JUNE 8] \n\nMERCANTILE SECURITIES CORPORATION, LIMITED \nIN LIQUIDATION \n\nIn the matter of the Companies Act, 1933, and in the \nmatter of MERCANTILE SECURITIES CORPORATION, \nLIMITED (in Liquidation). \n\nPURSUANT to section 232 of the Companies Act, 1933, \nnotice is hereby given that a general meeting of the \nabove company will be held in the offices of Clarke, Menzies, \nGriffin, and Co., 102 Featherston Street, Wellington, on the \n23rd day of June, 1944, at noon, for the purpose of enabling \nthe liquidator to lay before such meeting an account of the \nwinding-up and of giving any explanation thereof. \nDated at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1944. \n105 T. L. WARD, Public Accountant, Liquidator. \n\nCOUNTY OF HUTT \n\nDECLARATION OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT SYSTEM OF \nRATING ON THE UNIMPROVED VALUE \n\nPURSUANT to the provisions of section 42 of the Rating \nAct, 1925, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the \nratepayers of the County of Hutt taken on the 27th day of \nMay, 1944, on the proposal that henceforth the system of \nrating property in the County of Hutt on the basis of the \nunimproved value be adopted, the number of votes recorded \nwas as follows:- \n\nVotes. \nFor the proposal . 1,346 \nAgainst the proposal ... 1,011 \nInformal ... 86 \n\nI therefore declare that the proposal was carried. \nDated at Wellington, this 6th day of June, 1944. \n106 R. 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