SEPT. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3115

ADVERTISEMENTS.

STATEMENT OF THE AFFAIRS OF A FOREIGN MINING COMPANY.

Name of company: Taitapu Gold Estates (Limited).
When formed, and date of registration of office of company in New Zealand: Present company (reconstructed), 22nd February, 1899, and 2nd March, 1903.
Whether in active operation or not: Not carrying on mining.
Where business is conducted, and name of Attorney: At the registered office, Paturau, via Collingwood; Frederick William Harris Daw.
Where mine is situate: Taitapu, Collingwood.
Nominal capital: £175,000 (not exclusively applicable to mining).
Amount of capital subscribed and issued: £147,543.
Amount of capital actually paid up in cash in New Zealand: Nil.
Price paid to vendors of mine—
(a.) In fully paid-up shares: Nil.
(b.) In partly paid-up shares, credited as 17s. paid up: Mines purchased as part of business of large freehold estate, and not assessed separately.
(c.) In cash: Nil.
Number of shares into which capital is divided: 175,000.
Number of shares on New Zealand Register: Nil.
Amount paid per share (New Zealand Register): Nil.
Amount called up per share (New Zealand Register): Nil.
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: Nil.
Number of men employed by company in New Zealand: On mining, none; on other work, 1.
Quantity and value of gold or silver produced since last statement: Nil.
Total quantity and value produced since registration of office of company in New Zealand:
Amount expended in connection with carrying on mining operations in New Zealand since last statement: Nil.
Total expenditure since registration of office of reconstructed company in New Zealand: £30,318 14s. 1d.
Total amount of dividends paid in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of cash in bank in New Zealand: £108 8s. 4d.
Amount of cash in hand in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of debts directly due to the company in New Zealand: Nil.
Amount of such debts considered good:
Amount of liabilities of company (if any) in New Zealand: Nil.

I, Frederick William Harris Daw, the Attorney of the Taitapu Gold Estates (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, 1915 (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.

F. W. HARRIS DAW,
Attorney.

Declared at Mangarakau this 11th day of September, 1916, before me—J. P. Prouse, J.P.
600

WINDING-UP NOTICE.

IN accordance with section 223 of the Companies Act, 1908, notice is hereby given that at an extraordinary general meeting of the N. Wairoa Aerated Water Company (Limited) held on the 8th day of September, 1916, the following extraordinary resolution was passed:—

"That, as it is proved to the satisfaction of the company that it cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and it is advisable to wind up, the company be wound up voluntarily; and that ARTHUR LOUIS BILLING, of Dargaville, Public Accountant, be and is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up."

A. LOUIS BILLING,
Liquidator.
601

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

I HAVE this day given to WALTER GEORGE WOOLFORD, of Otahuhu, Watchmaker, notice of dissolution of any Partnership heretofore existing between him and myself.

MABEL ESTHER SMITH,
Great South Road, Otahuhu,
13th September, 1916.

Witness to the signature of Mabel Esther Smith—
M. GLAISTER, Solicitor,
Auckland.
602

NOTICE is hereby given that at an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Luck-at-Last Gold-mining Company (Limited) held in Secretary’s office, 302 Victoria Arcade, Auckland, on Monday, 11th September, 1916, at 10.30 a.m., the following extraordinary resolutions were carried unanimously:—

(a.) That it is proved to the satisfaction of the company that the company cannot be reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same.

(b.) That WALTER JACQUES CARTER, of Auckland, Public Accountant, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator of the company.

A. A. ADAMS, Chairman.

FREDERICK LEWIS. JONATHAN W. COLEMAN.
JOS. HANKINS. G. W. BASLEY.
EDWD. McLEOD. W. J. CARTER.
(Shareholders.)
603

PACTOLUS GOLD-DREDGING COMPANY (LIMITED).

IN LIQUIDATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the final general meeting of the above-named company will be held at the registered office of the company, Bridge Street, Reefton, on Monday, 9th October, 1916, at 8 p.m.

BUSINESS.—To receive the Liquidator’s report and accounts.

T. HUBERT LEE, Liquidator.
Reefton, 14th September, 1916.
604

MOTUEKA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

In the matter of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and the Acts amending the same respectively.

I, MICHAEL SIMPSON, Chairman of the Motueka Borough Council, hereby give public notice that on the thirteenth day of September instant a poll of the electors of the Borough of Motueka was held and taken upon the proposal of the Motueka Borough Council to borrow the sum of five thousand pounds (£5,000) for the purposes of constructing and generally improving High Street, Motueka, at a cost of three thousand pounds (£3,000), and the purchase of road machinery and plant at a cost of two thousand pounds (£2,000), in accordance with the provision of the above-mentioned Acts; and that at such poll the number of valid votes recorded was as follows: For the proposal, 166; against the proposal, 70.

Now, therefore, inasmuch as the number of valid votes so recorded in favour of the said proposal was a majority of the total number of valid votes recorded at the said poll, I declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated at Motueka this 14th day of September, 1916.

MICHAEL SIMPSON,
Chairman, Motueka Borough Council.
605

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between ROBERT LAMB PATERSON and HENRY ALBERT MOSSMAN, carrying on business as Land and Financial Agents at Hastings, under the style or firm of “Paterson, Mossman, & Co.,” has been dissolved as from the 31st day of July, 1916. And the said business shall in future be carried on by the said HENRY ALBERT MOSSMAN alone.

Dated this 1st day of September, 1916.

ROBT. L. PATERSON.
H. A. MOSSMAN.

Witness to both signatures—J. H. R. Gifford, Law Clerk, Napier.
606

In the matter of the OLRIG DREDGING COMPANY (LIMITED).

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company duly convened and held at the company’s office, 116 Rattray Street, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the 29th day of August, 1916, the following resolution was duly proposed and carried; and at a subsequent extraordinary general meeting of the said company also duly convened and held at the same place on Tuesday, the 12th day of September, 1916, the same resolution was duly confirmed as a special resolution, viz.:—

1. That shareholders are of opinion that it is advisable to liquidate and reconstruct the company, and accordingly that