Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2175

under section 2 of the Christchurch District Drainage Amendment Act, 1920, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the following votes were recorded: For the proposal, 88; against the proposal, 22.

And I declare the proposal to be duly carried.

J. A. FLESHER, Mayor.

Christchurch, 25th July, 1923. 789

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, FLORENCE THOMSON and MARY ELEANOR POGSON, carrying on business as Milliners and Ladies’ Outfitters at Number 114 Manchester Street, Christchurch, under the style or firm of “Nonpareil,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the twenty-fourth day of May, 1923, so far as concerns the said Mary Eleanor Pogson, who retires from the said firm. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said FLORENCE THOMSON, who will continue to carry on the said business.

Dated this 30th day of June, 1923.

FLORENCE THOMSON.

Witness to the signature of Florence Thomson—M. Duncan, Law Clerk, Christchurch.

M. E. POGSON.

Witness to the signature of Mary Eleanor Pogson—G. W. C. Smithson, Solicitor, Christchurch. 790

MANUKAU COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.—KAWAKAWA-ORERE ROAD LOAN OF £1,000.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of the principal and interest and also other charges on a loan of £1,000, authorized to be raised by the Manukau County Council for the purpose of forming and metalling and general improvements to the Kawakawa-Orere Road in the County of Manukau, the Manukau County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three farthings (¾d.) in in the pound (£) upon the capital value of all rateable property in the Kawakawa-Orere Special Rating Area, being all that area in the North Auckland Land District contained in Blocks 5, 6, 9, 10, and 14, Wairoa Survey District, and Blocks 1 and 2, Orere Survey District, commencing on the Hauraki Gulf at the northernmost corner of Orere North Block (3,050 a. 2 r. 24 p.) and bounded towards the north-east generally by the Hauraki Gulf to the northernmost corner of Tapapakanga No. 2 Block (733 a. 3 r. 8 p.); thence towards the south-east generally by the south-eastern boundary of Orere North (3,050 a. 2 r. 24 p.) and Orere and Taupo Block (6,379 a.) to the southern corner of the said Orere and Taupo Block; thence towards the south-west generally by the south-western boundaries of Orere and Taupo Block (6,379 a.) and part Kiripaka (2,348 a. 24 r. 34 p.); towards the north-east generally by the northern and north-eastern boundaries of pt. Kiripaka (2,384 a. 2 r. 34 p.), Orere and Taupo (6,379 a.), and Orere North (3,050 a. 2 r. 24 p.) Blocks to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid acreages more or less. And that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable on the first day of April and on the first day of October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

ALEX. D. BELL, Chairman.

EDGAR ASHCROFT, County Clerk. 791

WAITOMO COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and of all other powers it in that behalf enabling, the Waitomo 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 Waitomo County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of forming, widening, culverting, and metalling portion of the Waikawau Lower Road, the said Waitomo County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny (1d.) in the pound upon the unimproved value of all rateable property situated in the Waikawau Lower Special Rating Area, comprising the following sections,—

In the Whareorino Survey District—Sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, all in Block VII; Section 1, Block IV; Crown lands, Blocks VI and VII; Sections 1, 2, and 3, all in Block X; Kinohaku West, E Section 1A No. 2, E Section 1B No. 2, E Section 1C, E Section 1D No. 2A, E Section 1D No. 2B No. 1, E Section 1D No. 2B and 2A, E Section 1D No. 2B 2B 1, E Section No. 1D 2B 2B 2, E Section 1D 2B 2B 3, E Section 1D 2B 2B 4, E Section 1E, E Section 1F No. 1, E Section 1H, F Section 1B No. 1, F Section 1B No. 2A, F Section 1B No. 2B West Section 1, F Section 1B No. 2B West Section 2, G Section 1B, G Section 1C No. 2B No. 1, G Section 1A No. 2 part, G Section 1C No. 2A.

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 October 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.

C. K. WILSON, Chairman.

GEO. BROWN, County Clerk. 792

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between JAMES HENRY MORTLOCK and ROBERT MORTLOCK, carrying on business at Hawera as Motor Engineers and Garage Proprietors under the name or style of “Mortlock and Co.,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 18th day of July, 1923.

All debts due to the said Partnership are to be paid to the said ROBERT MORTLOCK, who will also pay all accounts owing by the same. The business will in future be carried on by the said Robert Mortlock under the name or style of “Mortlock and Co.”

Dated at Hawera this twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three (1923).

J. H. MORTLOCK.

R. MORTLOCK.

Witness to the signatures of James Henry Mortlock and Robert Mortlock—Richard Wylie, Law Clerk, Hawera. 793

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between WILLIAM JOHN EADE and GORDON FRASER, carrying on business as Manufacturers and Retailers of Leather Goods at the Avenue, Wanganui, under the style or firm of “Eade and Fraser,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 17th day of May, 1923.

The business will in future be carried on under the said firm-name by the said WILLIAM JOHN EADE, who will discharge all liabilities and collect all assets.

Dated at Wanganui this seventeenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

W. J. EADE.

G. FRASER.

Witness to both signatures—R. G. Halligan, J.P., Plumber, Wanganui. 794

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between JOSEPH HAMPTON GRAHAM and ROBERT HENRY GRAHAM, carrying on business as Farmers at Balmoral under the style or firm of “Graham Brothers,” has been dissolved as from the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, from which date JOSEPH HAMPTON GRAHAM will carry it on upon his sole account.

Dated the 25th day of July, 1923.

J. H. GRAHAM.

R. H. GRAHAM.

Witness to signatures of the said Joseph Hampton Graham and Robert Henry Graham—H. O. D. Meares, Solicitor, Christchurch. 795

FRANKLIN 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 Franklin County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the construction of a road in Allotment 97, Opaheke Parish; and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the