Nov. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3175

THE SOUNDS CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of the shareholders of the company will be held at the Sounds Dairy Company Factory, Pinohia, on Saturday, 11th December, 1920, at 2.30 p.m.

BUSINESS.—To receive the Liquidator’s final statement of account of the winding-up of the company.

GEO. FINN, Liquidator.
Box 532, Wellington.

22nd November, 1920. 1080

I, ALBERT VICTOR STROAK, heretofore called and known by the name of Albert Victor Brandt, of Wellington, in the Dominion of New Zealand, Harbour Board Employee, hereby give public notice that on the third day of November, 1920, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said surname of Brandt, and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Albert Victor Stroak instead of the said name of Albert Victor Brandt. And I give further notice that by a deed-poll dated the third day of November, 1920, duly executed and attested (and enrolled in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wellington District, at Masterton, on the 18th day of November, 1920), I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of Brandt, and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Albert Victor Stroak instead of Albert Victor Brandt, and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the name of ALBERT VICTOR STROAK exclusively.

Dated the 18th day of November, 1920.

A. V. STROAK.
(Late A. V. BRANDT.)

Witness—A. G. Barnett, Assistant Secretary, Wellington Harbour Board. 1081

KNOW all men by these presents (which are intended to be enrolled in the Supreme Court of New Zealand) that I, the undersigned, George Manson, of Te Aroha, Motor Engineer, and now or lately called George Turnbull, but formerly properly named and called George Manson, do hereby on behalf of myself and of my wife my heirs and issue lawfully begotten absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the said surname of Turnbull, and in lieu thereof reassume and readopt the surname of Manson; and for the purpose of evidencing such change and reassumption of name I hereby declare that I shall at all times hereafter in all records, deeds, documents, and other writings, and in all actions, suits, and proceedings, as well as in all dealings, transactions, matters, and things whatsoever, and upon all occasions, use and subscribe the said name of Manson as my surname in lieu of the said surname of Turnbull so abandoned as aforesaid; and I therefore hereby expressly authorize and require all persons whatsoever at all times to designate, describe, and address me and my heirs and issue by such readopted surname of MANSON only.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my Christian name of George and my readopted surname of Manson this sixteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

GEORGE MANSON.

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-named George Manson in the presence of—G. H. Nicholls, Solicitor, Te Aroha. 1082

NOTICE UNDER THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Education Board of the District of Auckland intends to erect a public school, and to take, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, for the purposes of a public school the following land—namely, all that piece of land, situated in the Parish of Waipareira, containing 4 acres, more or less, being part of Allotment 114 of the said parish, and being part of the land shown on a plan deposited at the Land Registry Office at Auckland under Number 13972, and part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title registered, in Volume 182, folio 126, of the office aforesaid.

A plan of the land is deposited in the post-office at Swanson, and is there open for inspection by all persons at all reasonable hours.

All persons affected are hereby required and called upon to set forth in writing any well-grounded objections to the erection of a public school on the said land or to the taking of such land, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Education Board of the district of Auckland at its office in Williamson’s Chambers, Shortland Street, Auckland.

Dated at Auckland this 18th day of November, 1920.

E. C. PURDIE,
Secretary of the Education Board of the District of Auckland.

This notice was first published on the 19th day of November, 1920, in the Auckland Star newspaper. 1083

THE NEW ZEALAND LAUNDRY COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

A MEETING of shareholders of the New Zealand Laundry Company (Limited), in Voluntary Liquidation, will be held Thursday, 9th December, at 11 a.m., at the Liquidator’s office, 203 Hobson Street, to consider the Liquidator’s accounts saying how the winding-up has been conducted and the assets of the company disposed of.

The Liquidator will give any information that may be required.

R. S. MURKO, Liquidator.

Auckland, 20th November, 1920. 1084

TUMU-KAITUNA DRAINAGE BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING AND LEVYING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and of all powers it in that behalf enabling, the Tumu-Kaituna Drainage 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 £350, authorized to be raised by the Tumu-Kaituna Drainage Board, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for widening and deepening old drains and for making new drains and flood-gates, the said Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fourth of a penny in the pound on all lands classified Class “A,” one-eighth of a penny in the pound on all lands classified Class “B,” and three thirty-seconds of a penny in the pound on all lands classified Class “C,” in the Tumu-Kaituna Drainage District; and that such special rate be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of the loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first days of February and August in each and every year until the loan is fully paid off.

H. A. VERCOE, Chairman.
OWEN JAS. HODGE, Clerk. 1085

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

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Opotiki County Council Motor-lorry and Plant Loan of £16,000, 1920, authorized to be raised by the Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of purchasing two motor-lorries and plant, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one halfpenny (½d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the County of Opotiki; 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 (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

WILLIAM YOUNG, County Clerk. 1086

HAMILTON 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 Hamilton Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £10,000, authorized to be raised by the