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or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Chairman, Clutha County Council, Balclutha.

Schedule.

THE PARCELS OF LAND REQUIRED TO BE TAKEN.

All in the Otago Land District.

Signed this 31st day of August, 1909.

WALTER NICOL,
Chairman, Clutha County Council.

684

In the matter of “ The Companies Act, 1908.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED), a company duly registered under the English Companies Acts, 1862 to 1907 (heretofore carrying on business under the name of the Northern Assurance Company), proposes to carry on its business in the Provincial Districts of Wellington, Marlborough and Nelson, and Taranaki, and that part of the Provincial District of Auckland known as the County of Cook. The office of the said company is situated at the offices of Messrs. Badham and Biss, Colonial Mutual Buildings, Customhouse Quay, in the City of Wellington, where legal process of any kind may be served upon the said company and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered.

RICH'D. T. BADHAM,
A. S. BISS,
Attorneys of the said Company for the above Districts.

685

In the matter of “ The Companies Act, 1908.”

NOTICE is hereby given that THE NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED), a company duly registered under the English Companies Acts, 1862 to 1907 (heretofore carrying on business under the name of the Northern Assurance Company), proposes to carry on its business in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay. The office of the said company is situated at the offices of Charles Frederic Hetley, Browning Street, in the Town of Napier, where legal process of any kind may be served upon the said company, and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered.

Dated this 30th day of August, 1909.

C. F. HETLEY,
Attorney of the said Company for the above District.

686

PRIVATE BILL.

In the matter of a proposed Bill or Act intituled “ An Act to enable the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington to erect a Boarding-school on certain Land situate in the City of Wellington, and to borrow and raise Money on the same and on certain other Lands, and to devote the Net Proceeds in or towards the Erection and Upkeep of certain School Buildings thereon.”

PURSUANT to the Standing Orders of the General Assembly of New Zealand relating to private Bills, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington gives notice that, within fourteen days of the session to be held next after the date of this notice, a petition will be presented to Parliament praying leave to bring in a private Bill to be called “ The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington Empowering Bill, 1909.” The objects of the said Bill are, —

To authorise the erection of a Boarding-school for Girls on the land described in the First Schedule to the said Bill; to authorise the erection of an Orphanage for Girls on the land described in the Third Schedule thereto; to authorise the raising of money on the security of the lands described in the three Schedules thereto, or any of them; and, further, to authorise the Archbishop to borrow and raise money on the security of lands described in the Fourth Schedule thereto (being lands situated in the Borough of Carterton) for the purpose of erecting and maintaining church buildings, parochial residences, schools, and teachers’ residences in the said borough.

A copy of the said petition will be deposited in the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders either before or within fourteen days after the commencement of the said session.

Dated this 31st day of July, 1909.

O’REGAN AND DIX,
Solicitors, Wellington.

687

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