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THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (3).

NOTICE is hereby given that at the expiration of three months from this date the name of the undermentioned company will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register and the company dissolved :-

British and Continental Agencies, Limited. 1934/116.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 9th day of February, 1938.

H. B. WALTON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (3).

NOTICE is hereby given that at the expiration of three months from this date the names of the undermentioned companies will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register and the companies dissolved :-

Industrial Gazettes, Limited. 1933/74.
Empire Trade Gazettes, Limited. 1933/75.
Quality Stores, Limited. 1934/117.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 10th day of February, 1938.

H. B. WALTON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (6).

NOTICE is hereby given that the name of the undermentioned company has been struck off the Register and the company dissolved :-

Central Dairies, Limited. 1928/244.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 14th day of February, 1938.

H. B. WALTON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (3).

NOTICE is hereby given that at the expiration of three months from this date the names of the undermentioned companies will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register and the companies dissolved :-

The Pacific Trading Co. (N.Z.), Limited. 1915/27.
Munroe Motors, Limited. 1919/19.

Given under my hand at Auckland, this 14th day of February, 1938.

H. B. WALTON,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (3).

TAKE notice that at the expiration of three months from the date hereof, and unless cause is shown to the contrary, the name of the undermentioned company will be struck off the Register and the company will be dissolved :-

The Awakino Lime Company, Limited. 1934/10.

Given under my hand at New Plymouth, this 11th day of February, 1938.

H. O. GOVAN,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1933, SECTION 282 (3).

TAKE notice that at the expiration of three months from the date hereof the name of the undermentioned company will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the Register and the company will be dissolved :-

Prudential Investments, Limited. 1933/32.

Given under my hand at Dunedin, this 9th day of February, 1938.

E. G. F'ALCONER,
Assistant Commissioner of Stamp Duties.

PRIVATE BILL.

A Private Bill intituled “The Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society Incorporation Act, 1938.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John (incorporated on the 18th day of October, 1920, under the provisions of the War Funds Act, 1915, and hereinafter referred to as “the old Society”), the New Zealand Red Cross Society (incorporated on the 22nd day of December, 1931, under the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908), and the Commandery in New Zealand of the Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (hereinafter referred to as “the Order of St. John”), intend to apply by petition to the General Assembly of New Zealand at its present session for the passing of a Private Bill the short title of which is as above, to effect the following objects :-

(a) The establishment of a body corporate to be called the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society (hereinafter referred to as “the Joint Council”) with the constitution and rules set forth in the Schedule to the said Bill.

(b) The vesting of all war and other funds held by the old Society in the Joint Council, subject to all liabilities, charges, obligations, and trusts affecting the same, and including all real and personal property held by the old Society on behalf of its Auckland Centre or held by the said Auckland Centre, subject to all liabilities, charges, obligations, and trusts affecting the same and the taking over by the Joint Council of any general obligations and liabilities of the old Society.

(c) The consequential repeal of the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John Empowering Act, 1933, but to provide that all real and personal property hitherto held by the old Society on behalf of its Auckland Centre or held by the said Auckland Centre but to become vested by the said Bill in the Joint Council shall be administered, controlled, and disposed of by a committee, one-half of whose members shall be appointed by the Auckland Centre of the New Zealand Red Cross Society and the other half by the Auckland Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association, and upon the trusts and for the purposes upon and for which the same was heretofore held by or on behalf of the said Auckland Centre of the old Society.

(d) The dissolution of the old Society.

(e) To provide that if in any Will or other instrument executed before or after the passing of the said Bill provision is made for any devise, bequest, gift, or payment to the old Society or to any Branch, Centre, or Sub-Centre thereof, such Will or instrument shall be construed as if every reference therein to the old Society or to any Branch, Centre, or Sub-Centre thereof, were a reference to the Joint Council, and that all moneys or other property that may be acquired by the Joint Council under such Will or instrument shall be held and applied by the Joint Council for the purposes directed by the testator or donor, and in default of any such direction for the general purposes of the Joint Council.

(f) To provide that the costs, charges, and expenses of and incidental to the preparing for obtaining and passing of the said Bill or otherwise in relation thereto and of and incidental to the formation of the said Joint Council shall be paid out of the funds of the said Joint Council.

(g) To provide that any amendment, modification, or addition to the constitution and rules of the Joint Council shall require the written approval of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

Printed copies of the proposed Bill will, on or before the 10th day of March, 1938, be deposited in the Private Bill Office, Parliamentary Buildings, Wellington.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of January, 1938.

The petitioners for the said Bill and their addresses are as follows :-

The New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John—Charles G. White, Esquire, Solicitor, Commercial Bank Building, Lambton Quay, Wellington.

The New Zealand Red Cross Society—Alexander Jessop, Esquire, Solicitor, 150-152 Featherston Street, Wellington.

The Order of St. John—Messrs. Bell, Gully, Mackenzie, and Evans, Solicitors, 104 Featherston Street, Wellington.

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