ADVERTISEMENTS.

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 Imperial Agencies, Limited. 25/47.
Given under my hand at Christchurch, this 16th day of June, 1927.
J. MORRISON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of T. CURTIS, LIMITED, a Foreign Company intending to commence business in New Zealand.
NOTICE is hereby given that on and after the 1st day of July, 1927, T. CURTIS, LIMITED, a foreign company, intends to carry on business in New Zealand; and notice is further given that the office of the said company will be situate at Chancery Chambers, O'Connell Street, Auckland.
Dated at Auckland, this 11th day of June, 1927.
T. CURTIS, LTD.
By its Attorney-G. C. W. MORRIS.
MANGAWARA RIVER BOARD.
RESOLUTION INCREASING SPECIAL RATE.
Ten-foot Special-rating Area.—Loan of £5,000.
IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it hereunto enabling, the Mangawara River Board hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest and other charges on the Ten-foot Special-rating Area Loan of £5,000 authorized to be raised by the Mangawara River Board for the purpose of establishing drainageworks, the said River Board, pursuant to section 23 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, hereby increased-
To two and seven-eights of one penny in the pound sterling the special rate of twopence halfpenny in the pound sterling on Class “A”;
To one and five-eights of one penny in the pound sterling the special rate of one penny and one farthing in the pound sterling on Class “B”; and
To one penny in the pound sterling the special rate of five-eights of one penny in the pound sterling on Class “C”;
made and levied by resolution passed by the Board on the 11th day of April, 1927 (and gazetted on page 1405 of the New Zealand Gazette, dated 5th May, 1927), on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the Ten-foot Special-rating Area of the Board’s District, such rates of twopence halfpenny in the pound on Class “A,” of one penny and one-fathing in the pound on Class “B,” and of five-eighths of a penny in the pound on Class “C” being insufficient to provide for the payment of interest and other charges on such loan, and that such special rates, as increased, shall be annually recurring rates during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of July and the first day of January 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.
R. P. HAZARD, Clerk.
MAURICEVILLE 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, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Mauriceville County Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Mauriceville County Kaipororo Road Special-rating Area Loan of £200, 1926, authorized to be raised by the Mauriceville County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of metalling Kaipororo Road, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of three-farthings (¼d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Kaipororo Road Special-rating Area in the County of Mauriceville, being more particularly described in the Schedule at the foot hereof, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly in the 1st day of February and August in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
SCHEDULE.
Part Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and Sections 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 34, Block 14, Tararua Survey District, and Part Section 33, Block 10, Tararau Survey District, comprising one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one acres 0 roods twenty perches (1,931 acres 0 roods 20 perches) more or less, bounded as follows : Commencing at the north-west corner of the said Section 34 by the western boundary of the said Section 34 and part of the southern boundary thereof to the boundary of the said Section 31 ; thence by the western and south-eastern boundaries of the said Section 31 and part of the south-eastern boundary of the said Section 27 to the boundary of the said Section 4, thence by part of the south-western boundary of the said Section 4 for a distance of 30 chains (more or less), being one-quarter of the length of the last-mentioned boundary ; thence by a line drawn through the said Sections 4, 3, 2, and 1 to the north-eastern boundary of the said Section 1 (thereby including in the said special-rating area one-quarter of the said Sections 4, 3, 2, and 1); thence by the northernmost boundaries of the said Sections 1 and 2 for a distance of 80 chains (more or less); thence by a line through the said Section 33 to the north-eastern corner of the said Section 26 ; thence by the northern boundaries of the said Sections 26, 28, 29, 30, and 32; thence by part of the western boundary of the said Section 32 to the boundary of the said Section 34; thence by the northern boundary of the said Section 34 to the point of commencement.
R. JUDD, Chairman.
A. W. HOLLINGS, Clerk.
WAIPUKURAU 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, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Waipukurau Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a loan of nineteen thousand pounds (£19,000), authorized to be raised by the Waipukurau Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of providing a high-pressure water-supply and extension of watermains, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of two (2) pence and nineteen-fiftieths (19/50ths) of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the whole of the Borough of Waipukurau, 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 July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten (10) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
R. McLEAN, Mayor.
H. M. TANSLEY, Town Clerk.
AVONDALE 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, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Avondale Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :-
That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Avondale Borough Main Sewer Extension Loan of £1,200, 1927, authorized to be raised by the Avondale Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of an extension of the main sewer (in pipes eighteen inches in diameter) from existing manhole near Windsor Road, thence across Windsor Road and Great North Road, thence across Hamilton Road and along Argyle Street, a total length of 1,160 ft., as shown in blue print No. 59 submitted to the Board of Health, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-twentieth (1/20th) of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the whole of the Borough of Avondale, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 15th day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half (36½) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.
H. TIARKS, Mayor.
A. NUNNS, Town Clerk.