JUNE 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1687

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A DAM.
UNDER THE MINING ACT, 1908.

To the Warden of the Hauraki Mining District at Thames.
PURSUANT to the Mining Act, 1908, the undersigned,
the Thames County Council, by its County Clerk,
H. T. G. McElroy, hereby applies for a license for a dam as
specified in the Schedule hereto, the site whereof has been
duly marked out for the purpose.
Date and number of miner's right: 1/3/21 ; No. 120074.
Address for service: Mary Street, Thames.
Dated at Thames this 5th day of March, 1921.

Schedule.
Locality of dam: Matatoki Stream, approximately three
miles east of the Thames to Paeroa main road. Mark on
pegs, H.
Length of dam-wall, 30 ft.; greatest height of same, 10 ft.;
breadth of same at base, 20 ft.; length and width of water-
area, two square miles.
Proposed term of license: Forty-two years.
Purpose for which water is to be stored: Supplying water-
race for mineral quarrying and crushing.
THAMES COUNTY COUNCIL
(H. T. G. McELROY, County Clerk),
Applicant.
Precise time of marking out privilege applied for: 10 a.m.
on 4th March, 1921.
Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application
and all objections thereto: Wednesday, 27th July, 1921,
at 10 a.m., at Warden's Court, Thames.
Objections must be filed in the Registrar's office and notified
to applicant at least three days before the time so
appointed.
534 R. McLEAN, for Mining Registrar.

EKETAHUNA BOROUGH COUNCIL.
SPECIAL 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
the several Acts amending the same respectively, the Eketa-
huna Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:-
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of two thousand two hundred and fifty
pounds, authorized to be raised by the Eketahuna Borough
Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of
installing a septic tank extension of the sewerage system, and
connecting same up with the septic tank in accordance with
plans drawn up by the Council, and the said work having
been recommended by the Public Health Officer and ap-
proved by the Minister of Public Health, under the provi-
sion of section 69 of the Public Health Act, 1908, the Eketa-
huna Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate
of one penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all
rateable property comprised in the following special drainage
rating area,-
Lots 8 to 44 of Section 13; Lots 34 and 83 of Section 12;
Lots 8F to 22F of closed road; Lots 1 and 1D, 3 and 4, and
part Lot 2, Section 23; Lots 1 to 31 of Section 24; and
Lots 2D to 4D, 1E to 3E, and 14E to 18E, closed road; Lots 1
to 13, 62 to 78, of Section 12; and the northern portion of
Section 12, adjoining the Alfredton Road; Lots 1, 6, 7, half
Lots 3 and 4, of D.P. 3146; Lot 38 of Section 13; Lots 1
to 5, 40 to 42, 45 to 48, part Lot 50, Lots 51, 52, 61, of
Section 13, Settlement of Eketahuna; and Sections 1 to 6,
22 to 45, 82 to 92, Township of Parkville.
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 August in each and every year during the
currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, or until
the loan is fully paid off.
535 PHIL. PIKE, Mayor.
INGLEWOOD 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, the
Inglewood County Council 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 £2,500, authorized to be raised by the Inglewood
County Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913,
for the purpose of metalling the Autawa and Pita Roads,
the said Inglewood County Council hereby makes and levies
a special rate of 1½ pence in the pound upon the rateable
value of all rateable property of the Autawa and Pita Roads
Special Rating Area, comprising Secs. 30/1, containing 57
acres; Sec. 39, containing 35 acres; Sec. 42, containing
201 acres 1 rood 13 perches; Secs. 47/8, containing 201 acres
0 roods 9 perches; Secs. 43, 57, containing 256 acres; all
Block III, Huiroa S.D.: Secs. 11, 12, containing 540 acres;
Secs. 18, 17, 19, containing 708 acres; Secs. 21, 22, containing
1,673 acres; Block IV, Huiroa S.D.: Sec. 44, containing
210 acres, Block III, Huiroa S.D.; Sec. 45, Block III,
Huiroa S.D.; and Secs. 14, 15, 16, Block IV, Huiroa S.D.;
together containing 680 acres 2 roods 35 perches: Sec. 2,
Block I, Ngatimaru S.D., containing 1,344 acres. 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 August in each and every year during the currency of
such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years, or
until the loan is fully paid off.
536 A. NIELSON, County Clerk.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
subsisting between FRANK OLIVER RULE and JOHN
RAMSAY MORTON, carrying on business at Te Kuiti as Land
Agents under the style or firm of "Rule and Morton," as
from the 21st day of April, 1921, is dissolved so far as con-
cerns the said Frank Oliver Rule, who retires from the said
firm.
Dated at Te Kuiti this twenty-first day of June, 1921.
JOHN R. MORTON.
F. O. RULE.
Witness-J. D. Vernon, Solicitor, Te Kuiti. 537
AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL.
LAND TAKEN FOR A PUBLIC WORK.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Auckland City Council
proposes (in exercise of the powers in that behalf
vested in it by the Public Works Act, 1908) to take the lands
described in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of a public
work-namely, for the construction of a public road, being
a continuation of Beach Road in the City of Auckland;
and that a plan of the land so proposed to be taken is open
for inspection at the office of the Town Clerk, Auckland,
between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. from Mondays to
Fridays (inclusive), and between the hours of 10 a.m. and
noon on Saturdays.
All persons affected by the said public work, and having
any well-grounded objection thereto or to the taking of the
said land, are hereby called upon to set forth such objection
in writing to the Auckland City Council within forty days
from the 30th day of June, 1921, being the date of the first
publication of this notice.
THE SCHEDULE.
All that parcel of land situated in Block VIII of the Rangi-
toto Survey District, containing decimal seven perches, more
or less, being part of Allotment four of Section twelve of the
City of Auckland (plan 21277, blue).
Dated the 17th day of June, 1921.
J. J. WALKLATE,
538 Acting Town Clerk, Auckland.
In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that BENSON BROTHERS (LI-
MITED), a company duly incorporated in the State of
New South Wales, intends to commence and carry on business
in New Zealand, and that the office of the company will be
situate at Number 20 Brandon Street in the City of Wel-
lington.
Dated this 27th day of June, 1921.
BENSON BROS. (LIMITED),
539 By its Attorney, W. G. BOORMAN.
GORE 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 other Acts and powers (if any) it thereunto enabling,
the Gore Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges of the Gore Borough
Reconstruction and Extension of Electric Light and Power
Works Supplementary Loan 1921 of £1,200, authorized to
be raised by the said Council, under the above-mentioned
Act, for the purpose of the reconstruction and extension of
the electric light and power works of the Borough of Gore