JUNE 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 957

We have examined the books, vouchers, and accounts of the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited) (which include the accounts of constituents) for the twelve months ending 31st March, 1898, and certify that in our opinion the above balance-sheet fully and fairly represents the position of the company’s affairs at date of balance; and we have also seen the securities held by the company on behalf of its constituents, and on its own behalf, and found them in order.

WILLIAM BROWN AND Co.,
A. BARTLEMAN,
} Auditors.

Dunedin, 22nd April, 1898.

We certify that the mortgages held by the company for its constituents and on its own behalf have been produced to and examined by ourselves, conjointly with the Chairman and Auditors of the company, and that the mortgages secure the principal moneys and interests specified against them in the books of the company.

BATHGATE AND WOODHOUSE,
Solicitors for the Company.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

W. LAURENCE SIMPSON.

Declared this 30th day of May, 1898, before me—William Wills, a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.
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