PUBLIC NOTICE
In the matter of the Will of Mary Elizabeth Staples, of Christchurch, Married Woman, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Honourable Sir Erima Harvey Northeroft, Kt., a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Christchurch, on the 27th day of October, 1950, made an order under the provisions of Part III of the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act, 1908, approving of the scheme with regard to the sum of £500 held by Rupert Stanley Trapnell, of Brookside, Flourmiller, and Leslie Arthur Dougall, of Christchurch, Solicitor, as trustees of the estate of Mary Elizabeth Staples, deceased, for the purpose of erecting a window to the memory of William Randall Smith and the said Mary Elizabeth Staples in the Church of St. Michaels and All Angels, at Christchurch, when rebuilt, which said scheme was duly submitted to the Attorney-General and filed in the registry of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Christchurch, and which said scheme provides that the said Rupert Stanley Trapnell and Leslie Arthur Dougall shall now hold the said sum of £500 upon trust for the purpose of erecting a Reredos in the present Church of St. Michaels and All Angels in the City of Christchurch.
Dated at Christchurch, this 7th day of November, 1950.
G. E. POLLOCK, Registrar of the Supreme Court.

AUCKLAND ELECTRIC POWER BOARD
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 Auckland Electric-power Board hereby resolves as follows:
"That, for the purpose of providing the principal, interest, and other charges on a loan of £400,000, known as the Auckland Electric-power Board General Extension and Improvements Loan, 1950, authorized to be raised by the Auckland Electric-power Board under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of providing for further reticulation of the Board's District, the Auckland Electric-power Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-thirteenth of a penny (£sd.) in the pound (£) on the rateable value on the basis of capital value of all rateable property in the Auckland Electric-power District comprising the City of Auckland, together with the Boroughs of Ellerslie, Onehunga, Otahuhu, Manurewa, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, Mount Roskill, One Tree Hill, Newmarket, Papakura, and Papatoetoe, the Road Districts of Panmure and Mount Wellington, the Town District of Howick, and the County of Manukau, and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable yearly on the 31st day of March in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off."
R. T. HOOKHAM, Treasurer.

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE
The Wellington City Reserves Improvements Loan, 1950, of £180,000
THE following resolution was duly passed at a meeting of the Wellington City Council held on the 15th day of November, 1950:
In pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, and its amendments, the Wellington City Council hereby resolves as follows:
"That for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking-fund, repayment of principal, and other charges on a loan of one hundred and eighty thousand pounds (£180,000), to be known as the Wellington City Reserves Improvements Loan, 1950, authorized to be raised by the Wellington City Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of carrying out improvements to reserves, beaches, and zoological gardens, the Wellington City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of ninety-four eight-hundredths of a penny (£sd.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property within the whole of the City of Wellington; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan and shall be payable yearly on the 1st day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty-five years from the 15th day of June, 1951, or until the loan is fully paid off."
E. P. NORMAN, Town Clerk.

FEATHERSTON COUNTY COUNCIL
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND
In the matter of the Counties Act, 1920, and in the matter of the Public Works Act, 1928.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Featherston County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute a certain public work—namely, the realignment and widening of a public road—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 Clerk to the said Council, situate at Kitchener Street, Martinborough, 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 days from the first publication of this notice to the County Clerk at the Council Chambers, Kitchener Street, Martinborough.
THE SCHEDULE
APPROXIMATE area of land required :—
A. R. P. Being Portion of
0 0 3·4 Part Okoura No. 3 ; coloured blue.
0 0 6·8 Part Okoura No. 2b ; coloured orange.
0 0 10·3 Part Okoura No. 2c ; coloured sepia.
0 0 13·5 Part Okoura No. 2B ; coloured blue.
0 0 4·9 Part Okoura No. 2A ; coloured orange.
0 0 1·9 Part Okoura No. 2g IB ; coloured sepia.
0 0 22·6 Part Okoura No. 1A ; coloured blue.
Situated in Block V, Haurangi Survey District, County of Featherston, and coloured on plan as above mentioned.
Date of first publication of this notice is the 23rd day of November, 1950.
Dated the 15th day of November, 1950.
H. HARDINGE, County Clerk.

HENDERSON VALLEY BUSES, LTD.
IN LIQUIDATION
NOTICE is hereby given that by special resolution dated 14th November, 1950, the above company has gone into members voluntary liquidation, and that FRANK W. ORR, Public Accountant, Auckland, has been appointed liquidator.
F. W. ORR, Liquidator.
National Insurance Buildings, O'Connell Street, Auckland.

PAHIATUA BOROUGH COUNCIL
RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE
Special Meeting, Held on 13th November, 1950
MINUTES of a special meeting of the Pahiatua Borough Council, held in the Borough Council Chambers, on Monday, 13th November, 1950, at 7.30 p.m.
Present : His Worship the Mayor, S. J. Judd, Esquire, in the chair, Crs. W. A. Carthew, A. Mills, J. M. Sandman, T. J. Watts, A. D. Donald, V. E. Lett, H. A. Gardner, T. O. Stanley, and D. G. Gregorie. The Town Clerk, A. W. Hamilton was in attendance.
The special meeting had been called for the purpose of passing a resolution making a special rate as security for loan of £4,500, 1950.
Moved by Cr. T. W. Watts, and seconded by Cr. D. G. Gregorie, "that in pursuance of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, the Pahiatua Borough Council resolves as follows:
"That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £4,500, authorized to be raised by the Pahiatua Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of building a women's rest-room, constructing, kerbing, channelling, and sealing approximately 154 chains of footpaths in the Borough (including portion of southern end of Main Street), forming and sealing the paths in two of the Garden Squares, enlarging the outlet of the Huxley Street drain, and making any other Borough capital improvements, the said Pahiatua Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of eighty-five one-hundredths of one penny in the pound (£ths. of ld. in the £) upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Pahiatua, and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 14th day of June and the 14th day of December in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty years, or until the loan is fully paid off."
A. M. HAMILTON, Town Clerk.

ACME PLUMBING, LTD.
IN LIQUIDATION
CREDITORS of the above-named company are required on or before 15th December, 1950, to prove their debts or claims against the company in manner prescribed by the Companies Act, 1933, or in default thereof they may be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.
In this connection attention is drawn particularly to the Company's (winding-up) Rules, 1934, 69 to 82.
W. I. MULLER, Liquidator.