APRIL 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1193

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

SECTION 266, SUBSECTION (4).

TAKE notice that the names of the undermentioned
companies have been struck off the Register, and the
companies have been dissolved :—
The Alexandra Antimony Company (Limited). (08/19.)
The Queen Shipping Company (Limited). (19/9.)

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 12th day of
April, 1920.

J. MORRISON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

In the matter of the Companies Act.

NOTICE is hereby given that the TEXAS COMPANY
(AUSTRALASIA) (LIMITED), proposes to carry on busi-
ness in Wellington, and that the office of the company will
be at Number 220 Lambton Quay, Wellington.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of March, 1920.

THE TEXAS COMPANY (AUSTRALASIA) (LIMITED),
By its Attorney,
J. MACDONALD SMITH.
Witness—Leonard O. H. Tripp, Solicitor, Wellington. 327

NOT1CE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto
existing between Mr. A. de B. BRANDON and the Hon.
T. W. HISLOP as Barristers and Solicitors, under the firm
or style of "Brandon, Hislop, and Brandon," is this day dis-
solved by mutual consent, Mr. Hislop retiring from the firm.

Mr. Hislop will be succeeded by Major A. de B. Brandon,
D.S.O., M.C., and Captain T. C. A. Hislop, Barristers at Law
and Solicitors, and the practice will in future be carried on
under the firm or style of "Brandon, Son, and Hislop."

Dated this 31st day of March, 1920.

A. DE B. BRANDON.
T. W. HISLOP.
150 Featherston Street, Wellington. 354

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

I, GEOFFREY MICHAEL FULTON BARNETT, Bachelor
of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, New Zealand
University, now residing in Christchurch, hereby give notice
that I intend applying on the 30th April, 1920, next to have
my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of
New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of
my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and
Deaths at Dunedin.

GEOFFREY BARNETT,
Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch.
Dated at Dunedin 31st March, 1920. 355

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
subsisting between RICHARD HOPPY and ALBERT
ELDRED ORCHARD, carrying on business as Hairdressers and
Tobacconists at Christchurch under the style of "Hoppy and
Orchard," has been dissolved by mutual consent as from
23rd March, 1920.

Dated the 27th day of March, 1920.

R. HOPPY.
A. E. ORCHARD.
Witness to above signatures—E. W. White, Solicitor,
Christchurch. 356

PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

PUBLIC WORKS LOAN, £39,500.—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
Palmerston North Borough Council hereby resolves as fol-
lows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £39,500, authorized to be raised by the
Palmerston North Borough Council, under the above-men-
tioned Act, for construction of concrete water-tables, laying
down of roadways in tarred macadam or other process, con-
struction or reinstatement of bridges in concrete construction,
of new footways and repairs to existing footways, and cycle-
tracks, the said Palmerston North Borough Council hereby
makes and levies a special rate of fourteen thirty-thirds

(14/33rds) of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value
of all rateable property of the Borough of Palmerston North,
comprising the whole of the said borough; and that such
special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day
of June 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.

30th March, 1920.
357 J. R. HARDIE, Town Clerk.

PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

WATER AND SEWERAGE LOAN OF £25,500.—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
Palmerston North Borough Council hereby resolves as fol-
lows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £25,500, authorized to be raised by the
Palmerston North Borough Council, under the above-men-
tioned Act, for the purpose of extending the sewer through
unsewered streets, extending the water reticulation and pur-
chase of water-meter, and to provide a sewerage system for
Hokowhitu and purchase of pumping plant and equipment,
the said Palmerston North Borough Council hereby makes and
levies a special rate of eighteen sixty-fifths (18/65ths) of a
penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable
property of the Borough of Palmerston North, comprising the
whole of the said borough; and that such special rate shall
be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such
loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of June 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.

30th March, 1920.
358 J. R. HARDIE, Town Clerk.

PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

ELECTRICAL TRACTION AND DESTRUCTOR LOAN, £24,500.—
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
Palmerston North Borough Council hereby resolves as fol-
lows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £24,500, authorized to be raised by the
Palmerston North Borough Council, under the above-men-
tioned Act, for the purpose of providing sufficient electrical
traction, providing extra lavatory accommodation, and erec-
tion of destructor and purchase of plant and equipment, the
said Palmerston North Borough Council hereby makes and
levies a special rate of twenty-one eightieths (21/80ths) of a
penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable
property of the Borough of Palmerston North, comprising the
whole of the said borough; and that such special rate shall be
an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan,
and be payable yearly on the first day of June 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.

30th March, 1920.
359 J. R. HARDIE, Town Clerk.

PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

STORM-WATER DRAINAGE LOAN OF £19,475.—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
Palmerston North Borough Council hereby resolves as fol-
lows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £19,475, authorized to be raised by the
Palmerston North Borough Council, under the above-men-
tioned Act, for the purpose of straightening, widening, and
deepening the Kawau Drain, carrying out of a storm-water
scheme and construction of concrete conduits, and the
straightening, widening, and deepening of the Hokowhitu
Lagoons, the said Palmerston North Borough Council hereby
makes and levies a special rate of nine forty-seconds (9/42nds)
of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable