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the formation of a road ; 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 lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the said Board situate at Wharfe Road, St. Helier’s Bay, and is open for inspection (without fee) 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 the said public work or to the taking of the said lands, must state their objections in writing, and send the same, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Clerk of the said Board at the said office.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of parcels of land required to be taken : 23·5 perches.
Being portion of Lot 1 of Allotment 27, Parish of Waitemata. Coloured on plan : Red.
Situate in the district of Tamaki West.
Dated this 22nd day of February, 1923.

JOHN WM. CARR,
Clerk, Tamaki West Road Board.

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In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and of DARROW, GRUNDY, AND THORNTON (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up of the above-named company by the Supreme Court was on the 2nd day of February, 1923, presented to Mr. Justice Stringer, a Judge of the Supreme Court, by William Robert Francis Elvin, of Turua, Farmer, a creditor of the said company ; and the said petition is directed to be heard before a Judge of the said Court on the 9th day of April, 1923 ; and any creditor or contributory of the said company desirous to oppose the making of an order for the winding-up of the said company under the above Act should appear at the time of hearing, by himself or his counsel, for that purpose ; and a copy of the petition will be furnished to any creditor or contributory of the said company requiring the same, by the undersigned, on payment of the regulated charge for the same.

STEWART, JOHNSTON, HOUGH, & CAMPBELL,
Solicitors, Wyndham Street, Auckland
(Agents for MILLER & SON, Solicitors, Thames),
Solicitors for the Petitioner.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership business heretofore carried on by us, the undersigned, JOHN CONAGHAN and HUGH CONAGHAN, at Mossburn in Southland, as Farmers and Agriculturists, under the style or firm of “Conaghan Bros.,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. The said HUGH CONAGHAN has acquired the interest of the said John Conaghan in the property and assets of the said firm, and all debts owing to the late firm must be paid to him, and he will discharge all the liabilities thereof.

Dated this eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

JOHN CONAGHAN.
H. CONAGHAN.

Witness to both signatures—F. R. Wilson, Accountant, Invercargill.

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In the matter of THE MCCOLL TIMBER COMPANY (LIMITED), a private company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1908, and having its registered office at Onehunga (in Liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 223 of the Companies Act, 1908, that for the purpose of carrying out a scheme of amalgamation between the above company and The Timber Importing Company of New Zealand (Limited), as set forth in two agreements dated respectively the 29th May, 1922, and the 5th December, 1922, the above-named private company, by special resolution duly passed on the 5th day of December, 1922,—
(a.) Went into voluntary liquidation ;
(b.) Appointed HERBERT CLARENCE KEEGAN, of Onehunga, Company Secretary, as Liquidator ;
(c.) Authorized the Liquidator to consent to change of name of The Timber Importing Company of New Zealand (Limited) to that of “McColl Timber Proprietary (Limited)” ;
(d.) Authorized the said Liquidator to carry out the said agreements.

Notice is further given that the change of name of The Timber Importing Company of New Zealand (Limited) to that of “McColl Timber Proprietary (Limited)” has been duly approved by the Supreme Court.

Dated at Auckland this 22nd day of December, 1922.

A. McCOLL } Directors of The McColl Timber
PETER GORDON } Company (Limited).

Witness—R. G. Sellar, Solicitor, Auckland.

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S. LUKE AND CO. (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of the members of the above-named company will be held at the office of McKay and Little, Public Accountants, Dominion Farmers’ Institute, Featherston Street, Wellington, on the 14th day of March, 1923, to receive the Liquidators’ account showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of.

Wellington, 26th February, 1923.

C. M. LUKE }
J. P. LUKE } Liquidators.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, the Misses NELLIE SMITH and EMILY ELIZABETH KREBS, in the business of Milliners carried on by them at Brittain’s Building, Manners Street, Wellington, under the style of “Smith and Krebs,” has been dissolved by mutual consent.

Miss Smith has retired from the business, which will in future be carried on upon the same premises by the remaining partner, Miss KREBS.

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of January, 1923.

N. SMITH.
E. E. KREBS.

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KAITIEKE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING A SPECIAL RATE.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of one thousand pounds (£1,000), authorized to be raised by the Kaitieke County Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of widening, culverting, bridging, and improving the Retaruke Road, the Kaitieke County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny and three-eighths of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (being the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Te Waro Special Rating Area, comprising Section 4, Block III, Lot 1 of Section 8, Block III, Section 27, Block VII, and Lots 1B and 1C, Section 1, Block II, being the rateable properties within the following boundaries : Commencing at the south-eastern corner of Section 27, Block VII, and following the southern and western boundaries of such Section 27 and the western and northern boundaries of Lots 1B and 1C, Section 1, Block II, to the eastern side of the Retaruke Road to the north-western corner of Lot 1, Section 8, Block III ; thence by the north-western boundary of such Lot 1 and the north-eastern and southern boundaries of such Lot 1 to the said Retaruke Road ; thence by the eastern side of the said Retaruke Road to the north-western corner of Section 4, said Block III ; thence by the northern, western, north-eastern, and south-eastern boundaries of such Section 4 to its south-western corner, and crossing the said Retaruke Road to its western side ; thence following generally in a westerly direction the western side of such road to where it meets Section 27 aforesaid ; thence following the south-eastern boundary of such Section 27 to its south-eastern corner, being the commencing-point ; all such lands above described and mentioned being in the Manganui Survey District.

And that such special rate shall be an annual-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 36½ years, or until such loan is fully paid off.

THOS. CROCKER, Chairman.

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MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and the Local Bodies’ Finance Act, 1921–22, and all other Acts and