In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the
matter of the WELLINGTON AND WANGANUI STEAM
PACKET COMPANY (LIMITED).
NOTICE is hereby given that the order of the Supreme
Court of New Zealand, Wellington District, dated the
first day of July, 1916, confirming the reduction of the capital
of the above-named company from £24,000 to £12,000, and
the minute approved by the Court showing with respect to
the company the capital as altered, the several particulars
required by the above-named Act, was registered by the
Registrar of Companies at Wellington on the 8th day of July,
1916. The said minute is in the words and figures following:
"The capital of the Wellington and Wanganui Steam
Packet Company (Limited) and reduced is £12,000, divided
into 12,000 shares of £1 each, instead of the original capital
of £24,000 divided into 24,000 shares of £1 each.
"At the time of registration of this minute the whole of
the said shares have been issued and have been and are to
be deemed to be fully paid up."
Dated this 10th day of July, 1916.
BRANDON, HISLOP, & BRANDON,
Solicitors for the Company.
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.
In the matter of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,
and the Public Works Act, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Te Kuiti Borough
Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-
mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely,
the construction of a street; and for the purpose of such
public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is
required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given
that a plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited
in the public office of the Town Clerk to the said Council
situate in Rora Street, Te Kuiti, and is open for inspection
(without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours.
All persons affected by the execution of the said public work
or by the taking of such land, who have any well-grounded
objections to the execution of the said public work or to the
taking of the said land, must state their objections in writing,
and send the same, within forty days from the first publication
of this notice (12th July, 1916), to the Town Clerk at
the Council Chambers, Rora Street, Te Kuiti.
SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of parcel of land required to be taken:
1 rood 28.6 perches.
Portion of Pukenui 2v, situate in Block IV, Otanake Survey
District.
Coloured on plan: Pink.
Dated this 8th day of July, 1916.
F. EDWARD LAMB, Town Clerk.
HINE & VERNON,
Solicitors to the Te Kuiti Borough Council.
In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the
Acts amending the same.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Education Board of
the District of North Canterbury, a body corporate
incorporated under the provisions of the Education Act,
1914, proposes to take, under the provisions of the Public
Works Act, 1908, and its amendments, all that piece of land
situated in the St. Albans Ward of the City of Christchurch
lying between Leinster Road and Aikman's Road, containing
by admeasurement one acre and three perches, being
Lots 3, 4, 5, and 6, and the part shown as right-of-way on
deposit plan No. 537, the whole being contained in certificate
of title, Volume 144, folio 71, part of Rural Section 133,
subject as to part containing twenty-six perches, coloured
red on said certificate of title, to right-of-way.
And notice is hereby further given that plans showing the
lands required to be taken, and the names of the owner and
occupiers of such lands, are deposited at the offices of the
Education Board of the District of North Canterbury, Normal
School Buildings, Kilmore Street, Christchurch aforesaid,
respectively, where they lie open for public inspection daily
(without fee) during all reasonable hours. And that all persons
affected shall, if they have any objection to the taking
of such lands or any of them, or to the execution of such
work, set forth in writing such objection, and send such
writing, within forty days from the date of the first publication
of such notice, being the 22nd day of August, one thousand
nine hundred and sixteen, addressed to the Chairman
of the Education Board of the District of North Canterbury
at the office of the Board, Normal School Buildings, Kilmore
Street, Christchurch.
Dated this 5th day of July, 1916.
C. H. OPIE,
Chairman, North Canterbury Education Board.
SLUGGISH RIVER DRAINAGE BOARD.
EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING
HELD ON THE 6TH JULY, 1916, AT 11.30 A.M.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by section 116 of the Reserves and other
Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1913,
and of all other Acts (if any) it in that behalf enabling, the
Sluggish River Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows:
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and annual
charges on a loan of £1,000, authorized to be raised by the
Sluggish River Drainage Board, under the above-mentioned
Acts, for the purpose of discharging its liabilities under an
award dated 9th June, 1914, and an addendum to such award
dated 11th September, 1914, and a further award dated
22nd September, 1914, made by Joseph William Poynton,
Esq., Stipendiary Magistrate at Palmerston North, as the person
appointed by a Warrant under the hand of His Excellency the
Governor and dated 4th February, 1914, to hold an inquiry
and make an award, consequent on the alteration of the
boundaries of the Oroua Drainage District on the constitution
of the Sluggish River Drainage District as to the several
matters mentioned in subsection (1) of section 15 of the Counties
Act, 1908, as between the Boards of the said districts, the
said Sluggish River Drainage Board hereby makes and levies
a special rate of one-sixth (1/6th) of a penny in the pound
sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital
value) of all rateable property in the Sluggish River Drainage
Board District, excepting however all rateable property in
that area known as Special District No. 4 and Special District
No. 1; and that such special rate shall be annual-recurring
during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly
on the first of October in each and every year during the
currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six (36) years,
or until the loan is fully paid off.
The common seal of the Sluggish River Drainage Board
was hereto fixed at the office of and pursuant to a resolution
of the Sluggish River Drainage Board in the presence of—
S. MACAULAY, Chairman.
R. H. SPENCER, Clerk.
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