NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership heretofore existing between JAMES FRANCIS JOSEPH MOLONEY and WILLIAM DAVID ROSS, trading under the name or style of the “Eden Engineering Company,” at 83 New North Road, Eden Terrace, Auckland, as Engineers and Brass-finishers, has been dissolved by mutual consent. The business will in future be conducted by the said WILLIAM DAVID ROSS, to whom all accounts due to the firm are to be paid and by whom all liabilities thereof will be met.

Dated this sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.
J. MOLONEY.
W. ROSS.
Witness—C. J. Lovegrove, Solicitor, Auckland. 874

BOROUGH OF NORTHCOTE.

PURSUANT to section 44 of the Rating Act, 1925, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Northcote, taken on the 2nd day of September, 1926, on the proposal that the adoption of the system of rating property on the basis of the unimproved value thereof be rescinded in the Borough of Northcote.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 237; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 356. I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 3rd day of September, 1926.
CHAS. A. DEUXBERRY, Mayor. 876

WAKAITI LIMITED.

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 at the registered office of the company, Richmond Quay, Greymouth, on Saturday, the 16th day of October, 1926, at 7 o'clock in the evening, 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.

Dated the 11th day of September, 1926.
F. W. SHALLCRASS,
Liquidator. 877

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between DONALD McLEOD and HENRY THOMAS HANLON, carrying on business as Hotelkeepers at Napier, has been dissolved as from the 31st day of August, 1926.

Dated this 31st day of August, 1926.
H. T. HANLON.
DONALD McLEOD.
Witness to both signatures—J. Morling, Solicitor, Napier. 878

In the matter of S. MANNING AND COMPANY (LIMITED).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held at 110 Ferry Road, Christchurch, on the 16th day of August, 1926, the following resolution was passed, and at a subsequent extraordinary general meeting of the members of the said company also duly convened and held at the same place on the 1st day of September, 1926, the same resolution was duly confirmed as a special resolution, viz.—

“That the company be wound up voluntarily.”

And at such last-mentioned meeting GEORGE PENGELLY, of Christchurch, was appointed Liquidator for the purposes of the winding-up.

Dated at Christchurch this 8th day of September, 1926.
H. I. OTLEY,
Chairman.
Witness—F. I. Cowlishaw, Solicitor, Christchurch. 879

PATEA BOROUGH 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 Patea Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :-

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest and sinking fund and other charges on the Patea Borough Streets-improvement Loan of £2,000, 1926, authorized to be raised by the Patea Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of formation and improvement of various streets and footways in the Borough of Patea, including the purchase of necessary plant required for such work, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of threepence (3d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the annual value) of all rateable property in the whole of the Borough of Patea ; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the Ist day of June 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.

P. S. FINLAYSON, Mayor. 880
FRANK T. RAY, Town Clerk.

CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—NORTH LINWOOD AND AVONSIDE WATERWORKS LOAN OF £1,700.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Christchurch City Council hereby resolves as follows :-

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,700, authorized to be raised by the Christchurch City Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of completing the work scheduled to be carried out under the North Linwood and Avonside Waterworks Loan of £17,000 (being 10 per cent. of this loan), the said Christchurch City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-thousand-two-hundred-and-thirty-three six-thousand-two-hundred-and-fiftieths (1233/6250ths) of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property comprised within the North Linwood and Avonside Waterworks Loan Special-rating Area ; 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 November in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty years, or until such loan is fully paid off.

J. K. ARCHER, Mayor. 881
J. S. NEVILLE, Town Clerk.

HAURAKI PLAINS 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, the Hauraki Plains County Council hereby resolves as follows :-

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,250, authorized to be raised by the Hauraki Plains County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of erecting a dwelling for the County Engineer, the said Hauraki Plains County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fiftieth of a penny on the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the County of Hauraki Plains ; and that such special rate shall be in annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable yearly in one sum on the first day of September 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.

Dated this 8th day of September, 1926.
ERNEST WALTON, Chairman. 882
E. O. MAHONEY, County Clerk.

RAGLAN 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 Raglan County Council hereby resolves as follows :-

Port Waikato - Tuakau Bridge No. 4 Special-rating District Loan of £2,000.

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Raglan