Mar. 11. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 873

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

THE Partnership heretofore subsisting, under the style of “Sinclair & White,” between the undersigned, carrying on business at Marton as Motor Garage Proprietors, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.
Dated this 2nd day of March, 1915.

PETER SINCLAIR.
STAFFORD HENRY WHITE.

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STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: Murray’s Freehold Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration: — March, 1914; 30th March, 1914.
Whether in active operation or not: Dredge in course of erection.
Where business is conducted, and name of Secretary: Coates Buildings, Greymouth; William Arthur Rundle.
Nominal capital: £6,500.
Amount of capital subscribed: £3,750.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £2,793 5s.
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: £2,750.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 6,500 of £1 each.
Number of shares allotted: 6,500.
Amount paid per share: 695 shares paid to 17s., 8th call; 2,875 paid to 16s., 7th call; 3,300 paid to 15s., 6th call; 3,570 paid to 14s., 5th call; 3,670 paid to 12s., 4th call; 3,695 paid to 10s., 3rd call; 3,750 paid to 8s., 2nd call
Amount called up per share: 17s.
Number and amount of calls in arrear: 3rd call, £5 10s.; 4th call, £8; 5th call, £9; 6th call, £22 10s.; 7th call, £43 15s; 8th call, £305 10s.
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: 47.
Present number of shareholders: 55.
Number of men employed by company: 8.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: Nil.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: Nil.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £2,828 8s. 3d.
Total expenditure since registration: £2,828 8s. 3d.
Total amount of dividends declared: Nil.
Total amount of dividends paid: Nil.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: Dr. balance, £35 3s. 3d.
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: £100.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Pontoons and machinery in course of erection.

I, William Arthur Rundle, the Secretary of the Murray’s Freehold Gold-dredging Company (Limited), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company at the present date; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

W. A. RUNDLE,
Secretary.

Declared at Greymouth this 11th day of February, 1915, before me—W. R. Kettle, J.P.

271

CONFIDENCE GOLD-DREDGING COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that a general meeting of the above company will be held in the offices of Messrs. Reid & Bundle, Solicitors, No. 9 Dowling St., Dunedin, on Monday, the 29th day of March, 1915, at 2.30 p.m., for the purpose of submitting the Liquidator’s account of the winding-up of the company and the disposal of the assets.
Dated this 5th day of March, 1915.

JOHN McD. STEVENSON,
Liquidator.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between THOMAS CROCKET, of Bluff, Fish Merchant, and FRANCIS BALDWIN MACDONALD, of Bluff, Fish Merchant, carrying on business as Fish Merchants, under the style or firm of “Crocket and Co.,” at Bluff and elsewhere, has been dissolved as from the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, by mutual consent, so far as concerns the said Thomas Crocket, who retires from the said firm.
All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said FRANCIS BALDWIN MACDONALD, who will continue to carry on the said business under the style or firm of Macdonald and Co.
Dated this 3rd day of March, 1915.

THOMAS CROCKET.

Witness to the signature of Thomas Crocket—F. J. Tipping, Solicitor, Invercargill.

FRANCIS BALDWIN MACDONALD.

Witness to the signature of Francis Baldwin Macdonald—F. J. Tipping, Solicitor, Invercargill.

273

WAIRARAPA SOUTH COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLVED at a meeting of the Wairarapa South County Council held at the office of the said Council at Carterton on the tenth day of December, 1914, that the resolution passed by the said Council at a special meeting held on the tenth day of November, 1914, of which the following is a copy:—

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Public Works Amendment Act, 1913, and all other powers it thereunto enabling, the Wairarapa South County Council doth hereby resolve to raise a loan of £1,969 for the purpose of constructing a bridge over the Waiohine River, with the approaches thereto, between Greytown and Carterton, as the said bridge and approaches are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. No. 34676, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works in Wellington, such sum of £1,969 being the amount necessary to enable the Wairarapa South County Council to comply with the Governor’s Warrant dated the 24th day of August, 1914, in the New Zealand Gazette for 1914, at page 3300, without taking any poll of the ratepayers thereon.

And, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the said Acts and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Wairarapa South County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest, sinking fund, and other charges on the said loan of £1,969, authorized to be raised by the said Council, under the above-mentioned Acts as aforesaid, for the purpose of the erection of the said bridge as is hereinbefore set out, the said Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/42nd of a penny in the pound sterling on the rateable value of all rateable property within the Wairarapa South County, comprising the whole of the said land within the boundaries of the said county; 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 June 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—

be and the same is hereby confirmed by way of special order.

THOS. MOORE,
GEO. STEVENS,
Councillors.

In witness whereof the common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Wairarapa South has been affixed hereto in confirmation of a special order passed on the tenth day of November, 1914, at a special meeting duly convened and held at the County Office, Carterton, this tenth day of December, 1914.

BURNEY TRAPP,
County Clerk.

274

PAHIATUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

LOAN OF £500.—WOODVILLE—AOHANGA ROAD.

Resolution making Special Rate.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Pahiatua County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of five hundred pounds, authorized to be raised by the Pahiatua County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for reforming and metalling a portion of the