30 SEPTEMBER

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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In witness whereof the common seal of the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board was hereunto affixed this 22nd day of September 1971, in the presence of:
[L.s.]
D. R. FRASER, Member.
M. JOEL, Member.
G. R. LOTHIAN, Deputy Secretary.
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BOROUGH OF HOWICK

MINUTES of a special meeting of Council, held in the Committee Room, Picton Street, Howick, on Monday, 26 July 1971, at 7.25 p.m.:

Present: His Worship the Mayor, W. H. A. Blundell, Esq. (Chairman), Councillors A. Bagley, F. C. Barber, R. K. Boyd, L. T. Carr.

Apologies: Received from Councillors G. A. Bennett and M. H. McCulloch, and leave granted.

In Attendance: J. D. Thompson, Town Clerk.

Loans: Streets Reconstruction Loan 1971: (Refer Resol. 470, 21/6/71.)

Resolved: (Confirmation of Special Order.)
That the resolution passed by way of special order at a special meeting of Council held on 21 June 1971, and duly advertised in the Auckland Star and New Zealand Herald on 24 June 1971 and 17 July 1971, be now confirmed and the seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of Howick be affixed thereto.

Resolution: Pursuant to the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, the Howick Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:
That, for the purpose of providing the annual charges on a loan of one hundred thousand dollars authorised to be raised by the Howick Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of reconstructing streets in the Borough, the said Howick Borough Council hereby makes a special rate of .06238c (decimal nought six two three eight cents) in the dollar ($), upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Borough of Howick and that the special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of the loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of August and the 1st day of February, each and every year during the currency of the loan, being a period of 20 years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

R. K. BOYD, Councillor.
A. BAGLEY, Councillor.

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the Borough of Howick was affixed hereto on 26 July 1971.

J. D. THOMPSON, Town Clerk.
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In the matter of the Charitable Trusts Act 1957, and in the matter of the estate of GEORGE Booth, formerly of Tuakau, but more lately of Manurewa, farmer, deceased:

NOTICE is hereby given that the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association (Inc.), the trustee of the estate of the above-named George Booth, deceased, has filed in the Supreme Court at Auckland an application for approval of a scheme propounded under Part III of the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 in respect of a devise and bequest contained in clause nine of the will of the said George Booth, deceased, under which he directed his trustee to stand possessed of the residue of his estate for the benefit and maintenance of New Zealanders engaged on active service in the war with Germany and her allies which commenced in September 1939 and who are or may be disabled or who may be incapacitated by ill health and who are in indigent or necessitous circumstances the said trust having been varied by the Supreme Court on the 12th day of December 1958 upon an application made under Part III of the Charitable Trusts Act 1957 by constituting the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association (Inc.) as trustee of the trust in place of the Guardian Trust and Executors Company of New Zealand Ltd., by directing that the new trustee should hold the trust funds both as to the capital and the income thereof “for the benefit and maintenance of persons who, while of New Zealand nationality, took part on active service in the war with Germany and her allies and which commenced in September 1939 and who are or may become disabled or who contracted ill health whilst on such active service from the effects of which they are for the time being suffering or who are or may become incapacitated by ill health and who are in indigent or necessitous circumstances irrespective whether or not such persons are members of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association (Inc.)”, and by extending the term of the said trust to the 31st day of December 1982.

The purport of the scheme now propounded is that the trusts imposed by the said clause nine and varied by the Supreme Court as aforesaid shall henceforth be carried out by the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association (Inc.) upon the following terms:

“That the assets comprising the residue of the estate of George Booth, deceased, be held by the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association (Inc.) upon trust both the capital and the income for the benefit and maintenance of distressed New Zealanders who served in the war with Germany and her allies which commenced in September 1939 and who are servicemen within the meaning of the Rehabilitation Act 1941 or their dependents or distressed or needy dependents of deceased New Zealanders who served in the war and were servicemen as aforesaid. Membership of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association (Inc.) shall not be a condition of eligibility for benefit”.

The motion for approval of the said scheme would be heard at the Supreme Court in Auckland, on Monday, the 15th day of November 1971, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon.

A copy of the scheme may be inspected at the Supreme Court office at Auckland or at the offices of Messrs Rudd, Garland, and Horrocks, Seventh Floor, A.M.P. Building, Queen Street, Auckland 1.

Any person desiring to oppose the scheme must give written notice of his intention so to do to the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland and to the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association (Inc.), 12 Victoria Street, Wellington 1, and to Her Majesty’s Attorney-General, not less than 7 clear days before the said 15th day of November 1971.

RUDD, GARLAND, AND HORROCKS.
per C. J. Allan.
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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP

MRS A. M. DINSDALE and MR J. P. ASTON, trading as Seath, Aston, and Dinsdale, Power Board Buildings, Taumarunui, have dissolved their partnership as from 30 September 1971.

Mrs Dinsdale will practise on her own account in the Puketapu Building and Mr Aston will continue to practise in the same premises under the name of Seath and Aston.

SEATH, ASTON, AND DINSDALE.
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NEW ZEALAND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT 1909

ADVERTISEMENT OF CANCELLING

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registrar of Friendly Societies has, pursuant to section 70 of the Friendly Societies Act 1909, by writing under his hand dated this 21st day of September 1971, cancelled the registry of St. Joseph’s Branch, No. 831, a branch of the New Zealand District of the Hibernian-Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, Register No. 198/98, held at Rangiora, on the ground that the branch has ceased to exist.

O. D. GOOD, Registrar of Friendly Societies.
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THE PERPETUAL TRUSTEES ESTATE AND AGENCY COMPANY AMENDMENT ACT 1971

NOTICE is hereby given that the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Co. of New Zealand Ltd. proposes to apply for leave to bring into the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled during its present session a Private Bill, the objects of which are to restrict the owning or holding of shares of the company by any person to one-fiftieth of the issued shares in the capital of the company, to provide for the compulsory sale of shares in cases where shareholders own or hold shares in excess of the above restriction and to provide that during the time that a person holds shares in contravention to the provisions of the Act the registered holder of the shares shall not be entitled to exercise more votes than are permitted by a one-fiftieth holding of shares in the capital of the company.

The promoter of the Private Act is the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Co. of New Zealand Ltd.

Communications or notices to the promoter may be sent to, and copy of the Bill may be inspected at, the offices of Messrs Downie Stewart, Payne, Forrester, and Armitage, solicitors for the promoter, 335 Princes Street, Dunedin.
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