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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 57

Nominal capital: £6,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £6,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £600.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): Nil.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 24,000.
Number of shares allotted: 24,000.
Amount paid per share: 6d.
Amount called up per share: 6d.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: Nil.
Number of shares forfeited: Nil.
Number of forfeited shares sold, and money received for same: Nil.
Number of shareholders at time of registration of company: 7.
Present number of shareholders: 69.
Number of men employed by company: 71.
Quantity and value of gold produced since last statement: Battery, 4,975 tons quartz crushed for 5,799 oz. 4 dwt., valued at £23,386 1s. 11d.; cyanide, 5,150 tons sands treated for 1,195 oz. 11 dwt., valued at £3,396 8s. 10d.; concentrates, 59 tons 9 cwt. 2 qr. 9 lb. treated for £1,316 8s. 2d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: Battery, 33,584 tons quartz crushed for 38,168 oz. 9 dwt., valued at £154,377 8s. 2d.; cyanide, 24,050 tons sands treated for 5,267 oz. 1 dwt., valued at £14,538 6s. 4d.; concentrates, 347 tons 10 cwt. 1 qr. 9 lb. treated for a gross return of £5,384 2s. 5d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since the last statement: £22,386 18s. 3d.
Total expenditure since registration: £97,955 14s. 1d.
Total amount of dividends declared: £80,400.
Total amount of dividends paid: £80,400.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: £1,569 16s. 11d.
Amount of cash on deposit: £1,015.
Amount of cash in hand (Wages Imprest Account): £50.
Amount of debts directly due to company: Nil.
Amount of debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of debts owing by company: £1,452 1s. 4d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): £792 4s. 5d.

I, Thomas Hubert Lee, of Reefton, the Secretary of the New Big River Gold-mining Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete 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, 1908.

T. HUBERT LEE,
Secretary.

Declared at Reefton this 2nd day of June, 1914, before me—E. J. Scantlebury, J.P.

558

WAIKATO RIVER BOARD.

I HEREBY declare that the poll taken on 23rd May, 1914, for the loan proposal by the Waikato River Board resulted as follows: For the proposal, 126; against the proposal, 28.
And I hereby declare the proposal to borrow carried.

ARTHUR J. C. GLASS,
Chairman.

559

HUNTLY ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE OF RESULT OF POLL.

NOTICE is hereby given that the voting at the poll taken on the question of raising a loan of £1,500 for metalling the Huntly-Rangiriri portion of the Great South Road resulted as follows: For the proposal, 7; against the proposal, 16; informal, 1.
I therefore declare that the proposal is rejected.

F. HARRIS,
Returning Officer.

1st June, 1914.

J. P. BAILEY,
Chairman, Huntly Road Board.

560

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME, AND OF INTENTION TO CARRY ON BUSINESS.

NOTICE is hereby given that the name of the MIDLAND AND TEXTILE INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED) has been changed to the LONDON AND MIDLAND INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED), and that in future the business of the Company will be carried on under the name of the LONDON AND MIDLAND INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED); and that legal proceedings of any kind may be served upon it and notices of any kind may be served or delivered at the office of the company situate at No. 115 Lower Rattray Street, Dunedin.

H. DE C. McARTHUR,
Attorney in New Zealand for the London and Midland Insurance Company (Limited).

561

In the matter of the Guardian, Trust, and Executors Company of New Zealand (Limited).

I, ERNEST GERARD, the Managing Director of the Guardian, Trust, and Executors Company of New Zealand (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That the liability of the members is limited.
2. That the capital of the company is £100,000, divided into 20,000 shares of £5 each.
3. That the number of shares issued is 2,390.
4. That calls to the amount of two pounds eleven shillings and sixpence per share have been made, under which the sum of £6,154 5s. has been received.
5. That the amount of all moneys received on account of estates on the 1st day of January last is £42,188 3s. 10d.
6. That the amount of all moneys paid on account of estates on that day is £40,622 7s. 2d.
7. That the amount of the balance held to the credit of estates under administration on that day is £1,565 16s. 8d.
8. That the liabilities of the company as on the 1st day of January last were nil.
9. That the contingent liabilities of the company on deposits on the 1st day of January last were £2,550.
10. That the assets of the company on that day were £2,110 6s. 2d.
11. That the first annual license was issued on the 10th day of March, 1911.
    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.

E. GERARD.

Declared at Auckland this 6th day of April, 1914, before—C. J. Sturge, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Dominion of New Zealand.

In accordance with the provisions of the Guardian, Trust, and Executors Company Amendment Act of 1911, No. 17, I have examined this statement with the books of the company, and I hereby certify it to be correct.

ALEXR. GRIERSON,
A.C.A. Eng. & Wales, F.P.A. (N.Z.),
Auditor appointed by the Auditor-General.

Auckland, 2nd June, 1914.

562

BOROUGH OF PORT CHALMERS.

NOTICE OF RESULT OF POLL ON PROPOSAL TO RAISE A LOAN OF £1,200.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give public notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Port Chalmers taken on Wednesday, the 27th day of May, 1914, on the proposal to raise a special loan of £1,200, under the said Act, for the repaying to the District Fund of the said borough the sum of £550 taken therefrom on the 1st day of November, 1911, for the extension and improvement of the borough waterworks, and £650 for further extending and improving the same, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 282; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 73; informal, 29.
I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.
Dated at Port Chalmers this 2nd day of June, 1914.

THOS. SCOLLAY,
Mayor.

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