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objections to the execution of the said public work or to the
taking of the said land must state their objections in writing,
and send the same within forty days from the first publication
of this notice to the County Clerk at the Council Chambers,
Coromandel.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate area of parcels of land required to be taken : 7:9 perches.
Being portion of Papaparoro Block, Block VI, Survey
District of Coromandel; coloured on plan, green.
In the County of Coromandel, in the Land District of
Auckland, as the same is more particularly delineated on the
said plan.
Dated this 16th day of February, 1928.

RICH. SIMMONDS, County Clerk.
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PETITION COURT TO EXTEND LETTERS PATENT.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Wellington District.

In the matter of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921-22, and the Rules thereunder, and in the
matter of New Zealand Letters Patent No. 32642, dated
the 24th day of October, 1912, in the name of HENRY DROUTLEGE, for an Invention for “Improvements in and relating to Milking-machines.”

NOTICE is hereby given that I, HENRY DROUTLEGE, of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Dominion of New Zealand, intend to present a petition to the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Wellington, praying that the above-mentioned Letters Patent be extended for a further term : And notice is hereby given that I intend to apply to the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Wellington, on Friday, the 20th day of April, 1928, for a day to be fixed before which the said petition shall not be heard : And notice is hereby given that any persons desirous of being heard in opposition to the prayer of the said petition must, before the said 20th day of April, 1928, lodge notice of such opposition in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington, and serve a copy thereof at the office of my Solicitors, Messrs. Jackson, Russell, Tunks, and West, of 23 Shortland Street, Auckland : And notice is hereby further given that the office of the said Messrs. Jackson, Russell, Tunks, and West is the address for service upon me of any document of which service upon me is required in accordance with the Rules of the Supreme Court under the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921-22.
Dated this 18th day of February, 1928.

HENRY DROUTLEGE,
By his Solicitors—

JACKSON, RUSSELL, TUNKS, AND WEST.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of NICHOLLS HEALTH DRINKS, LIMITED, a Company duly incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908, and having its registered at Wellington.

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up of the above-named company by the Supreme Court was, on the 9th day of February, 1928, presented to the Honourable Sir Charles Perrin Skerrett, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, by Health Drinks and Products, Limited (in liquidation), a creditor of the said company : And the said petition is directed to be heard before a Judge of the said Court on the 9th day of March, 1928, at 10 a.m., at the Supreme Court House at Wellington ; and any creditor or contributory of the said company desirous to oppose the making of an order for the winding-up of the said company under the above Act should appear at the time of hearing by himself or his counsel for that purpose ; and a copy of the petition will be furnished to any creditor or contributory of the said company requiring the same, by the undersigned, on payment of the regulated charge for the same.

BUDDLE, ANDERSON, KIRKCALDIE, AND PARRY,
35 Johnston Street, Wellington.

Agents for MESSRS. ENDEAN AND HOLLOWAY,
Auckland, Solicitors for the Petitioner.

OTAGO CENTRAL ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

RESOLUTIONS MAKING SPECIAL RATES.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and section 59 of the Local Legislation Act, 1927, and of all other powers (if any) it

thereunto enabling, the Otago Central Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows :-

Loan of £200.

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Otago Central Electric-power Board Advances to Consumers Supplementary Loan of £200, 1928, authorized to be raised by the Otago Central Electric-power Board under the above-mentioned Acts for the purpose of financing consumers, the said Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one thirty-second (1/32nd) 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 Otago Central Electric-power District, as defined in the First Schedule to the Proclamation proclaiming the said district appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of the 26th October, 1922, No. 76, at page 2852, and as amended by the Schedule to the Proclamation appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th December, 1924, No. 80, at page 2859, 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 June 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.

Loan of £5,800.

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Otago Central Electric-power Board Electrical Reticulation Supplementary Loan of £5,800, 1928, authorized to be raised by the Otago Central Electric-power Board under the above-mentioned Acts for the purpose of completing reticulation, the said Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of seven thirty-seconds (7/32nds) 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 Otago Central Electric-power District as defined in the First Schedule to the Proclamation proclaiming the said district appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of the 26th October, 1922, No. 76, at page 2852, and as amended by the Schedule to the Proclamation appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th December, 1924, No. 80, at page 2859, 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 June 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.

WILLIAM BLACK, Chairman.

FRANKLIN 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 Franklin County Council hereby resolves as follows :-

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the Franklin County Waiau Pa-Mackenzie Road Special-rating Area Loan of £1,250, 1927, authorized to be raised by the Franklin County Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of forming and metalling the Waiau Pa to Papakura Road from the Presbyterian Church corner to Mackenzie’s Landing, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-halfpenny (½d.) in the pound sterling on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Waiau Pa-Mackenzie Road Special-rating Area, 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 yearly on the 1st 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.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Mauku Riding of Franklin County and Waiau Parish of Auckland Land District bounded commencing at the south-western corner of Allotment No. 27 ; towards the south-east by Allotment No. N.W. 26 to the public road at north-eastern corner of said Allotment No. N.W. 26 ; thence across the said road to the south-western corner of Lot 1 on deposited plan No. 20405 of Allotments 47 and W. 48 ; thence towards the south by Lot 2 on deposited plan No. 20405 of Allotments 47 and W. 48 to the north-eastern corner of said Lot 2 ; thence towards the east by Allotment E. 48 to the north-western corner of said Allotment E. 48 ; thence again towards the south by said Allotment E. 48, Allotment W. 49, and Allotment E. 49 to the north-eastern corner of said Allotment E. 49 ; thence towards the west by said Allotment E. 49 to a point on the boundary-line between said Allotment