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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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without fee by all persons during ordinary office hours. All persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of such lands who have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of the said lands must state their objections in writing, and send the same, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the County Clerk at the Council Office above named.

Schedule.

Dated at Auckland this 21st day of July, 1914.

ALEX. BELL,
Clerk, Manukau County Council.

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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Waihi Grand Junction Gold Company (Limited).

When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: 22nd December, 1897.

Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.

Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney or Attorneys: Waihi and Auckland; William Frank Grace.

Where mine is situate: Waihi.

Nominal capital: £400,000.

Amount of capital subscribed: £385,000.

Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: £40,494 14s.

Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully-paid up shares: Nil.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares credited as 15s. paid up: £112,500.
(c.) In cash: Nil.

Number of shares into which capital is divided: 400,000.

Number of shares on New Zealand Register: 191,524.

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: 1,153.

Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 403.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: £184,888.

Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £802,637 8s. 2d.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £123,574 15s. 6d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £963,895 0s. 5d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £27,772 3s.

Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £103 5s. 7d.

Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £25 3s. 7d.

Amount of debts directly due to company in New Zealand: 16s. 6d.

Amount of such debts considered good: 16s. 6d.

Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £3,421 1s. 7d.

I, William Frank Grace, the Attorney of the Waihi Grand Junction Gold 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.

WM. FRANK GRACE,
Attorney.

Declared at Waihi this 21st day of July, 1914, before me—Robert H. Holmes, J.P.

676

THE PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE-MARKS ACT, 1911.

In the matter of Letters Patent No. 13318, granted to JOHN NEWSOME CLAPHAM, of Palmerston North, in the Dominion of New Zealand, Hairdresser, for an invention of “Improved rein-holder and wheel stop or chain for holding horses.”

NOTICE is hereby given that a petition has been presented to the Supreme Court at Wellington, praying that the above letters patent be extended for a further term; and His Honour Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, has appointed Monday, 17th day of August, 1914, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, as the date and hour at which the date for the hearing of such petition will be settled.

Dated this 20th day of July, 1914.

FINDLAY, DALZIELL, & SIM,
197 Lambton Quay, Wellington,
Solicitors for Petitioners.

677

NGATARAWA WATER-RACE.

APPOINTMENT OF MANAGING RATEPAYERS.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following persons have been duly appointed Managers of the said water-race on behalf of this Council, in accordance with section 5 of the Water-supply Amendment Act, 1913. The said Managers to have and exercise in respect of the said water-race all or any powers of management and control thereof as are now vested in or possessed by the Hawke’s Bay County Council:—

THOMAS TALBOT.
ARCHIBALD McLEAN.
HENRY JAMES HOWARD GLAZEBROOK.
SWEEN MCPHEE.
GEORGE ATTWOOD.
ANTONIO MARK GEORGETTI.
HUGH CAMPEBELL.

Dated this 17th day of July, 1914.

FRANK L. GORDON,
Chairman, Hawke’s Bay County Council.

678

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned ROGER GARTH and ARNOLD WALMSLEY SELLERS, carrying on business as Cabinetmakers at Christchurch, under the style or firm of “Garth and Sellers,” has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

Dated the twenty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

A. W. SELLERS.
R. GARTH.

Witness to both signatures—E. A. De Thier.
Smithson and Mosley, Solicitors, Christchurch.

679

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between GEORGE EDWARD HUMPHRIES and LEONARD SYDNEY HUMPHRIES, carrying on business as Contractors at Wellington, New Zealand, under the style of “Humphries Brothers,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent by the said George Edward Humphries assigning his share therein to the said Leonard Sydney Humphries. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said Leonard Sydney Humphries, who will continue to carry on the said business, the said George Edward Humphries retaining the right to carry on business in his name.

Dated at Wellington aforesaid this 18th day of July, 1914.

G. E. HUMPHRIES.
L. S. HUMPHRIES.

Witness to both signatures—Henry Hall, Solicitor, Wellington.

680

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

FENDALL AND CO., DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND.

NOTICE is hereby given that the share of the undersigned in the Partnership (business of Fendall and Co. has been acquired by Mr. Henry Thomas Fendall and John Walpole Fendall, both of Devonport, who will pay all moneys owing by and receive all moneys payable to the firm.

Dated at Auckland this twentieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. T. F. WALKER.

Witness to the signature of William Thomas Fenton Walker—John Alexander, Solicitor, Auckland.

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