CARLTON CLUB HOTEL, NEWMARKET, AUCKLAND.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership formerly existing between CHARLOTTE LECKY and ALBERT WILLIAM GORDON (now deceased), and carried on under the style of "John Gaze Lecky and (or) Charlotte Lecky," has been dissolved as on the 27th March, 1918.

Dated this llth day of December, 1918.

For Self and Co-executor of Albert William Gordon, deceased.

JOHN ALEXANDER.

In the matter of the estate of ALBERT WILLIAM GORDON, late of Auckland, Building Contractor, and at the time of his death a Flight Lieutenant in His Majesty's Imperial Forces.

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to an order made on the 11th day of December, 1918, by His Honour Theophilus Cooper, Esquire, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Auckland, under section 74. of the Trustee Act, 1908, for creditors and others of the above-named deceased to send in, on or before the 31st day of January, 1919, particulars of claims against the above-named deceased to the executors of his will.

Care of JOHN ALEXANDER,
Solicitor, Shortland Street, Auckland.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership heretofore carried on in Napier by the undersigned as Dentists has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

Dated at Napier this 13th day of December, 1918.

HENRY C. WILSON. HERBERT ZIELE.

WAIMEA COUNTY COUNCIL.

COPY OF 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 Waimea County Council hereby resolves as follows :-- That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of one hundred and fifty pounds sterling (£150), authorized to be raised by the Waimea County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for repairing the Maitai Valley Road, the said Waimea County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of six-thirteenths of one penny. sterling (6/13ths of ld.) in the pound upon the capital value of all rateable property within the Special Rating Area No. 7, Maitai Valley, comprising all that land in Blocks I, II, and V, Maungatapu S.D., in the Nelson Land District, comprised within the following boundary,-- Starting at the junction of Sections 17, 15, and 33, Block I ; thence in a south-east direction to the south-east corner of Section 17; thence in a northerly direction to the south-west corner of Section 55, and then between Sections 55, 54, 56, and 57, and Sections 33, 37, 36, 38, 40, 45, and 42, Block I ; thence from the north-west corner of Section 44 in a south-easterly direction to the north-east corner of Section 52; thence in a southerly direction to the south-east corner of the said Section 52; then in a north-westerly and south-westerly direction between Sections 50 and 51; thence from the south-west corner of Section 51 in a south-easterly direction to Trig. K.H.; thence in a south-westerly direction to Little Twin Mountain; thence in a north-westerly direction to the south-west corner of Section 6, Block II; thence in a north-easterly direction to the southern corner of Section 8; thence in a north-westerly direction to south-east corner of Section 58; thence along the southern, south-western, and western boundaries of the said Section 58 to south-east corner of Section 33; thence in a north-westerly direction along the south-western boundaries of Sections 33, 32, and 31 to the south-west corner of Section 31; thence in a northerly direction along the western boundary of Section 31 to the southern boundary of Section 33; thence along the southern and south-western boundary of the said Section 33 to the junction of Sections 17, 15, and 33. As the same is shown on the plan of the said Special Rating Area No. 7, deposited in the Waimea County Council Office, Nelson, and outlined in red thereon.

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 October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I, Sidney Blomfield, hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of a resolution passed by the Waimea County Council at a special meeting of the said Council held on the 7th day of November, 1918, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 5th day of December, 1918.

S. BLOMFIELD,
Clerk, Waimea County Council.

WAIPA COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 Waipa County Council hereby resolves as follows :-- That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £3,000, authorized to be raised by the Waipa County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of paying the Waipa County Council's proportion of cost of erecting a bridge over the Waikato River at Horotiu, and approaches thereto, the said Waipa County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixtieth of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the district comprising the whole of the County of Waipa; 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 such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed by the Waipa County Council at a duly constituted meeting held on the 12th day of November, 1918.

C. BOWDEN,
Clerk, Waipa County Council.

HOROWHENUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 Horowhenua 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 £500, authorized to be raised by the said Horowhenua County Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for constructing water-races and extending same in the Wai-kawa-Kuku Water-race Special Rating District, the said Horowhenua County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-seventh of one penny in the pound on the rateable value of the whole of the rateable property in the said Waikawa-Kuku Special Rating District, comprising part Sections 1, 7, 10, 10A, 12A, Manawatu-Kukutauaki 4E No. 2B, Block VII, Waitohu S.D.; also subdivision Ohau No. 3, part Sections 4, 16, 17, 18A, 18B, 18c, part C, 20, 21, 22A, 22B, and 25; Block IV, Waitohu S.D. And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the lst day of June 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.

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed by the Horowhenua County Council at a duly constituted meeting held on the 14th day of December, 1918.

P. W. GOLDSMITH, County Clerk.

SOUTH RAKAIA ROAD BOARD.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that it is proposed, under section 18 of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take for the purposes of a gravel-pit all that parcel of land situated in Block X of the Corwar Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods 39.8 perches, being part of Lot 5 on deposit plan 3389, part of Rural Section 15593, and being part of the land included in certificate of title, Vol. 120, folio 125.

A plan showing the land proposed to be taken will be open for public inspection at the office of the South Rakaia Road Board for forty days from the date hereof.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to set forth in writing any well-grounded objections to the execution of such works or to the taking of such lands, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the above-named South Rakaia Road Board.

Dated this 14th day of December, 1918.

By order of the South Rakaia Road Board.

A. J. MAGSON, Chairman.