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company will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register, and the company will be dissolved :—

Clarke’s Electroplate Works (Limited). 1907/76.

Dated at Wellington this 6th day of June, 1924.

W. H. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (2) AND (3).

TAKE notice that on the expiration of three months from the date hereof the names of the undermentioned companies will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register, and the companies will be dissolved :—

National Tobacco Company (Limited). 1920/53.

H. S. Meek Limited. 1921/80.

Hunters (Whangarei), Limited. 1922/50.

Rodney and Otamatea Times Company (Limited). 1908/6.

Robertson’s Boot Polishing Outfit Company (Limited). 1914/30.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 6th day of June, 1924.

W. G. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (4).

TAKE notice that the name of the undermentioned company has been struck of the Registrar, and the company has been dissolved :—

Thompson, Blake, and Company (Limited). 1921/1.

Given under my hand at New Plymouth this 6th day of June, 1924.

A. L. B. ROSS,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (4).

TAKE notice that the name of the undermentioned company has been struck of the Register, and the company dissolved :—

Parsons Bros. and Company (Limited). 1914/1.

Dated at Nelson this 29th day of May, 1924.

J. CARADUS,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of SIR W. G. ARMSTRONG, WHITWORTH, AND COMPANY (LIMITED), a joint-stock company incorporated under the English Companies Acts, having its registered office at Elswick Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

NOTICE is hereby given that SIR W. G. ARMSTRONG, WHITWORTH, AND COMPANY (LIMITED) proposes to carry on business in Wellington in the Dominion of New Zealand. The office or place of business of the said company will be situated at Number 81 The Terrace, in the City of Wellington.

Dated this 22nd day of May, 1924.

SIR W. G. ARMSTRONG, WHITWORTH, AND COMPANY LIMITED).

By its Attorney,

F. H. GREENHOUGH.

Witness —Albert G. Jorgensen, Solicitor, Wellington. 524

PUBLIC NOTICE.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA (LIMITED) proposes to open receiving offices at KILBIRNIE (Wellington) and KINGSLAND (Auckland) at such times weekly as may be decided upon for the conduct of general banking business.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA (LIMITED).

By its Attorney,

E. P. YALDWYN.

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In the matter of COLONIAL SUGAR REFINING COMPANY (FIJI AND NEW ZEALAND), LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given under section 307 of the Companies Act, 1908, that the above-named company has ceased to carry on business in New Zealand.

Dated at Auckland this twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

J. NEWELL,
Attorney for the above-named company in New Zealand.

Address for service is care of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (Limited), Quay Street, Auckland. 545

JOHN DICKINSON AND CO. (AUST.), LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that the situation of the office or place of business of the above company has been removed to premises at the corner of Wakefield and Cuba Streets, in the City of Wellington, and legal process and notices of any kind may henceforth be delivered to or at that address.

Dated this 27th day of May, 1924.

H. J. TUBBS,
Attorney for the Company. 546

WAIPUKURAU 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, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Waipukurau Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Waipukurau Borough Sewerage Connection Loan of £1,000, 1924—being part of a loan of £2,000 authorized by a poll of the ratepayers taken on the 17th day of January, 1924, for the purpose of financially assisting owners of premises in connecting with the borough sewers by loaning to such owners the amount necessary for payment for work of connection, either by contractor or the Council’s workmen, from owners’ premises to main sewer, together with all necessary requisites and fittings—the said Council hereby appropriates and pledges the special rate of one farthing (¼d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Borough of Waipukurau made and levied by resolution passed on the 19th day of May, 1924; and the said special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of six (6) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

E. A. GOODGER, Mayor.

G. E. FOWLER, Town Clerk. 571

NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN NEILSON, Watchmaker and Jeweller, in Napier, has retired, as from this date from the business hitherto carried on under the name of “J. Neilson and Son,” which business will hereafter be carried on by WILLIAM MANTON NEILSON, of Napier, under his own name.

Dated at Napier this 26th day of May, 1924.

JOHN NEILSON, Watchmaker and Jeweller.

WILLIAM MANTON NEILSON. 572

BOROUGH OF ASHBURTON.

MOTOR REGISTRATION.

IN accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the Motor Regulation Act, 1908, public notice is hereby given that the Ashburton Borough Council has decided by resolution that that part of the Motor Regulation Act dealing with the registration of motors shall be brought into operation in its district from the 1st day of July, 1924, and that the necessary steps have been taken to have this provision gazetted.

W. PATTERSON, Town Clerk.

Municipal Offices, Ashburton, 1st June, 1924. 573

OTAUA DRAINAGE BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING AND LEVYING A SPECIAL RATE.

THAT for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also other charges on a loan of £1,000 (one thousand pounds) authorized to be raised by the Otaua Drainage Board under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of widening, deepening, and