Oct. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2271

NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING PRIOR TO DISSOLUTION.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of section 230 of the Companies Act, 1908, a general meeting of the MOTUEKA FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY (LIMITED), in liquidation, will be held at Goodman’s Hall, Poole Street, on Friday, 10th day of October, 1924, at 2.30 o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of having laid before the meeting the account of the Liquidator, showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and of hearing an explanation thereof given by the Liquidator.

The company will be asked to declare by extraordinary resolution how the books, accounts, and documents of the company and of the Liquidator are to be disposed of.

Dated the 24th day of September, 1924.

JOHN JENKISON, Liquidator.

Motueka Farmers’ Co-operative Company (Limited), in liquidation. 982

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between THOMAS GEORGE PEARCE and JAMES HERBERT OSBORNE, carrying on business as Carriers in the City of Wellington, under the name or style of “Osborne and Pearce,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 1st day of September, 1924. The business will continue to be carried on by the above-named JAMES HERBERT OSBORNE, who will accept payment of all accounts and discharge all liabilities.

Dated the 29th day of September, 1924.

T. G. PEARCE.
J. H. OSBORNE.

By their Solicitors,
BARKER and O’DONOVAN. 983

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between HUGH JAMES BATES and FREDERICK LAWSON, carrying on business as Booksellers, Stationers, and Picture-framers at 38 George Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, under the style or firm of “The Otago Bible House,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the twenty-second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, so far as concerns the said HUGH JAMES BATES, who retires from the said firm.

Dated the twenty-third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

H. J. BATES.
FREDERICK LAWSON.

Witness to both signatures—John Wilkinson, Solicitor, Dunedin. 984

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore existing between RUBY LAWSON and ETHEL MCGREGOR, carrying on business as Drapers at Main Street, Gore, under the style or firm name of “Lawson and McGregor,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 1st day of May, 1923. All debts owing by the late firm will be paid by ETHEL MCGREGOR, and all moneys owing to the late firm should be paid to ETHEL MCGREGOR.

Dated this 25th day of September, 1924.

RUBY LAWSON.
ETHEL MCGREGOR.

Witness to the signatures of Ruby Lawson and Ethel McGregor—E. Roy Stanley, Advertising Agent, Dunedin. 985

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wellington District, Palmerston North Registry.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and its amendments; and in the matter of THE RANGITIKEI CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY COMPANY (LIMITED), having its registered office at Bull’s.

NOTICE is hereby given that the order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand dated the 11th day of September, 1924, confirming the reduction of the capital of the above-named company from £20,000 to £7,412, and the minute approved by the Court showing, with respect to the capital of the company as altered, the several particulars as required by the above-mentioned Act, was registered by the Registrar of Companies at Wellington on the 25th day of September, 1924. The said minute is in the words and figures following :—

“The capital of the RANGITIKEI CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY COMPANY (LIMITED AND REDUCED) above-described as altered in pursuance of the terms of the above order is £7,412, divided into 3,706 shares of £2 each.”

Dated the 30th day of September, 1924.

JACOBS AND GRANT,
Solicitors for the Company,
Palmerston North. 986

BOROUGH OF AVONDALE.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

THAT, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £3,000, authorized to be raised by the Avondale Borough Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for supplying, erecting, and providing waterworks, mains, reticulation, services, and all necessary appliances in connection with water-supply in and for a defined part of the Borough of Avondale, known as the Waterview Special Water-reticulation Area, the Avondale Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twopence and one farthing in the one pound upon the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Waterview Special Water-reticulation Area as defined by advertisement in the Avondale News newspaper on the 12th day of January, 1924, being a special-rating area duly constituted under the said Act; and resolves that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, and be payable annually on the 15th day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, to expire on the 1st day of January, 1961, or until the loan is fully paid off.

WM. JOHN TAIT, Mayor.

Dated at Avondale this 20th day of September, 1924. 987

BOROUGH OF AVONDALE.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

THAT, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £7,000, authorized to be raised by the Avondale Borough Council, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for supplying, erecting, and providing waterworks, mains, reticulation, services, and all necessary appliances in connection with water-supply in and for a defined part of the Borough of Avondale, known as the Avondale South Special Water-reticulation Area, the Avondale Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twopence and one farthing in the one pound upon the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Avondale South Special Water-reticulation Area as defined by advertisement in the Avondale News newspaper on the 12th day of January, 1924, being a special-rating area duly constituted under the said Act; and resolves that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, and be payable annually on the 15th day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, to expire on the 1st day of January, 1961, or until the loan is fully paid off.

WM. JOHN TAIT, Mayor.

Dated at Avondale this 20th day of September, 1924. 988

CITY OF AUCKLAND.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and its amendments, and the Auckland City and Auckland Museum Empowering Act, 1924, the Auckland City Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a consolidated loan of £847,000, authorized to be raised by the Auckland City Council under the above-mentioned Acts, and known as the Auckland City Consolidated Loan of £847,000 (1924), the said Auckland City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 8½d. in the £1 upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the City of Auckland, comprising the whole of the said city; and such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of the 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 thirty-three years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

J. S. BRIGHAM, Town Clerk. 989