Sealed with the common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Napier, and signed by John Vigor Brown and James Parsons Williamson, two members of the Council of the said borough, in the presence of—

J. VIGOR BROWN,
Mayor.
JAS. P. WILLIAMSON,
Councillor.
M. MURRAY;
Town Clerk.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908, and its amendment; and in the matter of McGavin and Company (Limited).

NOTICE is hereby given that the order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand dated the eleventh day of November, 1914, confirming the reduction of the capital of the above-named company from £25,000 to £15,000, and the minute (approved by the Court) showing with respect to the capital of the company as altered the several particulars required by the above statutes, were registered by the Registrar of Companies on the twenty-fourth day of November, 1914. And further take notice that the said minute is in the words and figures following : The capital of McGavin and Company (Limited) is £15,000, divided into 15,000 shares of one pound each. At the date of the registration of this minute the sum of one pound is to be deemed to have been paid up on each of the said shares.

Dated the twenty-fourth day of November, 1914.

MONDY & STEPHENS,
Solicitors for the Company.

THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Education Board of the District of Auckland intends to take, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, for the purpose of a public school within the meaning of the Education Act, 1908, the following land, namely:—

All that piece of land containing 2 acres, more or less, being parts of Allotments 167 and 168 of the Parish of Waipa.

A plan of the said land is deposited at the post-office at Glen Massey, and is there open for inspection by all persons at all reasonable hours.

All persons affected are hereby required and called upon to set forth in writing any well-grounded objections to the erection of a public school or to the taking of such lands, and to send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Education Board of the District of Auckland, at its office Williamson's Chambers in Shortland Street in the City of Auckland.

Dated at Auckland this 26th day of November, 1914.

GEORGE J. GARLAND,
Chairman of the Education Board of the District of Auckland.

R. P. J. ROY,
Assistant Secretary to the Education Board of the District of Auckland.

Note.—This notice was first published on the 26th day of November, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between AMELIA FRANCES ROGERS, of Burwood, Widow, and WILLIAM MILLINGTON REYNOLDS, of Burwood, Clerk, carrying on business as Storekeepers at Burwood, has been dissolved as from the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

All debts due to and owing by the late Partnership will be received and paid respectively by the said AMELIA FRANCES ROGERS, who will continue to carry on the said business on her own account.

Dated at Christchurch this 20th day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

A. F. ROGERS.

Signed by the said Amelia Frances Rogers in the presence of—A. H. Anthony, Solicitor, Christchurch.

W. M. REYNOLDS.

Signed by the said William Millington Reynolds in the presence of—A. J. Allard, Clerk to Messrs. Slater and Son, Solicitors, Christchurch.

OTIRA CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY (LIMITED), IN LIQUIDATION.

A GENERAL meeting of the above-named society will be held at the office of W. J. Joyce, Solicitor, Albert Street, Greymouth, on Monday, the 21st day of December, 1914, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of laying before such meeting an account and showing the manner in which the winding-up of the society has been conducted and the assets disposed of, and offering any explanation the Liquidator may wish to give.

Dated this 30th day of November, 1914.

W. HARRIS,
Liquidator.

I, JAMES ALEXANDER PARK, Manager of the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That the liability of members is limited.
2. That the capital of the company is £106,250, divided into 25,000 shares of £4 5s.
3. That the number of shares issued is 25,000.
4. That calls to the amount of 7s. 6d. per share have been made, under which the sum of £9,375 has been received.
5. That the amount of all moneys received on account of estates under administration during the half-year ending 31st day of October, 1914, is £80,497 14s. 7d.
6. That the amount of all moneys paid on account of estates under administration during the half-year ending 31st day of October, 1914, is £74,985 13s. 1d.
7. That the amount of the balance held to the credits of estates under administration during the half-year ending 31st day of October, 1914, is £8,674 7s. 2d.
8. That the liabilities of the company on the 1st day of November last were debts owing to sundry persons by the company, viz.: On judgment, nil; on specialty, nil; on notes or bills, nil; on simple contracts, £21,534 2s. 2d.; on estimated liabilities, nil.
9. That the assets of the company on that date were: Government securities, nil; bills of exchange and promissory notes, nil; other securities, £44,133 17s. 7d.; cash at banker’s and on deposit, £3,300.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

JAS. A. PARK.

Declared by the said James Alexander Park, at Dunedin, this 28th day of November, 1914, before me—
J. S. Hislop, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Dominion of New Zealand.

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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; Alfred Winter Evans.
Where mines are 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 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: 23,353.
Amount paid up 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 forfeited shares on New Zealand Register sold, and money obtained for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders on New Zealand Register: 91.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand 561.