Oct. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2559

THE SHORTLAND INVESTMENT CO. (LIMITED).
NOTICE is hereby given that at a general meeting of shareholders of the above-named company held on the 21st day of June, 1923, the following resolution was carried unanimously:-
"That the company be wound up voluntarily, and that Mr. ALFRED SEYMOUR BANKART be appointed the Liquidator of the company for purposes of such winding-up."
Dated this 17th day of September, 1923.
963 ALFRED S. BANKART, Chairman.

CANTERBURY SLOT MACHINE CO. (LIMITED).
IN LIQUIDATION.
NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of sections 230 and 252 of the Companies Act, 1908, that a general meeting of the members of the above-named company will be held as the Office of Messrs. Hicks and Ainger, 162 Manchester Street, Christchurch, on Thursday, 4th October, 1923, at 10 a.m., for the purpose of having an account laid before them showing the manner in which the winding-up of the company has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator, and also of determining by extraordinary resolution the manner in which the books, accounts, and documents of the company and of the Liquidator thereof shall be disposed of.
Dated at Christchurch this 18th day of September, 1923.
964 RANDAL L. HICKS, Liquidator.

BRITISH DISTILLATE LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION).
NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of shareholders will be held at the company's registered office, 77 Hereford Street, Christchurch, at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, 28th September, 1923.
Business : (1.) To receive Liquidator's report and statement of accounts.
(2.) To pass a resolution disposing of the books of the company.
L. G. BLACKWELL, Liquidator.
Christchurch, 20th September, 1923.
965

PAPATOETOE TOWN BOARD.
In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Town Boards Act, 1908, and the Health Act, 1920, and their amendments.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Papatoetoe Town Board proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute certain public works--namely, the providing of a sanitary depot in connection with the sanitation of its own area and the providing of a stone-quarry--and for those purposes requires to take the land described in the Schedule hereto.
And notice is hereby given that plans are open for inspection at the office of the said Board in Station Road in the Township of Papatoetoe, and at Manukau County Council Offices, Shortland Street, Auckland.
All persons affected by such taking are hereby required to set forth in writing well-grounded objections to the execution of such work or the taking of such land, and to send such writing within forty days from the publication of this notice, to the said Board at its said office.
SCHEDULE.
All that piece of land containing 5 acres of a subdivision of that piece of land at Papatoetoe, Parish of Manurewa, known as Clendon's Grant, comprised in deed of conveyance dated the 30th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, made between one Frederick Claude, of the one part, and one William McLoughlin, of the other part, and registered in the Deeds Register Office at Auckland as No. 86368. Bounded commencing at a point 1342·7 links northward of other portion of said grant, owned by the executors in the estate of one Alexander Whyte (deceased); thence on the north-east by McLoughlin's Road, 400 links; thence on the south-east by other portion of said grant, owned by William McLoughlin's executors, in a line at right angles to the road, 1250 links; thence on the south-west by other portion of said grant owned by the said executors of William McLoughlin, 400 links; thence on the north-west by other portion of said grant owned by the said executors of William McLoughlin, 1250 links, to the point of commencement.
Dated at Papatoetoe this 19th day of September, 1923.
H. C. ERNEST, Clerk.
This notice was first published in the New Zealand Herald on Saturday, the 22nd day of September, 1923.
966

THE BRETT PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY (LIMITED), (OLD COMPANY).
IN LIQUIDATION.
NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of shareholders of the above company will be held at noon on Wednesday, 17th October, 1923, in the Star Office, Shortland Street, Auckland, to receive final report of the liquidation.
H. BRETT, Liquidator.
Auckland, 27th September, 1923.
967

TARANAKI ELECTRIC-POWER 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 Taranaki Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows:-
That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of £350,000, authorized to be raised by the Taranaki Electric-power Board under the above-mentioned Act, for-

1. The construction, erection, undertaking, and carrying-out of "electric works" as defined by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and its amendments, so far as the same relate to the generating-works in connection with the Board's Tariki hydro-electric development scheme, and for the acquisition and/or purchase of lands, easements, plant, machinery, material, and things required for such works or incidental thereto, and for the doing of all other acts and things authorized in this connection by the said Act and its amendments, and also to provide or create a fund to meet and defray all preliminary and other expenses and obligations lawfully paid or incurred by the Board as prescribed and permitted by such last-mentioned Act or Acts, a sum of £100,000;
2. The construction, erection, undertaking, and carrying out of all other "electric works" as hereinbefore defined and found lawfully necessary and expedient for and in connection with the distribution and sale of electric energy and power generated or purchased by the Board, and the acquisition and purchase of land, easements, plant, machinery, material, and things required for such distribution and sale, and the doing of all other acts and things authorized in this connection by the said Act and its amendments, a sum of £250,000 ; total, £350,000:
   the said Taranaki Electric-power Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1½d. in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of capital value) of all rateable property in the Taranaki Electric-power District (and which district is more fully described in the Third Schedule to the New Zealand Gazette Supplement of 18th May, 1922, No. 40, page 1374); 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 not exceeding thirty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
   W. G. CARMAN, Chairman.
   W. J. TRISTRAM, Secretary.
   968

KAWHIA 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, the Kawhia County Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £600, authorized to be raised by the Kawhia County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of metalling portion of the Lemon Point - Te Maika Road for the first time, the said Kawhia County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twopence halfpenny (2½d.) in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Lemon Point - Te Maika Special-rating Area, comprising the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 17th day of August 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.
SCHEDULE.
All that area in the Kawhia County comprising Sections 4 and 5, Block XIII, Kawhia North Survey District, Sections 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 33, Block I