That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of £100,000, authorized to be raised by the
Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Board under the
Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Amendment Act,
1923, for the purposes of the Dunedin District Drainage and
Sewerage Act, 1900, other than the purposes mentioned in
section 70 of the last-mentioned Act, the said Dunedin
District Drainage and Sewerage Board hereby makes and
levies a special rate of twopence (2d.) in the pound upon the
rateable value (on the basis of the annual value) of all
rateable property of the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage
District, comprising the whole of the City of Dunedin and
the whole of the Borough of St. Kilda; and that such special
rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency
of such loan and be payable half-yearly on the 30th day of
September and the 31st day of March in each and every
year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten
(10) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

G. A. LEWIN, Secretary.
Dunedin, 8th April, 1925.

THE BIRKENHEAD MOTOR-BUS AND TRANSIT
COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a final meeting of share-
holders of the above company will be held in the
Foresters' Hall, Birkenhead, on Wednesday, the 29th day of
April, 1925, at 7.30 p.m., to receive the Liquidator's report
and balance-sheet.

Dated this 6th day of April, 1925.

E. J. OSBORNE, Liquidator.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
subsisting between NORMAN MACDONALD LETHBRIDGE,
of Korakonui, near Te Awamutu, and GEORGE ORME BAYLEY,
of Wairaka, near Te Awamutu, carrying on business as Sheep,
Cattle, Dairy, and General Farmers, under the style or firm
name of "N. M. Lethbridge," has been dissolved by mutual
consent as from the thirty-first day of July, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-three.

Dated this 26th day of February, 1925.

G. O. BAYLEY.

N. M. LETHBRIDGE.

Witness--S. S. Preston, Solicitor, Te Awamutu.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
subsisting between WALTER MONK and HARRY
MITTEN, carrying on business as furniture-dealers at Putaruru
under the style or firm of "Monk and Mitten," has been
dissolved as from the 20th day of April, 1925, so far as
concerns the said Walter Monk, who retires from the said
firm.

Dated this 20th day of April, 1925.

HARRY MITTEN.
WALTER MONK.

THE EMPIRE HOTEL (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general
meeting of the above-named company held at Wel-
lington on the 23rd day of March, 1925, the following special
resolution was passed, and at a subsequent extraordinary
general meeting of the said company held at Wellington on
the 7th day of April, 1925, the said resolution was duly
confirmed, viz.--
"That the company be wound up voluntarily under the
provisions of the Companies Act, 1908, and that GEORGE
THOMAS MASON, of Wellington, Secretary of the Company,
be hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such
winding-up."

Dated this 22nd day of April, 1925.

J. A. TRIPE, Chairman.

FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and in the matter
of the Public Works Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Franklin County Council
proposes under the provisions of the above-mentioned
Acts to execute a certain public work—namely, the con-
struction of a road in Allotment 130, Parish of Opaheke, and
for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the
Schedule hereto are required to be taken; and notice is hereby
given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is de-
posited in the public office of the Clerk to the said Council
situate at Hall Street, Pukekohe, and is open for inspection
without fee by all persons during ordinary office hours.

All persons affected by the execution of the said public
work or by the taking of such lands who have any well-
grounded objections to the execution of the said public work
or to the taking of the said lands, must state their objections
in writing and send the same within forty days from the
20th day of April, 1925, being the date of the first publication
of this notice, to the County Clerk at the County Office, Hall
Street, Pukekohe.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken:
3 roods 9 perches.

Being portion of Allotment Number 130 in the Parish of
Opaheke, Block VII, Opaheke Survey District, Franklin
County, North Auckland Land District; coloured blue on
S.O. plan 22911.

Dated at Pukekohe this 18th day of April, 1925.

ALAN P. DAY, County Clerk.

FEATHERSTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING 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 Feather-
ton Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Featherston
Borough Bridges Loan of £1,200, 1925, authorized to be
raised by the Featherston Borough Council under the above-
mentioned Act, for the purpose of rebuilding the bridges in
the borough over Donald's Creek in Fitzherbert Street and
over Abbott's Creek in Moore Street, the said Featherston
Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of
one halfpenny (½d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable
value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable
property in the Borough of Featherston; and that such
special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the
currency of such loan and be payable yearly on the 1st day
of April in each and every year during the currency of such
loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half (36½) years, or
until the loan is fully paid off.

J. W. CARD, Mayor.
H. ROLLS, Town Clerk.

FEATHERSTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION INCREASING 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
Featherston Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Featherston
Borough Bridges Loan of £1,200, 1925, authorized to be
raised by the Featherston Borough Council under the above-
mentioned Act for the purpose of rebuilding the bridges in
the borough over Donald's Creek in Fitzherbert Street, and
over Abbott's Creek in Moore Street, the said Council, pur-
suant to section 22 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913,
hereby increases to three-fifths (3/5ths) of a penny in the
pound sterling the special rate of one halfpenny (½d.) in the
pound sterling made and levied by resolution passed by the
said Council on the 9th day of April, 1925, on the rateable
value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable
property in the Borough of Featherston, such rate of one
halfpenny (½d.) in the pound sterling being insufficient to