Feb. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 521

purpose of a road. Copy of the plan of the lands is deposited at the County Office in Collingwood, and may be inspected there at any time during office hours.

All persons affected are hereby required and called upon to set forth in writing any well-grounded objections to the execution of such work or to the taking of such lands, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication hereof, to the Collingwood County Council, at its office, Collingwood.

SCHEDULE.

(1.) All that parcel of land, containing 1 acre 2 roods 20 perches, being part of Section 19, Square 15, Block V, Onetaua Survey District.

(2.) All that parcel of land, containing 3 acres 1 rood 20 perches, being part of Section 28, Native Reserve, Block V, Onetaua Survey District.

Dated this 10th day of February, 1921.

F. GILES, County Clerk.

This notice was first published on the 17th day of February, 1921. 156

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and its amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that THE TEXAS COMPANY (AUSTRALASIA) LIMITED proposes to carry on business in the City of Auckland, and that its office or place of business will be situated in the Richards-Upton Building, Customs Street East, in the said city.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of February, 1921.

THE TEXAS COMPANY (AUSTRALASIA) LIMITED,
By its Attorney, CHARLES V. BIRCH.
Witness—Albert G. Jorgensen, Solicitor, Wellington. 157

KAIKOURA 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 Kaikoura County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Kaikoura County Council Peninsula Riding Loan of £2,400, 1920, authorized to be raised by the Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of an electrical installation within the Peninsula Riding of the County of Kaikoura, and the provision and erection of all plant, material, or things necessary or incidental thereto, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of seven-sixteenths (7/16ths) of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Peninsula Riding of the County of Kaikoura; 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 October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-five (25) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

158 S. ANDREW, Chairman.

WHANGAREI BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and of all powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Whangarei Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Whangarei Borough Council Sewerage Extension Loan, £13,000, 1913, authorized to be raised by the said Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of extending the sewerage system within the said borough, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 11/16ths of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Whangarei; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st September in each year during the currency of such loan, being a period of eighteen years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

159 A. E. MARWICK, Town Clerk.

SPRINGS-ELLESMERE ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Springs-Ellesmere Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of sixty thousand pounds (£60,000), authorized to be raised by the Springs-Ellesmere Electric-power Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for—

Erection of electric-power transmission-lines, including engineering fees and cost of supervising the work, also the taking or acquisition of lands and other rights .. .. £ 56,800
Erection of office and dwelling .. .. 2,000
Payment of preliminary expenses in constituting and election of the Board .. .. 200
Initial management expenses and legal costs .. 500
Land and fencing .. .. .. 500

the said Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of twenty-one sixty-fourths (21/64ths) of a penny in the pound sterling upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Springs-Ellesmere Electric-power Board District, comprising the whole area of the Springs-Ellesmere Electric-power Board District as proclaimed and described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 65, of 8th July, 1920. And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 30th day of September 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. 160

WAIKATO COUNTY COUNCIL.

ORINI ROAD LOAN.—RESOLUTION LEVYING SPECIAL RATE.

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

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of the instalments in respect to interest and sinking fund on a special loan of £16,000, authorized to be raised by the Waikato County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the constructing and metalling of roads for the first time, the Waikato County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three farthings in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Orini Special Rating District.

Orini Special Rating Area.

All that area in the County of Waikato bounded, commencing at the eastern corner of Allotment 478A of the Parish of Taupiri, towards the north-east by the boundary-line between the County of Piako and the County of Waikato to the northern corner of Lot 5 on a plan deposited in the Land Transfer Office at Auckland as No. 5276A; thence towards the south-east by the said Lot 5 and the Mangatea Stream to the north-western corner of Lot 5A on plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 8215; thence towards the north-east by the said Lot 5A and Lot 5 on a plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 6566 to a point opposite the eastern corner of Lot 2 on the last-mentioned plan; thence towards the south-east by a road bounding the said Lot 2 to the southern corner of such lot; thence towards the north-east by Lot 6 on the last-mentioned plan to the southern corner of such lot; thence towards the south-east by Lots 5, 4, 3, 2, on a plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 5548A, and Lots 5, 4, 3, 2, 6, and 1 on a plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 6454A, to the southern corner of Lot 1 on plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 7344; thence towards the south-west by the blocks of land delineated on plans deposited as aforesaid as Nos. 4829A and 4786A to the western corner of Lot 9 on plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 5402A; thence towards the north-west by Lots 18 and 17 on a plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 13221 to the eastern corner of the said Lot 17; thence towards the south-west by Lots 17, 16, 15, 14, and 22 on the said plan No. 13221 to the northern corner of the said Lot 22; thence towards the south-east by the said Lot 22 to its western corner; thence towards the south-west by Lot 5 on plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 5021A to the western corner of Lot 1 on plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 6632; thence towards the west generally by blocks of land delineated on plans deposited as aforesaid as Nos. 6481A and 4720A to the road bounding Allotment 154 of the Parish of Taupiri; thence by a line across such road to the boundary of such last-mentioned allotment; thence towards the south by such last-mentioned road to the south-western corner of Allotment 164 of the said parish; thence towards the west by a road bounding Allotment 169 of the said parish and the Mangawara