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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of October and the 1st day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed by the Avondale Road Board at a special meeting of the Board (duly called and constituted for the purpose) on the 1st day of July, 1914.

JOHN POTTER,
Chairman, Avondale Road Board.

635

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE FOR A WATER-RACE.

UNDER THE MINING ACT, 1908.

To the Warden of the Hauraki Mining District at Coromandel.

PURSUANT to the Mining Act, 1908, the undersigned, Charles Simon Glogoski, of Coromandel, Miner, hereby applies for a license for a water-race as specified in the Schedule hereto, the course whereof has been duly marked out for the purpose.

Precise time of marking out privilege applied for: 1st May, 1914, at 9 a.m.

Date and number of miner’s right: 1/5/14; No. 2033.

Address for service: Care F. P. Burgess, Solicitor, Coromandel.

Dated at Coromandel this 1st day of May, 1914.

Schedule.

Locality of the race: Whangarahi Creek, Coromandel.

Starting-point: Peg marked WGX, just below junction of Whakaroa and Maddern’s Creeks.

Terminal point: Peg marked WGX on bank of Whangarahi Creek.

Length and intended course of race: About 40 chains; S.W.

Points of intake: One.

Estimated time and cost of construction: 4 months; £500.

Mean depth and breadth: 3 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in.

Number of heads to be diverted: Eight.

Purpose for which water to be used: Hydraulic elevating.

Proposed term of license: Forty-two years.

C. S. GLOGOSKI
(By his Solicitor, F. P. Burgess), Applicant.

Precise time of filing of the foregoing application: 1st May, 1914, at 3.55 p.m.

Time and place appointed for the hearing of the application and all objections thereto: Tuesday, 28th July, 1914, at 10.30 a.m., at Warden’s Court, Coromandel.

Objections must be filed in the Registrar’s office and notified to applicant at least three days before the time so appointed.

GEORGE H. SHERWOOD,
Mining Registrar.

636

BOROUGH OF THAMES.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE FOR REPAYMENT OF A LOAN.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Thames Borough Council hereby resolves that, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,000, authorized to be raised by the said Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the following purpose—to replace in concrete the wooden bridges over the Karaka Cut at Beach Road, Queen Street, Pollen Street, and Baillie Street, also additions to the Mackay Street bridge—the said Thames Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of two-farthings in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of the annual rent value) of all rateable property of the Borough of Thames, comprising the whole of the Borough of Thames; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a half, or until the loan is fully paid off.

We hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution passed at a special and properly constituted meeting of the Thames Borough Council held on the sixth day of July, 1914.

HENRY LOWE,
Mayor.

ARTHUR CHAPMAN,
Town Clerk.

637

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Waihi Gold-mining Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 7th December, 1887.

Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.

Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Shortland Street, Auckland; Herbert Wm. Hopkins and Thos. Frederick Wallace.

Where mine is situate: Waihi.

Nominal capital: £500,000.

Amount of capital subscribed: £495,907.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand £19,212.

Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully-paid up shares: £53,333.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares credited as £ paid up: Nil.
(c.) In cash: £48,637.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 500,000.

Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 180,291.

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: 2,334.

Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 866.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 534,544 oz.; £390,896.

Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 13,988,952 oz.; £10,454,869.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £268,647 3s. 1d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £5,591,238 12s. 7d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £697,305 6s. 6d.

Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £6,839 11s. 5d.

Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £737 1s. 4d.

Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: £655 16s. 2d.

Amount of such debts considered good: £655 16s. 2d.

Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £13,362 5s. 1d.

I, Thomas Frederick Wallace, one of the Attorneys of the Waihi Gold-mining 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, 1913 (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.

T. F. WALLACE,
Attorney.

Declared at Auckland this 2nd day of July, 1914, before me—T. D. Ball, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

638

THE Partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, carrying on business under the style of “Hill’s Essence Proprietary,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. Charles Edgar Fearon and Leonard Roger Fearon have retired from the firm. The business will henceforth be carried on by PERCY SEYMOUR EATON and WILLIAM JAMES RENWICK HILL alone, under the same style as hitherto.

Dated 29th day of June, 1914.

P. S. EATON. C. E. FEARON.
WM. JAS. R. HILL. L. R. FEARON.

639

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