Mar. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 581

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SURNAME.

I, GILBERT HETA MAIR, of 53 Landing Road, Whakatane, Barman, lately called GILBERT HETA CRAPP, give notice that by deed-poll registered in the Supreme Court Registry at Auckland under No. M/44/41, I and my wife, MAUREEN, have abandoned the use of my former surname and in lieu thereof have adopted and desire to be addressed by the surname of MAIR.

Auckland, 25th February, 1941.

GILBERT HETA MAIR,
By his Solicitor, H. A. STEADMAN.

853

THE CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

Resolution amending Special Rate.

WHEREAS on the 21st day of December, 1938, a resolution was duly passed by the Central Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board making a special rate of one-fourteenth of a penny (¹⁄₁₄d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property of the Central Hawke’s Bay Electric-power District for the purpose of providing the principal, interest, and other charges on a loan of twenty-five thousand pounds (£25,000), authorized to be raised by the Central Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board for the purpose of further extending reticulation in the Board’s district: And whereas it has been ascertained that the said special rate of one-fourteenth of a penny (¹⁄₁₄d.) in the pound will not be sufficient to meet such principal, interest, and other charges: Now, therefore, the Central Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on the Board by section 23 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, hereby resolves that the said special rate of one-fourteenth of a penny (¹⁄₁₄d.) in the pound shall be and is hereby amended by increasing such amount of one-fourteenth of a penny (¹⁄₁₄d.) in the pound to two twenty-fifths of a penny (²⁄₂₅d.) in the pound.

Moved by Mr. C. Pattison, seconded by Mr. W. H. Rathbone, and carried.

D. PATTISON,
Chairman.

I certify that the above is a true and correct copy of a resolution duly passed at a regularly constituted meeting of the Central Hawke’s Bay Electric-power Board held on the 21st day of February, 1941, at Waipukurau.

G. E. FOWLER,
Secretary-Manager.

855

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY.

NOTICE is hereby given that Patterson and O’Dea, Limited, has changed its name to R. M. Patterson and Company, Limited, and that the new name was this day entered on my Register of Companies in place of the former name.

Given under my hand at Hokitika, this 26th day of February, 1941.

D. A. YOUNG,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

856

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Canterbury District.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1933, and in the matter of REESE BROS., LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition presented to the Supreme Court of New Zealand on the 28th day of February, 1941, for confirming the reduction of the capital of the above-named company from £60,000 to £50,000 by cancelling capital which has been lost or is unrepresented by available assets, and by returning to shareholders capital not required for the purposes of the business, is directed to be heard before Mr. Justice Northcroft on Friday, the 14th day of March, 1941. Any creditor desiring to oppose the making of an order for the reduction of the capital of the said company under the above Act may appear at the time of hearing by himself or by his Counsel for that purpose. Such person is required to give two clear days’ notice in writing of his intention to appear, with the grounds of his objection, to the undersigned, the solicitors of the company. A copy of the petition will be furnished to any such person requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of the regulation charges for the same.

Dated the 4th day of March, 1941.

WESTON, WARD, AND LASCELLES,
Solicitors for the Company.

152 Manchester Street, Christchurch.

858

WARNER BROTHERS FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES PTY., LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that Warner Brothers First National Pictures Pty., Limited, a company duly incorporated under the laws in force in the State of New South Wales, Commonwealth of Australia, intends to cease to have a place of business in New Zealand upon the expiration of three (3) calendar months from the date of the first publication of this notice. The distribution of the pictures produced by Warner Brothers Pictures Inc., First National Pictures Inc., Vitaphone Corporation, and their subsidiaries, will be effected in New Zealand by Warner Brothers Pictures (N.Z.), Ltd., Plumber’s Building, Wakefield Street, Wellington

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of February, 1941.

Warner Brothers First National Pictures Pty., Limited, by its Attorney—

A. G. McCLURE.

857

PRIVATE BILL.

A private Bill intituled “An Act to Incorporate the Council of the Boy Scouts’ Association in New Zealand.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Boy Scouts’ Association (New Zealand Branch) intends to apply by petition to the General Assembly of New Zealand at its next session for the passing of a private Bill, the short title of which is “The Boy Scouts’ Association (New Zealand Branch) Incorporation Act, 1941,” to effect the following objects:—

(a) To provide that the persons who should be members of the Dominion Council of the Boy Scouts’ Association (New Zealand Branch) in accordance with its constitution and by-laws, and all other persons who should in accordance with its constitution and by-laws become members of the Council, should henceforth be one body corporate by the name of “The Boy Scouts’ Association (New Zealand Branch), Incorporated,” having perpetual succession and a common seal, and should be capable of holding real and personal property and of doing and suffering all that bodies corporate might do and suffer.

(b) To provide that the control of the Boy Scout movement in all its activities in New Zealand should be vested in the Corporation, which, subject to the constitution and by-laws, should have power to provide and maintain such organization in New Zealand as the Corporation should deem necessary or desirable; to perform and exercise all such duties or powers as might be delegated to it by the Boy Scouts’ Association of Great Britain under the provisions of its Royal Charter, and generally to do all things which the Corporation might in its discretion consider necessary or desirable for promoting the welfare of the New Zealand Branch.

(c) To provide that the Corporation might from time to time alter and amend the constitution and by-laws, and might thereby delegate the administration of any matter within the powers of the Corporation to the Executive Committee of the Corporation appointed according to the constitution and by-laws or to such other body as the Corporation might think fit, and the Executive Committee or such other body should in respect of any matter so delegated have all the powers of the Corporation.

(d) To provide that the Corporation should have power to require that all real and personal property, stock, funds, securities, and other assets of every description belonging to the New Zealand Branch or any group or unit or Wolf Cub Pack, Boy Scout Troop, or Rover Scout Crew of the Boy Scout movement in New Zealand, or held in trust for or for the use of the same, should be transferred to or otherwise vested in the Corporation by any person holding the same; and on any such transfer or vesting the Corporation should thereafter execute and perform any trust or conditions affecting any of such assets and should defray or provide for any debts or liabilities to the discharge of which the said assets or any of them should at the time of transfer or vesting be applicable; and should give any trustees in whom any such assets might be vested a valid receipt, discharge, and indemnity for and in respect of the transfer or vesting of the same in the Corporation and to provide that the rights of the Corporation under this clause might be enforced by action in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

(e) To provide that sections 13 to 18 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908, should apply to the Corporation in all respects as if it were a society incorporated under that Act.

(f) To provide that a copy of the Royal Charter of the 4th day of January, 1912, and a copy of the constitution and by-laws each sealed with the seal of the Corporation should be delivered to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies under the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908, accompanied by a statutory declaration made by an officer of the Corporation that such copies are true copies.