TAITAPU GOLD ESTATES (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the registered office in New Zealand of the Taitapu Gold Estates (Limited) has been removed from Mangarakau, in the County of Collingwood, in New Zealand, to the offices of Messieurs Adams and Harley, situated in Hardy Street, in the City of Nelson, in New Zealand aforesaid.

Dated this 11th day of September, 1918.

PERCY BOLLAND ADAMS.
CHARLES JOHN HARLEY.
NOEL PERCY ADAMS.

Attorneys for Taitapu Gold Estates (Limited).

INTENTION TO CEASE CARRYING ON BUSINESS.

In compliance with section 307 of the Companies Act, 1908, Lake Hochstetter Goldfields (Limited), a foreign company incorporated in the State of New South Wales, hereby gives notice of its intention to cease carrying on business in New Zealand.

Dated the 13th day of September, 1918.

H. L. MICHEL.
WM. CLAYTON.
New Zealand Attorneys for Lake Hochstetter Goldfields (Limited).

Note.--The above notice is for the purpose of complying with the Companies Act, 1908. The business of above company will henceforth be carried on by Hochstetter Goldfields (Limited).

REMOVAL NOTICE.

THE Wellington Branch Office of the Northern Assurance Company (Limited) is now located in Kennedy's Building, No. 157 Featherston Street, Wellington.

W. A. PARTON, Manager.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908; and in the matter of the Counties Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Wairoa County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work--namely, the formation and construction of public roads, to wit, the extension of the Kiwi Road by way of alteration of the course of a public road passing through Turiroa Agricultural Sections 23 and 27, Block IV, Waihua Survey District, Sections 1 and 2, Block VIII, Waihua Survey District, and adjoining Potutu Rural Sections 10, 11, 14, and 15, Block XII, Waihua Survey District; and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken.

And notice is hereby given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Clerk to the said Council situate in Queen Street, Wairoa, and is open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours. All persons affected by the execution of the said public works or by the taking of such lands, who may have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public works 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 County Clerk at the Council Chambers, Queen Street, Wairoa.

THE SCHEDULE REFERRED TO.

APPROXIMATE area of land to be taken: 4 acres 3 roods 18 perches.

Portion of Turiroa Agricultural Sections 10 and 11, Block VIII, Waihua Survey District.

Coloured on plan: Pink.

Dated this 16th day of September, 1918.

B. G. SIGNALL, County Clerk.

BOROUGH OF RIVERTON.

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 Riverton Borough Council hereby resolves :—

That, for the purpose of providing for the repayment of a loan of £3,300, raised by the Riverton Borough Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for installing the dread-nought gas within the borough, the said Riverton Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny in the pound upon the unimproved rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Riverton ; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 23rd day of September in each and every year during the currency of such loan, or until the loan is fully paid off.

GEO. O. CASSELS,
Town Clerk, Borough of Riverton.
Riverton, 12th September, 1918.

WAIMARINO 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, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Waimarino County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Waimarino County Offices Loan of £3,000, 1918, authorized to be raised by the Waimarino County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of rebuilding County Offices recently destroyed by fire, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixteenth of a penny in the pound sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Waimarino County; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first of October 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, Arthur Mabbott, Clerk of the Waimarino County Council, do hereby certify that the above resolution is a true and correct copy of a resolution passed at a special meeting of the Waimarino County Council held on the 14th day of September, 1918, and appearing upon the minutes of the said meeting.

Dated at Raetihi this 17th day of September, 1918.
ARTHUR MABBOTT, County Clerk.

LYCEUM HALL COMPANY (LIMITED), IN LIQUIDATION, INVERCARGILL.

NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of shareholders of the above company will be held at the office of Longuet and Robertson, Esk Street, Invercargill, on Tuesday, the 15th day of October, 1918, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of laying the Liquidator's final account before the meeting and offering any explanation he may wish to give.

CHAS. S. LONGUET, Liquidator.

PHARMACY BOARD OF NEW ZEALAND.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is my intention to proceed on Friday, the 25th day of October, 1918, to the election of two duly registered pharmaceutical chemists to serve as members of the Pharmacy Board of New Zealand, in place of John Ernest Staples and William Stewart Wallace, who retire on 31st December, 1918, and are eligible for re-election.

Candidates must be nominated in manner provided by the regulations under the Pharmacy Act, 1908, on or before Friday, the 11th day of October, 1918, forms for the purpose being obtainable from me, and nominations closing with me at 4 p.m. on the date mentioned.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of September, 1918.

C. W. NIELSEN, Registrar.

In the matter of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913; and in the matter of a loan of £8,000 to the Mangonui County Council.

THOMAS STEWART HOUSTON, of Ahipara, the Chairman of the Mangonui County Council, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows :

1. That attached hereto and marked “A” is a true copy of a resolution of the Mangonui County Council passed on the 12th day of September, 1918, making a special rate.

2. That I was present when the said resolution was so passed; and the same was duly carried in accordance with law.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General