Feb. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 477

Safety Gear Company (Limited)," incorporated under "The Companies Act, 1882," do hereby make oath and say,—That the nominal value of the said company is two thousand pounds, in two thousand shares of one pound each; that the shares have been fully paid up; that the company has no assets, and has ceased to carry on its operations: and we do hereby apply for declaration of dissolution of such company.

JOSEPH P. LEARY.
CLAUDE REVANS.
ROBT. EDWARDS.

Sworn by the said Joseph Poulter Leary before me, at Palmerston North, this 11th day of February, 1899—Alfred Greenfield, Stipendiary Magistrate, Palmerston North.

Sworn by the said Robert Edwards before me, at Palmerston North, this 11th day of February, 1899—Alfred Greenfield, Stipendiary Magistrate, Palmerston North.

Sworn by the said Claude Revans before me, at Palmerston North, this 14th day of February, 1899—Alfred Greenfield, Stipendiary Magistrate, Palmerston North.

NOTICE.

THE WALTER A. WOOD MOWING-AND-REAPING MACHINE COMPANY, of Hoosick Falls, in the State of New York, in the United States of America, hitherto also carrying on business in the Colony of New Zealand, hereby gives public notice that it will have ceased to carry on business within the said colony three months after the publication of this notice.

Dated at Christchurch, in the said colony, this 9th day of February, 1899.

J. P. RICHARDSON,
Attorney and Manager for the above-named Company in the Colony of New Zealand.

Witness to the signature of John Pearce Richardson—W. B. Cowlishaw, Solicitor, Christchurch. 256

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
WELLINGTON DISTRICT.

In the matter of "The Companies Act, 1882"; and in the matter of the affidavit and application of Reginald Edward Beckett, the Secretary of the South Makirikiri Steam Threshing Company (Limited), for a declaration of dissolution of such company.

I HEREBY notify that, no objection to such application having been made and lodged with me as by the said Act required, I now declare such company to be dissolved.

Dated at Wanganui, this 7th day of February, 1899.

CHAS. C. KETTLE,
Registrar. 232

C. G. Esam, Marton, Applicant's Solicitor.

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