Dec. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3279

MINING NOTICES.

GULCH’S HEAD SLUICING COMPANY, LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION).

NOTICE is hereby given that a Meeting of Shareholders in the above company will be held at the company’s office, Don Street, Invercargill, on Tuesday, 21st December, 1909, at 4 o’clock p.m.
Business: To receive final accounts and Liquidator’s report.
E. C. LEARY, Liquidator.
Invercargill, 6th December, 1909.
836

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 22nd January, 1896.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Head Office, London; New Zealand Office, Reefton, New Zealand; Ernest William Spencer and Smith Laughton Patrick Free.
Where mines are situate: Westland Mining District, New Zealand.
Nominal capital: £250,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £242,378.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: Nil.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £17,378.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as £1 paid up: Nil.
(c.) In cash: £43,416 13s. 4d.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 225,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 21,703.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand Register): Nil.
Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 79.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 133.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced during period since last statement: 7,636 oz. 7 dwt.; value, £30,218 6s. 6d.
Total quantity and value of gold or silver produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 93,968 oz. 6 dwt. 16 gr.; value, £386,262 11s. 7d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand during period since last statement: £44,259 6s. 11d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £618,148 17s.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £1,402 3s. 6d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £9.
Amount of such debts considered good: £9.
Amount of liabilities of company (if any) in New Zealand: £8,153 17s. 10d.

I, Smith Laughton Patrick Free, of Reefton, one of the Attorneys of the Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 31st December, 1908 (being the date of the last balance-sheet); and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.”
S. L. P. FREE,
Attorney.

Declared at Reefton, this 4th day of December, 1909, before me—H. P. Lawry, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
839

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Progress Mines of New Zealand (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 8th December, 1896.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Head Office, London; New Zealand Office, Reefton, New Zealand; Ernest William Spencer and Smith Laughton Patrick Free.
Where mine is situate: Reefton.
Nominal capital: £275,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £275,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: Nil.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £200,000.
(b.) In fully paid-up shares, credited as £1 paid up: Nil.
(c.) In cash: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 275,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 5,648.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrears (New Zealand Register): Nil.
Number of shares forfeited (New Zealand Register): Nil.
Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 23.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 300.
Total quantity and value of gold or silver produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 246,203 oz. 2 dwt. 4 gr.; £1,005,025 17s. 7d.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced during period since last statement: 15,487 oz. 2 dwt.; value, £60,985 16s. 8d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand during period since last statement: £58,493 5s. 2d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £714,196 8s. 2d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £4,336 16s. 6d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £373.
Amount of such debts considered good: £373.
Amount of liabilities of company (if any) in New Zealand: £1,710 7s. 1d.

I, Smith Laughton Patrick Free, of Reefton, one of the Attorneys of the Progress Mines of New Zealand, do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 31st December, 1908 (being the date of the last balance-sheet); and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.”
S. L. P. FREE,
Attorney.

Declared at Reefton, this 4th day of December, 1909, before me—H. P. Lawry, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
840

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Blackwater Mines (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 25th March, 1907.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Head Office, London; New Zealand Office, Reefton, New Zealand; Ernest William Spencer and Smith Laughton Patrick Free.
Where mines are situate: Westland Mining District, New Zealand.
Nominal capital: £250,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £50,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: Nil.
Price paid to vendors of mines—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £200,000.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as £1 paid up: Nil.
(c.) In cash: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 250,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 8,886.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrear (New Zealand Register): Nil.
Number of forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money received for same: Nil.