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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

FORBES, LIMITED.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of FORBES LIMITED, a company duly incorporated and having its registered office in Lyttelton.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following resolutions were passed by the shareholders of FORBES LIMITED at an extraordinary meeting of the company duly convened and held at the registered office of the company on the 7th day of August, 1928 :-

1. “That it is desirable to reconstruct the company, and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily, and that JOSEPH GARRARD, of Lyttelton, Shipping Agent, and ARNAUD MCKELLAR, of Christchurch, Public Accountant, be and they are hereby appointed Liquidators for the purposes of such winding-up.”

2. “That the said Liquidators be and they are hereby authorized to consent to the registration of a new company, also to be named “Forbes Limited,” with a memorandum and articles of association which have already been prepared with the privity and approval of the directors of this company.”

3. “That the said JOSEPH GARRARD and ARNAUD MCKELLAR, as such Liquidators as aforesaid, be and they are hereby authorized, pursuant to section 259 of the Companies Act, 1908, to make and enter into any such sale or arrangement as is contemplated by the said section, and in particular to make and enter into an agreement with JOHN GEORGE BROWN, as agent for and on behalf of such new company, to be called “Forbes Limited” for the sale to such proposed new company of the present company’s business and assets upon the terms set forth in the draft agreement submitted to this meeting and expressed to be made between this company and its Liquidators, the said JOSEPH GARRAD and ARNAUD MCKELLAR of the one part and the said JOHN GEORGE BROWN, as agent for the new company Forbes Limited of the other part, and the said agreement be and the same is hereby approved, and to carry the same into effect with such (if any) modification as they think expedient.”

Notice is hereby also given that the extraordinary general meeting of the company duly convened for the 22nd day of August, 1928, for the purpose of confirming the above resolutions as a special resolution was held at the registered office of the company and duly adjourned to the 3rd day of September, 1928.

Notice is hereby also given that at such adjourned meeting held on the 3rd day of September, 1928, at the registered office of the company, the above resolutions were duly confirmed as special resolutions.

Dated this 3rd day of September, 1928.

J. GARRARD,
Chairman of Directors.

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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 the New Zealand Letters Patent No. 33001, dated 5th May, 1913, for an invention for “Improvements in Skylights.”

NOTICE is hereby given that I, HENRY STARKIE, of 12 Nelson Street, in the City of Auckland, Plumber, 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 Wednesday, the 28th day of November, 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 of the prayer of the said petition must, before the said Wednesday, the 28th day of November, 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. Park and Hemery, of 142 Featherston Street, Wellington: and notice is hereby further given that the office of the said Messrs. Park and Hemery is the address for service on 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 12th day of September, 1928.

HENRY STARKIE.

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ELSTOW DRAINAGE BOARD.

RESOLUTION INCREASING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and 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 Elstow Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows :-

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking fund on the Elstow Special-rating Area Loan of £1,450, authorized to be raised by the Elstow Drainage Board under the above-mentioned Act, the special rate on a graduated scale according to the Board’s classification made and levied by the Board’s resolution appearing in the New Zealand Gazette of 13th January, 1927, at page 130, having proved to be insufficient to provide for the payment of such interest and sinking fund, the Elstow Drainage Board, pursuant to section 23 of the said Act, hereby increases the said special rate upon Class “A” to four pence in the pound, upon Class “B” to three pence in the pound, and upon Class “C” to two pence in the pound, upon the rateable unimproved values, according to classification of the rateable property of the Elstow Special-rating Area described in the resolution aforesaid, and that such special rate (as increased) shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of February and 1st day of August 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.

I certify that the above resolution was passed at a meeting of the Elstow Drainage Board held on the 15th day of September, 1928.

H. ROWBOTHAM,
Clerk to the Board.

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CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SECURITY RATE.

Roads and Bridges Loan, £220,000.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, the Christchurch City Council hereby resolves as follows :-

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of two hundred and twenty thousand pounds (£220,000), authorized to be raised by the Christchurch City Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of the reconstruction of roads and bridges and the purchase of plant, the Christchurch City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of two hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-three three hundred and twelve thousand five hundredths (207963/312500ths) of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the City of Christchurch, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable yearly on the 1st day of October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being for a period of 36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I certify that the foregoing is a true copy.

J. S. NEVILLE, Town Clerk.

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CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

IN pursuance of the Canterbury College and Canterbury Agricultural College Act, 1896, and amendments thereto. I hereby give notice that at an election to fill an extraordinary vacancy on the Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College created by the resignation of Mr. John Studholme, who represented the Mid-Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Henry Arthur Knight, Esquire, of Racecourse Hill, Canterbury, was the only nominee for the vacancy, and I therefore declare him duly elected.

R. E. ALEXANDER,
Returning Officer.

Canterbury Agricultural College,
Lincoln, 18th September, 1928.

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UNITED M. AND F. WATER-RACE COMPANY (REGD.).

IN LIQUIDATION.

ALL persons having claims against the above-named company are requested to render the same forthwith, in duplicate, to the undersigned.

F. M. PYLE, Liquidator.

Hawkdun, St. Bathan’s.

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