Aug. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3103
that for all purposes of such administration and of the distribution of his estate all his six children shall be deemed to be alive on the said date.''
By the said Bill it is intended to authorize the Supreme Court and any of the Judges thereof, during the life of John Donald Macfarlane, of Hawkswood, Amuri, Canterbury, New Zealand, Sheep-farmer, now a Mental Patient, found lunatic on inquisition by the said Supreme Court, and now an inmate and patient in the Ashburn Hall Private Mental Hospital, near Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, an institution duly licensed for the reception, custody, care, and treatment of mental patients, to grant administration of his estate as if he were dead or had died on the date of the said proposed Act coming into operation, so as to bring his Will (if any) made by him while he was still of testamentary capacity into immediate effect and operation.
By the said Bill it is also intended, if and in case the said John Donald Macfarlane shall not actually and in fact be dead or die on the date of the coming into operation of the said Act, to make provision out of his estate for his maintenance and comfort during the remainder of his natural life.
By the said Bill it is also intended to make provision out of the estate of the said John Donald Macfarlane for the payment of the expenses of the preparing, promoting, and passing through Parliament of the said Bill and of all things and matters incidental thereto.
And by the said Bill it is also and lastly intended to provide that for all purposes of the administration and of the distribution of the estate of the said John Donald Macfarlane all his six children—namely, his four sons and his two daughters—hereinbefore mentioned shall be deemed to have been and to be alive on the date of the coming into operation of this Act, and to have survived their father the said John Donald Macfarlane.
A copy of the proposed Bill will be deposited at the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders, Wellington, New Zealand, on or before the 8th day of October, 1918.
Dated at Christchurch this 22nd day of August, 1918.
For the petitioners.
J. F. MACFARLANE,
A. R. MACFARLANE,
Two of the petitioners.
H. D. ANDREWS, Solicitor for the Bill.
AWATERE COUNTY COUNCIL.
RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.
IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Awatere County 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 two thousand pounds (£2,000), authorized to be raised by the Awatere County Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for building a bridge and making approaches thereto, over the Awatere River at the Medway Crossing, the said Awatere County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twenty-nine seventy-seconds (29/72) of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all ratable property in a special rating area comprising part Lot 2, D.P. 344, part Lot 1, D.P. 474, Blocks V, IX, X, Blue Mountain S.D.; Blocks I, XXI, Hodder S.D.; and closed roads, Lot 3, D.P. 474, Blocks IX, X, XI, XV, XVI, Blue Mountain S.D.; and closed roads, part Lot 2, D.P. 344, part Lot 5, D.P. 345, and land D.P. 632, Blocks V, VI, VII, XII, Blue Mountain S.D.; and closed roads, part Lot 6, D.P. 346, part Lot 7, D.P. 347, Blocks II, XII, XVI, XVII, Blue Mountain S.D.; Blocks II, III, Whernside S.D.; and closed roads, Upper Awatere Riding, Awatere County. And that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of February and the first day of August 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.
We hereby certify that the above resolution was duly passed at a meeting of the Awatere County Council held at the Council Chambers, Seddon, on 1st August, 1918.
The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Awatere County was hereto affixed at the office of and pursuant to a resolution passed by the Awatere County Council on the first day of August, 1918, in the presence of—
EVERARD A. WELD, Chairman.
GEO. HORN, Clerk.
DANNEVIRKE COUNTY COUNCIL.
In the matter of the Counties Act, 1908, and the Public Works Act, 1908, and the amendments thereof.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Dannevirke County Council proposes, under the provisions of the abovementioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, a public road in the Dannevirke County; and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken.
And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited at the office of the Dannevirke County Council at Dannevirke, and is open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during reasonable hours.
All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of such lands, who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said lands, must state their objections in writing, and send the same, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the clerk of the said County Council at his office in Dannevirke.
THE SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of land to be taken: 3 roods 11 perches. Portion of Mangapuaka No. 1c, situated in Block III, Mangatoro Survey District (Hawke's Bay R.D.).
In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on a plan approved by the Chief Surveyor at Napier and marked 394, green, and thereon coloured pink.
Dated this 9th day of August, 1918.
R. BAKER,
Clerk, Dannevirke County Council.
WELLINGTON LOAN COMPANY (LIMITED).
NOTICE is hereby given that at a general meeting of the above-named company held at Wellington on the 5th day of August, 1918, the following special resolution was passed by the requisite majority of members, and at a subsequent general meeting held at Wellington on the 20th day of August, 1918, the said resolution was duly confirmed by the requisite majority of members, viz.—"That the company be voluntarily wound up."
And notice is further given that GEORGE E. GODBER, of Grey Street, Wellington, has been appointed Liquidator of the company.
YOUNG, NEAVE, AND COURTNEY,
Solicitors for Company.
UNDER THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Education Board of the District of Wellington requires to take all that piece of land situate in and being the Section No. 88 on the plan of the City of Wellington, for a public work—namely, a public school within the meaning of the Education Act, 1908.
And notice is hereby given that a plan of the said land is open for inspection at the offices of the said Board in Mercer Street in the City of Wellington, and at the Mount Cook Boys' School in the said city.
All persons affected by such taking are hereby required to set forth in writing well-grounded objections to the execution of such work or the taking of such land, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the said Board.
Dated this 22nd day of August, 1918.
By order of the Education Board of the District of Wellington.
G. L. STEWART, Secretary.
Note.—This notice was first published on the 23rd August, 1918.
In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the voluntary winding-up of the PAPAKURA SAWMILLING COMPANY (LIMITED).
I, JAMES CHRISTIE, of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland and Dominion of New Zealand, Financial Agent, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare—(1.) That an extraordinary general meeting of the company was held on the 15th day of August, 1918, at Auckland. (2.) That the resolution mentioned in the annexed notice marked "A" was duly passed at such meeting.