JUNE 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1915

Waverley, to acquire site, and purchase of land, rights of way
and easements, engineering and contingencies (including
compensation, if any, for land injuriously affected).—£1,200.

In the alternative, and if the consent of the ratepayers is
not obtained to the above proposal, the Town Board pro-
poses to raise by way of special loan as before mentioned the
sum £12,200 for the purpose of (a) before mentioned. The
said special loan to carry interest at the rate of £5 per centum
per annum, with sinking fund £1 per annum, for the period of
36½ years. The Board proposes to pledge as security for
the said loan of £13,400, and interest thereon and sinking
fund, special rate of 4½d. in the pound, the same to be an
annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, or
until the same be paid off, on the rateable value (on the basis
of unimproved value) of the whole of the rateable property
in the Waverley Town District.

If the proposal for the loan of £13,400 be not carried, the
proposal for the loan of £12,200 be carried, the Board pro-
poses to strike a special rate of 4½d. in the pound on the
said rateable value as security for the latter loan and sinking
fund. It is proposed that the preliminary expenses in con-
nection with the raising of the loan and the interest and
sinking fund for the first year to be paid out of the loan.

The number of votes for the proposals (a) and (b) was 78.
The number of votes against the proposals (a) and (b) was 92.
Informal, 7.

I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

The number of votes for the proposal (a) was 89. The
number of votes against proposal (a) was 81. Informal, 8.

I therefore declare the proposal (a) was carried.

Dated at Waverley this 31st day of May, 1913.

R. P. PALMER,
Chairman.

446

CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAY BOARD.

ST. MARTINS TRAMWAY.

In the matter of the Christchurch Tramway District Act,
1906, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.

WE hereby give notice that on the 8th day of May, 1913,
a proposal was submitted by the Christchurch Tram-
way Board to a poll of ratepayers of the Christchurch Tram-
ways District for raising a special loan of £15,000, to be
expended in tramway construction and equipment within the
Christchurch Tramways District, exclusive of the Riccarton-
Sockburn Subdistrict.

The number of votes recorded for and against the proposal
was as follows: For, 211; against, 73.

And we declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated this 9th day of May, 1913.

GEORGE T. BOOTH,
Chairman, Christchurch Tramway Board.

GEORGE W. HULME,
Returning Officer.

447

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the
matter of A. Walshaw and Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that at a general meeting of the
shareholders of A. Walshaw and Company (Limited)
held at the office of Messieurs Russell and Anthony, Cathedral
Square, Christchurch, solicitors to the company, on the 4th
day of June, 1913, it was resolved that the company be
wound up voluntarily; and notice is also hereby given that
ALFRED WALSHAW, of Christchurch, Draper, has been duly
appointed Liquidator of the said company.

Dated at Christchurch this 9th day of June, 1913.

RUSSELL & ANTHONY,
Solicitors to the Company, Christchurch.

448

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately
subsisting between the undersigned PETER MCGREGOR
and EDWARD GORDON HENDERSON, carrying on business as
Painters, Paperhangers, &c., at Mornington, Dunedin, under
the style or firm of “McGregor & Henderson,” has this
day been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to or
owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the
said PETER MCGREGOR, who will continue to carry on the
said business under his own name.

Dated at Dunedin this 12th day of June, 1913.

EDWARD GORDON HENDERSON.

PETER MCGREGOR.

Witness to signatures of Peter McGregor and Edward
Gordon Henderson—C. C. Chalmers, Solicitor, Dunedin. 449

OHA KUNE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

In the matter of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and
the Acts amending the same.

WE, Thomas Hanna Kiely, of Ohakune, Mayor of the
Borough of Ohakune, and Edwin Gill Allsworth,
of Ohakune, Returning Officer, hereby give notice that on
the 14th day of February, 1913, a poll of the ratepayers of the
Borough of Ohakune was duly held and taken on the pro-
posals of the Council to raise a special loan or loans amount-
ing to £31,771 for the following purposes:—

Street improvements, £10,000. For the proposal 117,
against 23; informal votes, 4.

High-pressure water-supply, £7,840. For the proposal,
110; against, 28; informal votes, 6.

Electric-light power, £7,826. For the proposal, 112;
against, 27; informal votes, 5.

Sanitary drainage, £5,455. For the proposal, 107; against,
33; informal votes, 4.

Municipal buildings, £650. For the proposal, 105; against,
33; informal votes, 6.

Therefore we declare the whole of the proposals carried.

Dated this 17th day of February, 1913.

T. H. KIELY,
Mayor.

E. G. ALLSWORTH,
Returning Officer.

450

In the matter of the Legislature Act, 1908; and in the
matter of the McDougall Trust Estate Act, 1913, being
a proposed Private Estate Bill entitled “An Act to
vary and declare the Interests taken by the Children of
one Duncan McDougall under the last Will of the said
Duncan McDougall.”

NOTICE is hereby given that Ellen McDougall, of Pirinoa,
in Wairarapa District (Widow of the above-named
Duncan McDougall, late of the same place, Sheep-farmer),
and James Duncan McDougall, of the same place, Station
Manager; John Archibald McDougall, of Martinborough,
Sheep-farmer; Samuel Dugald McDougall, of Spotswood,
North Canterbury, Marine Engineer; Euphemia McDougall,
of Pirinoa aforesaid, Spinster; Ellen McDougall, of Martin-
borough, Sheep-farmer; William Rutherford McDougall, of
Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, Shepherd; and Ramsay McDougall,
of Gordonton, Waikato, Farmer (the seven surviving children
of the said Duncan McDougall), intend within one month
after publication of this notice to apply by petition to the
General Assembly of New Zealand at its next session for the
passing of the above-mentioned proposed Private Estate
Bill.

The objects to be effected by the said Private Estate Act
are to vary and declare the interests taken by the above-
named children of the said Duncan McDougall under the will
of the said Duncan McDougall, such declaration being to the
effect that each of the said children shall be deemed to have
taken on their respectively attaining the age of twenty-one
years and to have now for all purposes vested interests in
the real and personal estate of the said Duncan McDougall
as tenants in common in equal shares not liable to be de-
vested by the death of any or either of them during the
lifetime of the said Ellen McDougall (the widow), subject,
however, to the life interest of the said Ellen McDougall (the
widow) as defined in the said will.

A copy of the said petition and copies of the Bill will be
deposited in the Examiner’s Office either before or within
fourteen days after the commencement of the next ensuing
session of Parliament.

Dated at Pirinoa this 11th day of June, 1913.

J. D. MCDUGALL,
One of the above-named intending Petitioners.

451

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