JULY 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2355

ASSIGNED ESTATE OF J. M. MORRAN, PONSONBY, AUCKLAND, CLOTHING MANUFACTURER.

ALL claims in the above estate must be rendered to the undersigned on or before Monday, the 25th day of August, 1913. Any creditor whose claim has not been submitted by date stated will be excluded from participating in the distribution of the assets.

THOS. E. WHITTON,
Assignee.
20-22 Swanson Street,
Auckland, 24th July, 1913.
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APPLICATION having been made to the Westland Land Board for the issue of a copy of Pastoral License No. 703 of Section 66, Block IV, Mawheranui Survey District, whereof THOMAS LEES is the registered lessee, and evidence of the loss of the original lease having been lodged, I hereby give notice that I will issue a new lease, unless objection be lodged forbidding the same within fourteen days after the publication of this notice.

H. D. M. HASZARD,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
District Lands Office,
Hokitika, 25th July, 1913.
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SPREYDON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

IN accordance with section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that polls were taken on the following questions on the 27th March, 1913:—

1. To raise a special loan of £4,725 for the purpose of channelling, asphalting, and regrading of streets in what is known as No. 2 Loan Area.
2. To raise a special loan of £2,700 for the purpose of purchasing a block of land for recreation-ground.
3. To raise a special loan of £2,500 for purchasing a block of land for a shingle-pit and necessary machinery.

The voting on these proposals resulted as follows:—
No. 1: For, 27; against, 26; informal, 5.
No. 2: For, 237; against, 288; informal, 26.
No. 3: For, 309; against, 218; informal, 25.

I declare proposals Nos. 1 and 3 to be carried, and No. 2 to be lost.

W. R. GAHAGAN,
Mayor.
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KAITIEKE COUNTY COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its amendments, the Kaitieke County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest and sinking fund and other charges on a loan of £3,500, authorized to be raised by the said County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the following purpose—forming, culverting, and metalling approximately five miles of the Kaitieke Road known as the Kaitieke Hill—the said County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one halfpenny (½d.) in the pound on the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Kaitieke Special-rating Area, commencing at the eastern corner of Block XII, Kaitieke Survey District, and thence running generally south along the south-eastern boundary of Sections 3, Block XII, 1, Block XV, 9, Block XV, 7, Block XI, 42, Block X, 2, Block XV, Kaitieke Survey District; thence south-east along the north-eastern boundary of Sections 7 and 8, Block XIV, Kaitieke Survey District; thence from the eastern corner of Section 8, Block XIV, Kaitieke Survey District, in a south-westerly direction along the southern boundary of Sections 8, 7, and 6, Block XIV, Section 44, Blocks IX, X, XII, XIV, Sections 10, 8, and 9, Block IX, Kaitieke Survey District, Section 7, Block XII, Retaruke Survey District; thence in a south-easterly direction along the north-eastern boundary of Section 5, Block XVI, Retaruke Survey District, to the eastern corner of Section 1, Block XVI, Retaruke Survey District; thence generally in a westerly direction along the southern boundary of Section 1, Block XVI, Sections 8 and 7, Block XI, Retaruke Survey District, to the western corner of Section 2,

Block XI, Retaruke Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction along the western boundary of Section 2, Block XI, 1, Block XI, 3, Block VIII, 4 and 2, Block VIII, Retaruke Survey District, and 1, Block I, Kaitieke Survey District, to the north-western corner of Section 6, Block I, Kaitieke Survey District; thence generally east along the northern boundary of Section 6, Block I, Section 7, Block II, Kaitieke Survey District, Retaruke No. 4, XI, V, VI, Kaitieke Survey District, Section 8, Block VI, I, Block VII, 2, Block VII, Kaitieke Survey District; thence from the eastern boundary of Section 2, Block VII, Kaitieke Survey District, along the north-western boundary of Sections 2 and 8, Blocks XI and XII, 20 and 19, Block XII, Kaitieke Survey District; thence along the block line separating Block 8 from Block 12 to the Main Trunk Railway line; thence running from the said point on the railway-line south-east along the line to the starting-point at the eastern corner of Block XII, Kaitieke Survey District: and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly made and passed at a meeting of the Kaitieke County Council held on Saturday, the 5th day of July, 1913.

A. A. SCHOLES,
County Clerk.
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MAORILAND GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

SPECIAL RESOLUTION.

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held at the registered office of the company at Cranwell’s Buildings, corner of Seddon Street and Haszard Street, Waihi, on the 28th day of June, 1913, the following special resolution was duly passed, and at a subsequent extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company also duly convened and held at the same place on the 19th July, 1913, the said resolution was duly confirmed as a special resolution, namely:—
“That it is desirable to reconstruct the company, and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily; and that WILLIAM HENRY TOY, of Waihi, Accountant, be and is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of winding up the Maoriland Gold-mining Company (Limited).”

Dated at Waihi, this 19th day of July, 1913.

W. H. TOY,
Secretary.
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WAIROA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING A SPECIAL RATE.

IT was resolved, That whereas the Wairoa Borough Council has been duly authorized to raise a loan of £6,000 for the purpose of constructing a suction-gas plant and works and of electric lines for the supply of electricity; and whereas the £6,000 is found to be insufficient; now, therefore, the Wairoa Borough Council, under the powers conferred on it by section 23 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1908, hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of £600 (being 10 per cent. of £6,000 already borrowed), the Wairoa Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/12 of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of unimproved value) on all rateable property in the Borough of Wairoa; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate, and be payable on the first day of October in each and every year during the currency of the loan.

Certified as a true copy of a resolution passed at a regular meeting of the Council held on 7th April, 1913.

R. T. ESTHER,
Town Clerk.

The seal of the Wairoa Borough Council was hereunto affixed this 15th day of July, 1913, in the presence of—

JOSEPH CORKILL,
GEO. A. BROAD,
Councillors.

R. T. ESTHER,
Town Clerk.
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