That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in
respect of the principal and interest and also the other charges
on a loan of £240, authorized to be raised by the Waipukurau
County Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913,
for the purposes of completing the grading, forming, and
metalling for the first time of Hamilton Road from Tourere
Junction to Old Boundary Gate on top of hill, within special
rating area of the Purimu Riding, the said Waipukurau County
Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/36th of
1d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all property of
the special rating area in the Purimu Riding, being all that
parcel of land containing 21,133 acres 2 roods 35 perches,
more or less, being the whole of the land in the Purimu Riding
within the County of Waipukurau; excepting thereout, but
not in diminution of the foregoing area, the following parcels
of land, containing 5,342 acres 9 perches, being Wharawhara
Blocks 4 and 5, and parts Wharawhara Blocks 1, 2, and 3,
and parts Blocks 56, 60, 61, 62, 73, and 77, Porangahau
Crown-grant District, part Section 1, Block 14, Hatuma
Settlement, and part Section 1, Block 11, Hatuma Settlement.
And that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during
the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the
lst day of June and the 1st day of December in each and
every year during the currency of such loan, being a period
of thirty-six years and a half, or until the loan is fully paid off.

A. C. RUSSELL, Chairman.
J. W. ELLIOTT, County Clerk.

WAIPA DRAINAGE 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 Waipa
Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £5,000, authorized to be raised by the
Waipa Drainage Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for
the purpose of constructing two main outfall drains to the
Waipa River, with the necessary subsidiary drains, culverts,
and flumes, the said Waipa Drainage Board hereby makes
and levies a special rate in the proportions following—namely,
fourpence in the pound on all lands classified as (A), three-
pence in the pound on all lands classified as (B), and one
penny in the pound on all lands classified as (C), upon the
rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable
property of the Waipa Drainage District, and comprising
the whole of the said district; and that such special rate shall
be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such
loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of November 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.

Dated at Otorohanga the 18th day of January, 1921.
H. A. LURMAN, Chairman.

HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING AND LEVYING A SPECIAL RATE.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest on and
provision for the repayment of a loan of £5,800, authorized to
be raised by the Hastings Borough Council, under the above-
mentioned Act, and under section 34 of the Reserves and
other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act,
1920, to be expended for the following purpose,—

To acquire from the owner or owners thereof the fee-
simple of the following lands:

Firstly, five acres seventeen and four-fifths perches,
being part of Lot 2 on a plan deposited in the Land
Transfer Office at Napier under No. 2712, and being the
whole of the land in certificate of title, Vol. 62, folio 23 ;
and

Secondly, one acre one rood and seven and one-fifth
perches, being part of Lot 2, Subdivision D, Heretaunga
Block, being Lot 1 on the said deposited plan No. 2712
and being the whole of the land in certificate of title,
Vol. 67, folio 89; and

Thirdly, one rood thirteen and twelve twenty-fifths
perches, being part of Lot 7 on a plan deposited as afore-
said under No. 885, and being the balance of the land
in certificate of title, Vol. 42, folio 138 (generally known
as “The Nelson Cricket Ground,” and certain adjoining
land);

for the sum of £5,800, to be paid by the Corporation of
the Borough of Hastings to such owner or owners subject
to the conditions contained in the said section 34 of the
Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies
Empowering Act, 1920, and included in the voting-paper
submitted to the poll of the ratepayers—
the said Hastings Borough Council hereby makes and levies
a special rate of 2/25d. of a penny in the pound on the rate-
able value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rate-
able property in the Borough of Hastings, comprising the
whole of the said borough. 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 April in each
and every year during the currency of such loan, being a
period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

PERCY R. PURSER, Town Clerk.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the
Education Act, 1914, respectively.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Education Board for
the District of Wanganui proposes, under the pro-
visions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain
public work—namely, the establishment of a public school;
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 land so required to
be taken is deposited in the public office of the said Education
Board in Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, and is open to in-
spection (without fee) by all persons during 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 (40) days from
the first publication of this notice, to the Secretary of the
Education Board for the District of Wanganui at his office,
Victoria Avenue, Wanganui.

SCHEDULE.

Part of the block of land known as Tutaehaka Native
Reserve, Block III, Westmere Survey District, Borough of
Wanganui, containing two roods twenty-five perches (2 r. 25 p.),
more or less.

Dated this seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-one (1921).

W. H. SWANGER, Secretary.

ADDISONS (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of sections
230 and 252 of the Companies Act, 1908, that a
general meeting of the members of the above-named com-
pany will be held at the Liquidator's Office, 37 Panama
Street, Wellington, on Wednesday, 9th February, at noon,
for the purpose of having an account laid before them show-
ing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted
and the property of the company disposed of, and of hearing
any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator, and
also of determining by extraordinary resolution the manner
in which the books, accounts, and documents of the company
shall be disposed of.

Dated this 18th day of January, 1921.
F. H. IRWIN, Liquidator.

COUNTY OF AKAROA.

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
Akaroa County Council hereby resolves by way of special
order as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of three thousand pounds (£3,000), autho-
rized to be raised by the Akaroa County Council, under the
above-mentioned Act, for-

(a.) The re-erection of the Council Chambers at Duva-
chelle;
(b.) The purchase of 7 acres 1 rood 35 perches of land,
being part Rural Sections 752 and 2114, and the
buildings thereon, for the purpose of a foreman's
cottage and grazing-paddock;
the said Akaroa County Council hereby makes and levies a
special rate of one-fortieth of a penny in the pound upon
the rateable value of all rateable property of the whole of
the said County of Akaroa; and that such special rate shall