Aug. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1601

McCARTEN BROTHERS, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held on the 3rd day of August, 1936, the following special resolution was duly passed:—

“Resolved that as the company by reason of its liabilities cannot continue its business and it is advisable to wind up the same, the company go into voluntary liquidation forthwith, and that Mr. Val. Kirk, of Auckland, Public Accountant, be appointed liquidator.”

I hereby fix the 31st day of August, 1936, as the day on or before which the creditors of the company are to prove their debts or claims, and to establish any title they may have to priority under section 258 of the Companies Act, 1933, or to be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved, or as the case may be, from objecting to such distribution.

VAL. KIRK, F.P.A.N.Z.
Liquidator.

4th August, 1936.
Argus House, High Street, Auckland.
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[No. P. 8/199.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Wellington District
(Wellington Registry).

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1933, and in the matter of THE GALA CONFECTIONERY 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 6th day of August, 1936, presented to the said Court by Davis Gelatine (N.Z.), Limited; and that the said petition is directed to be heard before the Court sitting at Wellington on the 21st day of August, 1936, at 10.30 o’clock in the forenoon; and any creditor or contributory of the said company 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 creditor or contributory of the said company requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for the same.

Dated this 7th day of August, 1936.

R. E. POPE,
Solicitor for the petitioner.

Address for service: The office of Messrs. Perry, Perry, and Pope, Solicitors, D.I.C. Building, Brandon 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 20th day of August, 1936.
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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership heretofore subsisting between GEORGE HERBERT GRAY and JOHN WATERS, carrying on business as Builders and Joiners at Blenheim under the style of “Gray and Waters,” has been dissolved as from the 28th day of July, 1936.

GEO. H. GRAY.
J. WATERS.
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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE partnership hitherto existing between JOHN MORISON MELVILLE, RAYMOND FERNER, and JAMES SCOTTER BROWN, as Barristers and Solicitors under the style of “Melville, Ferner, and Broun,” has been dissolved, the said Raymond Ferner and James Scotter Broun retiring from the said partnership.

The business of the late partnership will be conducted in the future by John Morison Melville and Arthur Henry Churton under the style of “Melville and Churton.”

Dated at Auckland, this 1st day of August, 1936.

J. M. MELVILLE.
RAYMOND FERNER.
J. S. BROWN.
A. H. CHURTON.
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HOKIANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

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 Hokianga County Loans Conversion Order, 1935 (No. 1), the Hokianga County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

“That, for the purpose of providing the half-yearly instalments of principal and interest in respect of the new securities authorized to be issued by the Hokianga County Council under the above-mentioned 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 instalments of principal and interest in respect of the unconverted securities issued in respect of such loans, the said Hokianga County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1½d. (one penny halfpenny) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the district, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such securities and be payable half-yearly on the 30th day of September and the 31st day of March in each and every year until the last maturity date of such securities, being the 31st day of March, 1959, or until all such securities are fully paid off.”

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Hokianga was hereto affixed pursuant to a resolution passed in the presence of—

ALF. YARBOROUGH, Chairman.
R. RAILLEY, Clerk.
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HOKIANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

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 Hokianga County Loans Conversion Order, 1935 (No. 2), the Hokianga County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

“That, for the purpose of providing the half-yearly instalments of principal and interest in respect of the new securities authorized to be issued by the Hokianga County Council under the above-mentioned 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, and other charges in respect of the unconverted securities issued in respect of such loans, the said Hokianga County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 2¾d. (twopence three-farthings) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the district, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such securities and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of October and the 1st day of April in each and every year until the last maturity date of such securities, being the 1st day of October, 1963.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Hokianga was hereto affixed pursuant to a resolution passed in the presence of—

ALF. YARBOROUGH, Chairman.
R. RAILLEY, Clerk.
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R. V. COOKE AND SON, LTD.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

BY extraordinary resolution dated 31st July, 1936, as provided by subsection (1) of section 300 of the Companies Act, 1933, it was resolved—

(1) “That the company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business and that it is advisable to wind up, and that the company be wound up voluntarily.

(2) “That, in pursuance of section 234 of the Companies Act, 1933, EGERTON GILL, Public Accountant, of Auckland, be and he is hereby nominated as liquidator of the company.”

At a meeting of creditors held on Thursday, the 6th August, 1936, the nomination of Egerton Gill as liquidator of the company was confirmed.

EGERTON GILL,
Liquidator.

Public Accountant, 52 Campbell’s Buildings, High Street, Auckland, C. 1.
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