DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership heretofore subsisting between ATHOL GRAHAM ALEXANDER MORRIS and NORMAN FREDERICK GIBSON, carrying on business as cycle-dealers at Te Awamutu under the style or firm of Morris and Gibson, has been dissolved as from the 31st day of August, 1940.

Dated this 4th day of October, 1940.

A. G. A. MORRIS.
N. F. GIBSON.

TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

The Taranaki County Rural Housing Loan No. 1, 1940, of £5,000.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following resolution was passed at a meeting of the Taranaki County Council held on the 7th day of October, 1940.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers (if any) thereby enabling, the Taranaki County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

"That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest, principal, and other charges on the Taranaki County Rural Housing Loan No. 1, 1940, of £5,000, authorized to be raised by the Taranaki County Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of making advances to farmers for the erection of dwellings under the Rural Housing Act, 1939, the said Taranaki County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of decimal 034112d. in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) on all rateable property in the whole of the County of Taranaki; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring special rate during the currency of the said loan, and be payable yearly on the 4th day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-five (25) years or until the loan is fully paid off."

We hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of and a correct extract from the minutes of an ordinary meeting of the Taranaki County Council, held in the Council Chambers, Robe Street, New Plymouth, on the 7th day of October, 1940.

S. VICKERS,
Chairman.
A. R. CARLEY,
County Clerk.

PEST DESTROYERS, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the final meeting of the above-named company will be held at my office, 39 Johnston Street, Wellington, on Thursday, 31st October, 1940, at 2 p.m., for the purpose of receiving the liquidator's final statement of account.

Dated this 8th day of October, 1940.

K. E. SHAW,
Liquidator.

WAIMUMU SLUICING CO., LTD.

IN LIQUIDATION.

Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting.

NOTICE is hereby given that an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Waimumu Sluicing Co., Ltd. (in liquidation), will be held in the company's office, 31 Mersey Street, Gore, on Tuesday, 29th October, 1940, at 5 p.m., for the purpose of having an account laid before it, and of hearing any explanation which may be given by the liquidators, and to pass the following resolution as an extraordinary resolution:—

"That the books, documents, and accounts of the company be kept at the office of R. S. Green, Public Accountant, 31 Mersey Street, Gore, for a period of six years from the date of the passing of this resolution, and that thereafter they may be destroyed."

H. A. PRICE,
R. S. GREEN,
Liquidators.

Gore, 7th October, 1940.

THE GUARDIAN, TRUST, AND EXECUTORS COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED.

I, RICHARD FROUDE WARD, General Manager of the Guardian, Trust, and Executors Company of New Zealand, Limited, do solemnly and sincerely declare:

1. That the liability of the members is limited.
2. That the capital of the company is £100,000, divided into 20,000 shares of £5 each.
3. That the number of shares issued is 20,000.
4. That calls to the amount of five pounds (£5) per share have been made, under which the sum of £100,000 has been received.
5. That the amount of all moneys received on account of estates on the 1st day of July last is £19,969,212 7s. 5d.
6. That the amount of all moneys paid on account of estates on that day is £19,918,769 0s. 2d.
7. That the amount of the balances due to estates under administration on that day is £50,443 7s. 3d.
8. That the liabilities of the company as on the 1st day of July last were £16 ls. 5d.
9. That the assets of the company on that day were £121,147 17s. 10d.
10. That the first annual license was issued on the 10th day of March, 1911.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

R. F. WARD, Manager.

Declared at Auckland, this 7th day of October, 1940, before me—E. Bissett, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

In accordance with the provisions of the Guardian, Trust, and Executors Company Amendment Act of 1911 (No. 17), I have examined this statement and compared it with the books of the company, and I hereby certify it to be correct.

N. A. DUTHIE, F.P.A.N.Z., Auditor.

Auckland, 4th October, 1940.

THE VULCAN FUEL OIL BURNER COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

Notice of Voluntary Winding-up Resolution.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a general meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held on the 8th day of October, 1940, the following special resolution was duly passed:—

"That the company be wound up voluntarily."

Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of October, 1940.

N. V. BREWERTON,
Liquidator.

THE WAITOMO TIMBER AND JOINERY COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

Meeting of Creditors.

MEETING of creditors of the Waitomo Timber and Joinery Company, Limited (in liquidation), will be held in the liquidator's office, Taupiri Street, Te Kuiti, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 6th November, 1940.

Object—Final meeting and dissolution, pursuant to section 241 of the Companies Act, 1933.

H. T. MORTON,
Liquidator.

THE WAITOMO TIMBER AND JOINERY COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

Notice of General Meeting.

GENERAL meeting of the Waitomo Timber and Joinery Company, Limited (in liquidation), will be held in the liquidator's office, Taupiri Street, Te Kuiti, at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, 6th November, 1940.

Object—Final meeting and dissolution, pursuant to section 241 of the Companies Act, 1933.

H. T. MORTON,
Liquidator.