of an invention for “Automatic telephone systems,” both
the said letters patent having been granted to the American
Automatic Telephone Company, & corporation of the State
of New York having offices in the States of Ohio and New
York, United States of America.

Dated at Wellington the 17th day of July, 1914.

BELL, GULLY, BELL, & MYERS,
Solicitors for the Intending Applicants.

BOROUGH OF LYTTELTON.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR THE PURPOSE
OF ADDITIONS TO GASWORKS FOR THE BOROUGH OF
LYTTELTON.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the
Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and the Acts amending
the same, to execute a public work—to wit, to erect additions
to the gasworks for the Borough of Lyttelton; and in order
to execute such public work the land described in the Schedule
herein is required to be taken.

Notice is hereby further given that a plan of the land so
required to be taken is deposited at the office of the Lyttelton
Borough Council at Lyttelton, and is there open for inspection
during office hours, and that all persons affected by the
execution of the said public work or by the taking of the
said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections
to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of
such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such
writing, within forty days from the first publication of this
notice, to the Clerk of the Lyttelton Borough Council at
Lyttelton.

Schedule.

Approximate
Area of the Land
Being Sections
Situated
in the
Shown
on
Coloured
on
Plan

A. R. P.
l l 13'9
331, 332, 333,
665
334, and 335
Lyttelton
176v
Red.

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated in the plan coloured red as above mentioned, and deposited, as directed by the said Lyttelton Borough Council, in the office of the said Lyttelton Borough Council at Lyttelton.

As witness my hand, at Lyttelton, this 12th day of July, 1914.

J. R. WEBB,
Mayor of the Borough of Lyttelton.

PATEA 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
Patea County Council hereby resolves as follows:
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £760, being 10 per cent. on the loan of
£7,645, authorized to be raised by the Patea County Council,
under the above-mentioned Act, for metalling a portion of
Ball Road, Hursthouse Road, Petch Road, Hurley Road,
Makino Road, and Wilford Road, the said Patea County
Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-twentieth of a penny in the pound (1/20th of a ld.) upon the
rateable value of all rateable property of the Ball Road
Special-rating District as gazetted on pages 1468 and 1469
of the New Zealand Gazette, 1911; 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-six and one-half years (36½ years),
or until the loan is fully paid off.

Description of boundaries: Ball Road Special-rating District.
G. V. PEARCE,
Chairman.
SAMUEL BLAKE,
Councillor.
E. C. HORNER,
Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above resolution was duly passed
at a special meeting of the Council on Monday, 13th July, 1914.

WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL.

COPY OF RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE re LOAN OF
£4,000 FOR MANGAPIKO RIDING.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the
Waipa County Council hereby resolves as follows:- That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £4,000, authorized to be raised by the
Waipa County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for
the purpose of erecting a bridge over the Mangapiko River,
near Te Awamutu, and metalling certain roads in the Mangapiko, the said Waipa County Council hereby makes and levies
a special rate of five thirty-seconds of a penny in the £1
upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Mangapiko Riding; 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
36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

We hereby certify that the above resolution was duly
passed at a meeting of the Waipa County Council held on
Tuesday, the 14th day of July, 1914.

JOHN FISHER,
Chairman.
CHAS. BOWDEN,
Clerk.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between JOHN GUTHRIE WOOD AITKEN and GEORGE WILSON, under the style of “Aitken, Wilson, & Co.,” Merchants, at Customhouse Quay, Wellington, has, so far as concerns the said Messrs. Aitken and Wilson, been dissolved by mutual consent as from the first day of July, 1914.
All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said Mr. GEORGE WILSON at 42 Customhouse Quay, Wellington.

Dated the first day of July, 1914.

JOHN G. W. AITKEN.
GEO. WILSON.

Witness to both signatures—Henry Hall, Solicitor, Wellington.

IN the matter of the Mundon and Muir Electrical Announcer Company (Limited).

AN extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company, duly convened, was held at the registered
office of the company, Dispensary Building, corner Princes Street and Moray Place, Dunedin, on the 7th day of January, 1914, when the following special resolution was duly passed, namely:—
“That the company be wound up voluntarily; and that WILLIAM EDWIN CHARLES REID, of Dunedin, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up.”

At the extraordinary general meeting of the members of the said company duly convened for the 4th day of February, 1914, no quorum being present, such meeting was adjourned until the 11th day of February, 1914, when the foregoing resolution was duly confirmed.

Dated 20th July, 1914.

H. H. S. WHITE,
Chairman.

Witness—D. Cooke, Solicitor, Dunedin.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the Outram Societies Hall Company (Limited).

Friday, the seventeenth day of July, 1914.

UPON the petition of John Neill, of Outram, in the Provincial District of Otago and Dominion of New Zealand, Storekeeper, a contributory of the above-named company, filed on the fourteenth day of May, 1914, preferred unto a Judge of the Supreme Court; and upon hearing John Bartholomew Callan, the Younger, of counsel for the petitioner; and upon reading the said petition, two affidavits of the said petitioner respectively sworn on the fourteenth day of May, 1914, and filed on the fourteenth and twentieth days of May, 1914, respectively verifying the said petition, an affidavit of John Grant, of Outram aforesaid, Secretary of the above-named company, sworn on the twenty-fifth day of May, 1914, and filed on the twenty-sixth day of May, 1914, an affidavit of the said John Bartholomew Callan, the Younger, sworn on the nineteenth day of May, 1914, and