Aug. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2973

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that, owing to Mr. Polson having volunteered for military service, the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned AUGUSTUS HENRY GILLER and ALEXANDER GUNN POLSON, carrying on business as Grain and Produce Brokers and Commission Agents at Christchurch, under the style or firm of “Giller & Polson,” has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.

All debts due to the said late firm will be received by Mr. A. H. GILLER, who will continue business upon his own account.

Dated this 2nd day of August, 1915.

A. H. GILLER.
A. G. POLSON.

Witness to both signatures—George T. Weston, Solicitor, Christchurch.
614

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between GUSTAVUS GUTSCHLAG and JOHN WILSON, carrying on business as Farmers and Coal-pit Proprietors at Gore and Croydon, under the style of “Gutschlag & Wilson,” has been dissolved as from the 7th day of August instant. The coal-pit business will be carried on by the said JOHN WILSON.

Dated this 7th day of August, 1915.

GUSTAVUS GUTSCHLAG.
JOHN WILSON.

Witness to both signatures—D. M. Cochrane, Solicitor, Gore.
615

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: 209,489.

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: 1,218.

Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: 440.

Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: £231,546 10s. 3d.

Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £1,034,183 18s. 5d.

Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: £143,923 2s. 3d.

Total expenditure since registration of office of company in New Zealand: £1,107,818 2s. 8d.

Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: £53,640 15s. 6d.

Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £3,848 10s. 8d.

Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: £20 17s. 8d.

Amount of debts directly due to the company in New Zealand: £108 5s. 6d.

Amount of such debts considered good: £108 5s. 6d.

Amount of liabilities of company (if any) in New Zealand: £3,243 15s. 4d.

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 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.

Wm. FRANK GRACE,
Attorney.

Declared at Waihi this 12th day of August, 1915, before me—P. G. Brady, J.P.
616

In the matter of “THE N. WAIROA BRICK COMPANY (LIMITED).”

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held at the office of John Reid McNaught, Normanby Street, Dargaville, on the 24th day of June, 1915, the following resolution was passed; and at a subsequent extraordinary general meeting of the members of the said company also duly convened and held at the same place on the 15th day of July, 1915, the same resolution was duly confirmed as a special resolution, viz.:

“That the company be wound up voluntarily; and that JOHN REID McNAUGHT, of Dargaville, Accountant, be and is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding-up.”

Dated at Dargaville this 5th day of August, 1915.

S. C. COLMORE-WILLIAMS,
Chairman.

Witness—Chas. Darling, Solicitor, Dargaville.
617

WAVERLEY TOWN BOARD.

SPECIAL ORDER MAKING SPECIAL RATE ON LOAN OF £4,780.

THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and amendments, and in exercise of all other powers and authorities it thereunto enabling, the Waverley Town Board hereby resolves:—

That, for the purpose of providing interest and sinking fund and other charges on a loan of £4,780, authorized to be raised by the Waverley Town Board, under the above-mentioned Acts, for the following purposes—to extend and complete plant and machinery for and in the installing of an electric lighting and motive power and other uses and purposes within and without the Township of Waverley, and the acquisition of meters and connections, and to extend and complete the construction of waterworks within the meaning of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and its amendments (including reticulation), within and without the Township of Waverley; building new dam, and preparing site; fencing of catch-water area, and also acquisition of engine for pumping purposes; engineering and contingencies (including compensation, if any, for lands injuriously affected)—the Waverley Town Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of one and 15/16ths pence in the pound on the rateable value (on the basis of unimproved value) of the whole of the rateable property of the Waverley Town District; and that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and payable at the office of the Waverley Town Board, Waverley, on the first day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Waverley Town Board was affixed hereto by resolution of the Board at a special meeting of the Board on the sixth day of May, 1915.

A. R. MACDONALD,
Chairman.

J. E. PALMER,
Clerk.
618

HAWERA COUNTY COUNCIL.

PRINCES STREET SOUTH AND GEORGE STREET LOAN.—
SPECIAL ORDER AUTHORIZING RAISING OF LOAN.

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 Hawera Riding of the Hawera County hereinafter described, testified by a petition signed by not less than three-fourths of the ratepayers of the said special-rating area the capital value of whose properties as appearing in the valuation roll of the said riding is collectively greater than the capital values of the properties of the ratepayers who did not so consent, the Hawera County Council hereby resolves by way of special order as follows:—