JULY 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1617

them in the Midland Co-operative Saleyards Company (Limited), and such scrip shall be issued paid up to an amount equal to that which shall have been paid up to the Midland Co-operative Saleyards Company (Limited) by the shareholders so accepting; and such shareholders as shall not be willing to accept shares shall be paid in cash the amount paid up on the shares so held by them. The issue of shares-scrip or payment in cash as aforesaid to be in satisfaction of their respective interest in the assets of the Midland Co-operative Saleyards Company (Limited).

2. That the capital of the company be increased to £20,000, divided into 4,000 shares of £5 each.

3. That the directors be empowered to issue the necessary share-scrip required under resolution 1.

4. That the directors be empowered to divide £5,000 of its Reserve and Dilapidation Fund amongst the present shareholders of the company by issue of debentures in proportion to the amount paid up on the shares held by them, such debentures to be redeemable at any time by ballot at the discretion of the directors, and in the meantime to bear interest at £4 per centum per annum, payable half-yearly. Until repayment such debentures to be a first charge on the assets of the present company, and the assets to be taken over from the Midland Co-operative Saleyards Company (Limited).

5. That rule 13 of the articles of association be rescinded.

6. That rule 13 read, “Every shareholder shall have a vote for every share held by him up to fifty shares. He shall have an additional vote for every five shares beyond the first fifty shares up to 150 shares, and an additional vote for every ten shares held by him beyond 150 shares.”

7. That until the first annual general meeting of shareholders in 1904 the present directorate shall be increased by two directors, to be elected by such of the shareholders in the Midland Co-operative Saleyards Company (Limited) as shall accept shares in the Canterbury Saleyards Company (Limited), but such directors so appointed shall retire at the annual general meeting in 1904 with the directors who, according to rule 21 of the articles of association, also retire.

E. G. STAVELEY,
Chairman.
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I, ARTHUR ANDERSON MARTIN, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1900, now residing in Wellington, hereby give notice that I intend applying on the 14th August next to have my name placed on the Medical Register for the Colony of New Zealand, and that I have deposited the evidence of my qualifications in the office of the Registrar-General.

A. A. MARTIN.
Dated at Wellington, 13th July, 1903. 748

I, GERALD BARBOUR TURNER, of Lyttelton, in the Colony of New Zealand, Engineering Student, do hereby give notice that I have assumed, and intend henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to sign and use and be called and known by, the names of GERALD BARBOUR TURNER CANTON, and that at all times hereafter the said names of Gerald Barbour Turner Canton will be used and adopted by me in all transactions, documents, writings, or other proceedings, dealings, and matters.

In testimony whereof I do hereby subscribe myself by such my intended future name.

Dated at Christchurch, this 11th day of July, 1903.

G. B. T. CANTON.

Signed by the said Gerald Barbour Turner Canton, in the presence of—George T. Weston, Solicitor, Christchurch, New Zealand. 762

In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882,” and in the matter of the Lake Wakatipu Shipping Company (Limited).

I, JAMES ROLAND COLYER, Registrar of the Supreme Court at Invercargill, in the District of Otago and Southland, do hereby notify that an affidavit, a copy of which is hereunder given, by Edward Thomas Wing and Thomas Hicks, two of the board of directors of the Lake Wakatipu Shipping Company (Limited), has been lodged in the Magistrate’s Court at Queenstown, and forwarded to me, and that unless notice of objection be lodged with me within sixty days of this date I shall proceed to declare the said company to be dissolved in manner provided by “The Companies Act, 1882.”

Signed this 26th day of June, 1903.

J. R. COLYER, Registrar.

[Copy of affidavit above referred to.]

In the matter of “The Companies Act, 1882,” and in the matter of the Lake Wakatipu Shipping Company (Limited).

We, Edward Thomas Wing, of Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand, Managing Director there of the Lake Wakatipu Shipping Company (Limited), and Thomas Hicks, of the same place, Gentleman, two of the board of directors of the Lake Wakatipu Shipping Company (Limited), incorporated under “The Companies Act, 1882,” do hereby make oath and say—

1. That the nominal capital of the said company is thirty-five thousand pounds (£35,000), in thirty-five thousand (35,000) shares of one pound (£1) each, of which thirty thousand (30,000) shares were allotted to the public, and the remaining five thousand (5,000) shares were never allotted to any one.

2. That the said thirty thousand (30,000) shares have been fully paid up.

3. 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.

E. T. WING.
THOMAS HICKS.

Sworn before me, at Queenstown, in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, this 15th day of June, 1903—Fred. J. Burgess, Stipendiary Magistrate. 728

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