SEPT. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2535

interest and sinking fund on a loan of £500 for the formation
and metalling of the roads in the Rawhia special area in the
Waihou Riding of the County of Hokianga, the Hokianga
County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of
3d. in the pound on all rateable property in the special area
called Rawhia ; and that such special rate shall be an annually
recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable
yearly on the 30th September in each and every year during
the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, or until
the loan is finally paid off.

952 L. BUISSON, County Clerk.

THE PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH GASWORKS
LOAN OF £25,000.

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 (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Palmerston
North Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purposes of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Palmerston
North Borough Gasworks Loan of £25,000, authorized to be
raised by the Council by poll of ratepayers taken on the
eighth day of June, 1923, under the above-mentioned Act, for
the purpose of purchasing, constructing, and erecting plant,
machinery, appliances, and buildings necessary to complete
the new gasworks, purchasing of land upon which to erect
the same, and the purchasing and laying of gas-mains where
required, and making provision for the cost of a railway-siding
and the removing and re-erecting of plant and machinery
from the present works, the said Council hereby makes and
levies a special rate of one-fourth of a penny in the pound
sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved
value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Palmerston
North ; and that such special rate shall be an annually
recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable
yearly on the first day of June 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.

953 FRED JACKSON, Deputy Mayor.

MANUKAU COUNTY COUNCIL.

MANUREWA OVERHEAD BRIDGE APPROACH 10 PER CENT.
ADDITIONAL LOAN, £200. — 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
its amendments, the Manukau County Council hereby re-
solves as follows :—

That for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect
to interest and principal and other charges on a loan of two
hundred pounds (£200) authorized to be raised by the Manukau
County Council under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913,
for the constructing of approaches to the new high-level
bridge at Manurewa (being ten per centum additional of the
Manurewa High Level Bridge Approach Loan of £2,000 autho-
rized to be raised by the Council under the provisions of the
above-mentioned Act, such latter amount being insufficient
to complete the work for which the loan was raised), the said
Manukau County Council hereby makes and levies a special
rate of one-sixteenth of a penny (1/16d.) in the pound (£)
on the capital rateable value of all rateable property of the
special-rating area, comprising all that area of land at Manu-
rewa, being part Lot 4 and Lot 6 of Port Clendon’s Grant,
Lots 8/28 and 45/49 (inclusive) of Martin’s Estate, and Lot 7
Jellicoe Estate, as shown on plan deposited in the office of
the said Council, and that such special rate shall be an annual-
recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be pay-
able annually on the first day of August 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.

954 FRANK M. WATERS, County Chairman.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

NOTICE pursuant to section 307 of the Companies Act,
1908, is hereby given that THE BRITISH EMPIRE
TRADING COMPANY (LIMITED), a company incorporated in
England, carrying on business in New Zealand, and having
its registered office in the City of London, England, intends
voluntarily to cease to carry on business in New Zealand
on and from the thirty-first day of December, 1923.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of September, 1923.

955 JAMES W. G. BRODIE,
Attorney for the British Empire Trading Company
(Limited).

THE NAPIER HARBOUR BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

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

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of thirteen thousand eight hundred pounds
£13,800) authorized to be raised by the Napier Harbour Board
under the above-mentioned Act for the extinction to that
extent of the antecedent liability of the said Napier Harbour
Board as defined by the Local Bodies’ Finance Act, 1921–22,
the said Napier Harbour Board hereby makes and levies a
special rate of decimal 01279 of a penny in the pound upon
the rateable value of all rateable property of the Napier
Harbour Rating District as defined in section 3 of the Napier
Harbour Board Empowering and Loan Act, 1914, and that
such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st 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.

957 A. E. JULL,
Chairman of the Napier Harbour Board.

PATEA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RAKAUPIKO AND KAHUROA ROAD LOAN, £1,000.

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

That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges
on a loan of £1,000 authorized to be raised by the Patea County
Council under the above-mentioned Act for metalling the
Rakaupiko and Kahuroa Roads for the first time, the said
Patea County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate
of one-third of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value
of all rateable property within the Rakaupiko-Kahuroa special-
rating area within the following boundaries : Commencing at
the point where the northern boundary of Section 73 strikes
the Kahuroa Road, and proceeding in an easterly direction
along the northern boundaries of Sections 73 and 24 ; thence
continuing by a right line in a south-easterly direction across
Section 30 to a point where the southern boundary of that
section strikes the Whenuakura River ; thence continuing
southward along the Whenuakura River to the sea-coast ;
thence along the Patea River to the southern boundary of
Section part 109 ; thence along the western boundaries of
part Section 109, Section 108, part Section 107, Sections 106,
105, and 99, the southern and eastern boundaries of Sec-
tion 98, the northern boundary of Section 100, the western
boundary of Section 101, and the northern boundary of Sec-
tion 103 to the starting-point on the Kahuroa Road. And
that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during
the currency of such loan and payable yearly on the first day
of September in each and every year during the currency of
the loan, being for a period of 36½ years, or until such loan is
fully paid off.

958 W. F. SHEILD, County Clerk.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908 ; and in the
matter of the SEFTON MUTUAL DAIRY-PRODUCE ASSOCIA-
TION (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that at a general meeting of
members of the above-named company held at Sefton
on Thursday, 6th September, 1923, at 2 p.m., the
following extraordinary resolution was passed :—

“ That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the company
that the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue
its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and
accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily under
the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908, and that ROBERT
TONKIN TOSSWILL, of Christchurch, Public Accountant, be
hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-
up.”

959 R. T. TOSSWILL, Liquidator.

RESOLUTION.

THE following regulations were laid before the members
of the Manawatu Racing Club at a meeting held on
the 23rd day of August, 1923, at Palmerston North, with a
recommendation by the Chairman of such club, Mr. R. S.
Abraham, that the same be passed at once with a view to their
approval by His Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance
of the Gaming Act, 1908, section 33.