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KAIRANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

LONGBURN SPECIAL £1,500 LOAN, 1913.

RESOLUTION.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of the Council held on the 8th July, 1913, the following resolution was duly passed:

That, for the purpose of providing for the repayment of the "Longburn Special £1,500 Loan, 1913," and interest thereon, the Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one halfpenny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property in the Longburn Special-rating District; and that such special rate shall be a recurring rate during the currency of the said special loan, and shall be payable half-yearly on the lst days of February and August in each and every year during the currency of the said special loan, or until the said special loan is paid off.

That, for the purpose of securing repayment of the “Longburn Special £1,500 Loan, 1913,” and interest, the Council hereby appropriates and pledges as such security the said special rate.

L. R. BRYANT,
Chairman.

EGMONT COUNTY COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the rate-payers of the County of Egmont taken on the 29th day of July, 1913, on the proposal of the Council of the County of Egmont to borrow the sum of £1,000 for the purpose of purchasing road machinery, the number of votes recorded was as follows:

For the proposal, 303 ; against the proposal, 139 ; informal, 6.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Opunake this lst day of August, 1913.

W. C. DUDLEY,
County Chairman.

EGMONT COUNTY COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the rate-payers of the County of Egmont taken on the 29th day of July, 1913, on the proposal of the Council of the County of Egmont to borrow the sum of £6,000 for the purpose of erecting various bridges and culverts throughout the county, the number of votes recorded was as follows:

For the proposal, 287 ; against the proposal, 148 ; informal, 11.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Opunake this lst day of August, 1913.

W. C. DUDLEY,
County Chairman.

EGMONT COUNTY COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the rate-payers in a special-rating area of the County of Egmont, known as the Rahotu Riding (Northern Subdivision), taken on the 29th day of July, 1913, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £9,405 for the purpose of widening and metalling that portion of the main South Road within the above-mentioned special-rating area, the number of votes recorded was as follows: For the proposal, 65 ; against the proposal, 172 ; informal, 7.

I therefore declare that the proposal was lost.

Dated at Opunake this lst day of August, 1913.

W. C. DUDLEY,
County Chairman.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and in the matter of Chipman (Australasia), (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to the above Act, that the offices of Chipman (Australasia), (Limited) where legal process of any kind may be served upon it, and notices of any kind may be addressed or delivered, is situate at number 11 The King’s Chambers, Willis Street, in the City of Wellington.

Dated this 19th day of August, 1913.

HENRY BLACKMAN,
Attorney for the said Company.

Ernest C. Levvey,
Solicitor for the said Company, Wellington.

[No. 64

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Waihi Grand Junction Gold Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 22nd December, 1897.

Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.

Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Waihi and Auckland; William Frank Grace.

Where mine is situate: Waihi.

Nominal capital: £400,000.

Amount of capital subscribed: £385,000.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: £178,997.

Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: Nil.
(b.) In partly paid - up shares, credited as 15s. paid up: £112,500.
(c.) In cash: Nil.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 400,000.

Number of shares on the Colonial Register: 178,997.

Amount paid per share (Colonial Register): £1.

Amount called up per share (Colonial Register): £1.

Number and amount of calls in arrear (Colonial Register): Nil.

Number of forfeited shares on Colonial Register sold and money received for same: Nil.

Number of shareholders on Colonial Register: 1,161.

Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 250.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced during the period since last statement: £77,582 9s. 8d.

Total quantity and value of gold or silver produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £617,749 8s. 2d.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £84,857 2s. 2d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand to: £870,203 16s. 11d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £18,306 19s.

Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £236 18s. 1d.

Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £21 7s.

Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £26 5s.

Amount of such debts considered good: £26.

Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £2,512 16s. 4d.

I, William Frank Grace, the Attorney of the Waihi Grand Junction Gold 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 day of December, 1912, 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.

WM. FRANK GRACE,
Attorney.

Declared at Waihi this 18th day of August, 1913, before me—W. H. Toy, J.P.

UPPER HUTT TOWN BOARD.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its amendments, and all other Acts in that behalf enabling it, the Upper Hutt Town Board hereby resolves as follows:

That, for the purpose of providing for the payment of interest and sinking fund and other charges on the loan of eleven thousand pounds (£11,000), authorized to be raised by the said Board under the above-mentioned Act for the purpose of the installation of a water-supply system for the Town District of Upper Hutt, the said Upper Hutt Town Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny and eleven forty-eighths of a penny (1 11/48d.) in the pound on the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Upper Hutt Town District; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the first days of May and November during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty (40) years or until such loan is fully paid off.

We hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed at a properly constituted meeting of the Upper Hutt Town Board held on the 4th day of August, 1913.

R. HERBERT WEBB,
Chairman.

ANGUS JNO. McCURDY,
Town Clerk.