the Council's existing drainage system, including the provision
of pumping stations, tanks, outfalls, and other things necessary
for the efficient drainage of the City, the Council hereby
makes and levies a special rate of one farthing in the pound
upon the rateable value (on the basis of the unimproved
value) of all rateable property in the whole of the City of
New Plymouth; and that such special rate shall be for the
year commencing on the 1st day of April 1954 and ending
on the 31st day of March 1955, and shall be an annual-
recurring rate for each year thereafter during the currency
of the said loan and until the said loan is fully paid off;
and that such special rate shall be payable in one sum on
the 1st day of April in each and every year during the
currency of the said loan and until the said loan is fully
paid off.''

Dated at New Plymouth, this 3rd day of February 1954.
EDWARD O. E. HILL, Mayor.
H. N. JOHNSON, Acting Town Clerk.

NEW PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE

Waterworks Extension Loan 1953
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that
behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926 and of all
other powers it thereunto enabling the New Plymouth City
Council hereby resolves:

'That, for the purpose of providing the redemption
payments payable in respect of the loan of £100,000, being
the first portion of the Waterworks Extension Loan 1953,
authorized to be raised by the Council under the above-
mentioned Act by the terms of an Order in Council made
on the 22nd day of December 1953 and published in the New
Zealand Gazette No. 3 of 14 January 1954 at page 73, and
the interest and other charges thereon, the said loan of
£100,000, being for the purpose of erecting, constructing, and
providing within and without the City of New Plymouth
extensions of and additions to the Council's waterworks, the
Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of five-eighths
of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the
basis of the unimproved value) of all rateable property in
the whole of the City of New Plymouth; and that such
special rate shall be for the year commencing on the 1st
day of April 1954 and ending on the 31st day of March 1955,
and shall be an annual-recurring rate for each year thereafter
during the currency of the said loan and until the said loan
is fully paid off; and that such special rate shall be payable
in one sum on the 1st day of April in each and every year
during the currency of the said loan and until the said loan
is fully paid off.''

Dated at New Plymouth, this 3rd day of February 1954.
EDWARD O. E. HILL, Mayor.
H. N. JOHNSON, Acting Town Clerk.

NEW PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE

Streets Improvement Loan 1953
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that
behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926 and of all
other powers it thereunto enabling the New Plymouth City
Council hereby resolves:

'That, for the purpose of providing the redemption
payments payable in respect of the loan of £60,000, being
the first portion of the Streets Improvement Loan 1953
authorized to be raised by the Council under the above-
mentioned Act by the terms of an Order in Council made
on the 22nd day of December 1953 and published in the New
Zealand Gazette No. 3 of the 14 January 1954 at page 74,
and the interest and other charges thereon, the said loan of
£60,000, being for the purpose of the construction of streets
within the City of New Plymouth including (a) the recon-
struction, grading, formation, metalling, gravelling and surface-
sealing of carriage-ways and footways in streets; (b) the
construction and provision of channels, kerbs, and retaining
walls in streets; and (c) the provision and laying of pipes
and drains to convey stormwater from or under streets, the
Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-half
penny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of
the unimproved value) of all rateable property in the whole
of the City of New Plymouth; and that such special rate
shall be for the year commencing on the 1st day of April
1954 and ending on the 31st day of March 1955, and shall
be an annual-recurring rate for each year thereafter during
the currency of the said loan and until the said loan is fully
paid off; and that such special rate shall be payable in one
sum on the 1st day of April in each and every year during
the currency of the said loan and until the said loan is fully
paid off.''

Dated at New Plymouth, this 3rd day of February 1954.
EDWARD O. E. HILL, Mayor.
H. N. JOHNSON, Acting Town Clerk.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,
Wellington District
(Wellington Registry)
In the matter of the Companies Act 1933, and in the matter
of ICE FROLICS COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding
up of the above company by the Supreme Court was on
the 3rd day of February 1954 presented to the said Court by
Max Studios Limited, and that the said petition is directed
to be heard before the Court sitting at Wellington on the
24th day of February 1954, 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 com-
pany requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of
the regulated charge for same.

STEWART HARDY, Solicitor for Petitioner.
The petitioner's address for services is at the offices of
Messrs Stewart Hardy and Craig, Solicitors, 43 Panama Street,
Wellington.

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 of his intention in writing 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 Wellington, 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 four o'clock in the afternoon of the 23rd day
of February 1954.

SALISBURY BUILDINGS, LIMITED
(IN LIQUIDATION)
NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of the Salisbury
Buildings, Limited (in liquidation) will be held at the
office of the liquidator at 83 Queen Street, Auckland, on
Monday, the 1st day of March 1954, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, pursuant to section 232 of the Companies Act 1933
for the purpose of having an account laid before it showing
how the winding-up of the company has been conducted and
the property of the company has been disposed of.

Dated this 3rd day of February 1954.
VICTOR CLAY, Liquidator.

AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE

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 Board Amendment Act 1951, the Local Govern-
ment Loans Board Act 1926, and regulations thereunder, and
of all other powers thereunto enabling it, the Auckland City
Council hereby resolves:

"That, for the purpose of providing interest and other
charges on an amount of thirty-three thousand five hundred
pounds (£33,500), being the second portion of a loan of
£93,500 known as the Waterworks Development Additional
Loan 1952, which amount is proposed to be raised by the
Auckland City Council under the above-mentioned Acts for
the purpose of increasing the supply of water available to
the Auckland City Council and the cost of raising the loan,
the said Auckland City Council hereby makes and levies a
special rate of two-sevenths of one penny (2½d.) 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."

The above is a certified copy of a resolution passed at
a meeting of the Auckland City Council held on the 21st
day of January 1954.

J. H. LUXFORD, Mayor.
T. W. M. ASHBY, Town Clerk.

AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Municipal Corporations Act 1933, the
Physical Welfare and Recreation Act 1937, the Local Bodies'
Loans Act 1926, the Local Bodies' Loans Amendment Act
1951, the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, and