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thereof, and any other Acts it enabling, and with the consent of the ratepayers of the Beach Road Special-rating Area, as testified by a petition signed by not less than three-fourths of the ratepayers of the said special-rating area, the capital value of whose properties, as appearing on the valuation-roll of the said district, is collectively greater than the capital values of the ratepayers who did not so consent, the Clifton County Council hereby resolves that, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of two hundred and fifty pounds, authorized to be raised by the said Council under the above-mentioned Acts for the metalling of the Beach Road, Urenui, and the purposes incidental thereto, the said council hereby makes and levies a special rate of five-eighths (⅝) of a penny in the pound upon the rateable property of the said Beach Road Special-rating Area, comprising Part Section 2, Part Lot 1 of Section 2, Sections 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of Block IV, Waitara Survey District, 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 February and August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

455 H. A. FOREMAN, Chairman.

COUNTY OF HOROWHENUA.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND IN PUKEHOU 4B 4A, SUBDIVISIONS 2 AND 3, AND 4B 4A UNDER THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1908, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING A PUBLIC ROAD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Horowhenua County Council, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, proposes to execute a certain public work—namely, a road through the above-named Pukehou 4B 4A, Subdivisions 2 and 3, and Pukehou 4B 4A, Block VI, Waitohu Survey District—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken; and notice is hereby further given that a plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the office of the County Clerk for the Horowhenua County, in Bath Street, Levin, and is there open for inspection, and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land must, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of such public work or 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 said County Clerk at his said office.

THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.

Approximate areas of each of the parcels of land required to be taken :—

A. R. P. Being portion of
0 0 30 Pukehou 4B 4A 2 ; coloured on plan yellow.
0 1 25·5 Pukehou 4B 4A 3 ; coloured on plan, blue.
0 1 7 Pukehou 4B 4A ; coloured on plan, burnt umber.

All situated in Block VI, Waitohu Survey District.

Dated this 4th day of May, 1927.

F. H. HUDSON,
Clerk of the Horowhenua County Council.

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In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of CHARLES PRATT AND CO., LTD.

EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION, DATED 2ND MAY, 1927.

IT was resolved that, as the company had ceased to carry on business, the company be wound up voluntarily, and that JOHN MACINTYRE, Accountant, Auckland, be appointed Liquidator.

J. MACINTYRE.
J. G. HAMILTON,
By his Attorney, R. L. GRIFFITHS.
D. F. MACINTYRE.

457

THE NEW ZEALAND AUTOMOBILES, LIMITED.

AT a special general meeting of the shareholders of the above company, held at the offices of the company on 2nd May, 1927, it was resolved that the company go into voluntary liquidation, and that Mr. T. G. RUSSELL be appointed Liquidator.

T. G. RUSSELL, Liquidator.

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WHAKATANE COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and of the Public Works Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Whakatane County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the formation of a road; and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken :

And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the said Whakatane County Council, situate at Whakatane, and is open for inspection, without fee, by all persons during ordinary office hours. All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of such lands who have any well-grounded objection to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said lands must state their objections in writing, and send the same within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Clerk of the said Council at the said office.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate area of each of the parcels of land required to be taken :—

A. R. P. Being portion of Lots Nos.
0 1 34 Rangitaiki 32E No. 7B ; coloured neutral.
0 2 34 ,, 32E No. 2 ; coloured brown.
0 1 22 ,, 32E No. 3 ; coloured blue.
0 1 26 ,, 32E No. 4 ; coloured red.
0 3 1 ,, G ; coloured purple.
0 3 38 ,, 32B No. 3 ; coloured orange.
0 1 9 ,, 32B No. 2C ; coloured neutral.
0 2 7 ,, 32B No. 2B ; coloured brown.
0 2 29·6 ,, 32B No. 2A ; coloured blue.
0 0 32·7 ,, 32B No. 1 ; coloured red.

All situated in the Parish of Rangitaiki, County of Whakatane. (S.O. 23858.)

Dated this 3rd day of May, 1927.

H. R. ROBINSON, County Clerk.

460

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SURNAME.

I, LESLIE DAVID ABBOTT, having recently ascertained that my correct and original name is LESLIE DAVID YOUNG, and being desirous of being called and known by the name of LESLIE DAVID ABBOTT, hereby give public notice that on the 29th day of March, 1927, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said surname of Leslie David Young, and then assumed and adopted, and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of LESLIE DAVID ABBOTT instead of the said name of LESLIE DAVID YOUNG :

And I give further notice that by deed poll dated the 29th day of March, 1927, duly executed and attested (a copy of which has been filed in the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Auckland), I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of “Young,” and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of “Leslie David Abbott” instead of “Leslie David Young,” and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the name of “Leslie David Abbott” exclusively.

Dated the 14th day of April, 1927.

LESLIE DAVID ABBOTT,
Late LESLIE DAVID YOUNG.

Witness to signature—W. A. Carruth, Solicitor, Whangarei.

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WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

Re POLL TAKEN UNDER PROVISIONS OF SECTION 95 OF THE RATING ACT, 1925.

I HEREBY give notice that the following number of votes were recorded at the taking of the poll on the 27th day of April, 1927, for and against the proposal that a system of rating on the unimproved value apply to water rates, gas rates, electric-light rates, sewerage rates, and hospital and charitable-aid rates, as well as to other rates levied under the Rating Act, 1925, in the City of Wellington :—

For the proposal, 8,169; against the proposal, 4,262; informal votes, 963.

Dated this 3rd day of May, 1927.

C. J. B. NORWOOD, Mayor.

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