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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 133

thousand nine hundred and fourteen, by mutual consent. All moneys owing to the late firm are payable to the said BENJAMIN DOWNES, whose receipt will be a sufficient discharge for the same, and all liabilities of the late firm will be discharged by the said BENJAMIN DOWNES. The business will in the future be carried on by the said BENJAMIN DOWNES under the name of “Downes & Co.”

Dated this 24th day of November, 1914.

BENJAMIN DOWNES.
JOSEPH ADAMS.

Witness to signatures—Francis B. Adams, Solicitor, Gore.
950

PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between FREDERICK HENRY BARTLETT and GEORGE LESLIE SCRIVENER, carrying on business as Art Picture-framers at Roslyn, Dunedin, has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the twenty-second day of October, 1914. The business will in future be carried on by FREDERICK HENRY BARTLETT, who will receive accounts due to the late firm and discharge all liabilities in connection with same.

Dated this 30th day of November, 1914.

F. H. BARTLETT.
G. L. SCRIVENER.

Witness to the signatures of the said Frederick Henry Bartlett and George Leslie Scrivener—Ralph R. Aspinall, Solicitor, Dunedin.
951

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and of the Invicta Trading Company Proprietary (Limited).

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 302 of the Companies Act, 1908, I, MARK STEEDS, of Christchurch, in the Dominion of New Zealand, Manager, Attorney of the Invicta Trading Company Proprietary (Limited), hereby give notice that the said company proposes to commence and carry on business in the said Dominion, and that the office where legal process of any kind may be served upon it, and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, is situate at No. 127 Lichfield Street, Christchurch, aforesaid.

Dated at Christchurch this 1st day of December, 1914.

MARK STEEDS,
Attorney of the Invicta Trading Company Proprietary (Limited).

Witness to the signature of Mark Steeds—J. A. Flesher, Solicitor, Christchurch.
952

NAPIER BOROUGH COUNCIL.

THE NAPIER MUNICIPAL CORPORATION LOANS (1892 AND 1904) REPAYMENT LOAN (1914) OF £45,000.—SPECIAL ORDER RAISING LOAN.

WHEREAS the Napier Borough Council in the year 1892 did, for the purpose of erecting certain protective works on the Marine Parade, and of making a road to the Breakwater, and of extending the waterworks, and of constructing drainage-works in and for the Borough of Napier, raise a special loan of £35,000 : And whereas the said Council in the year 1904 did for the following purposes—namely, constructing a bridge at Port Ahuriri, extending the sewer outfall, purchase of morgue and isolation hospital site, fire-station improvements, extending waterworks, and permanent road-formation—raise a special loan of £10,000 ; And whereas the said loans of £35,000 and £10,000 are due and payable on the first day of July, 1914 : And whereas, no provision for a sinking fund in respect of either of the said loans having been included in the proposals to raise the said loans, the sum of £45,000 is required to pay off the said loans of £35,000 and £10,000 :

Now, therefore, the Napier Borough Council doth hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in and conferred upon it in that behalf by the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and in pursuance and exercise of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, resolve by special order :—

1. To raise a special loan of and to borrow the sum of £45,000 for the purpose of paying off the said loans of £35,000 and £10,000, and that the said loans be paid off.

2. That the said loan of £45,000 to be so raised shall be for a term of twenty-one years, and be repayable in Sydney, New South Wales, on the first day of July, 1935.

3. That the interest on the said loan shall be payable in Sydney, New South Wales, at the rate of £5 per centum per annum, payable half-yearly on the first day of January and the first day of July in each year during the currency of such loan.

4. That the security for the said loan shall be a special rate upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the special-rating area comprising the whole of the Borough of Napier, save and except that portion thereof mentioned and described in the Schedule to an Order in Council made the twenty-fourth day of February, 1910, and published in the New Zealand Gazette for the year 1910 at page 728, which area is bounded as described in the Schedule hereto, such special rate being calculated so as to yield an amount sufficient to provide the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the said loan.

5. That the area so described as aforesaid be and the same is hereby declared and constituted a special-rating area for the purposes of the said loan.

6. That a sinking fund of £225 per annum be established in connection with the said loan.

The Schedule.

All that piece or parcel of land bounded towards the south from a point at which the production of the southern boundary-line of Section No. 586 of the Town of Napier intersects the low-water mark of the ocean, by said line and its production to the low-water mark of the lagoon ; towards the west, south-west, again towards the south, and again towards the west by low-water mark to a point opposite Pandora Point ; thence in a straight line to the low-water mark opposite the beacon on the most westerly point of Maori Island ; thence in a straight line to a point at which the eastern mole crosses the low-water mark of the ocean ; and towards the north and east by said low-water mark to starting-point.

We hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a special order passed by the Napier Borough Council on the 27th day of May, 1914, and confirmed on the 26th day of June, 1914.

J. VIGOR BROWN,
Mayor.

M. MURRAY,
Town Clerk.

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Napier was hereto affixed at the offices of and pursuant to a resolution of the Council, in the presence of—

J. VIGOR BROWN,
Mayor.

M. MURRAY,
Town Clerk.
953

NAPIER BOROUGH 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, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, the Napier Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of £45,000, authorized to be raised by the said Napier Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of paying off a loan of £35,000 raised by the said Council in the year 1892 for the purpose of erecting certain protective works on the Marine Parade, and of making a road to the Breakwater, and of extending the waterworks, and of constructing drainage-works in and for the Borough of Napier, and a loan of £10,000 raised by the said Council in the year 1904 for the purpose of constructing a bridge at Port Ahuriri, extending the sewer outfall, purchase of morgue and isolation hospital site, fire-station improvements, extending waterworks, and permanent road formation, the said Napier Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one halfpenny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the special-rating area comprising the whole of the Borough of Napier, save and except that portion thereof mentioned and described in the Schedule to an Order in Council made the 24th day of February, 1910, and published in the New Zealand Gazette for the year 1910 at page 728, which area is bounded as described in the Schedule hereto ; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 21 years or thereabouts—that is to say, till the 1st day of July, 1935, or until the loan is fully paid off.