May 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 395 such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable yearly on the first day of April in each and every year until the loan is fully paid off. P. H. SMITH, Secretary. 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 twelfth day of May, 1922, cancelled the registry of The Blackball Sick Fund Benefit Society (Register No. 362), held at Blackball, on the ground that the said society has ceased to exist. WILLIAM M. WRIGHT, Registrar. Dated this twelfth day of May, 1922. 396 WAIAPU COUNTY COUNCIL. NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND. In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and the Public Works Act, 1908. NOTICE is hereby given that the Waiapu County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work--namely, the erection of workers' dwellings; and for the purpose of such work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. Notice is further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public offices of the Clerk to the said Council at Waipiro Bay, and is open for inspection 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 such public work or to the taking of such 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 at Waipiro Bay. SCHEDULE. APPROXIMATE areas of land required to be taken:- A. R. P. Being Portion of 10 1 6 Tokomaru K 4c Block, situate in Blocks VII and XI; coloured on plan pink. 3 3 11 Tokomaru H Block, situate in Block VII ; coloured on plan yellow. Shown on plan 966 (brown). Situated in the Tokomaru Survey District, County of Waiapu. Dated at Waipiro Bay this 8th day of May, 1922. 397 A. L. TEMPLE, County Clerk. MEDICAL REGISTRATION. I, GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBB, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, now residing in Dunedin, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 9th June, 1922, next to have my name placed on the Medical Register of the Dominion of New Zealand; and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualification in the office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths at Dunedin. G. DOUGLAS ROBB, University of Otago. Dated at Dunedin 10th May, 1922. 399 CHANGE OF NAME. I, ETHEL MARY MARTIN, heretofore called and known by the name of Ethel Mary Maslin, of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in New Zealand, Married Woman, hereby give public notice that on the 8th day of May, 1922, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Ethel Mary Martin instead of the name of Ethel Mary Maslin. And I further give notice that by deed-poll dated the 8th day of May, 1922, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the office of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Northern District, on the 9th day of May, 1922, as number 2043, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the said surname of Maslin, and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of Ethel Mary Martin instead of the name of Ethel Mary Maslin, and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the name of ETHEL MARY MARTIN exclusively. Dated at Auckland this 11th day of May, 1922. ETHEL MARY MARTIN. 400 (Formerly ETHEL MARY MASLIN.) CHANGE OF SURNAME. WALTER ERNEST GEORGE, heretofore called and known by the name of Walter Ernest Irving, of Wellington, Carpenter, hereby give notice that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to sign and use and be called and known by the name of WALTER ERNEST GEORGE in lieu of and in substitution for my present name of Walter Ernest Irving; and that such change or assumption of name is formally declared and evidenced by deed-poll under my hand dated the 15th day of May, 1922, and enrolled in the office at Wellington of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Dated this 15th day of May, 1922. WALTER ERNEST GEORGE. Witness-A. B. Sievwright, Solicitor, Wellington. 401 DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership existing between GEORGE MICHAEL JAMES PERKINSON, HENRY JOSEPH PERKINSON, and LEO THORNTON PERKINSON, carrying on business at Victoria Valley as Sawmillers under the firm-name of "Perkinson Bros.," has been dissolved as from the 30th day of April, 1922, and in future the business will be carried on by GEORGE MICHAEL JAMES PERKINSON, who has taken over all liabilities of the Partnership, and to whom all amounts owing to the Partnership are now payable. Dated this 9th day of May, 1922. GEO. M. PERKINSON. H. J. PERKINSON. L. T. PERKINSON. Witness-Jas. Pulford, Law Clerk, Kaitaia. 402 NORTHERN TRANSPORT COMPANY (LIMITED). NOTICE is hereby given that the following resolution has been duly passed by the above company :- "That the company, having disposed of its business, be wound up voluntarily; and that Messrs. ALFRED FAITHFULL, of Ohaeawai, and C. F. C. MILLER, of Kawakawa, be appointed Liquidators of the company." Dated the 12th day of May, 1922. A. FAITHFULL C. F. C. MILLER } Liquidators. 403 NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto subsisting between us, the undersigned, GEORGE NICHOLSON McINTOSH and WILLIAM STEWART, as Grocers, carried on at 293 Highgate, Maori Hill, Dunedin, under the style "G. N. McIntosh and Co.," was on the 24th day of March, 1922, dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to and owing by the late firm will be received and paid by GEORGE NICHOLSON McINTOSH, who is carrying on the business at the same address under the same style as heretofore. Dated this thirteenth day of May, 1922. G. N. McINTOSH. WILLIAM STEWART. Witness to both signatures-W. A. Harlow, Clerk to Messrs. White, Ramsay, and Barrowclough, Solicitors, Dunedin. 404 CONSOLIDATED STATUTES. REDUCTION IN PRICE TO THE PUBLIC. SETS of Consolidated Statutes consisting of Five Volumes, in Cloth Binding, may now be obtained at the price of £5 per set; postage, 3s. 6d. extra. MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer.