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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5319, 13 April 1878, Page 3

I Public Companies The equitable building and INVESTMENT COMPANY OF WELLINGTON (LIMITED.) IMPORTANT NOTICE. This Company is allowing interest on deposits at the following rates : At cal), 6 per cent, per annum For 3 mouths, 6J do do For 6 or 12 months, 7 do do By order of the Board of Directors. J. H. OTTO SCHWARTZ, Secretary.

Education ■ Board of the Education District of Wellington, April IX, 1878. NOTICE is hereby given that on MONDAY, the 29th INST., at 8 o’clock in the evening, a Public Meeting of Householders in each of the four School Districts of the city of Wellington, as described in the schedule below, will be held in accordance with the following clauses of the Education Act, 1877 : 63. The first meeting of the householders in every school district shall be held on such day in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and at such time and place, as the Board of the district in which such school districts respectively are shall for each appoint, and at every such meeting the householders present shall elect in manner hereinafter provided seven householders to form the committee for such district. 61. On the fourth Monday in the month of January in each year succeeding the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, a public meeting of the householders in every school district shall be held at a time and place to be fixed by the Board, and publicly notified at least fourteen days previously. At such meeting a chairman shall be chosen, and the committee for the preceding year shall give a full report of its proceedings, and thereupon the electors present shall proceed to elect by ballot, as hereinafter provided, a new committee for the then current year of seven persons resident within the district, and may re-elect all or any of the persons going out of office to be members of such new committee. Every committee so appointed shall hold office until the appointment of its successors, and, if any vacancy shall occur by death or otherwise than by effluxion of time in any committee, the remaining members of the committee shall elect a qualified person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies. . At every meeting convened and held for the election of a committee, the chairman having a deliberative vote shall also have a casting vote. 65. At every election for a school committee every voter shall be entitled to a number • of votes equal to the number of the committee to be elected, and may give all such votes to one candidate, or may distribute them among the candidates, as he thinks fit. The places of meeting are— For Thorndon District The schoolroom, Sydney-street For Terrace District —The schoolroom, the Terrace For Te Aro District —The schoolroom, Ghuz-nee-street For Mount Cook District—The Mount Cook Boys’ school, Taranaki-street. SCHEDULE. Thorndon District. All that portion of the city of Wellington lying towards the north of a line running from the southern boundary of section No. 621 along the centre of Tinakori-road, Glen-bervie-terrace, Sydney, Museum, and Bowen streets; thence from the end of Bowen-street along the southern side of the fence round the Government Buildings to the sea. Tebeagb District. ■ All that portion of the city of Wellington lying between the southern boundary of Thorndon District and a continued line through the centre Of the road from Upland Farm through the centre of Mount-street, Wellington-terrace, Church-street, the southern portion of Boulcott-street, Willis-atreet to the northern end of section No. 205, and thence to the sea at right angles to Willis-street. Te Abo District. All that portion of the city of Wellington lying between the southern boundary of Terrace District, and a continued line from the southern corner of section No. 55 ; thence along the south-east boundary of same section to the centre of Thomson-street, and along the centre of Thomson, Webb, and Cuba streets to the sea. Mount Cook District. All the other portion of the city of Wellington. By order of the Board. Egbert Lee, Secretary.

Business Notices. TP KENNEDY MACDONALD & GO., I a Land Auctioneers and Land Agents Exchange Land Offices, Grey and Eeatherston Streets, Wellington. The Auction operations of the firm, are strictly limited to the sale of Freehold and Leasehold Lands, Houses, Station Properties, and Shares f and by thus making the business a speciality, the firm are enabled to give their clients superior advantages for disposing of such interests either by public or private sale. Land Sales are held on the first Monday in each month. Particulars of properties intended for these sales should if possible be furnished by the 16th day of the previous month. Government Land Sales attended. Selections taken up". Purchases of selections completed, and loans advanced thereon.. Surveys in town or country executed with despatch. Valuations of town and country properties made. T. KENNEDY MACDONALD & CO., Professional Accountants, Auditors, anb Liquidators, Grey and Featherston streets, Wellington. Investors will find great facilities offered by the firm for the investment of capital in the purchase of Land and House Property, Joint Stock Companies’ or Building Societies’ Stock, Advances on Mortgage, &c., &c. Eents, interests, and dividends collected punctually, and prompt accounts rendered. Borrowers may obtain any sum of money from £25 upwards on the "mortgage of approved Freehold or Leasehold Properties, at rates of interest ranging from 8 per cent, per annum. Mr. Macdonald being a Certificated Accountant in Bankruptcy, special attention is devoted to the speedy realisation of estates liquidated under the Debtors and Creditors Act, the firm acting as Trustees, or Agf,nts for Trustees. Special Arrangements Made respecting Arbitration Business.

Board and Residence TAFNER’S temperance hotel AND RESTAURANT, Cdba-stkeet, Wellington, N2. First-class accommodation for Commercial Travellers, Private Families, and Boarders. Tourists and Wedding Parties can rely on receiving all the comforts of a home at this Hotel. Ordinary daily at 1 o’clock. Luncheon from 12 to 2 j charge—ONE SHILLING, A conveyance from the Hotel attends all steamers and trains. Hot and Cold Baths at all hours. C. TAFNER, Proprietor, Late Chief Steward Government s.s. Stella. URNISHED APARTMENTS, with hoard; use of bath. Willow Bank House, Plimmer’s Steps.