July 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2603

Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: £53,333.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as £1 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: 186,530.
Amount paid up per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): £1.
Number and amount of calls in arrears (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: 2,357.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 687.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: 498,728 oz. bullion; £332,165.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: 14,487,680 oz. bullion; £10,787,038.
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £219,866 9s. 9d.
Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £5,811,105 2s. 4d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £734,289 4s. 6d.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £2,701 13s. 9d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £244 15s. 6d.
Amount of debts directly due to the company in New Zealand: £503 12s. 3d.
Amount of such debts considered good: £503 12s. 3d.
Amount of liabilities of company in New Zealand: £8,488 18s. 6d.

I, Thomas Frederick Wallace, of Auckland, 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 December, 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.

T. F. WALLACE,
Attorney.

Declared at Auckland this 14th day of July, 1915, before me—T. D. Ball, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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KAIAPoi CO-OP. STORES (LIMITED).
IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of shareholders of the above company held at the company’s office, High Street, Kaiapoi, on Thursday, July 8th, 1915, the following resolution was passed:—
“ That the resignation of Mr. Arthur Landsel Gray as one of the Liquidators of the above company be accepted, and that Mr. William Ernest Best, Public Accountant, Christchurch, be appointed one of the Liquidators of the above company in his place.”

Dated this 8th day of July, 1915.

W. DOUBLEDAY,
Chairman.

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IN LIQUIDATION.

In the matter of the Companies Act, 1908; and in the matter of the New Zealand Marble and Cement Company (Limited), in Liquidation.

PLEASE take notice that by resolution of the above company passed on the fourth day of June, 1915, and confirmed on the twenty-second day of June, 1915, it was decided as follows:—
That the company do go into voluntary liquidation. That Mr. R. Davis be appointed to act as Liquidator.

G. F. D. WATSON,
Secretary.

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CANTERBURY COLLEGE AND CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ACT, 1896,
AND
CANTERBURY COLLEGE AND CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AMENDMENT ACT, 1910.

ELECTION OF MEMBER TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

EXTRAORDINARY Vacancy: Parliamentary Roll. Mr. A. L. Joseph, of Upper Riccarton, being the only candidate nominated, has been duly elected.

R. E. ALEXANDER,
Returning Officer.

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HAWERA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

COPY OF RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE PASSED ON THE 16TH OF JULY, 1915.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Hawera Borough Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,552, authorized to be raised by the Hawera Borough Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of paying off a loan of £1,552 borrowed for street-improvement purposes, and which falls due on the 20th day of July, 1915, the said Hawera Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one-fourteenth of a penny in the pound upon the unimproved value of all rateable property of the Borough of Hawera, comprising the whole of the Borough of Hawera; 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 April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

H. S. ELLIOTT,
Town Clerk.

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ELTHAM 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 Eltham County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £500, authorized to be raised by the Eltham County Council, under Part III of the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of providing one equal half-share of the cost of and erecting a ferro-concrete bridge exceeding 30 feet in span across the Patea River, on Rawhitiroa Road between the Eltham and Omona Ridings of the County of Eltham, the said Eltham County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one forty-eighth of one penny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of capital value) of all rateable property in the Eltham Riding of the County of Eltham; 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 October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

Certificate.

The foregoing resolution was duly passed at a properly convened ordinary meeting of the Eltham County Council held at Eltham on Saturday, the 10th day of July, 1915.

W. J. TRISTRAM,
County Clerk.

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ELTHAM 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 Eltham County Council hereby resolves as follows:—
That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £500, authorized to be raised by the Eltham County Council, under Part III of the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of providing one equal half-share of the cost of and erecting a ferro-concrete bridge exceeding 30 feet in span across the Patea River, on Rawhitiroa Road between the Eltham and Omona Ridings of the County of Eltham, the said Eltham County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one twenty-second of a penny in the pound upon the rateable value (on the basis of capital value) of all rateable property in the Omona Riding of the County of Eltham; 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 October in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six and one-half years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

Certificate.

The foregoing resolution was duly passed at a properly convened ordinary meeting of the Eltham County Council held at Eltham on Saturday, the 10th day of July, 1915.

W. J. TRISTRAM,
County Clerk.

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