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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 91

11924. THOMAS EARNISHAW.—14 acres 2 roods 30½ perches, part Rural Section 7195, Block XIV, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by Francis Henry Steel.

11925. THOMAS EARNISHAW.—14 acres 1 rood 14 perches, part Rural Section 7195, Blocks XIII and XIV, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by Applicant.

11926. GEORGE BONNETT.—2 acres and 2 perches, part of Rural Section 145, Block XIV, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by Applicant and Maud Emily Annie Bonnett.

11927. BENJAMIN JOHN JAGER.—36 3/10ths perches, part Rural Section 243r, St. Albans Ward, City of Christchurch. Occupied by Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 15th day of December, 1913, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

W. WYINKS,
District Land Registrar.

A PPLICATION having been made to me to register a transfer of Lease No. 5570, of which JOHN GRANT, of Wallacetown, Farmer, is the registered lessee, affecting 110 acres, being part of the reclaimed land in the New River Estuary, and evidence having been lodged of the loss or destruction of the said lease, I hereby give notice that I will dispense with the production of the said lease and register the transfer as requested, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 5th day of January, 1914.

Dated this 13th day of December, 1913, at the Lands Registry Office, Invercargill.

W. W. DE CASTRO,
District Land Registrar.

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

N OTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 266, subsection (3), of the above Act, that the undermentioned companies will, at the expiration of three months from the date hereof, and unless cause be shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register and dissolved.

Shetland Consolidated Sluicing Company (Limited). 1907/14.

Manuka Mining Company (Limited). 1904/22.

Dated at the office of the Assistant Registrar of Companies, at Dunedin, this 12th day of December, 1913.

J. MURRAY,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
WELLINGTON DISTRICT.

In the matter of the Trustee Act, 1908; and in the matter of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908; and in the matter of the estate of George Tuckwell, formerly of Wellington, in the Dominion of New Zealand, but latterly of Sydney and Cobar, in the State of New South Wales, in the Commonwealth of Australia, Labourer, deceased.

P URSUANT to an order made by His Honour Mr. Justice Cooper, under section 74 of the Trustee Act, 1908, on the 2nd day of August, 1913, in the matter of the above estate, all creditors and others (including therein those claiming as next-of-kin of the said George Tuckwell) having claims against the estate of the said deceased are required to send in their claims to the Public Trustee, Wellington, New Zealand, on or before the 31st May, 1914; and in default of any such claims the Public Trustee will on the last-mentioned date proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased, having regard only to the claims of which he shall then have notice.

Dated at Wellington, New Zealand, this 2nd day of August, 1913.

J. W. MACDONALD,
Solicitor to the Public Trust Office.

NOTE.—The said George Tuckwell was by an order of the said Court on the 23rd March, 1911, presumed to be dead. He was a native of Wellington, and left to reside in New South Wales. Claimants must forward full particulars of the parents of the said George Tuckwell, his brothers and sisters, the date of his birth, and a resume of his life, which information will be checked with the true facts in the possession of the Public Trust Office.

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BUSINESS ADDRESS.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of a company named “J. Pomeroy and Company (Limited).”

N OTICE is hereby given that on and after the 1st day of December, 1913, the office of the said company will be situated at Alexandra Street, Hamilton.

Dated this 26th day of November, 1913.

PERCY WATTS,
Solicitor for the said Company.

988

THE BRITISH IMPERIAL OIL COMPANY (NEW ZEALAND), (LIMITED).

I N pursuance of the Companies Act, 1908, public notice is hereby given that the situation and locality of the office or place of business of the British Imperial Oil Company (New Zealand), (Limited), where legal process of any kind may be served upon it and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, is at the offices of Gollin and Company Proprietary (Limited), No. 78 Jervois Quay, Wellington.

In pursuance of the same Act the British Imperial Oil Company (Limited) hereby gives notice of its intention to cease carrying on business in New Zealand.

Dated this 3rd day of December, 1913.

R. G. REED,
Attorney for both Companies.

Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers, Solicitors, Wellington. 994

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

I, EDGAR HENRY WILKINS, M.B., Bac. Surg. 1912, Univ. Dubl., now residing in Wellington, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 12th January next to have my name placed on the Medical Register for the Dominion of New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar-General.

EDGAR HENRY WILKINS.

Dated at Wellington 11th December, 1913. 1018

FEATHERSTON TOWN BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

I N pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it by the Town Boards Act, 1908, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its amendments, the Featherston Town Board hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest and other charges on the loan of £500, authorized to be raised by the said Town Board, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the following purpose—for improving the Featherston Town Hall—the said Town Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of ½d. in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Featherston Town 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 January in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Featherston Town Board was hereto affixed at the offices of and pursuant to a resolution of the Featherston Town Board in the presence of—

J. W. CARD,
Chairman.

A. C. HOLMS,
Clerk.

Passed at a duly constituted meeting of the Featherston Town Board held on the 10th day of December, 1913.

A. C. HOLMS,
Clerk.

1019

TAURANGA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

TOWN HALL LOAN.

I HEREBY give notice that at a poll taken on the above proposal the following votes were recorded: For the proposal, 199; against the proposal, 146.

And I hereby declare the above proposal to be carried.

B. C. ROBBINS,
Mayor.

Tauranga, 8th December, 1913. 1020