Jan. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 327

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 26th day of February, 1917.

Application 4757 (deposited plan, 3559). GEORGE SIEVERS.—99 acres 0 roods 11 perches, Section 155, Taratahi Plain Block. Occupied by Applicant.

Application 4758 (plan, provisional, 2053). ANTONI MARK GEORGETTI, JAMES GEORGETTI, and WILLIAM GEORGETTI.—22·5 perches, parts of Sections 41 and 42, Town of Wanganui. Occupied by Matthew Russell.

Application 4762 (deposited plan, 3558). COLIN CAMPBELL.—216 acres 2 roods, Section 169, and part of Section 147, Taratahi Plain Block. Occupied by Applicant.

Application 4772 (deposited plan, 3560). ARCHIBALD MCPHEE.—98 acres 2 roods 9 perches, Section 154, Taratahi Plain Block. Occupied by Applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 24th day of January, 1917, at the Lands Registry Office, Wellington.

G. G. BRIDGES,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same before the 28th February, 1917.

1533. GEORGE MALCOLM ROUT.—Part of Section 446 of the City of Nelson, containing 6¼ perches. Occupied by Alf. Robinson and Company (Limited). Plan 637.

Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 23rd day of January, 1917, at the Lands Registry Office, Nelson.

R. H. BOURKE,
District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Application 731 (plan D.P. 701). PATRICK FAY.—154 acres 2 roods 10 perches, Rural Section 36, District of Omaka. Occupied by Arnold Van Asch.

Diagram may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 23rd day of January, 1917, at the Lands Registry Office, Blenheim.

J. J. L. BURKE,
Deputy District Land Registrar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the parcels of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before the 23rd day of February, 1917.

3035. LAURENCE ARTHUR RHODES.—34 acres 2 roods 12 perches, Section 33, Block XX, Invercargill Hundred. Occupied by Applicant.

3036. DAVID TEVIOTDALE.—152 acres 3 roods 10 perches, Sections 6 and 7, Block XV, Jacobs River Hundred. Occupied by Applicant. Plan No. 1748.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 22nd day of January, 1917, at the Lands Registry Office, Invercargill.

F. W. BROUGHTON,
District Land Registrar.

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

TAUMARUNUI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Taumarunui Borough Council, on behalf of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Taumarunui, purposes to take, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Act, the land described in the Schedule hereto as a site for municipal buildings.

And further notice is hereby given that a plan has been prepared showing the land required to be taken, a copy

whereof (marked “A”) is deposited at the Town Clerk’s office situate at the Taumarunui Borough Council Chambers, Huia Street, Taumarunui, and is open for inspection by all persons during ordinary office hours, viz.: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; except on Saturdays, when the office will be closed as from noon.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to set forth in writing any well-founded objections to such works or to the taking of such land, and to send such writing, within forty (40) days from the first publication of this notice, to the said Taumarunui Borough Council, addressed to the Town Clerk at the office of the said Borough Council situate as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece or parcel of land, containing one acre, more or less, being part of Section XIVA, Township of Taumarunui, situate within the said borough. As the same is more particularly delineated in the said plan marked “A,” and therein outlined in red.

Dated at Taumarunui this 24th day of October, 1916.

M. G. POWER, Town Clerk.

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COMMENCEMENT OF BUSINESS.

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

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 302 of the Companies Act, 1908, I, John Ernest Piper, of the City of Auckland, Attorney for the Colonial Rubber Company (Limited), hereby give notice that the said company proposes to commence and carry on business in the Dominion of New Zealand, and that the office of the company, where legal process of any kind may be addressed or delivered, is situated at Number 40 Albert Street, City of Auckland aforesaid.

Dated at Auckland this twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

J. E. PIPER,
Attorney for the Colonial Rubber Company (Limited).

Witness to signature of John Ernest Piper—G. Gordon Grant, Clerk to F. H. Williamson, Solicitor, Auckland. 8

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In the matter of the Alien Enemy Trade Disposal Ordinance, 1916; and in the matter of HEDEMANN EVERS AND COMPANY, of Levuka, in the Colony of Fiji.

BY an Order of His Excellency the Acting Governor dated the 18th day of March, 1916, under section 5, subsection (1), of the above-mentioned ordinance, requiring the business of the above-named company to be wound up, Arthur Joske, Esquire, of Suva, in the Colony of Fiji, was by the aforesaid order appointed Liquidator:

And whereas on the 31st day of October, 1916, the said Arthur Joske retired from the Liquidatorship of the said firm; and by an order dated the 1st day of November, 1916, His Excellency the Governor did appoint me, Roger Greene, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Public Trustee, &c., to be the Liquidator in place of the said Arthur Joske, Esquire, and did direct the Colonial Secretary to so appoint me, the undersigned Roger Greene, in writing under his hand, and on the 1st day of November, 1916, the Colonial Secretary of the Colony, in pursuance of the aforesaid direction, did in writing appoint me, the undersigned, to be the Liquidator of the affairs of the said firm in the place of the said Arthur Joske, Esquire, resigned:

Notice is hereby given that the creditors of the said Hedemann Evers and Company are required, on or before the 28th day of February, 1917, to send their names and addresses, and the full particulars of their debts and claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to me, the undersigned, at my address aforesaid, as such Liquidator; and, if so required by notice in writing from me, are by their solicitor or personally to come in and prove their said debts as claimed, at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice. And in default of complying with the requirements of this notice they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are so proved. The proofs of creditors outside the Colony of Fiji must be accompanied by a statutory declaration that the debt is due and owing, with particulars as to securities (if any) held, and must show how the order for the goods was given. The statutory declaration must further state whether there have been prior dealings with the said company, and (if so) how payment was previously made.

All creditors of the above-mentioned firm may prove in the liquidation, but those creditors who have looked for payment to the Hamburg office of the company, or any branch