Nov. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4067

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1908, and its amendment, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 12th day of December, 1914.

Application 4673 (Plan, provisional, No. 1587). HENRY RAYNER and MARY JANE RAYNER.—6 acres 2 roods 11 perches, part of Section 300, Taratahi Plains Block. Occupied by Alice Eva McLennan.

Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 11th day of November, 1914, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

G. G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

GUARDIAN ASSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that on and after 2nd November, 1914, the situation and locality of the Guardian Assurance Company (Limited), where legal process of any kind may be served upon it and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, and for the purposes of said Act, will be Bethune’s Buildings, 156 Featherston Street, Wellington.

R. J. WHITE,
Attorney.

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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

SURMAN BROS.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between us, under the name of SURMAN BROS., of Auckland, Builders, has been dissolved by mutual consent.

ALFRED STEPHEN SURMAN.
ROBERT SURMAN.

Auckland, 6th November, 1914.

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THE COUNCIL OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE OTOROHANGA NATIVE TOWNSHIP.

DECLARATION OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT SYSTEM OF RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUES.

PURSUANT to section 39 of the Rating Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Inhabitants of the Otorohanga Native Township taken on the 30th day of October, 1914, on the proposal that the system of rating in the said Native Township be on the unimproved value, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 43 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 5 ; informal votes, nil.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 31st day of October, 1914.

JOHN ORMSBY,
Chairman.

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EKETAHUNA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

JACKSON STREET LOAN.—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 Eketauna Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of fifty pounds, authorized to be raised by the Eketauna Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of forming and metalling Jackson Street, the said Eketauna Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny halfpenny (1½d.) in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Jackson Street Special-rating Area, comprising Sections Nos. 88 to 97, inclusive, on the plan of the Township of Parkville ; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of February and the first day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

We hereby certify that the above resolution was passed at a meeting of the Eketauna Borough Council duly convened and held on Monday, 26th October, 1914.

T. C. TURNER,
Mayor

J. PRENDEVILLE,
Town Clerk.

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KAPONGA TOWN BOARD.

RESOLUTION LEVYING A SPECIAL RATE TO COVER INTEREST AND SINKING FUND AND OTHER CHARGES ON A LOAN OF £5,000 FOR ELECTRIC-LIGHT PURPOSES.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Kaponga Town Board hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of £5,000, authorized to be raised by the Kaponga Town Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of constructing an electric generating station, and of acquiring land and water rights for such station, and for the purpose of installing an electric distributing system in connection with such station, the said Kaponga Town Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny and a halfpenny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Kaponga Town District, comprising the whole of the Town District of Kaponga ; 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 October 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.

I hereby certify that the above resolution was passed on the 21st day of October, 1914.

R. G. COOK,
Town Clerk, Kaponga Town Board.

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CLUTHA 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 Clutha County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,500, authorized to be raised by the Clutha County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of metalling the unmetalled portions of the Otonomomo Swamp Road from the Puerua Bridge to the Otonomomo Railway-station, the said Clutha County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of a ½d. (one halfpenny) in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Otonomomo Special-rating District, comprising a portion of South Molyneux Riding in the County of Clutha, the boundaries of which district are as follows : Commencing at a point where the western block-line of Block XIII, Clutha Survey District, crosses the Waitepeka Stream (on the western side of Section II, Block XIII) ; thence by the centre of the said Waitepeka Stream in a south-easterly direction through Sections 11, 6, 5, and 3, Block XIII, and Section 8, Block IX, to a point where the said stream crosses the road-line forming the northern boundary of Section 2, Block IX ; thence by the centre of the said road-line forming the northern boundary of Sections 2 and 1, Block IX, in an easterly direction to the centre of the Clutha River (Koau Branch) ; thence by the centre of the said Clutha River to the mouth of the Puerua River ; thence by the centre of the said Puerua River (upstream) to a point where the western boundary-line of Block XII crosses the said river (near to the north-west corner of Section 6, Block XII) ; thence in a northerly direction by the said block-line on the western side of Blocks XII and XIII, all in Clutha Survey District, to the point of commencement. And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of March and the 1st day of September in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ (thirty-six and a half) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the above resolution is a true copy of a resolution passed at a meeting of the Clutha County Council held on the 30th day of October, 1914.

A. McDONALD,
County Clerk.

Balclutha, 3rd November, 1914.

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