Dec. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 257

A PPLICATION having been made to me to register a discharge of Mortgage No. 18847, of part of Section 12, Block LXIV, Town of Invercargill, NIHIAN GEORGE TROTTER, mortgagee, and evidence having been lodged of the destruction of the outstanding duplicate of the said mortgage, I hereby give notice that I intend to register the said discharge and to dispense with the production of the said duplicate, as empowered by section 40 of the Land Transfer Act, 1908, unless caveat be lodged in this office forbidding the same within fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated at the Lands Registry Office, at Invercargill, the 7th day of December, 1910.

C. E. NALDER,
District Land Registrar.

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the New Zealand Oilfields (Limited).

N OTICE is hereby given that the NEW ZEALAND OILFIELDS (LIMITED), a company incorporated in England, proposes to carry on business in New Zealand, and that the office or place of business in New Zealand where legal process of any kind may be served upon the company, and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, will be the premises of the Union Bank of Australia (Limited), situate in Gladstone Road, Gisborne.

Dated at Gisborne, this 26th day of November, 1910.

A. J. HENDERSON,
Attorney for the company.

Witness—George Stock, Solicitor, Gisborne. 769

CANTERBURY COLLEGE AND CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ACT, 1896, AND CANTERBURY COLLEGE AND CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AMENDMENT ACT, 1910.

E LECTION of Members to the Board of Governors.

PARLIAMENTARY ROLL.

One Vacancy.

Mr. Michael Murphy, 64 Armagh Street, Christchurch, being the only candidate nominated, and duly elected.

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION’S ROLL (NORTH CANTERBURY WARD).

One Vacancy.

Mr. John McMillan, of Beachcroft, Southbridge, being the only candidate nominated, duly elected.

776 R. E. ALEXANDER, Director.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

N OTICE is hereby given that the office in New Zealand of PARSONS TRADING COMPANY, a company duly incorporated in the United States of America, is now situated in the Wellington Investment Trustee and Agency Company’s Buildings, Nos. 235 and 237 Lambton Quay, Wellington.

CHAS. H. MIRAMS,
Attorney for Parsons Trading Co.

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HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1908.

Land required for a Road.

P URSUANT to the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is hereby notified that the Horowhenua County Council requires the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of a public road.

A plan marked “A” showing the position of same will be open for inspection at the County Office, Levin, during office hours for a period of forty days from date hereof.

All persons affected by the taking of the land are hereby called upon to set forth in writing any well-grounded objections thereto, and to serve the same on the County Clerk, at Levin, before the expiration of forty days from date hereof.

Schedule of Land required.

Dated at Levin, this 21st day of November, 1910.

H. E. LODGE,
County Clerk.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
NORTHERN DISTRICT.

No. 509.—In Divorce.

To HARRIETT BALLANTINE, formerly of Blenheim, now of no known address.

T AKE notice that your husband, ROBERT BALLANTINE, has filed in this Honourable Court at Auckland his petition against you, praying for a dissolution of his marriage with you, wherein he alleges that you have without just cause wilfully deserted him and without any such cause left him continuously so deserted during five years and upwards. And further take notice that unless within twenty-eight days after the publication of this advertisement in the New Zealand Gazette you file in our said Court at Auckland an answer to the said petition the said Court will proceed to hear the said charge proved and to pronounce sentence therein, your absence notwithstanding. And further take notice that before filing the said answer you must enter an appearance in person or by your solicitor at the Registry of the said Court at Auckland aforesaid, and that if you do not enter such an appearance you will not be allowed to address the Court either in person or by counsel at any stage of the proceedings.

Dated at Auckland, this eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

R. G. THOMAS,
Registrar.

NOTE.—Friends of the above-named Harriett Ballantine are requested to bring this advertisement to her notice. 792

G. A. PREECE and Co., Land and General Commission Agents.

N OTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between GEORGE AUGUSTUS PREECE and JOHN FREDERICK WALDEGRAVE, under the style of “G. A. Preece and Co.,” in Main and Rangitikei Streets, Palmerston North, has been dissolved by mutual consent from this date. All debts due and owing by the said firm will be received and paid by the undersigned, GEORGE AUGUSTUS PREECE, by whom the business will be carried on as heretofore under the same style—namely, “G. A. Preece and Co.”

Palmerston North, 29th November, 1910.

GEORGE A. PREECE.
J. F. WALDEGRAVE.

Witness—William Hughes, Accountant, Bank of Australasia, Palmerston North. 793