Amount of expenditure since last statement : £834 2s. 2d.
Total expenditure since registration : £12,285 2s. 7d.
Total amount of dividends declared : £1,050.
Total amount of dividends paid : £1,050.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends : Nil.
Amount of cash in bank : Nil.
Amount of cash in hand : Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company : Nil.
Amount of debts considered good : Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company : £112 4s.
Amount of contingent liabilities : Nil.

I, Edward Morgan, of St. Bathan's, the Manager of the
Vinegar Hill Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Limited), do
solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and com-
plete statement of the affairs of the said company on the
31st December, 1913; and I make this solemn declaration
conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue
of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.
EDWARD MORGAN,
Legal Manager.
Declared at St. Bathan's this 24th day of March, 1914,
before me—W. McConnochie, J.P.
353

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership between
the undersigned, CARL HAROLD SCHWARTZ, HENRY
WYATT, and ALBERT EDWARD WILSON, in the trade or busi-
ness of Printers, at Christchurch, New Zealand, under the
firm of “Dale, Schwartz, and Wyatt,” was dissolved on the
twenty-eighth day of February, 1914; and in future the
business will be carried on at 93 Worcester Street, in the
City of Christchurch, by the said HENRY WYATT and ALBERT
EDWARD WILSON, under the firm of “Wyatt and Wilson,”
on their joint account, who will pay and receive all debts
owing from and to the said partnership in the regular course
of trade.
Witness our hands this 28th day of February, 1914.
C. H. SCHWARTZ. H. WYATT. A. E. WILSON.
A. J. Allard, Clerk to Messrs. Slater and Son, Solicitors,
Christchurch.
354

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
Mr R. P. B. FITZHERBERT having decided to commence
practice in Auckland, notice is hereby given that the
Partnership heretofore carried on by Messrs. PATRICK BUCK-
LEY FITZHERBERT and EARNEST WILLIAMS McCARTER, under
the style of “Fitzherbert and McCarter,” Barristers and Solici-
tors, Dannevirke, has been dissolved by mutual consent as
from the 18th day of March, 1914.
Mr. FITZHERBERT has disposed of his interest in the late
firm (save as undermentioned) to Mr. E. W. McCARTER, who
has taken into partnership Mr. P. W. DORRINGTON, Solicitor.
All accounts due to or owing by the late partnership will
be received at the office of the new firm.
Mr. FITZHERBERT will remain in Dannevirke to complete
all work which he had in hand at date of dissolution, and
undertakes all responsibility in connection therewith.
In future the business will be carried on at the old firm’s
offices, Ward Street, Dannevirke, under the style of “Fitz-
herbert, McCarter, and Dorrington.”
P. B. FITZHERBERT.
E. W. McCARTER.
25th March, 1914.
355

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
Notice is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto
existing between us, as Land Agents, under the style
or firm of “Delamore and Walters,” and carried on at No. 10
Mutual Life Buildings, Queen Street, has this day been dis-
solved by mutual consent.
The business will in future be carried on by Mr. J. WALTERS
at the same address, under the name of “J. Walters.”
Dated this 25th day of March, 1914.
A. J. DELAMORE.
Witness to the signature of Arthur John Delamore—Arch.
Peak, Solicitor, Auckland.
J. WALTERS.
Witness to the signature of Joseph Walters—R. P. Towle,
Solicitor, Auckland.
356

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership existing
on the 27th February, 1914, between JAMES DUN-
STER, of Auckland, and THOMAS DUNSTER and WYTHBOURNE
WYNNE FAULDER, of Otamakitai, carrying on business as
Farmers, was dissolved on that date.
Dated this 25th day of March, 1914.
W. W. FAULDER.
Witness—Alan S. C. Brown, Solicitor, Auckland.
357

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto
existing between PERCY KIRKBY and JESSE PHILLIPS,
carrying on business at No. 332 Queen Street, Auckland,
under the style of “Percy Kirkby and Co.," has been dis-
solved as from the 24th day of March, 1914.
The said PERCY KIRKBY has from that date no authority
to incur any liabilities on behalf of the firm or on behalf of
the said JESSE PHILLIPS.
Dated this 22nd day of March, 1914.
JESSE PHILLIPS.
Witness to the signature of Jesse Phillips—R. P. Towle,
Solicitor, Auckland.
358

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto
subsisting between CHARLES DUNCAN and FRED LOWE,
at Napier, as Motor-garage Proprietors, under the style of
“Duncan and Lowe,” has been dissolved by mutual consent
as at the 11th day of March, 1914. The business of the
late partnership has been taken over by the said FRED LOWE,
and all debts due to the late partnership must be paid to the
said FRED LOWE, whose receipt alone will be a sufficient
discharge for the same.
All liabilities of the late partnership will be discharged by
the said FRED LOWE. The said CHARLES DUNCAN will
continue to carry on business in Napier on his own account
Dated this 23rd day of March, 1914.
CHARLES DUNCAN,
By his Solicitors, Kennedy, Lusk, and Morling.
FRED. LOWE,
359 By his Solicitors, Sainsbury, Logan, and Williams.

IT is hereby notified that I, THOMAS EDWARD SHERWOOD-
HALE, formerly THOMAS EDWARD SHERWOOD, of
Tuparoa, in the Provincial District of Auckland and Dominion
of New Zealand, but at present residing abroad, Sheep-farmer,
did by deed-poll bearing date the seventh day of February,
1914, under my hand and seal, change my name from Thomas
Edward Sherwood to Thomas Edward Sherwood-Hale; and
in future I shall be known as Thomas Edward Sherwood-Hale.
Dated this 28th day of March, 1914.
THOMAS EDWARD SHERWOOD-HALE.
360

NAPIER BOROUGH COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and
of all other powers it in anyway hereunto enabling, the Napier
Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:
That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund,
and other charges on a loan of £16,000, authorized to be
raised by the Napier Borough Council, under the above-
mentioned Act, for the following purposes, the amount appli-
cable to each purpose being set opposite the statement of
each such purpose respectively, namely—
(1.) The completion of the construction and installation of
works for electric lighting and power and electric
tramways now in progress in the Borough of Napier
or any one or more of those objects, £7,200;
(2.) The construction and installation of new works for
electric lighting and power and electric tramways
(by way of extension or addition to the last-mentioned
works, but not by way of extension of the present
tramway tracks) or any one or more of those objects,
£7,700;
(3.) The construction and equipment of public sanitary
conveniences in the Borough of Napier, £1,100:
total, £16,000.—
the said Napier Borough Council hereby makes and levies a
special rate of one penny and seven-eighths of a penny in the
pound upon the rateable value on the basis of the annual