OCT. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3347

APPLICATION having been made to the Westland Land Board for the issue of a copy of Pastoral License No. 608, of Section 2642, Block V, Waiwhero Survey District, whereof ARTHUR HILL 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 Land Office,
Hokitika, 21st October, 1913. 866

WAIKOHU COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING A SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, and by the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act, 1909, and the amendments thereof, the Waikohu County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking fund on a loan of £1,500, authorized to be raised by the Waikohu County Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of forming 5½ miles of 14 ft. dray-road to give access to the sections included in the special-rating area, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one and three-sixteenths pence in the £1 upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Koranga Special-rating Area, comprising half area of S.G.R. 91; Sections 3, 4, 5, Tahora 2; Sec. 1, Block 1, Ngatapa S.D.; Sec. 2, Block 1, Ngatapa S.D.; and unoccupied Crown lands as follows— E.R. Reserve Sec. 5; Crown land south of above. And that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years (36½) or until the loan is fully paid off. It is proposed to pay the cost of raising the loan out of loan-moneys.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Waikohu was hereto affixed in the presence of—

E. M. HUTCHINSON,
Chairman.

GEO. WARREN,
Clerk.

I, George Warren, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution passed at a duly constituted meeting of the Waikohu County Council held on the 17th day of October, 1913.

GEO. WARREN,
Clerk.
867

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that the Hamilton Borough Council proposes to execute certain public works—to wit, the erection of abattoirs—for which purpose the following lands require to be taken and set apart by the said Hamilton Borough Council under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, that is to say: All those parcels of land in the Provincial District of Auckland containing by admeasurement 20 acres 1 rood and 14 perches (more or less), being Allotments Numbers 408 and 409 of the Town of Hamilton East.

A plan of the land required to be taken as aforesaid is open for inspection at the office of the said Hamilton Borough Council, Hamilton West.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to set forth in writing any well-founded objections to the execution of such works or to the taking or setting-apart of such lands, and to send such writing to the said Hamilton Borough Council within forty days from the first publication of this notice.

Dated at Hamilton this 25th day of October, 1913.
By order of the Hamilton Borough Council.

E. J. DAVEY,
Town Clerk.
868

THOMAS MITCHELL (LIMITED).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held at Wanganui on the 27th day of October, 1913, the following extraordinary resolution was carried:—

That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this meeting that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily; and that DAVID CULLINANE, JOHN MCGREGOR, WILLIAM BRUCE, CHARLES HARRIS BURNETT, and ALFRED HARRIS be and they are hereby appointed Liquidators for the purpose of such winding-up.

Dated this 27th day of October, 1913.

W. LUDLAM,
Chairman.

Witness to signatures—G. S. Gordon, Solicitor, Wanganui.
869

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned WILLIAM PROUDFOOT WATSON and RICHARD FRANCIS MUNNS, carrying on the business of General Carriers and Forwarding Agents at No. 24 Bond Street, Dunedin, under the firm-name of "The United Express Company," has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 21st day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. The business will in future be carried on by the said RICHARD FRANCIS MUNNS alone, and all accounts due to or by the late firm will be received and paid respectively by him.

Dated this 21st day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.
870

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of the Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme Court of New Zealand residing and practising within the limits of that portion of the Wellington Judicial District within which the delivery of pleadings and other proceedings in the said Court has to be made at the Supreme Court office at Wanganui, duly convened and holden at the Courthouse at Wanganui on Thursday, the 23rd day of October, 1913, in pursuance of the Law Practitioners Act, 1908, the following resolution was passed:—

That the Barristers and Solicitors residing within the limits of that portion of the Wellington Judicial District within which the delivery of pleadings and other proceedings in the Supreme Court of New Zealand has to be made at the Supreme Court Office at Wanganui shall be associated as a District Law Society, by the name of "The Law Society of the District of Wanganui."

W. H. CUNNINGHAM,
Honorary Secretary.

Wanganui, 23rd October, 1913.
871

RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL ORDER MAKING BY-LAW CONTROLLING MOTOR TRAFFIC AND TRACTION-ENGINE TRAFFIC ON A CERTAIN PORTION OF THE WHATAWHATA TO RAGLAN ROAD (KNOWN AS THE DEVIATION ROAD).—NO. 9.

WHEREAS the body corporate called the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Raglan is satisfied that the use of motor-cars and traction-engines (as herein defined) upon the portion of road hereinafter referred to is or will be attendant with risk of danger to the public:

Now, therefore, the Council of the County of Raglan, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the Counties Act, 1908, the Public Works Act, 1908, the Motor Regulation Act, 1908, and the respective amendments to the said Acts, and all other Acts and powers whatsoever it in this behalf enabling, doth hereby make and ordain by special order the by-law following, to come into force on the first day of December, 1913.

This by-law shall only apply to the following portion of the Whatawhata to Raglan Road (known as the Deviation Road): From a point on such Deviation Road where it junctions with Heddon's Road to the Waitetuna Bridge on the said Deviation Road.

1. No person or persons shall, from and after the first day of December, 1913, engage, use, employ, or drive, or cause to be engaged, used, employed, or driven, any motor-car or traction-engine on the portion of the road between Whatawhata and Raglan (known as the Deviation Road) set out herein at a greater speed than five miles per hour.

2. Any person driving a motor-car or traction-engine upon the said portion of the said road shall, upon meeting any person riding or driving any horse or horses, or driving stock, take or drive such motor-car or traction-engine to the outer edge of such road, and stop such motor-car or traction-engine,