May 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1861

Schedule.

THE several parcels of land required to be taken:—
Approximate area of each of the parcels of land required to be taken,—
3 roods 37·4 perches, being portion of Puketutu.
21·6 perches, being portion of Patukahu.
2 roods 9·8 perches, being portion of Te Tarata.

All situated in Block IV, Whitianga Survey District.
All in the Land District of Auckland; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked 16836, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, Wellington, Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured burnt sienna.

Dated at Coromandel this 12th day of May, 1915.
For the Coromandel County Council.

C. H. BENNETT,
Chairman.

RICH'D. SIMMONDS,
Clerk.

443

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A COMPANY.

Name of company: United M. and E. Water-race Company (Registered).
When formed, and date of registration: 8th April, 1872; 23rd April, 1872.
Whether in active operation or not: In active operation.
Where business is conducted, and name of Legal Manager: St. Bathams; William Pyle.
Nominal capital: £7,600.
Amount of capital subscribed: £7,600.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash: £7,600.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders, and amount of cash received for same (if any): £7,600.
Paid-up value of scrip given to shareholders on which no cash has been paid: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 152.
Number of shares allotted: 152.
Amount paid per share: £50.
Amount called up per share: £50.
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: 13.
Present number of shareholders: 8.
Number of men employed by company: 2.
Quantity and value of gold produced during preceding year: 68 oz. 7 dwt. 18 gr.; £263 5s. 9d.
Total quantity and value produced since registration: 16,063 oz. 5 dwt. 12 gr.; £61,907 5s. 8d.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on operations since last statement: £571 10s. 5d.
Total expenditure since registration: £69,112 12s. 6d.
Total amount of dividends declared: £3,078.
Total amount of dividends paid: £3,078.
Total amount of unclaimed dividends: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank: Nil.
Amount of cash in hand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to company: £12 19s. 2d.
Amount of debts considered good: £12 19s. 2d.
Amount of debts owing by company: £934 16s. 4d.
Amount of contingent liabilities of company (if any): Nil.

I, William Pyle, the Legal Manager of the United M. and E. Water-race Company (Registered), do solemnly and sincerely declare that this is a true and complete statement of the affairs of the said company on the 31st December, 1914; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.

WILLIAM PYLE,
Legal Manager.

Declared at St. Bathams this 14th day of May, 1915, before me—W. McConnochie, J.P.

444

WAITOMO COUNTY COUNCIL.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE LAND.

In the matter of the Counties Act, 1908; and in the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Waitomo County Council proposes, under the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, to execute certain public works—namely, the metalling of the Mangaotaki and Mairoa Roads; and for the purpose of such public works the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that a plan of the lands so required to be taken is deposited in the public office of the Clerk to the said Council situate in Taupiri Street, Te Kuiti, and is open to inspection (without fee) by all persons during ordinary office hours.

All persons affected by the execution of the said public works or by the taking of the said lands must state their objections in writing, and send the same, within forty days from the date of the first publication of this notice, to the said County Clerk at the Council Chambers aforesaid.

Schedule.

APPROXIMATE area of parcel of land required to be taken, and purpose for which required:—
(a.) 1 acre 0 roods 9·8 perches, as and for a quarry reserve, being portion of Kinohaku East 5E Section 2B.
(b.) 1 rood 18·1 perches, and for a quarry reserve, being portion of Kinohaku East 4B No. 3.

Coloured in outline on plan: Red.
Situate in the Otanake Survey District.

Dated this 15th day of May, 1915.

P. MORA,
County Clerk.

445

RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL.

RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE.—LOAN OF £750.—RUATANGATA ROAD.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Rangitikei County Council hereby resolves as follows:—

“That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £750, authorized to be raised by the Rangitikei County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of forming the Ruatangata Road along the valley of the Wangaehu River from a point near the west boundary of Ruatangata 1B 4C 2 to the south-west boundary of the Whakaware Block, metalling a portion of such road, and the cost of raising the loan to be paid out of the loan, the said Rangitikei County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of two-sevenths of a penny (2/7ths) in the pound sterling upon the rateable valuation (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable property of the Ruatangata Road Special-rating District, comprising Whakaware Block No. 1 (102 acres) and part No. 2C (98 acres); and Ruatangata Block 1B No. 2 (129 acres), 1B 4A (128 acres), 1B 4B (128 acres), part 1B 4C 1 (100 acres), part 1B 4C 2 (200 acres), 2A (161 a. 3 r. 12 p.), 2C (48 a. 2 r. 29 p.), part 2D (114 acres), part 2G 1A 1 (53 acres), part 2G 1B (128 acres), part 2G No. 2 (50 acres), 2G 3A (120 a. 1 r. 31 p.), 2G 3B (34 a. 3 r. 20 p.), 2G 3C (226 a. 1 r. 32·2 p.), 2G 3D and 2G 3E (211 a. 3 r. 36 p.), and 2G No. 6 (29 a. 3 r. 25 p.), the whole being situate in Block IX, Wangaehu Survey District, and Block XII, Ikitara Survey District, and as shown upon the plan attached to the ratepayers’ consent to such loan, and thereon bordered red. And that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of May 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.

I, Bennet Perry Lethbridge, Chairman of the Rangitikei County Council, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the Rangitikei County Council held on the 8th day of May, 1915.

In testimony whereof the common seal of the said Council has been hereunto affixed.

Dated at Marton this 8th day of May, 1915.

BEN. P. LETHBRIDGE,
Chairman.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Rangitikei was hereunto affixed in the presence of—

HAROLD H. RICHARDSON,
County Clerk.

446

WHANGAMOMONA COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 Whangamomona County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges upon a loan of four hundred pounds (£400), autho-