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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME.

I, WILLIAM CAMPBELL, of Christchurch, in the Provincial District of Canterbury and Dominion of New Zealand, Clerk, hereby give public notice that on the nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished, and abandoned the use of my rightful names of DAVID BELL, and assumed and adopted and determined thenceforth on all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the names of WILLIAM CAMPBELL instead of the said names of DAVID BELL. And I give further notice that by a deed-poll dated the nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Supreme Court of New Zealand, I formally and absolutely renounced the said names of DAVID BELL, and declared that I had assumed and adopted and intended thenceforth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the names of WILLIAM CAMPBELL instead of DAVID BELL, and so as to be at all times thereafter called, known, and described by the names of WILLIAM CAMPBELL exclusively.

Dated at Christchurch, this 19th day of July, 1912.

WILLIAM CAMPBELL.

Witness — Douglas H. Pullar, District Valuer, Christchurch.

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BOROUGH OF OPOTIKI.

AT a poll taken under the provisions of the Rating Act, 1908, at Opotiki on the 3rd day of August, 1912, on a proposal that thenceforth the system of rating property on the basis of the unimproved value thereof be adopted in the Borough of Opotiki, the number of votes recorded for and against the proposal was as follows :—

For the proposal … … … … 62
Against the proposal … … … 37

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

Dated this 5th day of August, 1912.

HENRY E. ELLIOTT,
Mayor of the Borough of Opotiki.

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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, N.Z.; A. Winter Evans and Henry Samuel Castle.
Where mines are situate: Reefton.
Nominal capital: £275,000.
Amount of capital subscribed:
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: 275,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 16,299.
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: 54.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 320.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 11,124 oz. 17 dwt.; £48,014 6s. 6d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 390,244 oz. 18 dwt. 2 gr.; £1,178,494 14s.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £73,867 19s. 7d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £925,126 1s. 10d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £5,335 14s. 9d.
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: £258 0s. 8d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £258 0s. 8d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £1,375 6s. 1d.

I, Henry Samuel Castle, of Reefton, one of the Attorneys of the Progress Mines 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 day of 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.

HENRY S. CASTLE,
Attorney.

Declared at Reefton, this 7th day of August, 1912, before me—H. P. Lawry, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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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, N.Z.; Alfred Winter Evans and Henry Samuel Castle.
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: 18,903.
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: 77.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 281.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 23,556 oz. 17 dwt.; £93,059 8s. 3d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 70,704 oz. 8 dwt.; £284,157 14s. 2d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £65,950 2s. 11d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £203,338 18s. 1d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £4,948 4s.
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: £428 4s. 11d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £428 4s. 11d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £2,739 13s. 7d.

I, Henry Samuel Castle, of Reefton, one of the Attorneys of the Blackwater Mines (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 day of 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.

HENRY S. CASTLE,
Attorney.

Declared at Reefton, this 7th day of August, 1912, before me—H. P. Lawry, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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