Aug. 12.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (4).

TAKE notice that the names of the undermentioned companies have been struck off the Register, and the companies have been dissolved :-

The Ewart Scheelite Syndicate (Limited).
The Pahia Sluicing Company (Limited).
The Phoenix Oil Company (Limited).
Smith and Barnett (Limited).

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this 7th day of August, 1920.

J. MURRAY, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

IN pursuance of section 307 of the above Act, notice is hereby given that the old company known as "Harrison's Ramsay Proprietary (Limited)" intends to cease to carry on business in New Zealand. No break in the continuity of the company's business will thereby occur, as a new company under the same name has been formed to acquire the New Zealand company's business, and the new company has already commenced and will continue to carry on business under the same name and in the same places as the old company.

COPLAND MACKIE
F. MEREDITH
A. N. MORRIS
Bell, Gully, Myers, and O'Leary,
Solicitors, Wellington.

ADAMS, BELL, AND CO. (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the office or place of business of the above company in New Zealand, where legal process of any kind may be served upon it and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, is situate at No. 2 Collingwood Street, Ponsonby, Auckland.

734 FRANK E. BELL, Attorney for the Company.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between FRANCIS THOMAS BROWN and WILLIAM THOMAS SARAH, trading as "Brown and Sarah," Grocers, Hakiaha Street, Taumarunui, has been and is dissolved as from the twenty-first day of July, 1920.

The business of the Partnership will in future be carried on by FRANCIS THOMAS BROWN.

Dated at Taumarunui this 5th day of August, 1920.

F. T. BROWN.
W. T. SARAH.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between WALTER MARTIN NEUMEGEN and ARTHUR MANWELL MOWLEM, carrying on business as Barristers and Solicitors at Auckland, under the style or firm of "Neumegen and Mowlem," has been dissolved as from the 30th day of June, 1920, by mutual consent. All debts due to and owing by the late firm will be received and paid by the said WALTER MARTIN NEUMEGEN, by whom the business will in future be carried on.

Dated this 13th day of June, 1920.

W. M. NEUMEGEN.
ARTHUR M. MOWLEM.

Witness to the signatures of Walter Martin Neumegen and Arthur Manwell Mowlem-Ernest E. Neumegen, Solicitor, Opotiki.

WAIKOHU COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the Waikohu County Council proposes, under the provisions of the abovementioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the construction of a road; and for the purposes 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 in the public office of the Clerk to the said Council situate at Te Karaka, and is open for inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office 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 County Clerk at the Council Chambers.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of land required to be taken :-
A. R. P.
0 2 8 Being portion of Kanakanaia Settlement, Section 6 ; coloured red on plan.
0 2 5 Being portion of Paraeroa 2A; coloured neutral on plan.

Situated in Block XIV, Waingaromia Survey District, County of Waikohu (Poverty Bay R.D.).

Shown on plan marked 927 (brown).

Dated at Te Karaka this 7th day August, 1920.

737 J. G. APPLETON, County Clerk.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A WATER-RACE.

UNDER THE MINING ACT, 1908.

To the Warden of the Otago Mining District at Queenstown.

PURSUANT to the Mining Act, 1908, the undersigned, John Edward O'Connell, of Frankton, in Otago, Farmer, 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 : 4.30 p.m. on 2nd August, 1920.

Date and number of miner's right : 31st July, 1920; No. 118396.

Address for service : Office of Wesley Turton, Solicitor, Queenstown.

Dated at Queenstown this 4th day of August, 1920.

Schedule.

Locality of the race and of its starting and terminal points : Lake Johnson, Frankton, Otago. Starting from the eastern end of such lake and pumping water therefrom into and through a 2 in. iron pipe and taking the pipe through Christen Hansen's freehold land, thence across a public road over Hansen's Saddle, thence through Peter Gray's freehold land, thence across the main public road Queenstown to Arrowtown, and thence through applicant's freehold land to and terminating at his residence on his farm on the Frankton Flat.

Length and intended course of race : About 50 chains; west to east.

Points of intake : Commencing-point.

Estimated time and cost of construction : Six months, if I can get pipes; £200.

Mean depth and breadth : 2 in. iron pipes.

Number of heads to be diverted : Quarter of a head.

Purpose for which water is to be used : Domestic purposes and watering stock.

Proposed term of license : Forty-two years.

Pegs marked X.

JOHN EDWARD O'CONNELL
(By his Solicitor, WESLEY TURTON),
Applicant.

Precise time of filing the foregoing application : 2.30 p.m. on 4th August, 1920.

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application and all objections thereto : Saturday, 4th September, 1920, at 10 a.m., at Warden's Court at Queenstown.

Objections must be filed in the Registrar's office and notified to applicant at least three days before the time so appointed.

738 A. E. REYNOLDS, Mining Registrar.

TE PUKE TOWN BOARD.

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 Te Puke Town Board 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 four hundred and seventy-five pounds (£475), authorized to be raised by the Te Puke Town Board, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of completing urgent road-improvement works, the said Te Puke Town Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixteenth of one penny (1/16d.) in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Te Puke Town District; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of October 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.

739 H. W. EARPClerk.

NEW BRIGHTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION FIXING SECURITY FOR LOAN.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the New Brighton Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :-

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £52,000, authorized to be raised by the New Brighton Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for road-construction, road repairs and improvements, beach improvements, share cost new bridge, fire-prevention, drainage and sanitation, river-protection, Council Chambers and yard, &c., contingencies, cost of raising loan, &c., the said New Brighton Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of threepence halfpenny in the pound upon the