APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1491

METHODIST CHURCH OF NEW ZEALAND.

I HEREBY certify that the Annual Conference of the Methodist Church of New Zealand has appointed the REVEREND SAMUEL LAWRY to be the “Authorized Representative” for the year 1913–14, under the provisions of the Methodist Church Property Trust Act, 1887.

340 SAMUEL LAWRY, President of Conference.

KAIKOURA COUNTY COUNCIL.

MOTOR REGULATION ACT, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Kaikoura County Council, at a special meeting held on Wednesday, the 26th day of February, 1913, passed a resolution that Part II of the above Act be brought into force on the 1st day of May, 1913.

S. ANDREW,
County Chairman.

341

AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899, it is hereby notified that the Honourable J. A. TOLE, B.A., LL.B., has been reappointed a Senate’s member of the Auckland Grammar School Board.

W. WALLACE KIDD,
Returning Officer.

Auckland, 19th April, 1913. 342

AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899, it is hereby notified that the Honourable Sir G. M. O’RORKE, M.A., LL.D., has been re-elected a member of the Auckland Grammar School Board by the members of the General Assembly of the Provincial District of Auckland.

W. WALLACE KIDD,
Returning Officer.

Auckland, 19th April, 1913. 343

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately existing between us, in which we carried on the business of Storekeepers, at Devonport, under the style of “J. Henderson and Co.,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 31st day of March, 1913; and as from that date the said business has been carried on and will be continued by JOHN HENDERSON alone under the style above mentioned.

All debts owing by the late firm will be paid by the said JOHN HENDERSON, and all debts owing to the firm are to be paid to him.

Dated this 15th day of April, 1913.

JOHN HENDERSON.
JOHN STOUPE.

Witness to signatures—J. B. Johnston, Solicitor, Auckland. 344

I, THOMAS HAROLD PETTIT, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of New Zealand, now residing at Nelson, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 19th May next to have my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that evidence of my qualifications can be obtained from the office of the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Nelson.

THOMAS HAROLD PETTIT, M.B., Ch.B.,
University of New Zealand.

Dated this 16th day of April, 1913. 345

NAPIER BOROUGH COUNCIL.

In the matter of the Rating Act, 1908.

PURSUANT to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Napier taken on the 9th day of April, 1913, on the proposal that the system of rating in the said borough be on the unimproved value, the number of votes recorded was—

For the proposal .. .. .. 397
Against the proposal .. .. .. 266

Majority for the proposal .. .. .. 131

Informal .. .. .. 7

I therefore declare that the said proposal was carried.

Dated this 17th day of April, 1913.

J. VIGOR BROWN,
Mayor.

346

MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL.

REGISTRATION OF MOTORS.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that it is the intention of the Manawatu County Council, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Motor Regulation Act, 1908, to bring Part II of the said Act relating to the registration of motors into operation in the County of Manawatu as from the 1st day of May, 1913.

A. K. DREW,
County Clerk.

347

NOTICE.

RESULT OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO RAISE A LOAN.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Murchison taken on the 8th day of March, 1913, on the proposal of the Murchison County Council to borrow the sum of £900 for the purpose of building new Council Chambers, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 62, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 28.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 8th day of April, 1913.

J. BROWN,
Chairman of the County.

348

RESOLUTION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its amendments, the Martinborough Town Board hereby resolves as follows:—

(1.) That, for the purpose of providing the interest and for the purpose of a supplementary loan of three hundred and fifty pounds (£350), authorized to be raised by the Martinborough Town Board, under the above-mentioned Act, as a supplementary loan to the Town Hall Loan, 1911, of three thousand five hundred pounds (£3,500), the Martinborough Town Board hereby makes and levies the special rate of 1/18 of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value of all rateable property of the Martinborough Town District; and that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and to be paid yearly on the 1st day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty years, or until such loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the above resolution was passed at a meeting of the Martinborough Town Board held on Monday, 14th April, 1913.

F. McALLUM,
Town Clerk.

349

CHANGE OF SURNAME.

I, HERBERT GEORGE COLLIER, commonly known as HERBERT GEORGE PREBBLE, of Christchurch, Builder, do hereby give notice that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to sign and use and be known by the surname of “PREBBLE” in lieu of the surname of “COLLIER,” and that on the 5th day of April, 1913, I executed a deed-poll evidencing the assumption of such surname of “Prebble” as aforesaid, and that such deed-poll has been enrolled in the office of the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Christchurch.

Dated this 8th day of April, 1913.

HERBERT GEORGE COLLIER.

Witness—N. Sydney Dacre, Solicitor, Christchurch. 350