May 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1713

KAIAPOI 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 Kaiapoi Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:-

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £3,000, authorized to be raised by the Kaiapoi Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act for main road paving, the Kaiapoi Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of fifteen sixty-fourths (15/64ths) of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property within the Borough of Kaiapoi, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 15th day of March and the 15th day of September in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

J. BOSOMWORTH, Town Clerk.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned ANDREW BURGESS, PATREICHA MURIEL BURGESS, FREDERICK HITCHING, and EMILY ESTHER HITCHING, under the style of “Burgess and Hitching,” at Pirongia, has been dissolved as from the 30th day of April, 1930, by mutual consent.

Dated this 8th day of May, 1930.

F. HITCHING.

E. E. HITCHING.

Witness to the signatures of Frederick Hitching and Emily Esther Hitching-J. Hill, Farmer, Pirongia.

P. M. BURGESS.

A. BURGESS.

Witness to the signatures of Andrew Burgess and Patreicha Muriel Burgess-R. Holmes, Farmer, Te Rapa.

E. C. RUSSELL AND CO., LTD.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of E. C. RUSSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED, and of the Companies Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that E. C. RUSSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED, has passed the following resolution :-

Resolved, this 14th day of May, 1930, “That the company, being unable to pay its debts, go into voluntary liquidation forthwith, and that Mr. H. D. VICKERY, of Wellington, Public Accountant, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator.”

H. D. VICKERY, Liquidator.

FEATHERSTON COUNTY.

TELEPHONE BY-LAWS.

THAT the Council of the County of Featherston hereby makes (by special order) the following by-laws under and by virtue of the Counties Act, 1920, the Country Telephone Lines Act, 1912, and all other Acts and powers whatsoever enabling it in that behalf.

This by-law may be cited or referred to as the Featherston County Telephone By-law, 1929.

This by-law shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1930.

INTERPRETATION.

“Council” means the Featherston County Council :

“Subscriber” means a person or property having telephone connection with a county telephone-line :

“Clerk” means the Clerk of the Featherston County Council :

“County” means the Featherston County :

“Trunk line” means a line of telephone-poles having more than one wire attached thereto :

“Single line” means a line of telephone-poles having one wire attached thereto :

“County telephone-lines” means telephone-lines erected acquired, maintained, or controlled by the Featherston County Council :

“Maintenance charges” shall be deemed to include all sums expended by the Council from time to time in connection with the upkeep of the line, and shall include also the rent of the telephone instrument.

1. The Council may on application of any number of subscribers erect trunk lines or single lines as it may think fit.

2. The Council may place any number of wires on the poles of any trunk lines.

3. The maximum number of subscribers to be connected to a single line shall be five, but the Council may, on receipt of the unanimous petition of such five subscribers, join any further number of subscribers with any single line.

4. The Council may, by resolution, declare any single line with a smaller number of subscribers than five (5) to be a line having the maximum number of subscribers; but such smaller number of subscribers shall pay between them the full cost of erection and maintenance as if the maximum number of subscribers were attached to such line.

5. Any owner of landed property wishing to have a county telephone-line connected with his or her property may apply by way of petition to the Council, setting forth in such petition that he or she is prepared to pay such sum towards the original cost of construction of the line as the Council deems equitable, but not exceeding one moiety thereof, together with the cost of connecting his or her property, and together also with the maintenance charges from time to time to be fixed in respect thereof. The signing and delivering of such petition shall entitle the petitioner to a telephone connection, and shall constitute a contract between the Council and the petitioner in respect thereof. All moneys received from such new subscriber towards the cost of original construction may at the option of the Council be divided amongst the existing subscribers on the line to which such new subscriber is connected or be held by the Council to the credit of the maintenance account hereinafter referred to of such existing subscribers and new subscribers.

6. The Council shall, not later than the 31st day of May in each year, cause an estimate to be prepared of the cost of maintenance of the county telephone-lines for the next annual period from the 1st April till the following 31st March, and shall by ordinary resolution determine the proportions in which such cost shall be borne by subscribers. Immediately after such resolution shall have been passed, the Council shall cause a copy of such estimate and resolution to be forwarded to each subscriber, and shall at the same time call upon any subscriber who wishes to object to such estimate or to the said apportionment or maintenance charges to appear in person before the next monthly meeting of the Council in support of such objection. After hearing all such objections the Council shall by ordinary resolution determine what, if any, alterations shall be made in the apportionment of maintenance charges previously resolved upon by it, and such apportionment as altered or as previously resolved upon (if not altered) shall immediately become a debt due to the Council by the subscribers in the proportions so allotted to them respectively by the Council and payable on demand.

7. Any person ceasing to be a subscriber to any county telephone-line shall have no right to compensation, either from the Council or from other subscribers.

8. For all purposes in connection with the erection and management of the telephone-line, all subscribers shall be deemed to grant the Council full power and authority to enter on the land of such subscriber, and do all things requisite or, in the opinion of the Council or its servants, necessary for the proper repairing or maintenance of the line.

9. The Council may terminate the contract of any subscriber if such subscriber fails to pay his proportion of maintenance charges within ten days from the date for payment thereof, or if such subscriber fails to comply with any of the foregoing by-laws.

10. No subscriber shall be entitled to transfer his interest in the line until all fees and charges due by him in connection therewith shall be fully paid.

The Common Seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Featherston was affixed to the above by-laws in pursuance of a resolution of the Featherston County Council passed on the 17th day of January, 1930, in the presence of-

Q. DONALD, County Chairman.

C. F. McALLUM, County Clerk.

Passed at a special meeting of the Featherston County Council duly convened and held at the Council Chambers on Friday, 13th December, 1929.

Confirmed at a meeting of the Council duly convened and held at the Council Chambers on Friday, the 17th January, 1930.

C. F. McALLUM, County Clerk.

In pursuance of the Country Telephone Act, 1912, I, Joseph George Ward, Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, hereby approve of the by-laws relating to country telephone-lines made by the Featherston County Council, to come into operation on the 1st April, 1930.

Dated this 4th day of March, 1930.

A. J. STALLWORTHY, for Postmaster-General.