In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Wellington District.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1933, and in the matter
of DOMINION MERCANTILE AGENCY, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding
up of the above-named company by the Supreme
Court was on the 16th day of July, 1936, presented to the
said Court by Ross and Glendining, Limited, a duly incorporated company carrying on business at Auckland, and
elsewhere as Warehousemen; and that the said petition is
directed to be heard before the Court sitting at Wellington on
Friday, the 31st day of July, 1936, at 10.30 o'clock in the
forenoon; and any creditor or contributory desirous to
support or oppose the making of an order on the said petition
may appear at the time of hearing in person or by his counsel
for that purpose; and a copy of the petition will be furnished
to any contributory of the said company requiring the same
by the undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for
the same.

ROLAND PERCEVAL TOWLE,
Solicitor for the petitioner.

THE petitioner's address for service is at the offices of
Messrs. Brandon, Ward, Hislop, and Powles, Solicitors, 150
Featherston Street, Wellington.

Note.--Any person who intends to appear on the hearing
of the said petition must serve on or send by post to the
above-named notice in writing of his intention so to do. The
notice must state the name, address, and description of the
person, or, if a firm, the name, address, and description of
the firm and an address for service within three miles of the
office of the Supreme Court at Wellington, and must be signed
by the person or firm or his or their solicitor (if any), and must
be served, or, if posted, must be sent by post in sufficient
time to reach the above-named petitioner's address for service
not later than 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 30th July, 1936.

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STRATFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR THE PURPOSES OF
RECREATION-GROUNDS.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1928, and in the
matter of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Stratford Borough
Council intends to take under the provisions of the
Public Works Act, 1928, for the purposes of a public work--
to wit, the provision of a recreation-ground--the following
land--namely, all that piece of land situated in the Provincial
District of Taranaki containing one rood, be the same a little
more or less, being Section Numbered 508 on the public maps
of the Town of Stratford, and being the whole of the land
comprised in Certificate of Title, Register-book Volume 14,
folio 32 (Taranaki Land Registry). A plan of the said land is
deposited at the Public Office of the Stratford Borough
Council, Broadway, Stratford, and is there open for inspection
by all persons at all reasonable hours. All persons affected by
the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the
said land are hereby required and called upon to set forth in
writing any well-grounded objections to the execution of the
said public work or to the taking of such land, and to send
such writing within forty days from the first publication of
this notice to the Town Clerk, Stratford Borough Council, at
his Public Office, Broadway, Stratford.

Dated this 16th day of July, 1936.

PHILIP SKOGLUND,
Town Clerk.

This notice was first published on the 16th day of July, 1936,
in the Stratford Evening Post newspaper.

TAURANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

Extract from the minutes of proceedings of the Tauranga
County Council at a meeting of such Council held on
the 28th day of January, 1936.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by Part II of the Local Authorities Interest
Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, 1932-33, and the
Tauranga County Loans Conversion Order, 1935 (No. 1),
the Tauranga County Council hereby resolves as follows:

"That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking
fund, and other charges on the new securities authorized to
be issued by the Tauranga County Council under the abovementioned Act and Order in conversion of existing securities
issued in respect of the loans set out in the First Schedule
to that Order, and also the interest, sinking fund, instalment
of principal and interest, and other charges in respect of the
unconverted securities issued in respect of such loans, the
said Tauranga County Council hereby makes and levies a
consolidated special rate of one and one-thirtieth of a penny
(1½d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of
the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the district.
Such rate shall be made and levied on a differential basis for
each of the several ridings of the district as follows:

"(a) On all rateable property in the Maketu Riding, a
special rate of ½d. in the pound.
"(b) On all rateable property in the Te Puke Riding, a
special rate of ⅝d. in the pound.
"(c) On all rateable property in the Waimapu Riding, a
special rate of 1⅜d. in the pound.
"(d) On all rateable property in the Te Puna Riding, a
special rate of 2⅞d. in the pound.
"(e) On all rateable property in the Katikati Riding, a
special rate of 1⅞d. in the pound.

"Such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate
during the currency of such securities, and be payable yearly
on the first day of August in each and every year until the
last maturity date of such securities, being the lst day of
February, 1966, or until all such securities are fully paid off."

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and inhabitants of the County of Tauranga was hereto affixed at the office of and pursuant to a resolution of the Tauranga County Council in the presence of---

G. H. MURDS, Chairman.
H. LEWIS, Clerk.

HOKIANGA HARBOUR BOARD.

BY-LAW No. 7.

IN pursuance of the Harbours Act, 1923, and its amendments, and all other powers and authorities enabling it in
that behalf, the Hokianga Harbour Board doth hereby make
and pass for and within the Harbour of Hokianga the following
by-law, that is to say:

"1. That part of the schedule of By-law No. 6 whereby
the Harbour Improvement Rate on butter from Hokianga
stated to be ls. 6d. (one shilling and sixpence) per ton is
hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor:
"2. The Harbour Improvement Rate shall be Is. (one
shilling) per ton on butter from Hokianga.
"3. This by-law shall come into force on the first day of
August, 1936, as from which date the said rate shall be payable accordingly."

Adopted and passed by the Hokianga Harbour Board at a
special meeting of the Board held on the 14th day of July,
1936.

The common seal of the Hokianga Harbour Board was in
pursuance of a resolution in that behalf passed at a special
meeting of the said Board on the 14th day of July, 1936, and
impressed thereon in the presence of---

ALF. YARBOROUGH, Chairman.
OSWALD O. PERRY, Member.
R. RAILLEY, Secretary.

I hereby certify the above resolution was passed as stated.

R. RAILLEY.

J. S. HASTINGS, LTD., DUNEDIN.

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the final winding up meeting
of J. S. Hastings, Ltd. (in Liquidation), will be held at
the office of the company, 176 Rattray Street, Dunedin, on
Monday, 3rd August, 1936, at 10 a.m.

Business.--To receive liquidator's report and accounts.

JAMES S. HASTINGS,
Liquidator.

J. S. HASTINGS, LTD., DUNEDIN.

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of creditors of
J. S. Hastings, Ltd. (in Liquidation), will be held at the
office of the company, 176 Rattray Street, Dunedin, on
Monday, 3rd August, 1936, at 10 a.m.

Business.--To receive liquidator's report and accounts.

JAMES S. HASTINGS,
Liquidator.