SEPT. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2533

Given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is
deposited in the public office of the Clerk to the said Council,
situate at 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 first
publication of this notice to the County Clerk at the Council
Chambers, Hall Street, Pukekohe.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of each of the parcels of land required
to be taken:-
A. R. P. Being Portion of
1 3 31·3 Allotment 105; coloured pink.
1 3 22·1 Allotment 225; coloured blue.
1 1 1·3 Allotments 136 and 141 ; coloured yellow.
0 0 4·4 Allotment 229; coloured neutral.
0 0 8·7 Allotment 225; coloured blue.

Situate in Block XIV, Opaheke Survey District (Auckland
Registration District), County of Franklin.
All in Mangatawhiri Parish (Plan 23335).

Dated at Pukekohe this 26th day of August, 1925.

ALAN P. DAY, County Clerk.

N.B.-This notice was first published in the Franklin Times
newspaper on the 26th day of August, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that WHITE ISLAND AGRICUL-
TURAL CHEMICAL COMPANY (LIMITED), a company in-
corporated in the Province of British Columbia, Canada,
intends to carry on business in the City of Auckland, New
Zealand, and that its office or place of business is Numbers
4 and 5, Mahoney Buildings, Shortland Street, Auckland.

Dated at Auckland the 25th day of August, 1925.

A. A. MERCER,
Attorney of the Company.

STRATFORD COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTIONS MAKING SPECIAL RATES.

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
Stratford County Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Stratford
County Kaiapoi Road Special-rating District Loan of £700,
1925, authorized to be raised by the Stratford County Council
under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of deviating,
forming, and metalling the Kaiapoi Road, the said Council
hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny three
farthings (1¾d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value
(on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable
property in the Kaiapoi Road Special-rating District, being
all that piece or parcel of land containing 489½ acres,
commencing at the north-west corner of Section 19, Block IX,
Huiroa Survey District, running thence in an easterly
direction along the northern boundary of the said section;
then southerly along the eastern boundary to the north-
east corner of Section 20, Block XIII, Huiroa Survey Dis-
trict; thence along the Kaiapoi and Salisbury Road frontages
of Sections 19, 20, also half an acre of the north-east corner of
Section 18; thence westerly along the southern boundary of
Section 19, Block XIII, Huiroa Survey District, to the
Manganui Stream; thence along the bank of the stream in
a north-easterly direction to the commencing-point: 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 February in each and every year during the
currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-five (25) years
or until the loan is fully paid off.

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Stratford
County Toko Road East Special-rating District Loan of
£700, 1925, authorized to be raised by the Stratford County
Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of
continuing the metalling of the Toko Road East from the
present end of the metal, the said Council hereby makes
and levies a special rate of seven-eighths of a penny (7/8d.)
in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of
the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Toko
Road East Special-rating District as follows : All that piece
or parcel of land containing 3,219 acres, commencing at the

North-west corner of Allotment 1, running thence in an
easterly direction for a distance of 920 links; thence south-
west for a distance of 25 chains; thence south-east for
25 chains; thence east for 25 chains; thence south for
50 chains, to the Mangaehu Stream; thence along the
western bank of the stream in a westerly and southerly
direction for 45 chains to the north-east corner of Lot 4,
Toko B Block; thence south-west along the Mangaehu
Stream for 100 chains to the south-east corner of Lot 4;
then west along the south boundary of Lot 4 for a distance
of 60 chains; thence through Lot 3 in a south-westerly direc-
tion for 75 chains to northern boundary of Lot 2; thence
north-westerly along the northern boundary of Lot 2 for a
distance of 60 chains; thence south-westerly through Lot 2, for
a distance of 30 chains; thence along the southern boundary
of Lot 2 in a westerly direction for 70 chains to the Makuri
Stream; thence north-easterly along the Makuri Stream for
90 chains to the south-east corner of part Toko B Block
(deposited plan 432); thence north-westerly for 6411 links;
then north-easterly for 8026 links, to the north-west
corner of part Toko B Block (D.P. 432); thence north-easterly
through part Toko B Block (D.P. 289) for 25 chains; thence
south-easterly for 90 chains to the Makuri Stream; thence
north-easterly along the Makuri Stream for 120 chains to
the commencing-point; 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 February in each
and every year during the currency of such loan, being a
period of twenty-five (25) years, or until the loan is fully
paid off.

E. WALTER, Chairman.
CHAS. PENN, Clerk.

WOODVILLE COUNTY 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
Woodville County Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other
charges on a loan of one thousand pounds (£1,000), authorized
to be raised by the Woodville County Council under the above-
mentioned Act, for construction of the main roads now
highways-viz., Napier-Wellingt on via Wairarapa and
Woodville - Palmerston North Highways- the said Woodville
County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of
one-ninetieth of a penny in the pound (1/90d.) upon the
rateable value of all rateable property of the Woodville
County, comprising the whole of the County of Woodville;
and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate
during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on
the first day of August in each and every year during the
currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, or until
the loan is fully paid off.

J. M. GRAHAM,
County Clerk and Treasurer.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
subsisting between MARY O'MEEGHAN and VERONA
ELLEN MATHER, carrying on business as Milliners at Stafford
Street, Timaru, under the style or firm of "Mather and
O'Meeghan," has been dissolved by mutual agreement as
from the 20th day of July, 1925.

All debts due and owing by the said late Partnership will
be received and paid by the said VERONA ELLEN MATHER,
who will continue to carry on the said business under her
own name.

Dated this 25th day of August, 1925.

MARY O'MEEGHAN.

Signed by the said Mary O'Meeghan in the presence of--
P. B. Foote, Company Manager, Timaru.
VERONA E. MATHER.

Signed by the said Verona Ellen Mather in the presence of
Clifford F. Jones, Solicitor, Timaru.

PIAKO 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
Piako County Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of
interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Piako County