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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

THE DUNEDIN FIRE BOARD.
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LOAN CONVERSION.
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I, JOHN WILSON, of Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago, Chairman of the Dunedin Fire Board, do hereby certify that under and pursuant to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 9 of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33, and of the Dunedin Fire Board Loan Conversion Order, 1934 (published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 43 of the 8th June, 1934, at pages 1734 to 1738), a resolution was duly passed at a special meeting of the Dunedin Fire Board held on the 2nd day of August, 1934, and confirmed at a meeting of the said Board held on the 21st day of August, 1934, for the issue under Part II of the above-mentioned Act of new securities in conversion of existing securities issued in respect of the Dunedin Fire Board’s (1930) loan of £40,700 specified in the First Schedule to the said Order and to which the said Order applies.
Dated at Dunedin, this twenty-second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.

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JOHN WILSON, Chairman.

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DUNEDIN FIRE BOARD.
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CONVERSION OF LOAN.
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CONVERSION under the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932–33, and the Dunedin Fire Board Loan Conversion Order, 1934, of debentures or other securities issued in respect of the following loan :—

Notice is hereby given to the holders of debentures or other securities issued by the Dunedin Fire Board in respect of the above-mentioned loan that it is intended to convert all such debentures or other securities (except those in respect of which dissent is duly signified) into new debentures having new maturity dates and bearing interest at 4¼ per cent. per annum.
The conversion will take effect from the 30th day of September, 1934.
Application for conversion must be made in writing and be accompanied by the securities to which it relates.
Dissent from the conversion of any existing debentures or other securities may be signified by the holder by notice in writing delivered to the Secretary of the Dunedin Fire Board at the Board’s office in Castle Street, Dunedin, on or before the 14th day of October, 1934.
If notice of dissent from the conversion of any debentures or other securities is not received by that date the securities will be converted.
The rate of interest on any debentures or other securities in respect of which dissent is signified as aforesaid will, by virtue of section 18 of the above-mentioned Act, be reduced to two-thirds of the original rate as from the 30th day of September, 1934.
Further particulars as to the new debentures and the conversion generally may be obtained from the Secretary of the Dunedin Fire Board at the Board’s office in Castle Street, Dunedin.
Dated the twenty-second day of August, 1934.

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JOHN WILSON,
Chairman.

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C. M. MUSKETT AND CO., LIMITED.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
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IN pursuance of section 234 of the Companies Act, 1933, notice is hereby given to all creditors of the above company to attend a meeting to be held on the 31st day of August, 1934, at 10.30 o’clock, at No. 8 New Zealand Express Buildings, Fort Street, Auckland.
The business of the meeting will be the appointment of a liquidator.
Dated 20th day of August, 1934.

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N. R. STEWART,
Secretary.

THE WOODLAW BEECH COMPANY, LIMITED.
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In the matter of the Companies Act, 1933, and of The Woodlaw Beech Company, Limited.
NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up of the above-named company by the Supreme Court was on the third day of August, 1934, presented to Mr. Justice Kennedy, a Judge of the Supreme Court, by The Co-operative Beech Company of Southland, Limited, having its registered office in Esk Street, Invercargill ; and the said petition is directed to be heard before a Judge of the said Court at Dunedin on the fourteenth day of September, 1934, 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.
Dated this 17th day of August, 1934.

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STOUT, LILLICRAP, AND HEWAT,
Solicitors for the Petitioner.
Colonial Chambers, Dee Street, Invercargill.

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E. McKEOWN AND SONS, LIMITED.
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A MEETING of creditors of the above company will be held at the Chamber of Commerce, Swanson Street, Auckland, on Friday, the 31st August, at 11 o’clock a.m.
Dated this 23rd day of August, 1934.
By order of the Directors—

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NEUMEGEN AND NEUMEGEN,
Solicitors, Auckland.

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G. M. CRAIG, LIMITED.
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IN LIQUIDATION.
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ALL persons having any claims against the above company are required on or before the 10th day of September, 1934, to send their names and addresses and particulars of their debts or claims to Messrs. J. W. Smeaton and Co., Public Accountants, 152 High Street, Dunedin, and if so required by notice in writing by the liquidator are personally or by their solicitors to come in and prove their said debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts or claims are so lodged or proved.

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J. W. SMEATON,
Liquidator.
Dunedin, 23rd August, 1934.

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GORE BOROUGH COUNCIL.
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LOAN CONVERSION UNDER LOCAL AUTHORITIES INTEREST REDUCTION AND LOANS CONVERSION ACT, 1932–33.
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THAT the Gore Borough Council proceed with the conversion of the loans totalling £59,900, being the whole of the loans comprised in the First Schedule of the Gore Borough Loans Conversion Order, 1934 (No. 1), as authorized by Order in Council dated the 30th day of July, 1934, gazetted on page 2409 of Gazette No. 61 of the 2nd August, 1934, and that the conversion and reissue of securities be in terms of the said conversion order; that the Council reserves the right to exercise the powers contained in clause 16 (1) of such Order by stipulating in respect to new securities maturing after the 1st day of September, 1939, for the redemption thereof at the option of the Council at such earlier date within five years of the maturity date of such new securities, but not earlier than the 1st day of September, 1939, as the Council may specify in that behalf to be published in the Gazette at least six months before such earlier date; that the Council proceed with the conversion of loans totalling £14,000, being the whole of the loans comprised in the First Schedule of the Gore Borough Loans Conversion Order, 1934 (No. 2), as authorized by Order in Council dated the 30th day of July, 1934, gazetted on page 2416 of Gazette No. 61 of the 2nd August, 1934, and that the conversion and reissue of securities be in terms of the said conversion Order.
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was passed at a special meeting of the Gore Borough Council held on the 6th day of August, 1934, and, public notice thereof having been given in the prescribed manner, was duly confirmed at a meeting of the said Council held at 7.30 p.m. on Monday, 20th August, 1934.

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ALEX. T. NEWMAN, Mayor.