In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the
matter of THE HAWKE'S BAY FARMERS' MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE ASSOCIATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a special general meeting
of members of the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Mutual Fire
Insurance Association held in the Chamber of Commerce
Rooms, Queen Street, Hastings, on the 19th day of August,
1925, the following resolution was passed, and was confirmed
at a further special general meeting held on the 25th day of
September, 1925:-
"That the affairs of the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Mutual
Fire Insurance Association be wound up voluntarily."

HAROLD ASHLEY BRATHWAITE, Accountant, Hastings, was
appointed Liquidator for the purpose of winding up.

Notice is also given that the creditors of the association are
required, on or before the 30th day of March, 1926, to send
in detailed particulars of their claims to the Liquidator of the
said association, and, if so required by notice in writing, are
to come in and prove their claims at such time and place as
shall be specified in such notice, or in default thereof they
will be excluded from the benefits of any distribution made
before such claims are proved.

Dated at Auckland this 8th day of March, 1926.

H. A. BRATHWAITE, Liquidator.
P.O. Box 341, Hastings.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA (LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the Commercial Bank of
Australia (Limited) proposes to commence to carry on
business at High Street, Motueka, in the Provincial District
of Nelson.

Dated at Wellington, New Zealand, this 15th day of March,
1926.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA (LIMITED),
By its Attorney,

E. P. YALDWYN.
Witness--R. W. Armit, J.P.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto
subsisting between the undersigned, THOMAS HENRY
CORDOCK and HERBERT VICTOR DALE, trading as Second-
hand Dealers, under the name or style of "Cordock and
Dale," at No. 10 Royal Arcade, Dunedin, has been dissolved
by mutual consent as from the thirty-first day of January,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

The business will in future be carried on by HERBERT
VICTOR DALE, who will discharge all liabilities of the late
Partnership, and to whom all moneys owing thereto are
payable.

As witness our hands this eleventh day of February, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

T. H. CORDOCK.
Witness to the signature of Thomas Henry Cordock--
Maurice V. Lousley, Solicitor, Dunedin.

H. V. DALE.
Witness to the signature of Herbert Victor Dale--Maurice
V. Lousley, Solicitor, Dunedin.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership business
heretofore carried on by the undersigned at Inver-
cargill as Cabinetmakers, under the firm-name of "Jones
and Livingstone," has been dissolved as from the 19th day
of February, 1926. The business will in future be carried
on by the undersigned ARTHUR THOMAS JONES, who will
discharge all debts owing by the late firm, and to whom all
moneys owing to the firm must be paid.

Dated this 8th day of March, 1926.

A. T. JONES,
E. LIVINGSTONE.

Witness to both signatures--J. G. Imlay, Solicitor, Inver-
cargill.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore
subsisting between JAMES FRANCIS CURRY and JAMES
COSGROVE, carrying on business as Grocery and Provision
Merchants and Ironmongers at Hastings, under the style
or firm of "Curry and Cosgrove," has been dissolved as
from the date hereof. All debts due to and owing by the
said late firm will be received and paid respectively by JAMES

COSGROVE, who will continue to carry on the said business
in his own name.

Dated at Hastings this 1st day of March, 1926.

JAS. F. CURRY.
JAMES COSGROVE.

Witness to both signatures--Henry de Denne, Solicitor,
Hastings.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the
matter of the YORK STREET FLAX-SPINNING COMPANY
(LIMITED).

NOTICE is hereby given that the above-named company
intends, after the expiration of three months from
the date of this notice, to cease to carry on business in New
Zealand.

This notice is given in the terms of section 307 of the above-
named Act.

Dated at Auckland this 11th day of March, 1926.

H. W. AIREY,
Attorney for the Company.

WAIMAIRI 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
Waimairi County Council hereby resolves as follows:-

That, for the purpose of providing interest, sinking fund,
and other charges on a loan of £9,000, authorized by poll of
ratepayers to be raised by the Waimairi County Council, under
the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of kerbing and
channelling in the special-rating area defined in the Schedule
hereto, to be known as the North Papanui Channelling Loan
Area, the said Waimairi County Council hereby makes and
levies a special rate of one penny and three-sixteenths of a
penny (1d. and 3/16ths) in the pound on the rateable (capital)
value of all the rateable property in the above-mentioned
special-rating area in the County of Waimairi; and that
such rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the
currency of such loan, and shall be payable annually on the
1st day of April in each and every year during the currency
of such loan, being a period of 36 years, or until the loan is
fully paid off.

SCHEDULE.

THE special loan area shall comprise all that area commencing
at the corner of the North Road and Langdown's Road;
thence north-westerly along the north-eastern side of Lang-
down's Road to the main North Railway; in a northerly
direction along the railway-line to the northern boundary of
R.S. 292 on the east side of the railway-line; thence easterly
along the north boundary of R.S. 292 to the north-west
corner of Lot 6, D.P. 5435; thence northerly in a right line
to the south side of Tucker's Road; thence easterly along
the south side of Tucker's Road to the east side of the North
Road; thence northerly along the east side of the North
Road to Daniel’s Road; thence easterly along the south side
of Daniel's Road to the eastern boundary of Lot 5, D.P. 5815;
thence southerly along the eastern boundary of the said Lot 5
and the productions thereof to Daniel's Drain; thence westerly
along Daniel's Drain to the eastern boundary of Lot 1, D.P.
5875; thence southerly along the eastern boundary of Lots 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, and 59 of the said D.P. 5875;
thence easterly along the southern boundaries of the said
Lots 50, 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, and 43 of the said D.P. 5875
to the east side of street in Northcote Settlement; thence
southerly across R.S. 251 (St. Bede's) to the northern bound-
ary of Lot 6, D.P. 1750, at a point one chain west of its north-
east corner; thence easterly along the northern boundaries
of Lots 7, 8, 9, and 10 to the western boundary of Lot 16,
D.P. 1750; thence southerly along the western boundary of
Lot 16 of D.P. 1750 to the northern boundary of Lot 11;
thence easterly along the northern boundaries of Lots 11, 12,
13, 14, and 15, D.P. 1750, to Grimsey’s Road; thence southerly
along the western side of Grimsey’s Road, across Winter’s
Road to a point five chains from Winter’s Road on the eastern
boundary of R.S. 313; thence westerly in a line five chains
south of and parallel to Winter’s Road to the eastern bound-
ary of Lot 4, D.P. 3295; thence south-westerly along the said
Lot 4, across Tutton's Road to a point in line with the north-
east boundary of D.P. 2573; thence north-westerly along the
said line to the north-east corner of Lot 25, D.P. 2573;
thence south-easterly along the easternmost boundaries of
Lots 25 and 24, D.P. 2573, to the south-east corner of the
last-mentioned lot; thence north-westerly along the southern-
most boundary of the said Lot 24 for a distance of one chain
to Godfrey's Drain; thence south-westerly along the said