Feb. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 173

COASTAL MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1933, and in the matter of the COASTAL MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of members and creditors of the above-named company will be held at 21 Crawford Street, Dunedin, on Wednesday, the 23rd day of February, 1938, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

Business—To receive the liquidator’s account showing the manner in which the winding up has been conducted and the assets of the company disposed of; and to consider, and if thought fit, to pass the following as an extraordinary resolution:—

“ That the books, papers, and documents of the company remain in the possession of the liquidators, to be destroyed at the expiration of six months.”

S. P. MIRAMS,
Liquidator.

P.O. Box 129, Dunedin, 1st February, 1938. 855

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.

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(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 Jessep, Esquire, Solicitor, 150-152 Featherston Street, Wellington.

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

856

THE TE AROHA DAIRY FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of the above company will be held on Tuesday, the 1st day of March, at 3 p.m., in the Te Aroha Jockey Club Rooms, Rewi Street, Te Aroha.

Business—Consideration of the final report and accounts of the liquidators with a view to dissolution of the company under section 232 of the Companies Act, 1933.

R. L. SOMERS,
J. P. SOMERS,
F. S. BOARD,
Liquidators.

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