JUNE 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1627

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266.

TAKE notice that the name of the undermentioned company has been struck off the Register, and the company dissolved :—

Clement Motors (Limited). 1922/1.

Dated at the office of the Assistant Registrar of Companies at Hokitika this 5th day of June, 1926.

E. C. ADAMS,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

524

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (4).

NOTICE is hereby given that the name of the undermentioned company has been struck off the Register, and the company has been dissolved :—

The City Laundry (Limited). 25/20.

Dated at Christchurch this 26th day of May, 1926.

J. MORRISON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

554

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (3).

TAKE notice that at the expiration of three months from the date hereof the name of the undermentioned company will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register, and the company dissolved :—

The Excelsior Soap and Candle Company (Limited). 04/7.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this 26th day of May, 1926.

J. MORRISON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

555

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (3).

TAKE notice that at the expiration of three months from the date hereof the name of the undermentioned company will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Registrar, and the company dissolved :—

The Deep Dell Scheelite and Gold Mining Company (Limited). 12/60.

Given under my hand at Christchurch this 4th day of June, 1926.

J. MORRISON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

556

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 266 (4).

TAKE notice that the names of the undermentioned companies have been struck off the Register, and the companies have been dissolved :—

Dunedin Furniture Company (Limited). 1911/18.
Carter Rhodes Proprietary (Limited). 1923/24.

Given under my hand at Dunedin this 31st day of May, 1926.

L. G. TUCK,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

557

WEST’S GAS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY (LIMITED)

NOTICE is hereby given that the above-named company intends to commence business at Wellington, in the Dominion of New Zealand, and that the situation of the office or place of business of the said company is at Number 39, Taranaki Street, Wellington.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

EDWARD RABBRIDGE,
Attorney for West’s Gas Improvement Company (Limited).

Witness to signature—C. G. White, Solicitor, Wellington.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the TASMAN NORTH FRUITLANDS COMPANY (LIMITED).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the above-named company duly convened and held at the registered office of the company at Liverpool Chambers, Liverpool Street, Christchurch, on Tuesday, 15th April, 1924, the following resolution was duly passed :—

“ That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this meeting that the company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily.”

And at the said meeting HUBERT THORNE WHITTINGHAM, of Christchurch, Public Accountant, was appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up.

H. T. WHITTINGHAM,
Liquidator.

Dated this 31st May, 1926.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

HAWKE AND WALKER, Electrical Engineers, Waipukurau and Waipawa, Partnership dissolved 31st May. Accounts to L. HAWKE, who will carry on the business and receive all payments to, and discharge all liabilities of, the late firm.

L. HAWKE.
H. W. WALKER.

PATANGATA COUNTY COUNCIL.

DECLARATION OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT SYSTEM OF RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE.

PURSUANT to section 42 of the Rating Act, 1925, and any amendments thereto, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Patangata taken on the 12th day of May, 1926, on the proposal that the system of rating in the said county be on the unimproved value,—
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 477 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 102 ; informal, 3.

I therefore declare the proposal was carried.

THOS. BUTLER,
Deputy Chairman of the County of Patangata.
Dated at Waipukurau this 20th day of May, 1926.

CASTLEPOINT COUNTY 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 Castlepoint County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Castlepoint County Awatea Bridge Contribution Loan of £2,500, 1926, authorized to be raised by the Castlepoint County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of providing the Castlepoint County Council’s portion of the cost of constructing a bridge and approaches thereto over the Mangapakeha Stream at Awatea, on the Masterton–Weber Junction to Tinui Highway, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of two thirty-fifths (2/35ths) of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the whole of the County of Castlepoint ; 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 thirty-six and a half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

E. F. JENNINGS, County Clerk.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and its amendments, and PARIS HOUSE (LIMITED), in voluntary liquidation.

NOTICE is hereby given that the above company has gone into voluntary liquidation as from the 1st day of February, 1926, and that Mr. JOSEPH BENJAMIN has been appointed the Liquidator.

JOSEPH BENJAMIN,
Public Accountant and Auditor,
Liquidator.

Dated 2nd February, 1926, 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership hitherto existing between FRANK MARK COLLINS and CHARLES REGINALD COLLINS, of Wendonside, Farmers, under the style of “C. and M. Collins,” has been dissolved by voluntary consent as from the 30th day of April, 1926. All accounts payable to the said Partnership