Nov. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3357

AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL.

THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1928.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that the body corporate called the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Auckland intends to take, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, the pieces of land described in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of a public street and highway—to wit, the extension of Walmer Road, within the City of Auckland—and that a plan of the lands proposed to be taken is deposited in the office of the Town Clerk, Town Hall, Queen Street, Auckland, and may be inspected there (without fee) during office hours: And further notice is hereby given that unless within forty days from the 16th day of November, 1928, being the date of the first publication of this notice, any written objection to the taking of such land is sent to the Town Clerk aforesaid, the Auckland City Council shall forthwith proceed to take the said land for such public work.

THE SCHEDULE.

Firstly: All that piece of land situated at Point Chevalier, within the City of Auckland, containing 9 roods 8·5 perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 25 of the Parish of Titirangi, situated in Block XVI, Waitemata Survey District, and shown (coloured pink) on plan lodged in the Survey Office at Auckland under Number 25007.

Secondly: All that piece of land, situated as aforesaid, containing 1 rood 23 perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 25 of the Parish of Titirangi, situated in Block XVI, Waitemata Survey District, and shown (coloured pink) on said plan Number 25007.

Dated this 15th day of November, 1928.

J. S. BRIGHAM,
Town Clerk, Auckland City Council.

1009

NOTICE OF RESULT OF POLL.

WAIMAKARIRI RIVER TRUST DISTRICT.

Waimakariri Special Loan Area.

WITH regard to the poll of ratepayers in that portion of the Waimakariri River Trust District known as the “Waimakariri Special Loan Area,” upon the proposal of the Waimakariri River Trust to borrow the sum of £100,000 for the purpose of “the improvement and control of the Waimakariri River from Courtenay to the sea,” more particularly described in the loan proposals in connection with the said loan and in the voting-paper used at such poll, I hereby give notice that the poll held on the 31st day of October, 1928, the number of votes recorded was as follows: For the proposal, 3,827; against the proposal, 2,957; informal votes, 67: Total, 6,851.

And, as the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal is more than the votes recorded against it, I hereby declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated this 5th day of November, 1928.

JOHN WOOD, Chairman.
C. W. HERVEY, Returning Officer.

1010

BLACKS GOLD-MINING COMPANY, LTD.

IN LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of BLACKS GOLD-MINING COMPANY, LTD. (in Liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 230 of the Companies Act, 1908, that a general meeting of the members of the above-named company will be held at my office, 154 Thames Street, Oamaru, on Monday, the 10th day of December, 1928, at 2.30 o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of having an account laid before them showing the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator; and also of determining by extraordinary resolution the manner in which the books, accounts, and documents of the company and of the Liquidator thereof, and the surplus funds (if any) in the hands of the Liquidator, shall be disposed of.

Dated the 19th day of November, 1928.

R. FINCH, Liquidator.

1011

THE GROSVENOR ART AND PUBLICITY COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LTD.

AT a meeting of shareholders of THE GROSVENOR ART AND PUBLICITY COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED, held at the office of Mr. C. T. Keegan, Solicitor, Auckland, on Friday, the 9th day of November, 1928, at 2.30 p.m., the following special resolution was passed: “That the company be wound up voluntarily.”

E. S. ESDAILE.
M. L. WILKINS.

1012

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other Acts and powers it in this behalf enabling, the Wellington City Council hereby resolves on the 15th day of November, 1928, as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on a special loan of ten thousand pounds (£10,000) to be known as “The Wellington City Unemployment Loan No. 3, 1928,” authorized to be raised by the Wellington City Council under the above-mentioned Acts for the purpose of carrying out public works for the relief of unemployment—namely, the levelling, claying, and rolling of portion of the Lyall Bay Reserve—the said Wellington City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one eighty-fourth of a penny (1/84d.) in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the City of Wellington, 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 April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten (10) years from the 31st day of December, 1928, or until the loan is fully paid off.

1013

E. P. NORMAN, Town Clerk.

VICKERS, NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908, SECTION 307.

TAKE notice that the above company intends ceasing to carry on business in New Zealand on the 28th day of February, 1929.

All claims against the company should be remitted prior to that date to Messrs. Clarke, Menzies, Griffin, and Ross, Public Accountants, The Terrace, Wellington.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of November, 1928.

BELL, GULLY, MACKENZIE, AND O’LEARY,
Solicitors for the Company.

1014

OTAIHAPE TIMBER CO., LTD.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

BY a special resolution passed on the 13th day of November, 1928, the shareholders of the above company have decided that, by reason of the company’s liabilities, the company cannot continue in business, and that it be wound up voluntarily.

1015

C. MASTERS, Secretary.

THE VELLO COMPANY, LTD.

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of the shareholders of the above company will be held, in accordance with the Companies Act, 1908, at the office of the undersigned, Tribune Buildings, Hastings, on Monday, 10th December, 1928, at 10 o’clock a.m., for the purpose of laying before the shareholders the account showing the manner in which the company has been wound up and the assets of the company disposed of, and giving any explanation to shareholders that they may desire.

1016

LAURENCE A. DENTON, Liquidator.

COUNTY OF EGMONT.

SPECIAL ORDER DECLARING CERTAIN ROAD TO BE A MAIN ROAD.

IN exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 131 (1) (c) of the Counties Act, 1920, the Egmont County Council resolves, by way of special order, as follows:—

1. That the Kahui Road from the sea to the Okahu Road be declared a main road.