. .. .. 1219
Bank Statements .. .. .. 1223
Bonus for the Production of Mineral Phosphate .. 1222
Declaring Auckland Oyster-fishery, and Subdivisions in which it is lawful and unlawful to take Oysters .. .. .. 1218
Fixing Closing-hours of Shops .. .. .. 1221
Forbidding the Registering, Forwarding, or Delivery of Postal Correspondence, &c. .. .. 1221
Kaitangata Relief Fund: Statement of Account .. 1223
Officiating Ministers for 1908 .. .. .. 1223
Post Office Revenue Returns, &c. .. .. .. 1230
Proposed Loans .. .. .. 1220
Rate of Duty to be levied on Winding-engines for Mining Purposes when driven by Hydraulic Power .. .. .. 1217
Special Orders .. .. .. 1219
Subscriptions, &c., New Zealand Gazette .. .. 1223
Vital Statistics .. .. .. 1226
NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES .. .. .. 1235
PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS .. .. .. 1236

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.