Dec. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4469

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

SECTION 266, SUBSECTION (3).

IT having been reported to me that Hitchings, Hankins, and Co. (Limited) has ceased to carry on business, I hereby give notice that at the expiration of three months from date hereof the name of such company will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register, and the company will be dissolved.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of December, 1917.

P. G. WITHERS,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

SECTION 266, SUBSECTION (4).

TAKE notice that the following companies have been struck off the Register, and have been dissolved :—

1904/6. The Monte de Piete Loan Company (Limited).
1908/20. The Hunua Dairy Company (Limited).
1909/10. Leonard and Harrison (Limited).
1909/15. The Waikato Argus Company (Limited).
1909/18. The Anglo-American Motor (Limited).
1909/26. Chambers, Innes, and Thornes (Limited).
1909/32. The Silver Stream Mines (Limited).
1909/73. The Auckland Producers and Consumers’ Auctioneering Company (Limited).
1909/75. The Shakespeare Estate Company (Limited).
1910/21. Lux Light Company, Auckland (Limited).
1910/39. Bremner’s Freehold Gold-mining Company (Limited).
1910/49. The Alburnia Gold-mining Company (Limited).
1911/33. The Royal Oak Timber Company (Limited).
1911/59. The Voice Printing and Publishing Company (Limited).
1911/72. The Waihi Standard Gold-mining Company. (No liability).
1911/80. The Waikato Farmers’ Co-operative Bacon Company (Limited).
1912/38. A. E. Tattley (Limited).
1912/65. The Colonial Soap Company of New Zealand (Limited).
1913/3. The New Zealand Typewriter and Supplies Company (Limited).
1913/21. The Takapuna Sawmilling Company (Limited).
1913/29. The Alhambra Picture Company (Limited).
1913/36. The Rakau (Limited).
1913/73. The New Zealand Bulletin Printing and Publishing Company (Limited).
1913/74. The Strand Pictures (Limited).
1913/86. Exhibition Concessions (Limited).
1914/29. Security Underwriters (Limited).
1914/36. Nuks (Limited).

Dated at Auckland this 4th day of December, 1917.

WM. G. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

GREYMOUTH MOTOR-BUS COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

Re Section 230 of Companies Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of shareholders will be held at M. J. Fogarty and Company’s Office, Mackay Street, Greymouth, on Tuesday, 11th December, 1917, at 4 p.m.

BUSINESS.—To Receive Liquidator’s Account.

M. J. FOGARTY,
Liquidator.

Greymouth, 22nd November, 1917.

716

CANTERBURY COLLEGE AND CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ACT, 1896, AND AMENDMENT ACT, 1910.

ANNUAL ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

PARLIAMENTARY Roll: One vacancy. Mr. H. A. Knight, of Racecourse Hill, being the only candidate nominated, is duly elected.

Agricultural and Pastoral Association Roll (Mid-Canterbury Ward): One vacancy. Mr. Thomas Blackley, of Rakaia, being the only candidate nominated, is duly elected.

His Excellency the Governor-General has reappointed Mr. W. F. M. Buckley, of Christchurch, as his representative on the Board.

717

R. E. ALEXANDER, Returning Officer.

GREYTOWN BOROUGH COUNCIL.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £2,000, authorized to be raised by the Greytown Borough Council by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of abandoning the site for the septic tank as first selected, and continuing the main sewer down beyond the Maori Pa to a site in the vicinity of the lower end of the Mangarara Stream, the said Greytown Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twopence three-farthings in the pound sterling upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Greytown, comprising the whole of the Greytown Borough ; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I, David Pell Loasby, Mayor of Greytown, hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed at a meeting of the Greytown Borough Council held on the 22nd day of November, 1917.

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Greytown was affixed hereto this 23rd day of November, 1917, in the presence of—

D. P. LOASBY, Mayor.
E. LARKIN, Treasurer.

718

JOHN MANTTAN (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that John Manttan (Limited) have resolved to go into voluntary liquidation as from the 30th day of November, 1917. J. MAWSON STEWART, of Christchurch, Accountant, is appointed Liquidator.

T. S. WESTON AND SON,
Solicitors.

719

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between us, the undersigned, PERCY BEAUCHAMP LOMAX, of Motueka, Land Agent, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM JONES, of Christchurch, Jeweller, and WILLIAM HENRY BRICE, of Christchurch, Manufacturer, in the land business carried on by us in the Motueka District, in the Provincial District of Nelson, under the firm-name of “Brice and Jones,” was dissolved on the 30th day of September, 1917.

Dated this 30th day of September, 1917.

P. B. LOMAX.
AUGUSTUS WILLIAM JONES.
W. H. BRICE.

720

WAITARA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

THE following resolution to make and levy a special rate was passed at a special meeting of the Waitara Borough Council held on Monday, 26th November, 1917 :—

In pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Waitara Borough Council hereby resolves as follows,—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of fifteen hundred pounds (£1,500), authorized to be raised by the Waitara Borough Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of re-erecting damaged bridge over the Waitara River at Waitara known as the “Waitara Traffic-bridge,” the Waitara Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-ninth of a penny in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Waitara, comprising the whole of the said borough ; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of December in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years (36½), or until the loan is fully paid off.

R. MORGAN, Mayor.

721

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the DOMINION PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the above-named company duly convened and held in the Chamber of Commerce Hall, Swanson Street, Auckland, on Friday, the 30th day of November, 1917, the following extraordinary resolutions were duly passed :—