Dec. 15.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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machinery necessary for carrying out the said work of construction or re-construction (£12,000): total, £90,000—the said Council, pursuant to section 23 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, hereby increases to three-eighths (3/8ths) of a penny in the pound sterling the special rate of one-third (1/3rd) of a penny in the pound sterling made and levied by resolution passed by the said Council on the 14th day of March, 1925, on the rateable value on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the whole of the County of Horowhenua, such rate of one-third (1/3rd) of a penny in the pound sterling being insufficient to provide for payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on such loan, and that such special rate (as increased) shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of April 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.

G. A. MONK, Chairman.
F. H. HUDSON, Clerk.

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THE BACON SECURITY PLUG CO., LTD.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and the Bacon Security Plug Company, Limited (in liquidation).

A T a meeting of shareholders of the above company, held on the 16th day of November, 1927, the following special resolution was passed, and at a further meeting held on the 6th day of December, 1927, the same was duly confirmed:

"That the company be wound up voluntarily, and that Oscar Gerald Kember, of Wellington, Public Accountant, be and he hereby is appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding-up.

THE BACON SESURITY PLUG COMPANY, LIMITED (in liquidation),

OSCAR G. KEMBER, Liquidator.

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SOUTHPORT COAL COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

A FINAL meeting of shareholders will be held at the office of the undersigned, 4 Arcade, Esk Street, Invercargill, on Friday, 23rd December, 1927, at 4 o'clock p.m. Business : To consider final accounts.

R. J. CUMMING, Liquidator.

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PUBLICATIONS LIMITED.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a special meeting of shareholders of this company was held on the 23rd November, which passed a resolution "That Publications Limited be voluntarily wound up, and that the undersigned be appointed Liquidator." This resolution was confirmed on the 7th instant.

E. J. WOOLF, Liquidator.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Honourable Alexander Lawrence Herdman, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, did, on the 26th day of November, 1927, make an order in respect of the scheme submitted to him by the Trustees for the time being of the Fountain of Friendship Lodge Friendly Society, registered No. 349, being the Trustees of the Leonard Fund under the provisions of the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act, 1908, and that such order may be inspected at the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland, or at the offices of Messrs. Hosking and Simpson, Solicitors, 709 New Zealand Insurance Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland.

A. E. DOBBIE, Deputy Registrar.

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H. H. COOK AND COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of H. H. Cook and Company, Limited (in liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given that the following special resolution was duly passed and entered in the minute-book of the company at a meeting of shareholders of the above company held at the registered office, Liverpool Street, Christchurch, on the 16th day of November, 1927.

Resolution.

We, the undersigned, being at least three-fourths of the members of H. H. Cook and Company, Limited, holding at least three-fourths of the shares in the capital of the company, pursuant to and with the powers conferred by subsection (6) of section 168 of the Companies Act, 1908, hereby resolve, and so that this resolution shall have validity as a special resolution, as follows, viz. : "That the company be wound up voluntarily, and that Albert Thomas Nelson Goodhart, of the City of Christchurch, in the Dominion of New Zealand, Public Accountant, be appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up, and that his remuneration be according to the standard scale of fees of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, with special fees under the same scale for time occupied in the preparation of any matters in which legal action may be proposed or taken in the Courts, and for time occupied in or at the Court in connection with any legal actions in the conduct of such liquidation."

HERBERT H. COOK, Chairman.
BARBARA COOK, Shareholder.

Dated at Christchurch, this 16th day of November, 1927.

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TE AWAMUTU BOROUGH COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, the Te Awamutu Borough Council hereby resolves as follows :-- That, for the purpose of providing the principal, interest, and other charges on a loan of £4,000, authorized to be raised by the Te Awamutu Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of completing the construction of streets in the Borough of Te Awamutu, including channelling, metalling, and tar-sealing the same, the said Te Awamutu Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fourth of one penny (¼d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the Borough of Te Awamutu, comprising the whole of the said Borough of Te Awamutu, 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 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.

L. G. ARMSTRONG, Mayor.
DUDLEY BOCKETT, Town Clerk.

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HUNGAHUNGA DRAINAGE BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

Matamata North Special-rating Area.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, the Hungahunga Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows :-- That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £250, authorized to be raised by the Hungahunga Drainage Board under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, for the purpose of constructing new drainage works---viz., to cleanse, deepen, and widen existing watercourses, drains, and outfalls, and to make and construct new drains and outfalls, the Hungahunga Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate on a graduated scale according to the classification of lands within the area hereinafter described—i.e., threepence three-farthings in the pound upon lands classified “A”; twopence half-penny in the pound upon lands classified “B”; one penny half-penny in the pound upon lands classified “C”—upon the unimproved value of all rateable property within the Matamata North Special-rating area, Hungahunga Drainage District, hereinafter described, 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 November in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-five years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

Special-rating Area.

All that area of land within the Hungahunga Drainage District comprising parts of Blocks VIII and IX, Wairere Survey District—viz., Block VIII : Lot 1, Parish of Waitoa; Section 1 and Section 4, Matamata N. 2B; Crown land between Sections 4, 2, 3, Block VIII, and Matamata N. 1D; Matamata N. 1D; Lot 2, Matamata N. 16; Matamata N. 1B 5A. Block IX : Section 1 and Section 3.

F. E. HUGHES, Chairman.
F. W. WILD, Clerk.

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