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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 15]

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that THE THOMPSON AUCTION-
EERING COMPANY, LIMITED, has changed its name to
THE FAIRMARKET AUCTIONEERING COMPANY, LIMITED, and that
the new name was this day entered on my Register of
Companies in place of the former name.
Dated at Auckland, this 2nd day of March 1953.
1065 F. BRYSON, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

FERNLEAF CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
IN LIQUIDATION

In the matter of the Companies Act 1933, and in the
matter of the FERNLEAF CONSTRUCTION Co., Ltd.
(in liquidation).
NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary meeting
of the company held at Christchurch on Wednesday,
4 March 1953, a special resolution was passed that the
company be wound up voluntarily and that EDWIN GLASSON
MITCHELL, of Christchurch, Public Accountant, be appointed
liquidator.
Dated at Christchurch, this 11th day of March 1953.
1068 E. G. MITCHELL, Liquidator.

HILL BROS. (CARRIERS), LIMITED
IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION

NOTICE is hereby given that on the 13th day of March
1953 Hill Bros. (Carriers), Limited, by memorandum
signed for the purpose of becoming an entry in the minute-
book resolved by an extraordinary resolution 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 the offices of Bayliss and Howell,
Public Accountants, Hastings, on Tuesday, the 24th day of
March 1953, at 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon, 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 13th day of March 1953.
1069 K. H. BAYLISS, Secretary.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand
Northern District
(Auckland Registry)

In the matter of the Companies Act 1933, and in the
matter of DEVON CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up
of the above-named company by the Supreme Court was
on the 20th day of February 1953 presented to the said
Court by Faulkner and Collins, Limited, a duly incorporated
company having its registered office at Auckland; and that
the said petition is directed to be heard before the Court
sitting at Auckland on the 27th day of March 1953, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon; and any creditor or contributory
of the said company desirous to support or oppose the making
of an order on the said petition may appear at the time of
hearing in person or by his counsel for that purpose; and a
copy of the petition will be furnished to any creditor or
contributory of the said company requiring the same by the
undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for the same.
W. L. WISEMAN, Solicitor for the Petitioner.
The petitioner's address for service is at the offices of
W. L. Wiseman, Solicitor, New Zealand Insurance Building,
Queen Street, Auckland.
NOTE.-Any person who intends to appear on the hearing
of the said petition must serve on or send by post to the
above-named, notice in writing of his intention so to do. The
notice must state the name, address, and description of the
person, or, if a firm, the name, address, and description of the
firm, and an address for service within three miles of the
Supreme Court at Auckland and must be signed by the person
or firm, or his or their solicitor (if any), and must be served,
or, if posted, must be sent by post in sufficient time to reach
the above-named petitioner's address for service not later
than 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th day of March 1953.
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WALTER DAWSON & CO., LTD.

IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION

NOTICE is hereby given that by an entry in the minute-
book the following special resolution was passed on 19
March 1953:
"'That the company be wound up voluntarily, and that
A. K. Voyce, Public Accountant, be and is hereby appointed
liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up.''
A. K. VOYCE, Liquidator.
41 Shortland Street, Auckland C. 1.
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N.Z. WIRE NETTING DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE,
LIMITED
IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION

In the matter of the Companies Act 1933, and in the
matter of N.Z. WIRE NETTING DISTRIBUTION COM-
MITTEE, LIMITED (in voluntary liquidation).
NOTICE is hereby given that by special resolution of share-
holders of the above company passed on the 11th day of
March 1953 it was resolved that the company be wound up
voluntarily, and that ARCHIBALD LOUDEN McLEAN, of Welling-
ton, Public Accountant, be appointed Liquidator.
Notice is also given that the 10th day of April 1953 has
been fixed as the day on or before which the creditors of the
company are to prove their debts or claims, or to be excluded
from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts
are proved, or, as the case may be, from objecting to such
distribution.
Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of March 1953.
A. L. McLEAN, Liquidator.
Care of Ernest Hunt, Turner, & Co., 127 Featherston
Street, Wellington.
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BOROUGH OF DEVONPORT
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed under the
provisions of the Public Works Act 1928 to execute a
certain public work--namely, the construction of a recreation-
ground--and for the purpose of such public work the land
described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, and
notice is hereby further given that a plan of the land as
required to be taken is deposited in the 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 land should, if they have any
well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public
work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in
writing and send the same, within forty days from the first
publication of this notice, to the Town Clerk, Devonport
Borough Council.

SCHEDULE

A. R. P.
0 2 20 Lot 43E, Block A, Deeds Plan No. 1010, part of
Allotment 4, Section 1, Parish of Takapuna,
certificate of title, Volume 501, folio 135, edged
green.
Dated this 13th day of March 1953.
THE DEVONPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL,
By its Solicitors and authorized agents,
BROOKFIELD, PRENDERGAST, SCHNAUER,
AND SMYTHEMAN,
1072 Per H. E. H. SMYTHEMAN.

HAVELOCK NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL
RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE

IN pursuance of the powers vested in it by the Local Bodies'
Loans Act 1926, and all other powers (if any) enabling
it in that behalf, the Havelock North Borough Council hereby
resolves as follows:-
"'That, for the purpose of providing interest, sinking
fund, and other charges on a loan of four thousand three
hundred pounds (f4,300) to be known as 'Plant Loan 1952',
authorized to be raised by the Council under the Local Bodies'
Loans Act 1926, for the purpose of the purchase of plant
consisting of a power grader and a tractor-loader with com-
pressor, the Havelock North Borough Council hereby makes
and levies a special rate of 0.32 pence in the pound (f) on the
rateable unimproved value of all rateable property in the
Borough of Havelock North; and that such rate shall be an
annual recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and
shall be payable on the 1st day of August in each and every
year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten
years, or until the loan is fully repaid.''

I hereby certify that the above resolution was passed at a
meeting of the Havelock North Borough Council held on the
11th day of March 1953.
J. J. NIMON, Mayor.
Havelock North, 11 March 1953.
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