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raised by the Napier Borough Council, under the above-
mentioned Act, for the purpose of constructing tramways
and for the purchase of tramway equipment, material, and
plant, the said Napier Borough Council hereby makes and
levies a special rate of forty-five one-hundredths of a penny
in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the
unimproved value) of all rateable property of the Borough
of Napier, comprising the whole of the Borough of Napier ;
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 August in each and every year during the
currency of the said loan, being a period of 27 years, or there-
abouts (that is to say, until the 30th day of June, 1944), or
until the loan is fully paid off.

We hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly
passed at a meeting of the Napier Borough Council held on
the 2nd day of February, 1917.

J. VIGOR BROWN, Mayor.
M. MURRAY, Town Clerk.

HOKIANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

HOREKE LOAN, £400.—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
Hokianga County Council hereby resolve as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £400 (four hundred pounds), authorized
to be raised by the Hokianga County Council, under the
above-mentioned Act, for metalling the unmetalled portions
of the Okaihau to Horeke main road from the Horeke
Wharf to the boundary between the Hokianga and Bay of
Islands Counties, the said Hokianga County Council hereby
makes and levies a special rate of three-eighths of a penny in
the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property
within the Horeke Riding of Hokianga County ; 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 September in each and every year during the currency of
such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a half, or
until the loan is fully paid off.

HOREKE LOAN, £400.—RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AFFIXING
OF COMMON SEAL.

Resolved that the common seal of the Chairman, Councillors,
and Inhabitants of the County of Hokianga be affixed to the
resolution making and levying a special rate of three-eighths
of a penny in the pound over the Horeke Riding in connection
with the Horeke £400 Loan, by the Chairman and Clerk.

REDDY G. COCHRANE, Chairman.
J. J. BRYERS, Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of resolutions
passed by the Hokianga County Council on the 7th day of
September, 1916.

J. J. BRYERS, County Clerk.

HOKIANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

WAIMAMAKU LOAN, £500.—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
Hokianga County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of five hundred pounds, authorized to be
raised by the Hokianga County Council, under the above-
mentioned Act, for the purpose of preparing the formation
and metalling the Waimamaku Valley Road from the end of
the metalling opposite Section 8, Block XIV, Waoku Survey
District, to Powick’s gate on Section 1, Block XV, Waoku
Survey District, the said Hokianga County Council hereby
makes and levies a special rate of seven farthings in the
pound upon the rateable (unimproved) value of all rateable
property within the following special-rating area, viz. :—

All that portion of the Omapere Riding of the Hokianga
County comprised within the northern boundaries of Sections
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, Block IX, Waoku ; the
eastern boundary of Section 12 aforesaid; the southern
boundaries of Sections 2 and 10, Block X, Waoku ; a portion
of the eastern boundary of Section 11 ; thence by the southern
boundary of Section 12 ; a portion of the western boundary
of Section 15 ; the northern boundary of that section ; also
the northern boundaries of Sections 14 and 18, Block X,
Waoku ; the northern boundary of Section 21, Block XV ;
the eastern boundary of Section 21 and a portion of Section
1, Block XV; the northern and eastern boundaries of Section

22, Block XV, Waoku ; the southern boundaries of Sections
22 and 1, Block XV ; and Sections 6 and 9, Block XIV,
running in a line to the intersection of an extended line drawn
parallel with the eastern boundary of Section 8, Block XIV
aforesaid, and the southern boundary of Section 8, and a
portion of the western boundary of the same section : thence
by the southern boundaries of Sections 7, 10, 12, and 13,
Block XIV ; a portion of the western boundary of Section
13 aforesaid to the intersection of the southern boundary of
Section 12, Block XIII : thence by the southern boundary
of that section and the southern boundaries of Sections 7, 6,
and 5, Block XIII : thence by the western boundaries of
Sections 5, 2, and 1, Block XIII, Waoku : thence by the
southern boundaries of Sections 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2, and the
western boundary of the aforesaid Section 2, Block IX, to
the starting-point.

And that such special rate shall be an annually recurring
rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly
on the 1st day of October 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.

Dated this 1st day of February, 1917.

J. J. BRYERS, County Clerk.

IN THE MATTER OF THE PARTNERSHIP ACT, 1908.

CERTIFICATE UNDER SECTION 51 OF SUCH ACT.

WE, the undersigned, hereby certify and acknowledge
that the following are the particulars of a Partnership
ship formed between us and one Alexander Richardson
Watson, now deceased, by agreement dated the eighth day
of November, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and now
continued by us under agreement dated the 28th day of
February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen :—

Style of firm under which the Partnership has been and is
to be conducted : David Meikle and Company.
The names and places of residence of General Partner :
David Meikle, Grange Road, Mount Eden, Auckland.
The names and places of residence of Special Partner :
Alexander Richardson Dickey Watson, Woolsley Road,
Point Piper, Sydney, New South Wales.
The amount of capital contributed by each Special Partner :
Alexander Richardson Dickey Watson, in his own capacity,
and as successor to Alexander Richardson Watson, twelve
hundred pounds.
The amount of capital contributed by the General Partner :
David Meikle, six hundred pounds ; which six hundred
pounds has been already contributed and six hundred
pounds is to be contributed.
General nature of business to be transacted : Fancy drapery
and millinery, and such other business as the Partners may
agree upon.
The principal place at which business is to be transacted :
No. 296, corner of Queen and Wellesley Streets, Auckland,
Watson’s Block.
The time when such renewal of Partnership is to commence
and when it is to terminate : Start twenty-eighth day of
February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen ;
terminate, twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand
nine hundred and seventeen, or on the giving of notice or
the happening of the events as set out in the original agree-
ment dated 8th November, 1910.

Dated at Auckland this 28th day of February, 1917.

A. R. D. WATSON.

Signed and acknowledged by the said Alexander Richardson
Dickey Watson in the presence of—Graves Aickin, J.P., a
Justice of the Peace in and for the Dominion of New Zealand.

DAVID MEIKLE.

Signed and acknowledged by the said David Meikle in the
presence of—Graves Aickin, J.P., a Justice of the Peace in
and for the Dominion of New Zealand.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908 ; and also
of the taking under the said Act by the Gisborne Borough
Council of certain land for the purposes of waterworks.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Mayor, Councillors, and
Burgesses of the Borough of Gisborne, under the pro-
visions of the Public Works Act, 1908, intend to take by
Proclamation the following land, namely :—

All that piece or parcel of land situate in the District of
Poverty Bay, containing by admeasurement seven acres
and twenty perches (7 a. 0 r. 20 p.), being Lot No. 1 of Lot 16
of Lots 15 and 16, Block G, Whataupoko No. 7 Block (Block
III, Turanganui Survey District).

By direction of the Gisborne Borough Council a plan of the
land is deposited in the office of the Gisborne Borough Council,