May 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1331

508 N.Z. Insurance Buildings on Tuesday the 27th May, at 2.30 p.m.

Business: To receive Liquidator’s report and statement of accounts as to the final winding-up of the company’s affairs.

A. L. PIKE, Liquidator.

Auckland, 12th May, 1924.

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WAITEMATA COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR ROADS.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and amendments thereto, by the Waitemata County Council, to execute certain public works—viz., construction of road through Lot 8 of Allotment 4, Parish of Waipareira, shown on S.O. Plan 22755, and situated in Block X, Waitemata Survey District; and for the purpose of such public works the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken.

And notice is further given that the plan of the said road and of the land required to be taken is deposited for public inspection at the office of the Waitemata County Council, corner Shortland and Princes Streets, Auckland.

And notice is also hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of such public works or by the taking of such land shall, if they have any well grounded objection to the execution of the said public works or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing within forty days (40 days) from the first publication of this notice to the County Council’s Office, Auckland.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate area of the parcel of land taken: 2 roods 5 perches. Being portion of Lot 8 of Allotment 4; coloured on plan, red.

Situated in Block X, Waitemata Survey District, County of Waitemata (Parish of Waipareira). (S. O. 22755.)

In the County of Waitemata and Land District of North Auckland.

By order in Council.

PETER THEET, Chairman.

County Office, Auckland, 19th May, 1924.

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AVONDALE BOROUGH 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 Avondale Borough Council 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 five hundred pounds authorized to be raised by the Avondale Borough Council under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for completion of the building and furnishing of the Avondale Town Hall, the Avondale Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three one-hundredths of one penny in the one pound on the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Borough of Avondale; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 15th day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

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WILLIAM JOHN TAIT, Mayor.

MACKENZIE COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION STRIKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in 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 Mackenzie County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

“That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Mackenzie County Fairlie Extension Electric-light Loan of £280, 1924, authorized to be raised by the Mackenzie County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of an extension of electric-light lines of the Fairlie electric scheme in the Fairlie Extension Special-rating Area, the Mackenzie County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny (1d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Mackenzie County Fairlie Extension Special-rating District, being Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, deposited plan No. 4210, and part of Lot 2, deposited plan

No. 2690, being parts of Rural Sections 24905, &c., Blocks VI and VII, Tengawai Survey District, and containing an area of 266 acres 2 roods 7 perches, more or less, all in the Land District of Canterbury; 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 October 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.

C. J. TALBOT, Chairman.

R. L. BANKS, Clerk.

Fairlie, 5th May, 1924.

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I, GEORGE AUGUSTUS PREECE, carrying on business at No. 275 Main Street, Palmerston North, as Licensed Land Agent and Sharebroker, under the name of “G. A. Preece and Co.,” hereby notify that I am in no way connected with the firm of G. A. Preece and Co., as from the 22nd April, 1924. All moneys due to the late firm will be collected by the said G. A. Preece, and all liabilities incurred prior to 22nd April, 1924, will be paid by the said A. G. Preece. All liabilities incurred after that date under the name of G. A. Preece and Co.” will be paid by WALTER RATCLIFFE.

Signed by the said G. A. PREECE.

Signed by the said W. RATCLIFFE

(For G. A. PREECE AND CO.).

2nd May, 1924.

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I, JOHN ALFRED BOOTH, one time called and known by the name of JOHN ALFRED LADE, of Gisborne, in New Zealand, Clerk, hereby give public notice that on the 22nd day of May, 1924, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said surname of “Lade” and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Booth” instead of the said name of “Lade”; and I give further notice that by a deed poll dated the 22nd day of May, 1924, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Supreme Court at Gisborne on the 23rd day of May, 1924, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of “Lade,” and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Booth” instead of “Lade” and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the name of “Booth” exclusively.

Dated the 23rd day of May, 1924.

JOHN ALFRED BOOTH.

(Formerly JOHN ALFRED LADE.)

Witness—J. S. Wauchop, Solicitor, Gisborne.

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NOTICE is hereby given that by resolution of the Council passed on the 20th day of March, 1924, Part 2 of the Motor Regulations Act, 1908, providing for the registration of motor vehicles, will be brought into operation in the County of Halswell, on Monday, the 2nd day of June, 1924.

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JAS. MACKENZIE, County Clerk.

Notice of Private Estate Bill to empower the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Auckland to sell, exchange, mortgage, and lease hereditaments vested in him, and to exercise certain other powers.

I HEREBY give notice of my intention to apply by petition to the General Assembly of the Dominion of New Zealand for the passing of a Private Estate Bill authorizing the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Auckland for the time being to sell and dispose of any hereditaments now or hereafter vested in him (whether the same are subject to any trust, express or implied), to exchange any such hereditaments, with power to give or receive money for equality of exchange, to borrow money on the security of any such hereditaments, to lease any such hereditaments for a period not exceeding sixty-six years, to accept the surrender of any lease, to rescind or vary any contract of sale, exchange, or lease, and in respect of any such hereditaments to lay off, form, construct, and dedicate roads and to exercise certain other powers. Copies of the said Bill will be deposited in the office of the Examiner of Standing Orders for the House of Representatives within fourteen days after the commencement of the ensuing session of Parliament.

Dated this 22nd day of May, 1924.

HENRY W. CLEARY,

Petitioner.

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