Dec. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3015

VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the NEW ZEALAND WOOD PULP AND PAPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that a special resolution within the meaning of section 91 of the above-mentioned Act was duly passed at a meeting of the above-named company held on the 19th day of July, 1921, and confirmed at a meeting of the said company held on the 2nd day of August, 1921, as follows :—

“That the company be wound up voluntarily.”

Dated this 6th day of December, 1921.

1018 DENYS HOARE, Liquidator.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the Opotiki County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the making of a public 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 in Main Street, Opotiki, 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 area of parcels of land required to be taken:
2 roods 19·2 perches.
Being portion of Section No. 189, Waioeka Parish, situate in the Opotiki County.
Coloured on plan: Pink.

Dated this 14th day of December, 1921.

1019 WILLIAM YOUNG, County Clerk.

NEW ZEALAND.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT, 1909.—ADVERTISEMENT OF CANCELLING.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of Friendly Societies has, pursuant to section 70 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, by writing under his hand dated this thirteenth day of December, 1921, cancelled the registry of Loyal St. George Lodge No. 5561, of the Wellington District of the New Zealand Branch of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows friendly society, Register No. 312(1)6, held at Pahautanui, on the ground that the said branch has ceased to exist.

1020 R. E. HAYES, Registrar.

HOKIANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOXIOUS WEEDS ACT, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a special meeting of the Hokianga County Council held on Wednesday, 2nd November, 1921, the following resolution was carried, and was confirmed at a special meeting of the Council held on Wednesday, 7th December :—

“That gorse be declared a noxious weed within the county.”

1021 F. T. GOODHUE, Chairman.

DUNEDIN CITY 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 Dunedin City Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of three hundred and thirty-seven thousand pounds (£337,000), authorized to be raised by the Dunedin City Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of paying off such parts as are not provided for by other means of the following special loans falling due on the 1st day of March, 1922, viz.,—

(1.) Loan of £200,000, raised in 1900, under the provisions of the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramways Act, 1900, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900 ;

(2.) Loan of £100,000, raised in 1904, under the provisions of the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramways Act, 1900, Amendment, 1901, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900 ;

(3.) Loan of £72,500, raised in 1904, under the provisions of the Waipori Falls Electrical Power Act, 1904 ;

(4.) Loan of £70,000, raised in 1906, under the provisions of the Waipori Falls Electrical Power Act, 1904 ;

(5.) Loan of £30,000, raised in 1907, under the provisions of the Waipori Falls Electrical Power Act, 1904 ;

(6.) Loan of £26,700, raised in 1908, under the provisions of the Waipori Falls Electrical Power Act, 1904 ;

(7.) Loan of £9,000, raised in 1901 by the Council of the late Borough of North-east Valley (which district became a part of the City of Dunedin on the 13th day of October, 1910), under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900 ;

(8.) Loan of £8,000, raised in 1901 by the Council of the late Borough of Mornington (which district became a part of the City of Dunedin on the 1st day of January, 1916), under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900 ;

the said Dunedin City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of eightpence (8d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the annual value) of all rateable property of the City of Dunedin, comprising the whole of the City of Dunedin. And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of September and the 1st day of March in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten (10) years from the 1st day of March, 1922, or until the loan is fully paid off.

1022 G. A. LEWIN, Town Clerk.

RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.

WHATAWHATA–TE PUROA SPECIAL RATING DISTRICT.—RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE AS SECURITY FOR LOAN OF £1,500.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and amendments thereto, the Raglan County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,500, authorized to be raised by the Raglan County Council, under the provisions of the Counties Act, 1908, the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1915, and amendments thereto, and all other Acts (if any) it in that behalf enabling, and with the consent of the Governor in Council under section 20 of the Finance Act, 1919, as gazetted on page 2744 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1921, for the purpose of forming a new road from Whatawhata to Te Puroa within the Whatawhata–Te Puroa Special Rating District of the County of Raglan, the Raglan County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twopence in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Whatawhata–Te Puroa Special Rating District of the County of Raglan.

The boundaries of the said special rating district are as follows: Commencing at the north-east corner of Section 66B No. 1A 2 of Block XIV, Newcastle Survey District; thence running west along the northern boundaries of Sections 66B No. 1A 2 and 66B No. 3C and part 66 to the block line; thence south along the said block-line to the south-east corner of Section 66A No. 2; thence east along the southern boundary of Section 66A No. 2 to the south-west corner of Section 66A No. 1; thence south and east taking in 229 acres of Waipa 66B No. 2, to the north-west corner of Section 42; thence along the western and southern boundaries of the same section and the western boundaries of Sections 28, 27, 26, 25, and 24, to the south-west corner of Section 24; thence east along the southern boundaries of Sections 24 and 13 to the south-east corner of Section 13; thence north along the eastern boundaries of Sections 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 to the Waipa River; and thence following the western bank of the Waipa River to the point of commencement.

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 January in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, and the rate of interest to be paid to be four pounds ten shillings per centum per annum, together with an additional charge to provide the necessary sinking fund, or until the loan is fully paid off.

1023 CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE, Chairman.
H. MARSLAND, County Clerk.