Mar. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 779

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned PHILIP NORTON THORNICROFT and JOHN CONDIE CONNER, carrying on business as Musical Instrument Repairers at 281 Moray Place, Dunedin, under the style or firm name of “Brookes and Co.,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 17th day of March, 1941, so far as concerns the said Philip Norton Thornicroft, who retired from the firm. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by John Condie Connor, who will continue to carry on the said business under the same style or firm.

Dated this 17th day of March, 1941.

PHILIP NORTON THORNICROFT.
JOHN CONDIE CONNOR.

893

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 the Order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Canterbury District, dated the 14th day of March, 1941, confirming the reduction of the capital of the above-named company from £60,000 to £50,000, and the minute approved by the Court showing with respect to the capital of the company as altered the several particulars required by the above statute, were registered by the Registrar of Companies on the 18th day of March, 1941.

And further take notice that the said minute is in the words and figures following :—

“The capital of Reese Bros., Limited, was by virtue of a special resolution and with the sanction of an Order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand dated the 14th day of March, 1941, reduced from the former capital of £60,000, divided into 60,000 shares of £1 each, fully paid-up, to £50,000, divided into 50,000 shares of £1 each, fully paid-up.”

Dated the 18th day of March, 1941.

GEORGE T. WESTON,
Solicitor for the Company.

894

L. J. LIGHTFOOT, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1933, and in the matter of L. J. LIGHTFOOT, LIMITED (in Liquidation).

NOTICE is hereby given that the above-named company did by entry in its minute-book dated the 19th day of March, 1941, duly pass the following extraordinary resolution :—

“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.”

And that a meeting of the creditors of the said company will be held, pursuant to section 234 of the Companies Act, 1933, at 10 a.m. on Friday, the 28th day of March, 1941, at the Board Rooms of the Kaitieke Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., Miriama Street, Taumarunui, at which meeting a full statement of the position of the company’s affairs, together with a list of the creditors and the estimated amount of their claims, will be laid before the meeting, and at which meeting the creditors, in pursuance of section 235 of the said Act, may nominate a person to be the liquidator of the company and, in pursuance of section 236 of the said Act, may appoint a committee of inspection.

Dated the 19th day of March, 1941.

H. FINDLAY,
Director.

895

ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, the River Boards Act, 1908, the Ashburton Rivers Act, 1936, and all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling, the Ashburton County Council hereby resolves as follows :—

“That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of five thousand five hundred pounds (£5,500), authorized to be raised by the Ashburton County Council under the above-mentioned Acts, powers, and authorities, for the purpose of meeting the Council’s share of the cost of certain work for the improvement and control of the Ashburton River, and for the protection of certain land contiguous thereto and including the reimbursement of two thousand five hundred pounds (£2,500) to the Council’s General Account in terms of section 6 of the Local Legislation Act, 1939, the said Ashburton County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of two-tenths of a penny in the pound on the capital value of the rateable property within the area classified “B” of the Subdivision Number 1A of the Ashburton County River District, and a special rate of one-tenth of a penny on the capital value of all rateable property within the area classified “C” of the said Subdivision Number 1A, which said Subdivision Number 1A comprises all that portion of land more particularly described in special order of the Ashburton County Council made under section 4 of the Ashburton Rivers Act, 1936, constituting a portion of the Ashburton County a separate subdivision for the purpose of rating and classification for rating in accordance with the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913, as provided by section 4, subsection 2, of the Ashburton Rivers Act, 1936, made by the passing of a resolution at a special meeting of the said Council on the 22nd day of May, 1940, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the said Council on the 5th day of July, 1940, and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan and be payable yearly on the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten (10) years or until the loan is fully paid off.”

It is hereby certified that the above is a true and correct copy of a resolution passed at a special meeting of the Ashburton County Council held on the 7th day of February, 1941, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the Council held on the 7th day of March, 1941.

S. P. TAYLOR,
Chairman.

G. KELLY,
County Clerk.

896

DEVONPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND FOR STREET.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Devonport Borough Council proposes, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, and its amendments, to execute a public work—namely, the widening of Vauxhall and Wairoa Roads in the Borough of Devonport—and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Town Clerk to the said Council, Council Chambers, Marine Square, Devonport, and is open for inspection without fee by all persons during ordinary office hours.

All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of such lands who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said lands must state their objections in writing, and send the same within forty (40) days from the first publication of this notice to the Devonport Borough Council at the said Council Chambers, Devonport.

SCHEDULE.

1·61 perches, being part of Lot 2 on Deposited Plan No. 7458, being part of Allotment 1 of Section 2, Parish of Takapuna, situated in Block VI, Rangitoto Survey District, shown coloured red on the said plan.

Dated this 17th day of March, 1941.

A. E. WILSON,
Town Clerk.

897

WILLIAM BAXTER AND CO., LTD.

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of creditors of William Baxter and Co., Ltd. (in Liquidation), Sawmillers, Waikanae, will be held in the Culture Hall, Chamber of Commerce, Dominion Building, Wakefield Street, Wellington, on Thursday, 27th March, 1941, at 2.15 p.m.

G. J. J. FEIL,
Liquidator nominated by the Company.

Feil, Morrison, and Murphy, Public Accountants, Southern Cross Building, 22 Brandon Street, Wellington C.1. 898