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and the Public Health Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a pumping-station to be used for and in connection with the drainage and reticulation of the Epsom Road District; and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is further given that the plan of the said pumping-station and of the lands so required to be taken are deposited for public inspection at the office of the Epsom Road Board at Manukau Road, Epsom, and are there open for inspection. And notice is also hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of such public work or by the taking of such lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Epsom Road Board at Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland.

Schedule.

APPROXIMATE area of each of the parcels of land required to be taken: 1 acre 0 roods 39 perches.
Being portion of Lots 9A and 10A of Allotment 23, Section 10, Suburbs of Auckland (18095).
Situated in Block 1, Otahuhu Survey District.
Coloured on plan: Edged red.
Situated in Road District of Epsom.
All in the Land District of Auckland.

Dated at Auckland this 26th day of January, 1915.

The common seal of the body corporate called the Inhabitants of the Epsom Road District was hereto set and affixed by the authority of the Road Board thereof in the presence of—

F. H. WOOD,
Chairman of the Epsom Road Board.

EDWD. CLAY
HARRY FROST } Members.

WM. HOGG,
Clerk.

197

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto subsisting between us, the undersigned, PERCY WILLIAM ALLEN and HAROLD JUBILEE GAUTREY ALLEN, in the business of Grocers, carried on by us at Kaponga, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, under the style of “Allen Brothers,” has been dissolved as from the first day of February, 1915; and that the said HAROLD JUBILEE GAUTREY ALLEN will continue to carry on the said business alone and in his own name only.

Dated this 5th day of February, 1915.

P. W. ALLEN.

Witness to the signature of the said Percy William Allen—
J. Lindsay Weir, Solicitor, Eltham.

H. J. G. ALLEN.

Witness to the signature of the said Harold Jubilee Gautrey Allen—J. Lindsay Weir, Solicitor, Eltham.

198

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between ERNEST SMITH BALDWIN and HENRIE HAMPTON RAYWARD, carrying on business as Patent Agents at Wellington and elsewhere in the Dominion of New Zealand, under the style or firm of “Baldwin and Rayward,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by ERNEST SMITH BALDWIN, who will continue to carry on the said business under the old firm-name.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of February, 1915.

E. S. BALDWIN.

HENRIE H. RAYWARD.

Witness to the signatures of Ernest Smith Baldwin and Henrie Hampton Rayward—Otho N. Wilton, Draughtsman, Wellington.

199

I, GORDON NAPIER MACDIARMID, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of New Zealand, now residing in Christchurch, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the sixth of March next to have my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths at Christchurch.

G. N. MACDIARMID.

Dated at Christchurch 6th February, 1915.

200

IN LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and the COLONIAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held at the registered office of the company, 155 Hereford Street, Christchurch, on Friday, the fifth day of February, 1915, at 2 p.m., the following extraordinary resolution was duly passed:—

“That it is has been proved to the satisfaction of the company that it cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and that the same be wound up accordingly; and that FREDERICK HUBERT LABATT, of Christchurch, Accountant, be appointed Liquidator for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the company.”

Dated this 5th day of February, 1915.

R. W. CHAPMAN,
Chairman.

201

PAHIATUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE FOR LOAN OF £800.—MANGATAINOKA BLOCK.

THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Pahiatua County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

“That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of eight hundred pounds, authorized to be raised by the Pahiatua County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for reforming and metalling about 3½ miles of the Mangatainoka North Road, the said Pahiatua County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of seven-twelfths of a penny in the pound upon the unimproved rateable value of all rateable property within the special-rating area of the Mangatainoka Block; and that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the 1st day of April 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.

HARRY CORNELIUS,
Chairman.

202

BIRKENHEAD BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLVED at a meeting of the Birkenhead Borough Council held at the office of the said Council at Birkenhead on the 30th day of December, 1914, that the resolution passed by the said Council at a special meeting held on the 30th day of November, 1914, of which the following is a copy,—

Whereas by section 16 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1914, it is enacted that for the purpose of paying and discharging liabilities to the amount of £2,855 12s., incurred by the said Council, and for which it is liable in completing certain water-supply works and road-improvements within the Borough of Birkenhead, the said Council is authorized by special order, and without taking the steps described in sections 8 to 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, to raise under the said last-mentioned Act the sum of £2,855 12s.: And whereas the said Council has resolved, pursuant to the authority conferred by the said section No. 16, to raise a loan of the sum of £2,855:

Now, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by the said section No. 16, and by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and of all other powers it thereunto in anywise enabling, the Birkenhead Borough Council hereby resolves by way of special order that, for the purpose of paying and discharging the said liabilities, the said Council do raise the sum of £2,855 by way of special loan; and that for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the said loan of £2,855 authorized to be raised as aforesaid for the purposes aforesaid, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixth of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (being the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Birkenhead, comprising the whole of the said borough; 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 July 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—

be and the same is hereby confirmed by way of special order.

We, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly passed at a properly constituted special