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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 64

Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of
the improvements of the roads and footpaths and storm-
water drainage in the Central Ward of the Borough of Avon-
dale, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special
rate of twopence halfpenny (2½d.) in the pound sterling on
the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of
all rateable property in the Central Ward of 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 fifteenth day of July in each and
every year during the currency of such loan, being a period
of thirty-six and a half years (36½) years, or until the loan
is fully paid off.

WM. JOHN TAIT, Mayor.
ARTHUR NUNNS, Town Clerk.

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NORTH SHORE BOROUGHS (AUCKLAND) WATER BOARD.

SPECIAL ORDER FIXING CHARGE FOR WATER WITHDRAWN FROM LAKE TAKAPUNA BY PUBLIC BODIES.

COPY of resolution passed at a special meeting of the Board held 17th July, 1925:—
That the North Shore Boroughs (Auckland) Water Board, pursuant to section 24 of the North Shore Boroughs (Auckland) Water-supply Act, 1924, do fix the charge for water withdrawn from Lake Takapuna to Public Bodies at one penny (1d.) per thousand (1,000) gallons.
That the above resolution be submitted to an ordinary meeting of the Board to be held at the office of the North Auckland Land Board, Government Buildings, Auckland, on Friday, the 21st day of August, 1925, at 4 p.m., for confirmation as a special order.

Copy of resolution passed at an ordinary meeting of the Board held 21st August, 1925:—
That the resolution fixing charge for water withdrawn from Lake Takapuna by public bodies passed at a special meeting of the Board held on 17th July, 1925, and publicly notified in the Auckland Star on the following dates: 23rd and 30th July, 6th, 13th, and 20th August, be now confirmed as a special order.

Devonport (Auckland), 22nd August, 1925.
A. E. WILSON, Secretary.

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NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME.

I, ALBERT JOHN SMITH, heretofore called or known by the name of “Albert John McCarthy,” of Napier, Mercer, hereby give notice that on the 8th day of September, 1925, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said surname of “McCarthy,” and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Smith” instead of the said name of “McCarthy.” And I give further notice that by a deed-poll dated the 8th day of September, 1925, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wellington District, Napier Registry, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of “McCarthy,” and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Smith” instead of the name of “McCarthy,” and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and subscribed by the name of “Smith” exclusively.

Dated the 11th day of September, 1925.

ALBERT JOHN SMITH.

Witness—C. D. Cornford, Solicitor, Napier.

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COUNTY OF RAGLAN.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR A QUARRY THROUGH PART OF ALLOTMENT 183 OF THE PARISH OF PEPEPE.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed by the Raglan County Council under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a quarry in that piece of land described in the Schedule hereto, and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is further given that the plan (Number 23734), of the said quarry and of the lands so required to be taken is deposited for public inspection at the office of the Raglan County Council at Ngaruawahia, and is there open for inspection. And notice is also hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of such public work or by the taking of such lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, set forth the same in writing and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Raglan County Council at Ngaruawahia.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of parcel of land to be taken: 7 acres 2 roods 18 perches. Being part of Allotment 183, Pepepe Parish; coloured on plan, red.

Situated in Block VII, Whaingaroa Survey District (Auckland Registration District), Raglan County. (S.O. 23734.) All in the Land District of Auckland.

Dated at Ngaruawahia this 9th day of September, 1925.

CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE, Chairman.
H. MARSLAND, Clerk.

888

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of GISBORNE OIL PROPRIETARY (LIMITED), a company incorporated in New Zealand.

NOTICE is herby given that the office or place of business in New Zealand of GISBORNE OIL PROPRIETARY (LIMITED) where legal process may be served and where notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered is now situate in the buildings of the New Zealand Insurance Company (Limited), Childers Road, Gisborne.

Dated at Gisborne this 11th day of September, 1925.

CHARLES N. TAYLOR,
Attorney in New Zealand for GISBORNE OIL PROPRIETARY (LIMITED).

889

NOTICE is hereby given that the registered office of Bostock’s Polishes (LIMITED), a company duly incorporated in the State of New South Wales and carrying on business in the said State of New South Wales and elsewhere, and intending to carry on business in New Zealand, will be situate at the corner of William and Adelaide Streets, Petone, near the City of Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of September, 1925.

LUKE AND KENNEDY,
Solicitors for the above-named Company.

890

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between CHARLES HENRY and THOMAS LEAHY BEGG, carrying on business at Princess Street, Dunedin, as Locksmiths, under the name of “Charles Henry,” has as from the nineteenth day of March, 1925, been dissolved by mutual consent. The said CHARLES HENRY retires from the business, and all moneys owing by the firm will be paid by the said THOMAS LEAHY BEGG, who is entitled to receive all moneys owing to the firm.

Dated the 1st day of September, 1925.

CHAS. HENRY.
T. L. BEGG.

891

WELLINGTON CITY 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 Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and their respective amendments, and of all other Acts and powers in this behalf it enabling, the Wellington City Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing interest, sinking fund, and all other charges on a loan of two hundred thousand pounds (£200,000) authorized to be raised by the Wellington City Council under the above-mentioned Acts, for the provision of permanent paving of main streets in the City of Wellington (in addition to streets already provided for), the said Wellington City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of twenty-nine one-hundredths of a penny (²⁹⁄₁₀₀d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the whole of the City of Wellington; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of June in each and every year during the currency of this loan, being a period of twenty-four (24) years from the thirty-first day of March, 1925, or until the loan is fully paid off.

R. TAIT, Acting Town Clerk.

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