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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

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.
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: 27,233.
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: 107.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 100.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 6,628 oz. 3 dwt.; £29,749 19s. 2d. (includes concentrates, £2,170 9s. 5d.).
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 77,332 oz. 11 dwt.; £313,907 18s. 4d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £31,086 11s. 5d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £234,425 9s. 6d.
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: £930 8s. 6d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £330 8s. 6d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £1,582 13s. 10d.

I, Alfred Winter Evans, of Reefton, Attorney 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, 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.

A. WINTER EVANS,
Attorney.

Declared at Reefton this 31st day of October, 1913, before me—H. P. Lawry, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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EPSOM ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE OF RESULT OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO RAISE A LOAN.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Epsom Road District in the County of Eden taken on the 30th day of October, 1913, on the proposal of the Epsom Road Board to borrow the sum of £55,000 for drainage-works, the following votes were recorded: For the proposal, 96; against the proposal, 57.

As the number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal exceeds three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I declare the said proposal carried.

Dated this 31st day of October, 1913.

W. READ BLOOMFIELD,
Chairman of the Epsom Road Board.

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BOROUGH OF MATAURA.

RESOLUTION BY MATAURA BOROUGH COUNCIL, DATED 28TH OCTOBER, 1913, MAKING A SPECIAL RATE IN CONNECTION WITH MATAURA BRIDGE LOAN OF £700, 1913.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its amendments, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and its amendments, and in particular by section 15 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and by section 119 of the Public Works Act, 1908, and by virtue of a Warrant dated the seventh day of October, 1913, issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor under the provisions of the said section 119 of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power (if any) it thereunto enabling, the Mataura Borough Council 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 seven hundred pounds (£700), authorized to be raised by the said Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the following purpose—to reconstruct the bridge over the Waikana Stream in Kana Street, Mataura, together with the approaches thereto, and protection-works damaged by the flood of 29th March, 1913—the said Mataura Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-sixth of a penny in the pound on the unimproved value of all rateable property in the Borough of Mataura, payable yearly on the first day of July in each year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and a half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Mataura Borough Council was hereunto affixed at the office of and pursuant to a resolution of the Mataura Borough Council in the presence of—

JOHN LOWDEN,
Mayor.

J. F. MENZIES,
Town Clerk.

We hereby certify that the above is a true copy of and a correct extract from the minutes of proceedings of the Mataura Borough Council at the meeting above mentioned.

JOHN LOWDEN,
Mayor.

J. F. MENZIES,
Town Clerk.

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HILLSIDE DRAINAGE 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, the Hillside Drainage Board hereby resolves as follows:—

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of five thousand pounds (£5,000) to be raised for the purpose of constructing, deepening, and widening various drains in the Hillside Drainage District, authorized to be raised by a poll of ratepayers of the said Board taken on the 26th day of September, 1913, the said Hillside Drainage Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one penny in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property in the Hillside Drainage District; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate, and be payable half-yearly on the first days of December and June in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly made and passed at a properly constituted meeting of the Hillside Drainage Board held on Saturday, 4th October, 1913.

T. B. INSOLL,
Clerk.

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THE ROGER CONNELL AUTOMATIC TYRE INFLATER COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of shareholders will be held at the office of the company, 146 Hereford Street, Christchurch, on Tuesday, the 11th day of November, 1913, at 10 a.m., for the purpose of receiving and adopting the Liquidator’s report and accounts.

H. W. CANDY,
R. F. SIMES,
} Liquidators.

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