CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that SLOAN'S STORES, LIMITED, has changed its name to WHEELERS STORES, 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 4th day of November 1953.

K. L. WESTMORELAND,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that ASSOCIATED LINEN IMPORTING COMPANY, LIMITED, has changed its name to ASSOCIATED INVESTMENTS, LIMITED, and that the new name was this day entered on my Register of Companies in place on the former name.

Dated at Auckland, this 23rd day of October 1953.

J. E. AUBIN, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

NOTICE is hereby given that TREMAYNE & COMPANY, LIMITED, has changed its name to HADDOCK & DAVIES, 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 29th day of October 1953.

J. E. AUBIN, Assistant Registrar of Companies.

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

In the matter of the Incorporated Societies Act 1908, and in the matter of the WHAKATANE WOMEN'S BOWLING CLUB (INCORPORATED).

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding-up of the above-named society by the Supreme Court was, on the 16th day of September 1953, presented to the said Court by Jessie Evelyn Sinclair, of Whakatane, wife of Royston Brooks Sinclair, of Whakatane, Journalist. And that the said petition is directed to be heard before the Court sitting at Auckland on Friday, the 27th day of November 1953, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon; and any creditor or member or contributory of the said society 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, member, or contributory of the said society requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for the same.

G. A. FREDRIC,
Solicitor for the Petitioner.

ADDRESS FOR SERVICE.—The petition was filed by Graeme Augustus Frederic, Solicitor for the petitioner. The petitioner's address for service is at the office of Messrs Trimmer and Brown, Solicitors, 28 Shortland 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 office 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 November 1953.

DISPLAY STUDIOS AND PLASTICS, LIMITED

IN LIQUIDATION

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 232 of the Companies Act 1933, that a general meeting of the members of this company will be held at the offices of the company, 76 Dixon Street, Wellington, on Monday, the 30th day of November 1953, at 10 a.m., for the following purposes:

1. To receive the liquidator's account of the winding-up.
2. To pass the following resolution as an extraordinary resolution, pursuant to section 275: ‘That the books and papers of the company and of the liquidator be kept for five years from the dissolution of the company in the custody of the liquidator.’

Dated this 9th day of November 1953.

N. GODDARD, Liquidator.

BOROUGH OF WAIHI

DECLARATION OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ADOPT SYSTEM OF RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE

PURSUANT to section 42 of the Rating Act 1925, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Waihi taken on the 31st day of October 1953 on the proposal that the system of rating in the said borough be on the unimproved value:

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 365. The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 179. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 3rd day of November 1953.

H. J. PICKETT, Mayor.

McKENZIES DEPARTMENT STORES, LIMITED

LOST SHARE CERTIFICATE

APPLICATION has been made to the above company to issue a new certificate of title to shares Nos. 496501 to 496513 and shares Nos. 394356 to 394375, all inclusive, in lieu of the original certificate No. M. 696 dated 14 September 1938, issued in the name of MARGARET ELIZABETH CALLAGHAN of Wellington, and the said MARGARET ELIZABETH CALLAGHAN has made a declaration that the said original certificate of title has been lost.

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

Dated this 9th day of November 1953.

H. A. CARTER, Secretary.

222 Willis Street, Wellington.

BLOCKLAYERS LIMITED

IN LIQUIDATION

Notice of Voluntary Winding-up Resolution

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to section 222 of the Companies Act 1933, that at a special general meeting of the above company, duly convened and held on the 29th day of October 1953, the following special resolution was duly passed: ‘That the company be wound-up voluntarily’.

Dated this 4th day of November 1953.

J. D. LAKE, Liquidator.

BOROUGH OF PUKEKOHE

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 Pukekohe Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:

‘That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on the loan of £4,500 authorized to be raised by the Pukekohe Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of carrying out drainage and sewerage works required under a requisition issued by the Board of Health, the said Pukekohe Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of thirteen one-thousandths of a penny (13/1000d.) in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property of the whole of the Borough of Pukekohe; 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 August 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’.

The foregoing resolution was passed at a meeting of the Pukekohe Borough Council held on the 21st day of October 1953.

W. HUDSON, Town Clerk.

CITY OF NELSON

DECLARATION OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO ABANDON THE SYSTEM OF RATING ON THE BASIS OF UNIMPROVED VALUE

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 44 of the Rating Act 1925, I hereby give notice that a poll of ratepayers of the City of Nelson was taken on the 31st day of October 1953 on a proposal to abandon the system of rating on unimproved value in the said city, and that the number of votes for and against the proposal was as follows:

For unimproved value, 1,499.
Against unimproved value, 1,238.
Informal, 11.

I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

J. A. HARLEY, Mayor.