Oct. 15.

STEWART ISLAND COUNTY.

POLL held on 23rd day of September, 1925, on the proposal that henceforth the system of rating property on the basis of the unimproved value thereof be adopted in the Stewart Island County:
For the proposal, 35; against, 17.
I hereby declare the proposal carried.
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H. C. EADE, Chairman.

THE EMPIRE LOAN AND DISCOUNT COMPANY
(LIMITED).

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 230 of the Companies Act, 1908, that a general meeting of the members of the above-named company will be held on Monday, the 26th day of October, 1925, at 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon, at No. 2 Courtenay Place, Wellington, for the purpose of having an account laid before the company showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator, and for the purpose of passing an extraordinary resolution disposing of the books, accounts, and documents of the company and the Liquidator.
Dated at Wellington the 12th day of October, 1925.
W. BROOKE TAYLOR,
Voluntary Liquidator.

SCOTT AND HOLLADAY (LIMITED).
CONDOR LAMPS (AUSTRALASIA), LIMITED.
PURSUANT to section 302 of the Companies Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that the situation and locality of the office or place of business at which legal process may be served of both the above companies is at King's Chambers, Willis Street, Wellington.
Dated this 9th day of October, 1925.
NORMAN S. LAWN,
Attorney.
Bell, Gully, Mackenzie, and O'Leary, Solicitors.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between MAURICE WILLIAM FERGUSON and the undersigned GEORGE FRED HANSON, formerly carrying on business at Dunedin under the style or firm of "The Otago Rug and Bedding Company," has been dissolved as from the 15th day of December, 1924. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said MAURICE WILLIAM FERGUSON, who will continue to carry on the business in the firm name.
Dated this 5th day of October, 1925.
G. F. HANSON.
Witness to the signature of the said George Fred Hanson—
R. A. King, Solicitor, Dunedin.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of Gisborne Oil Proprietary (Limited), a company incorporated outside New Zealand.
NOTICE is hereby 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 7th day of October, 1925.
CHARLES N. TAYLOR,
Attorney in New Zealand for Gisborne Oil Proprietary (Limited).

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between Frederick Richard Smith Jones and Ernest Bold Jones, who have carried on the business of Pork-butchers at No. 99 Burnett Street, Ashburton, under the style of "F. Jones and Son," has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 28th day of September, 1925.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The said business will, as from that date, be carried on by the said Ernest Bold Jones on his own behalf.
F. R. S. JONES.
E. JONES.
Wilding, Acland, and North, Solicitors, "National Chambers," Burnett Street, Ashburton. 979

PATEA COUNTY COUNCIL.
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR ROAD AND TO CLOSE A ROAD.

In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and the Public Works Act, 1908.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Patea County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, altering the course of the Weraroa Road near Waverley Racecourse; and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the First Schedule hereto are required to be taken; and, further, that it is proposed to close the portions of road described in the Second Schedule hereto.
Notice is further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken and closed is deposited in the public office of the Clerk to the said Council at Egmont Street, Patea, and is open for inspection by all persons during ordinary office hours.
All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking and closing of such lands, who have any well-founded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking or closing of the said lands, must state their objections in writing, and send the same, within forty days from the date hereof, being the first publication of the said notice, to the County Clerk at the Council Chambers, Patea.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
Approximate areas of land required to be taken:
A. R. P.
3 2 11·l Part Lot 3, Sections 152 and 153, Okotuku District; coloured yellow.
1 1 5·9 Part Lot 4, Sections 152 and 153, Okotuku District; coloured blue.
Situate in Block VI, Wairoa Survey District, County of Patea, Wellington Registration District.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Approximate areas of land required to be closed:
A. R. P.
1 3 8·7 Passing through Section No. 153.
1 1 5·9 Passing between Sections Nos. 153 and 340.
Coloured green on said plan.
Situate in Block VI, Wairoa Survey District, County of Patea, Wellington Registration District.
Dated at Patea this 7th day of September, 1925.
W. F. SHIELD, County Clerk.

In the matter of Mandel and Carr (Limited).
NOTICE is hereby given that on the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five (1925), the following special resolution was passed by the above-named company:
"That the company be wound up voluntarily, and that Mr. O. G. KEMBER, of Wellington, Accountant, be appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up."
WYLIE AND WIRES,
Solicitors to the Company.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership business of Land and Estate Agents hitherto carried on by us under the style of "A. W. Read and Co.," has been dissolved as from the first instant by mutual agreement.
The business shall in future be carried on by the said A. W. READ, solely, under the style aforesaid.
Dated this 7th day of October, 1925.
A. W. READ,
FRANK H. JARRETT.

HUNTERVILLE TOWN BOARD.
RESOLUTION INCREASING SPECIAL RATE.—ROAD LOAN, £5,000.
In pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and