23 JULY]

PRIVATE BILL

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR LEAVE TO BRING IN A
PRIVATE BILL.

A Bill intituled An Act to vary certain charitable trusts established by David Rough, Ellen Edgar, Thomas Francis Clemow, and Eliza Potter.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Auckland Hospital Board intends to apply by petition to the General Assembly of New Zealand during the present session for the passing of a Private Bill, the title of which is as above and the short title of which shall be the Auckland Hospital Board Trusts Empowering Act 1953, to give effect to the following objects: namely, that, by reason of the fact that the application and administration of charitable trusts created by the said David Rough, Ellen Edgar, Thomas Francis Clemow, and Eliza Potter have become difficult or impracticable or inexpedient, the same be varied so that the Auckland Hospital Board shall be empowered to apply the capital and income of the funds affected by the several trusts for the relief of distress of aged persons within the district from time to time under the control of the said Board.

Printed copies of the proposed Bill will on or before the 18th day of July 1953 be deposited at the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, and at the offices of the Auckland Hospital Board, Kitchener Street, Auckland, where the said copies may be inspected and obtained.

Dated this 14th day of July 1953.
THE AUCKLAND HOSPITAL BOARD.

BULLER 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 Buller Electric Power Board hereby resolves as follows:

"That, for the purpose of providing the principal, interest, and other charges of the loan of £2,000 authorized to be raised by the Buller Electric Power Board under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of the construction of new works and lines and increase in capacity of existing lines as apart from Karamea, the said Buller Electric Power Board hereby raises and levies a special rate of one penny and decimal four one of a penny (1·41d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property of the Buller Electric Power Board District comprising part of the County of Buller and the whole of the Borough of Westport; 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 June in each and every year during the currency of the loan, being a period of twenty-four years or until the loan is fully paid off."

The said special rate is the same rate made and levied by the said Board on the 15th day of March 1951, the 13th day of March 1952, the 9th day of September 1952, and the 9th day of March 1953, and not additional thereto.

Dated and signed at Westport, this 13th day of July 1953.
CHAS. E. AUSTIN, Chairman.
W. B. STRUTHERS, Secretary.

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SURNAME

I, ALICE MAUD TARRY, of Gisborne, Widow, now lately called ALICE MAUD HOULTHAM, hereby give notice that on the 6th day of July 1953 I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my said surname of HOULTHAM, and then assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of TARRY instead of the said name HOULTHAM; and I give further notice that by a deed poll dated the 16th day of July 1953, duly executed and filed in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, at Gisborne, on the 17th day of July 1953, I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of HOULTHAM, and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of TARRY instead of HOULTHAM, and so as to be at all time thereafter called, known, and described by the name of TARRY exclusively.

Dated at Gisborne, the 17th day of July 1953.
ALICE MAUD TARRY.
Late ALICE MAUD HOULTHAM.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that CASH AND CREDIT PAINTERS, LIMITED, has changed its name to CITY SERVICES, LIMITED, and that the new name was this day entered on my Register of Companies in place of the former name.

Dated at Christchurch, this 14th day of July 1953.
C. S. FORBES, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that WARNOCK PROPERTIES, LIMITED, has changed its name to OWEN WARNOCK PROPERTIES, 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 13th day of July 1953.
K. L. WESTMORELAND,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

WOOLWORTHS (NEW ZEALAND), LIMITED
LOST SHARE CERTIFICATE

APPLICATION has been made to the above company to issue a new certificate of title to shares Nos. 603197 to 603696, both inclusive, in lieu of original certificate No. 9572, issued in the name of JESSIE LENA FLOWER, and the said Jessie Lena Flower, of 307 Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North, has made a statutory declaration that the original certificate of title to the said shares has been lost.

Notice is hereby given that unless within thirty days from date hereof there is made to the company some claim or representation in respect of the said original certificate, a new certificate will be issued in place thereof.

Dated this 20th day of July 1953.
C. R. HART, Secretary.

TARAMAKAU GOLD DREDGING, LIMITED
IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION

Notice of Voluntary Winding-up Resolution

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 222 of the Companies Act 1933, that, at an extraordinary general meeting of Taramakau Gold Dredging, Limited, duly convened and held at the registered office of the company, Mawhera Quay, Greymouth, on the 15th day of July 1953, the following special resolution was duly passed:

"That the company be wound up voluntarily."

Dated the 17th day of July 1953.
F. K. BUCKLEY, Liquidator.

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Bulletin No. 1.—NEW ZEALAND BROWN COALS, with Special Reference to their Use in Gas-producers. By H. RAND, M.A., B.Sc., and W. O. R. GILLING, M.A., B.Sc., National Research Scholars, Education Department. Price, 2s. Postage, 2d.

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