upon the rateable value of all rateable property on the unimproved value thereof of the whole of the County of Clutha; and that such special rate shall be an annual- recurring rate during the currency of such loan and be payable yearly on the lst day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of twenty (20) years, or until the loan is fully paid off.'" I hereby certify that the above resolution is a true copy of a resolution passed at a meeting of the Clutha County Council held on 24 March 1953.

GEO. ASHCROFT, County Clerk.

Balclutha, 24 March 1953.

AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL CERTIFIED COPY OF A RESOLUTION PASSED AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL HELD ON THE 23RD DAY OF MARCH 1953 IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, and amendments, the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, the Local Bodies' Loans Amendment Act 1951, the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926 and regulations thereunder, and of all other powers thereunto enabling it in the Auckland City Council hereby resolves as follows:- 'That, for the purpose of providing interest and other charges on a loan of eighteen thousand pounds (£18,000) to be known as the Parks Loan, 1953, which amount is proposed to be raised by the Auckland City Council under the above-mentioned Acts for the purpose of purchasing land and buildings and developing a bedding-plant nursery and the cost of raising the loan, the Auckland City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-eighteenth of one penny (1/18d.) in the pound (£) upon the rateable value (upon the basis of the annual value) of all rateable property in the City of Auckland; and that the said special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan and shall be payable yearly on the 1st day of June in each and every year during the currency of the said loan or until the loan is fully paid off.'" J. A. C. ALLUM, Mayor. T. W. M. ASHBY, Town Clerk.

UNIVERSAL HOLDINGS, LTD. IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION PURSUANT to section 300 of the Companies Act 1933, notice is hereby given that the following special resolution became operative as an entered minute as from 20th March 1953:- 'That the company be wound-up voluntarily, and that STANLEY EDWARD FIELD, of Christchurch, Public Accountant, be appointed liquidator of the company.'" Dated this 27th day of March 1953. S. E. FIELD, Liquidator.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY NOTICE is hereby given that PICKERING AND SOUTHERNWOOD, LIMITED, has changed its name to G. C. BURNNAND, 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 20th day of March 1953. F. BRYSON, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY NOTICE is hereby given that KNIGHTON'S FRUIT & CONFECTIONERY, LIMITED, has changed its name to LORRAINE MILK BAR, LIMITED, and that the new name was this day entered in my Register of Companies in place of the former name. Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of March 1953. K. L. WESTMORELAND, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY NOTICE is hereby given that SOUTHERN SCENIC AIR TRIPS, LIMITED, has changed its name to SOUTHERN SCENIC AIR SERVICES, LIMITED, and that the new name was this day entered on my Register in place of the former name. Dated at Dunedin this 16th day of March 1953. E. B. C. MURRAY, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

WANGANUI CITY COUNCIL NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND In the matter of the Public Works Act 1928, and the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, and their respective amendments.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Wanganui City Council proposes under the above-mentioned Acts and all other Acts and powers enabling it in that behalf to execute a certain public work-namely, the widening of Anzac Parade in the City of Wanganui-and for the purpose of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited at the Wanganui City Council Chambers, situate St. Hill Street, Wanganui, and is there open for inspection, without fee: And that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said lands should, if they have any well-founded objection to the taking of the said lands or the execution of the said public work, set forth the same in writing within forty (40) days of the 1st day of April 1953, the date of the first publication of this notice, and forward such writing to the Town Clerk, City Council Chambers, Wanganui.

SCHEDULE ALL that piece or parcel of land containing three (3) roods twelve (12) perches, more or less, situate in the City of Wanganui, and being part of Kaiate No. 1 Block, some of the boundaries of the said piece of land are more particularly delineated on Deposited Plans No. 3257 and No. 7896 and plan deposited in the Deeds Registry Office, Wellington, as No. 254, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 343, folio 110.

Dated this 27th day of March 1953. D. F. GLENNY, Town Clerk.

APPLICATION FOR A LICENCE FOR A WATER-RACE UNDER THE MINING ACT 1926 To the Warden of the Otago Mining District at Cromwell PURSUANT to the Mining Act 1926, the undersigned Murdo Alexander Matheson, of Middlemarch, Farmer, hereby applies for a licence for a water-race, as specified in the Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.

Mark on pegs: X.

Precise time of marking out privilege applied for: 2 March 1953, at 2 p.m. Date and number of miner's right: 2 March 1953, No. 89169. Address for service: Care of Fraser, Macdonald, and Martin, Solicitors, Ranfurly.

Dated at Ranfurly, this 4th day of March 1953.

SCHEDULE LOCALITY of the race, and of its starting and terminal points; also description of land traversed-e.g., unalienated Crown land, private land, or otherwise: Commencing in the Wandle Creek in applicant's Section 15, Block II, Strath-Taieri District, at a point about 30 chains from the south-eastern boundary of the said Section; running thence in a south-easterly direction through said Section 15, across a public road, into applicant's Section 12, Block II, Strath-Taieri District, and terminating in said Section 12.

Length and intended course of race: 1,100 yds. south-east.

Points of intake: One in Wandle Creek.

Estimated time and cost of construction: 2 months, £50. Mean depth and breadth: 6 in. by 12 in.

Number of heads to be diverted: Two heads.

Purpose for which water is to be used: Irrigation.

Proposed term of licence: Twenty-one years.

MURDO ALEXANDER MATHESON,

By his Solicitor, A. H. MACDONALD.

Precise time of filing of the foregoing application: 23 March 1953, at 9 a.m.

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application and all objections thereto: Tuesday, 14 April 1953, at 10 a.m., at the Warden's Court, Cromwell.

Objections must be filed in the Registrar's office and notified to applicant at least three days before the time so appointed.

F. A. FOOTE, Mining Registrar.