powers enabling it, the Manawatu County Council hereby
resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Manawatu
County Council Antecedent Liabilities Loan of £6,300, authorized to be raised by the Council, under the above-mentioned
Acts, for the purpose of repaying to the Bank of New Zealand
at Bull's the amount of the Council’s antecedent liability as
defined by the Local Bodies' Finance Act, 1921–22, the said
Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-twentieth
of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the
basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the
County of Manawatu; and that such special rate shall be an
annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan,
and be payable half-yearly on the first day of March and the
first day of September 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.

A. K. DREW, County Clerk.

HUNGAHUNGA DRAINAGE BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—NORTH WAIHEKAU
SPECIAL RATING AREA.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the
Hungahunga Drainage Board 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 £1,100, authorized to be raised by the Hungahunga Drainage Board, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1913, for the purpose of cleansing, widening, and deepening
existing watercourses, drains, and outfalls, and to make and
construct new watercourses, drains, and outfalls, the said
Hungahunga Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a
special rate on a graduated scale according to the classification
of lands within the area hereinafter described—i.e., one penny
in the pound upon lands classified “A,” one halfpenny in the
pound upon lands classified “B,” one farthing in the pound
upon lands classified “C,” upon the unimproved value of all
rateable property as set out in the classification schedule
hereunder; and that such special rate shall be an annualrecurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of November 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.

Special Rating Area and Classification Schedule.

North Waihekau Special Rating Area, comprising portions
of Blocks I and V, Wairere Survey District, and Block IV,
Maungakawa Survey District.

Class “A.”—Lot 5/6, Waihekau No. 2, Block IV, Maungakawa, 288 acres; pt. Waihekau No. 2, 10 acres; Lot 8,
Hungahunga No. 1, 10 acres; pt. Waihekau No. 2, 14 acres;
Secs. 1, 23, 24, 37, Chudleigh Estate, Block I, Wairere,
135 acres; Sections 34, 35, 36, Chudleigh Estate, 65 acres;
Section 25, 40 acres; Section 26, 60 acres; Section 27, 80
acres; Sec. 28, 80 acres; Sections 29, 31, 65 acres; pt. Sec. 32,
15 acres; Lot 4, Hungahunga No. 1, 2, 110 acres; Lot 5 of
Sec. 4/5, 160 acres; Lot 6 of Sec. 4/5, 149 acres.

Class “B.”—Lot 5/6, Waihekau No. 2, 362 acres; pt.
Waihekau No. 2, 12 acres; Lot 8, Hungahunga No. 1, 25
acres; pt. Waihekau No. 2, 14 acres; Chudleigh Estate,
Block I, Secs. 1, 23, 24, 37, 79 acres; Sections 34, 35, 36,
70 acres; Section 25, 53 acres; Section 26, 47 acres; Section
27, 21 acres; Section 28, 45 acres; Sections 29, 31,
25 acres; Section 32, 14 acres; Lot 5 of Section 4/5, 20 acres;
Lot 6 of Sec. 4/5, 20 acres.

Class “C.”—Lot 5/6, Waihekau No. 2, 263 acres; pt.
Waihekau No. 2, 20 acres; Lot 8, Hungahunga No. 1, 5 acres;
pt. Waihekau No. 2, 20 acres; Section 25, Chudleigh Estate,
10 acres; pt. Section 32, 10 acres; Lot 4, Hungahunga No. 1,
2, 37 acres; Lot 5 of Sec. 4/5, Hungahunga No. 1, 20 acres.

F. E. HUGHES, Chairman.

F. W. WILD, Clerk.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE OF A WATER-RACE.

UNDER THE MINING ACT, 1908.

To the Warden of the Hauraki Mining District at Waihi.

PURSUANT to the Mining Act, 1908, the undersigned,
Cecil Arthur Whitney, of Auckland, Merchant, hereby
applies for a license for a water-race as specified in the
Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly marked out
for the purpose.

Date and number of miner’s right: Dated 27/9/22;
No. 125521.

Address for service: At the office of W. M. Jackson, Solicitor, Waihi.

Dated at Waihi this 20th day of February, 1923.

SCHEDULE.

Locality of the race and of its starting and terminal points:
Whangamata, starting at a point where a tributary stream
junctions with the Wairoa Stream on Palmer Brothers’ property, and terminating at a point on the same stream 135
chains below point of intake, as shown on sketch plan lodged
in Warden’s Court Office at Waihi.

Length and intended course of race: 135 chains; northeasterly.

Estimated time and cost of construction: twelve months;
£5,000.

Purpose for which water is to be used: For crushing
quartz and generating power.

Points of intake: One.

Mean depth and breadth: Iron pipe-line.

Number of heads to be diverted: Five sluice-heads.

Proposed term of license: Forty-two years.

CECIL ARTHUR WHITNEY.
(By his Solicitor, W. M. JACKSON.)

Precise time of filing the foregoing application: 23/2/1923,
at 2.30 p.m.

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application
and all objections thereto: Tuesday, 10th April, 1923, at
9.30 a.m., at Warden’s Court, Waihi.

Objections thereto must be filed in the Registrar’s office
and notified to applicant at least two days before the day so
appointed.

THOS. MORGAN, Mining Registrar.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
subsisting between JAMES WILLIAM RANSON, of the
City of Wellington, Fruit-merchant, and CHARLES WILLIAM ESSEX, of the same place, Fruit-merchant, carrying on
business as Fruit-merchants at 107 Customhouse Quay in
the City of Wellington under the style or firm of “The
Growers Fruit and Produce Market,” has been dissolved as
from the third day of February, 1923, so far as concerns the
said Charles William Essex, who retires from the said firm.
All debts due and owing by the late firm will be received
and paid respectively by JAMES WILLIAM RANSON, who will
continue to carry on the said business under the style or
firm of “The Growers Fruit and Produce Market” at
Number 107 Customhouse Quay, Wellington.

CHARLES WILLIAM ESSEX.

J. W. RANSON.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and of WILLIAM DEEBLE AND SONS (LIMITED).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named
company duly held at “Parawai,” Thames, on the
30th day of January, 1923, the following resolution was duly
passed, and at a subsequent extraordinary general meeting
of the members of the said company also duly convened
and held at the same place on the 15th day of February,
1923, the following resolution was duly confirmed:—
“That the company be wound up voluntarily; and that
SOPHIA DEEBLE, of Thames, Spinster, be and she is hereby
appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding-up.”

Dated the 15th day of February, 1923.

WM. DEEBLE, Chairman.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME.

I, ANDREW GORDON TYSON, of St. Heliers Bay,
near Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland
and Dominion of New Zealand, Linesman, do hereby give
public notice that on the seventeenth day of February, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, I formally and
absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use
of my said surname of Tyson, and then assumed and adopted
and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to
use and subscribe the name of Andrew Gordon Bain instead
of the said name of Andrew Gordon Tyson. And I give
further notice that by deed-poll dated the seventeenth day
of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three,
duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Supreme
Court of New Zealand at Auckland on the twenty-sixth day
of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three,
I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and
abandoned the said surname of Tyson, and declared that
I had assumed and adopted and thenceforth on all occasions