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Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Karangahake and Auckland; Harry Stansfield.
Where the mine is situate: Karangahake.
Nominal capital: £345,000.
Amount of capital subscribed: £345,000.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: Nil.
Price paid to vendors of mines-
(a.) In fully paid-up shares:
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as £1 paid-up:
(c.) In cash:
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 345,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register at 28th February, 1914: 255,557.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): Fully paid.
Amount and number 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 at 28th February, 1914: 1,275.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 320.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: Fine gold and silver, 163,506 oz. 17 dwt.; £224,297 12s. 9d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand to 28th February, 1914: 2,698,197 oz. 2 dwt.; fine gold and silver, £1,846,370 2s. 9d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £102,393 15s. 6d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand to 28th February, 1914: £959,729 9s. 7d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand to 28th February, 1914: £879,284 7s. 6d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £13,928 12s. 4d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £47 0s. 5d.
Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of such debts considered good: Nil.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: Nil.

I, Harry Stansfield, of Karangahake, in New Zealand, the Attorney of the Talisman Consolidated (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company as on the 28th day of February, 1914, 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.

H. STANSFIELD,
Attorney.

Declared at Karangahake this 16th day of July, 1914, before me—J. Kitching, J.P.
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WAIKOHU COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—RAKAUROA LOAN, £1,300.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, and the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act, 1909, and amendments thereof, the Waikohu County Council hereby resolves as follows:-

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and sinking fund on a loan of £1,300, authorized to be raised by the Waikohu County Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the purpose of widening 6½ miles of the present Rakauroa-Tahora eight-foot road to a fourteen-foot dray-road, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one and nine-sixteenths pence in the £1 upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Rakauroa Special-rating Area, comprising Section 4, Block II, Ngatapa S.D.; Section 2, Block VI, Ngatapa S.D.; half area of Section 7, Block III, Ngatapa S.D.; half area of Section 6, Block III, Ngatapa S.D.; Section 5, Block VI, Ngatapa S.D.; Section 6, Block VI, Ngatapa S.D. And that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of 36½ years (thirty-six and a half), or until the loan is fully paid off. It is proposed to pay the cost of raising the loan out of loan-moneys.

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The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Waikohu was hereto affixed in the presence of-- E. M. HUTCHINSON, Chairman.
GEO. WARREN, Clerk.
At Te Karaka this tenth day of July, 1914.

I, George Warren, County Clerk, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a resolution passed at a duly constituted meeting of the Waikohu County Council held on Friday, the 10th day of July, 1914.

GEO. WARREN,
County Clerk.

ELTHAM COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL ORDER AUTHORIZING RAISING OF LOANS.

1. IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by section 16 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and with the consent of the ratepayers of the special-rating area in the Eltham County hereinafter described, testified by a petition signed by not less than three-fourths of the rate-payers in the said special-rating area the capital values of whose properties as appearing in the valuation roll of the said county is collectively greater than the capital values of the properties of the ratepayers who did not so consent, the Eltham County Council hereby resolves by way of special order as follows:--

For the purpose of forming and metalling the Clifford Road from the Eltham Borough boundary westward for a distance of fifteen chains, more or less, and the whole length of Temp-lar Street (Chiselhurst), the Eltham County Council hereby authorizes the raising of a loan of £450 at not exceeding £5½ per cent. per annum, with the addition of a sinking fund of £1½ per cent. per annum, for a period of seven years, and declares that the cost of raising the said loan and the first year's interest on the loan shall be payable out of the moneys so raised.

Special-rating Area.

Allotments 21 to 32, both inclusive, of Sections 5, 6, and 7, Sub. 2 of Section 6, and balance of Section 5; Allotments 33 to 36, both inclusive, of Section 11; all situate in Block X, Survey District of Ngaere.

2. In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by section 16 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and with the consent of the ratepayers of the special-rating area in the Eltham County hereinafter described, testified by a petition signed by not less than three-fourths of the ratepayers in the said special-rating area the capital values of whose properties as appearing in the valuation roll of the said county is collectively greater than the capital values of the properties of the ratepayers who did not so consent, the Eltham County Council hereby resolves by way of special order as follows:--

For the purposes of erection of the Whenuakura Bridge (on bridge-site, Rawhitiroa Road, Omona Riding) and widening of the Karewa Track formation to 12 feet for a distance of one and a half miles, more or less, the Eltham County Council hereby authorizes the raising of a loan of £500 at £5 12s. 2d. per centum per annum for a period of 36½ years, and declares that the cost of rising the said loan and the first year's interest on the loan shall be payable out of the moneys so raised.

Special-rating Area.

Section 1, Block VIII, Section 4, Block VII, and Sections 9 and 10 of Block XI, Omona Survey District.

3. In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by section 24 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Eltham County Council hereby resolves by way of special order as follows:--

For the purpose of erection of a ferro-concrete bridge exceeding 30 feet in span across the Patea River, on Rawhitiroa Road, within the Eltham and Omona Ridings of the County of Eltham, the Eltham County Council hereby authorizes the raising of a loan of £1,000 at £5 12s. 2d. percentum per annum for a period of 36½ years, and declares that the cost of raising the said loan and the first year's interest on the loan shall be payable out of the moneys so raised.

The loan shall be raised on the security of a bridge rate on the following special-rating area, namely: The whole of