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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 26

In Bankruptcy.—In the Supreme Court, Wanganui District.

NOTICE is hereby given that THOMAS PALMER, of Wanganui, Restaurant-keeper, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office, Public Trust Office, on Thursday, the 21st day of February, 1918, at 2.30 o’clock p.m.

T. R. SAYWELL,
Deputy Official Assignee.

8th February, 1918.

In Bankruptcy.

NOTICE is hereby given that ERNEST WILLIAM BRUCE, of Timaru, Plasterer, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be held at my office, Arcade, Timaru, on Tuesday, the 19th day of February, 1918, at 11 o’clock a.m.

F. A. RAYMOND,
Deputy Official Assignee.

13th February, 1918.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

EVIDENCE having been furnished of the loss of certificate of title, Vol. 152, folio 19, for part Lot 22, D.P. 535, part of Rural Section 14, situated in the Borough of Woolston, whereof THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE (as executor of the Will of JOHANNA PLANK, deceased) is the registered proprietor, and application having been made to me for the issue of a provisional certificate of title for the said land, I hereby give notice that it is my intention to issue such provisional certificate of title at the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

Dated at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch, this 18th day of February, 1918.

W. WYINKS,
District Land Registrar.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcels of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.

12396. JOHN FISHER.—26·9 perches, part of Town Reserve 73, Peacock Street, City of Christchurch. Occupied by applicant.

12397. FRANK BRUCE STENHOUSE.—1 rood 2·7 perches, part of Rural Section 307, Block XI, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by applicant.

12398. SAMUEL LOWE.—7 acres 0 roods 12·4 perches, part of Rural Section 224, Block VII, Christchurch Survey District. Occupied by applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 19th day of February, 1918, at the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch.

W. WYINKS,
District Land Registrar.

NOTICE is hereby given that the parcels of land herein-after described will be brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the publication hereof in the Gazette.

5257. WILLIAM ROSEBY THOMSON and CLAUDIUS BEATTIE THOMSON.—1 rood 23·4 perches, Sections 17 and 17B, Block XVII, City of Dunedin. Occupied partly by applicants and partly by applicants’ tenants.

5258. JOHN PETERSON.—20 perches, part of Section 38, Block V, Town of Dunedin. Occupied by applicant.

5259. MARGARET ELIZABETH PURVIS.—20 perches, part of Section 38, Block V, Town of Dunedin. Occupied by applicant.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 16th day of February, 1918, at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin.

C. E. NALDER,
District Land Registrar.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and of the PEARSON SOAP COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the office or place of business in New Zealand of the Pearson Soap Company (Limited), a company incorporated in New South Wales, where legal process may be served and notices of any kind addressed or delivered, is at Grey Street, Hamilton East.

Dated this ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

H. M. TRISTRAM,
E. J. WILLIAMSON,
Attorneys for the Company.

151

STRATFORD BOROUGH 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 Stratford Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking fund and other charges on a loan of fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000), authorized to be raised by the Stratford Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of reconstructing with concrete, and such other materials as the Council shall think fit, the undermentioned streets or portions of streets within the Borough of Stratford—viz., Broadway, for its entire length; the portions of Fenton Street and Regan Street lying between Juliet Street and Broadway; and the portion of Juliet Street lying between Regan Street and Fenton Street—the said Stratford Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny and one-eighth of a penny (1½d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Stratford. And that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, or any part thereof, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of March and the first day of September in each and every year during the currency of such loan, or any part thereof, being a period of ten years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed at a properly constituted meeting of the Stratford Borough Council held on Monday, the 28th day of January, 1918.

Dated at Stratford this 4th day of February, 1918.

PHILIP SKOGLUND, Town Clerk.

154

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A WATER-RACE.

UNDER THE MINING ACT, 1908.

To the Warden of the Otago Mining District at Cromwell,

PURSUANT to the Mining Act, 1908, the undersigned, the Cromwell Development Company (Limited), a company duly incorporated under the Companies Act, 1908, having its registered office in Dunedin, hereby applies for a license for a water-race, as specified in the Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.

Precise time of marking out privilege applied for: 5 p.m., 6th February, 1918.

Date and number of miner’s right: 15th August, 1917; No. 112898.

Address for service: Care of A. M. Brodrick, Solicitor, Cromwell.

Dated at Cromwell this 8th day of February, 1918.

Schedule.

Locality of the race and of its starting and terminal points: Starting at a point in Stony Creek, in applicant’s freehold, Section 25, Block III, Cromwell District, one chain above abandoned race known as Charcoal Race, and terminating in said abandoned race about ten chains south of said creek.

Length and intended course of race: 16½ chains; north to south.

Points of intake: Stony Creek.

Estimated time and cost of construction: Five weeks; £20.

Mean depth and breadth: 15 in. wide, 12 in. deep.

Number of heads to be diverted: One-tenth of a head.