JUNE 1.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

In the matter of Part IX of the Companies Act, 1908, and its amendments; and in the matter of CHUBB'S AUSTRALIAN COMPANY (LIMITED), an incorporated company having its registered office at 128 Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London.

NOTICE is hereby given that the office or place of business of Chubb's Australian Company (Limited) in the City of Wellington has been changed from the offices of Messrs. Aubrey Gualter and Company, Featherston Street, Wellington, to the offices of Messrs. A. and T. Burt (Limited), Courtenay Place, Wellington.

Notice is hereby also given that Chubb's Australian Company (Limited) proposes to carry on business in the following places in New Zealand—viz., Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, and Invercargill. The offices or places of business of the said company, where legal process of any kind may be served upon it and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, will be at the offices of Messrs. A. and T. Burt (Limited) in each of the abovementioned places as hereunder described—

(1.) Customs Street, Auckland.

(2.) Victoria Street, Hamilton.

(3.) Tuam Street, Christchurch.

(4.) Woolcombe Street, Timaru.

(5.) Thames Street, Oamaru.

(6.) Stuart Street, Dunedin.

(7.) 21 Tay Street, Invercargill.

Dated this 17th day of May, 1922.

CHUBB'S AUSTRALIAN COMPANY (LIMITED), By its Attorney, CHRIS. LANGSWORTH, Managing Director in Australasia.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, United States of America, proposes to carry on business in New Zealand, and that the office or place of business in New Zealand, where legal processes of any kind may be served upon the company and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, will be the offices of Messrs. G. G. and J. H. Aitken and Co., Insurance Attorneys, 94 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Dated this 29th day of May, 1922.

G. G. AND J. H. AITKEN AND CO., Attorneys for the Company.

WANGANUI COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is the intention of the Wanganui County Council to execute a certain public work—to wit, the acquisition of land and the erection of a worker's dwelling in the County of Wanganui; and, for the purposes of such public work, to take, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, the land described in the Schedule hereto. And notice is hereby further given that a copy of the plan of the said land so required to be taken is deposited at the office of the Wanganui County Council situate in Campbell Place in the Borough of Wanganui, and is there open for public inspection.

And notice is hereby further given that all persons affected shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice (being the first day of June, 1922), to the Wanganui County Council at its office in Campbell Place aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:— Approximate area of the parcel of land required to be taken : 7 acres 3 roods 21 perches.

Being portion of Waipakura No. 7, Block XV, Waipakura Survey District.

Situated in the Registration District of Left Bank, Wanganui River, Wellington, in the County of Wanganui.

All in the Land District of Wellington; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan deposited in the Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

Dated this 31st day of May, 1922.

G. DARBYSHIRE,

Clerk of the Wanganui County Council.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the INVERCARGILL INVESTMENT COMPANY (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District, dated the 24th day of May, 1922, confirming the reduction of the capital of the above-named company from £12,000 to £2,000, together with the minute approved by the Court showing with respect to the capital of the company as altered the several particulars required by the above statute, was registered by the Assistant Registrar of Companies at Invercargill on the 26th day of May, 1922.

Dated this 26th day of May, 1922

WATSON AND HAGGITT, Solicitors for the Company, Esk Street, Invercargill.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between GEORGE ALBERT SKENE and JOHN ROBERTSON, carrying on business as Seedsmen and Florists at Dunedin under the style or firm of “Skene and Robertson,” has been dissolved as from the twenty-third day of May, 1922. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said GEORGE ALBERT SKENE, who will continue to carry on the said business.

Dated this 23rd day of May, 1922.

GEORGE ALBERT SKENE.

JOHN ROBERTSON.

Witness to the signatures of the said George Albert Skene and John Robertson—E. Aslin, Solicitor, Dunedin.

PICTON ROAD DISTRICT.

HEAVY TRAFFIC BY-LAW.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers, provisions, and authorities vested in it by the Road Boards Act, 1908, and the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Acts amending the same respectively, and of all other powers and authorities thereunto in that behalf it enabling, the Picton Road Board doth hereby make and ordain the following by-law, which by-law shall come into force on the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

1. In the interpretation of this by-law the words “heavy traffic” shall have the meaning assigned to that expression by section 139 of the Public Works Act, 1908; and the word “Board” shall mean the Board of the Picton Road District.

2. The Board may from time to time determine that owing to weather conditions any road or part of a road within the Picton Road District shall be unfit for heavy traffic within the meaning of this by-law for any time during the months of May, June, July, August, and September in any year, and may order that the transportation of any traction-engine or vehicle engaged in heavy traffic for such time as aforesaid shall cease on such road or part of road as aforesaid, and notify such order by notice affixed to any conspicuous place on the road or part of the road determined to be unfit for heavy traffic as aforesaid; and no person shall, after such notice has been so affixed, during the period therein specified, use any traction-engine or vehicle engaged in heavy traffic on such road or part of road.

3. Every person committing a breach of this by-law shall be liable for each such breach to a fine not exceeding the sum of five pounds (£5) as the Court inflicting same shall in its discretion think fit.

This by-law was duly made by the Board of the Picton Road District by a special order passed on the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and confirmed on the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

(SEAL.)

The common seal of the Inhabitants of the Picton Road District was affixed to the above by-law in pursuance of a resolution passed on the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, in the presence of—

HARRY J. STACE. J. B. BARNETT.