JULY 18. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2273

PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of subsection (4) of section 266 of the above Act, that the companies enumerated in the Schedule hereunder have been struck off the Register for the District of Otago.

Schedule.

88/11. The Otago Drug Store and Dispensing Company (Limited).
88/16. The North-east Valley Public Hall Company (Limited).
88/19. The Molyneux Hydraulic Dredging Company (Limited).
89/42. The Waverley Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
89/43. The Rob Roy Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
90/33. Waipapa Dredging Company (Limited).
91/16. The Journal Company (Limited).
92/5. R. T. Booth and Co. (Limited).
93/5. The Leviathan Railway Terminus Hotel Company (Limited).
94/2. The Gazette Company (Limited).
94/4. The Defiance Churn and Condensed Milk Company (Limited).
94/8. The Teviot and Alexandra Fruitgrowers’ Company (Limited).
95/8. The Waitati Dairy Factory Company (Limited).
95/13. The McKenzie’s Beach Dredging Company (Limited).
95/14. The North Otago Dairy Company (Limited).
95/18. The Barewood Quartz-mining Company (Limited).
02/32. The Mercantile Finance Company (Limited).

Dated at the office of the Assistant Registrar of Companies, at Dunedin, this 11th day of July, 1912.

J. MURRAY,
Assistant Registrar of Companies.

GRIFITHS, FRASER, AND CO. (LIMITED), (IN LIQUIDATION).

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of the above company will be held at the office of Mr. Thomas Cotter, Solicitor, Fort Street, Auckland, on Thursday, the 25th day of July, 1912, at 9.30 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the report and account of the Liquidator as to the winding-up.

Dated this 9th day of July, 1912.

D. C. FRASER,
Liquidator.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIR OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Waihi Gold-mining Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 7th December, 1887.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Auckland; Charles Rhodes.
Where the mine is situated: Waihi.
Nominal capital: £500,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £495,907.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: £19,212.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £53,338.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares: Nil.
(c.) In cash: £48,637.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 500,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 146,991.
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: 2,210.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 1,140.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 1,084,129·77 oz.; £679,116 11s. 3d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 12,970,230 oz.; £9,755,434.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £364,811 13s. 10d. (including Horahora, £35,349 18s. 3d.).
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £5,071,741 16s. (including Horahora, £76,128 15s. 9d.).
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £617,590 14s. 6d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £10,096 14s. 5d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £446 15s. 6d.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £821 16s.
Amount of such debts considered good: £821 16s.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £29,398 12s. 1d.

I, Charles Rhodes, of Auckland, the Attorney of the Waihi Gold-mining Company (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, 1911, 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.

CHARLES RHODES,
Attorney.

Declared at Auckland, this 12th day of July, 1912, before me—Thornton Jackson, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership subsisting between the undersigned, THOMAS VICTOR LORD and HENRY WILLIAM LEWIS, as Builders and Contractors, at Hawera, has been dissolved as from to-day’s date.

The said HENRY WILLIAM LEWIS will receive all accounts due to and discharge all liabilities of the late firm.

Dated at Hawera, this twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

H. W. LEWIS.
T. V. LORD.

Witness to signatures—James Foy, Solicitor, Hawera.

513

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership which has for some time past been carried on by WILLIAM BAYLEY BRAY and ARTHUR MOXAM BRAY, under the firm of “Bray Brothers,” in the trade or business of Apiarists, at Duvauchelles, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business will be carried on by the said WILLIAM BAYLEY BRAY, who will receive all moneys owing to and will discharge all liabilities of the late Partnership.

Dated this 5th day of October, 1911.

W. B. BRAY.
A. M. BRAY.

Witness to both signatures—James H. Williams, Solicitor, Christchurch.

514

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto existing between WILLIAM BIRD and ALEXANDER MURRAY SWHAN, as Sawmillers, at Otatau, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

A. M. SWHAN.
WM. BIRD.

Signed at Otatau, this twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, in the presence of—John Fisher, Accountant, Otatau.

Having purchased the interest of A. M. Swhan, we will carry on the business as hitherto in the name of Bird and Swhan, under the management of WILLIAM BIRD, and will receive and discharge all accounts owing to or by the late firm.

WILLIAM BIRD.
JOHN BIRD.
THOMAS BIRD.

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