NOTICE.

A GENERAL meeting of the shareholders of the Te Aroha Mineral Water Coy. (Ltd.), (in Liquidation) will be held on Wednesday, the fourth day of November, 1914, at 3 p.m., at the office of the undersigned, 21 Empire Buildings, Swanson Street, Auckland.

BUSINESS.—To lay before the meeting the Liquidator's report, in accordance with section 230, Part VI, Companies Act, 1908.

T. D'ARCY HAMILTON,
Liquidator.
Auckland, 6th October, 1914.

WAIAPU COUNTY COUNCIL.
RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Waipau County Council hereby resolves as follows :—
That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of £2,000, authorized to be raised by the Waipau County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the forming and widening of the Tuakau Road, the said Waiapu County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-eighth (¼) of a penny in the pound (£) upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Tuakau Road Special-rating Area, comprising-
S.G.R. No. 53, Blocks I, II, VI, Tokomaru S.D.
,, No. 54, ,, V, VI,
,, No. 55, Block I, Tokomaru S.D.
,, ,, IV, Tutamoe S.D.
,, No. 56, ,, VIII,
,, ,, V, Tokomaru S.D.
,, No. 57, ,, I,
,, ,, IV, Tutamoe S.D.
,, ,, XVI, Hikurangi S.D.
Hauturu, Block III, Tutamoe S.D.
,, XV, Hikurangi S.D.
Tauwhareparae 2A, Block VIII, Tutamoe S.D.
,, V, Tokomaru S.D.
,, 2B, Blocks VII and VIII, Tutamoe S.D.
,, ,, V and IX, Tokomaru S.D.
Pirauau 1, Block I, Tokomaru S.D.
Tuakau-Pirauau 1B2, Block I, Tokomaru S.D.
Section 1, Block I, Tokomaru S.D.
Huiarua 2, Blocks II and III, Tutamoe S.D.
,, 3, Blocks I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, Tutamoe S.D.
Block IV, Arowhana S.D.
Section 3, Block XVI, Hikurangi S.D.
,, 2, ,, XV,
Puateroku; Blocks XV and XVI, Hikurangi S.D.
And such special 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 not more than forty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was passed at a meeting of the Waipau County Council held on Monday, the 28th September, 1914.
Dated this 1st day of October, 1914.
A. L. TEMPLE,
Clerk.

WAITOMO COUNTY COUNCIL.
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.
In the matter of the Counties Act, 1908, and the Public Works Act, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Waitomo County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute certain public works—namely, the metalling of the Te Kuiti-Awakino Road; and for the purposes of such public works the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Clerk to the said Council situate in Taupiri Street, Te Kuiti, and is open to inspection without fee by all persons during ordinary office hours.
All persons affected by the execution of the said public works or by the taking of the said lands must state their objections in writing, and send the same, within forty days from the date of the first publication of this notice, to the said County Clerk at the Council Chambers aforesaid.
Schedule.
Approximate Area of Parcel of Land required to be taken, and Purpose for which required.
Being Portion of
Coloured Outline in on Plan
Situates in the
(a.) 6 ac. Or. 5 per., as and for a quarry reserve
Sec. 1, Block X,
Red .. Otanake S.D.
Otanake
(b.) 1 ac. 2 r. 3 per., as and for an access road
Sec. 1, Block X,
Red .. Otanake S.D.
Otanake
(c.) 0 ac. 1 r. 15 per., as and for an access road
Sec. 5, Block X,
Blue Otanake S.D.
Otanake
Dated this 3rd day of October, 1914.
P. MORA,
County Clerk.
Broadfoot and Finlay, County Solicitors, Te Kuiti.
TE PUKE TOWN BOARD.
COPY OF RESOLUTION PASSED AT SPECIAL MEETING HELD ON 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1914.
MOVED by the Chairman (T. E. Palmer), and seconded by Mr. R. Tees, "That, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in this behalf by the Town Boards Act, 1908, and its amendments, and the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Te Puke Town Board hereby resolves as follows :—
"That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of eleven thousand pounds (£11,000), authorized to be raised by the said Te Puke Town Board for the purpose of conveying water from the Kirikiri Stream to the Town District, and reticulating Main Street (68 chains), Oxford Street (35 chains), King Street (20 chains), Jocelyn Street, north of main road (16 chains), Cameron Street (10 chains), Stewart Street (14 chains), Oroua Street (8 chains), on which work it is proposed to spend £7,000 of such loan, and for the purpose of improving the main street from the railway-station to King Street, on which latter work it is proposed to spend £4,000 of such loan, the said Te Puke Town Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of 5d. in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the said Te Puke Town Board, comprising the whole of the Te Puke Town District; and that such special rate shall be an annual security rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable half-yearly on the first day of May and the first day of November in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-three years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
T. E. PALMER,
Chairman.
OWEN JAS. HODGE,
Clerk.
In the matter of the estate of CAROLINE LEADBEATER, late of the City of Wellington, Widow, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that all creditors and others having any claims against the above estate are hereby required to send particulars in writing of their claims to Edward Sidney Stafford, the Executor of the Will of the said Caroline Leadbeater, deceased, on or before the 21st day of November, 1914, at the undermentioned address, after which date the said Executor will proceed to distribute the assets of the said Caroline Leadbeater, deceased, amongst the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which he shall then have had notice.
Dated this 6th day of October, 1914.
E. S. STAFFORD,
C/o Stafford & Stafford, Solicitors,
33 Johnston Street, Wellington.
SPECIAL REPORTS ON EDUCATIONAL SUBJECTS.-CATALOGUE OF THE PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND : Indigenous and Naturalized Species. By T. F. CHEESEMAN, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Price, ls.
Orders should be addressed-
"GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON."