LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1908, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

1279. WILLIAM GRICE SHERRATT.—1,483 acres 2 roods 38 perches, Ruangarehu No. 1 Block. Occupied by Applicant.

Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 16th day of December, 1913, at the Lands Registry Office, Gisborne.

R. STONE FLORANCE,
District Land Registrar.

EVIDENCE having been furnished of the loss of provisional certificate of title, Vol. 33, folio 42, for Section 16, Block V, Town of Clutha, whereof JAMES MUIR, late of Karangahake, Auckland, is the registered proprietor, and application having been made to me to issue a fresh provisional certificate of title for the said land, I hereby give notice of my intention to issue such fresh provisional certificate at expiration of fourteen days from the date of the publication hereof.

Dated at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin, this 20th day of December, 1913.

C. E. NALDER,
District Land Registrar.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1908, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the publication hereof in the Gazette.

No. 5121. LOUISA JANE BROWN.—2 roods, Sections 40 and 43, Block IV, Township of Hawksbury. Occupied by Applicant.

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Dated this 20th day of December, 1913, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

C. E. NALDER,
District Land Registrar.

APPLICATION having been made to me to register a discharge of Mortgage No. 19900, of which MARY ACHESON, wife of PERCY ACHESON, of Timaru, Storeman, is the registered mortgagee, affecting Section 4, Block III, Town of Otautau, and evidence having been lodged of the loss or destruction of the said mortgage, I hereby give notice that I will dispense with the production of the said mortgage, and register the discharge as requested, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 22nd day of January, 1914.

Dated this 20th 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.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 266, subsection (3), of the above Act, that the undermentioned company 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.

1904/4. Dental Importing Company (Limited).

Dated at the office of the Assistant Registrar of Companies, at Dunedin, this 19th day of December, 1913.

J. MURRAY,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

NOTICE UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

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

1909/4. Gardner and Company (Limited).

Dated at the office of the Assistant Registrar of Companies, at Dunedin, this 17th day of December, 1913.

J. MURRAY,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

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

IN 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.

WANGANUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

WHEREAS the Wanganui Borough Council has been authorized by the ratepayers to borrow the sum of fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000) for the purpose—
(1.) Of providing a complete system of drainage for that part of the district included in the Borough of Wanganui by Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of March, 1910, published in the New Zealand Gazette Number 33 (1910), at page 1144 (hereinafter called “Aramoho”), including in such system of drainage the laying of drainage pipes in the streets and roads of the said area and the providing of all appliances, plant, and things necessary or convenient for the efficient working and use of the said drainage system or incidental thereto.

(2.) The reticulation of water throughout the said district, including in such system of reticulation the laying of pipes in the streets and roads of the said area, and the providing of all appliances, plant, and things necessary or convenient thereto or for the efficient working thereof and the connecting of such pipes with the mains:

And the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Board has finally granted the application for such loan at the rate of three and one-half pounds (£3½) per centum per annum : And whereas the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Office Superintendent is unable to advance part of such loan—namely, six thousand one hundred and twenty-five pounds (£6,125)—at the said rate of interest, but can advance the same at the rate of four and one-half pounds per centum per annum :

Now, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and section 4 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1910. the Wanganui Borough Council hereby resolves that, for the purpose of providing moneys sufficient to cover the increased payments in respect of such part of such loan—namely, six thousand one hundred and twenty-five pounds (£6,125)—the said Wanganui Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny (ld.) in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property within the special-rating district included in the Borough of Wanganui by the said Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of March, 1910, and called “Aramoho,” comprising all that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north by Sections Numbers 54, 53, 52, 51, and 50, Block III, Westmere Survey District, from the easternmost corner of Section Number 248 to the north-western corner of Section Number 31; thence towards the east by Section Number 31, Block III aforesaid, and the production of the western boundary-line of that section to the Wanganui River; thence towards the south and south-east by the Wanganui River to the Borough of Wanganui; thence towards the south-west