APRIL 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266.

Take notice that the name of the undermentioned Company has been struck off the register, and the Company dissolved:

The Nelson Farmers' Co-operative Limited 1911/7.
Dated at Nelson this 12th day of April, 1924.

J. CARADUS,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of THE COLONIAL RUBBER COMPANY (LIMITED).

Notice is hereby given that the Colonial Rubber Company (Limited) will at the expiration of three months from the date hereof voluntarily cease to carry on business in New Zealand.
Dated at Auckland, this 3rd day of April, 1924.
A. M. SEAMAN,
N.Z. Attorney for the Colonial Rubber Company (Limited).

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of THE SWAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY (LIMITED), a company duly incorporated, having its registered office at Auckland (in liquidation).

Notice is hereby given that on the 31st day of March, 1924, the above-named company passed the following extraordinary resolution:

"That the company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue to carry on business, and that it be wound up voluntarily. That ROYSTAN N. S. CHISHOLM, of Alfred Lambert Pike's office, be and is hereby appointed Liquidator of the company."

Dated this 1st day of April, 1924.

R. N. S. CHISHOLM, Liquidator.

THE GUARDIAN TRUST AND EXECUTORS COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED).

I, JOHN MAYNARD STOKES, Manager of the Guardian Trust and Executors Company of New Zealand (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare:

1. That the liability of the members is limited.
2. That the capital of the company is £100,000 divided into 20,000 shares of £5 each.
3. That the number of shares issued is 20,000.
4. That calls to the amount of three pounds (£3) per share on 2,500 shares and three shillings (3s.) per share on 17,500 shares have been made, under which the sum of £10,125 has been received.
5. That the amount of all moneys received on account of estates on the 1st day of January last is £1,061,642 12s.
6. That the amount of all moneys paid on account of estates on that date is £1,046,633 18s. 8d.
7. That the amount of the balances due to estates under administration on that day is £15,008 13s. 4d.
8. That the liabilities of the company as on the 1st day of January last were £11,971 3s. 8d.
9. That the contingent liabilities of the company on deposits on the 1st day of January last were nil.
10. That the assets of the company on that day were £25,609 11s. 2d.
11. That the first annual license was issued on the 10th day of March, 1911.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intitled the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

J. M. STOKES, Manager.

Declared at Auckland this 7th day of April, 1924, before Thornton Jackson, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

In accordance with the provisions of the Guardian Trust and Executors Company Amendment Act of 1911, No. 17, I have examined this statement with the books of the company, and I hereby certify it to be correct.

W. WALLACE BRUCE, Auditor.

Auckland, 7th April, 1924.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

Notice is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned, and carried on under the names of "Stanford Bros. and Pritchard" and "Stanford and Pritchard," is dissolved as from the 31st day of March, 1924.

The butchering business hitherto carried on by the firm at Port Ahuriri will in future be carried on by the undersigned, GENERAL GORDON STANFORD, and the farming business hitherto carried on by the firm at Pakowhai will in future be carried on by the undersigned THOMAS EDWIN STANFORD.

Dated this 1st day of April, 1924.
G. G. STANFORD.

Witness to the signature of General Gordon Stanford—V. J. Langley, Solicitor, Napier.
THOS. E. STANFORD.

Witness to the signature of Thomas Edwin Stanford—V. J. Langley, Solicitor, Napier.
S. M. PRITCHARD.

Witness to the signature of Sydney Matthew Pritchard—V. J. Langley, Solicitor, Napier.

HAURAKI DRAINAGE BOARD.

Turua, 29th March, 1924.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Hauraki Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows:

That for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also other charges on a loan of five hundred pounds, authorized to be raised by the Hauraki Drainage Board under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for widening, deepening, erecting flood-gates, and improving present watercourses and drains, and constructing new watercourses and drains, in the Hauraki Drainage District, the said Hauraki Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate, on a graduated scale according to the classification list of lands in the Hauraki Drainage District, of five-eightieths of one penny in the pound on the improved rateable value of all lands in Class A, four-eightieths of a penny in the pound on the improved rateable value of all land in Class B, and three-eightieths of a penny in the pound on the improved rateable value of lands in Class C ; all of which classes and the land therein, together with their rateable values as appearing on the valuation roll of the district, are set out in the classification list of the Hauraki Drainage District; and that such special rates shall be annually recurring rates during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first day of January and the first day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

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JAMES E. GREEN, Clerk and Treasurer.

PIAKO 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, the Piako County Council hereby resolves as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of the principal, interest, and other charges on a loan of £1,700, authorized to be raised by the Piako County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of metalling the unmetalled portion of Mellins, Eastport, and Wiseman's Roads for the first time, the said Piako County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny and one-eighth of a penny in the pound on the rateable value (upon the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Eastport, Mellins, and Wiseman's Roads Special-rating Area (comprising all that area in the Land District of Auckland, being bounded as follows—Commencing at a point where the Waitoa and Ohine Stream meet, being the most northerly corner of Section 18, Waitoa Estate; thence following the Waitoa River in an easterly and south-easterly direction to the old boundary between the Ohinemuri and Piako Counties, being a point on the river about 5 chains to the south-east of the eastern corner of Section 13, Waitoa Estate; thence due west through Sections 12, 13, 14, 23, 22, and 21 to the Ohine Stream; thence in a northerly direction following the Ohine Stream to the point of commencement); and that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

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NEVILL J. RAY, County Clerk.